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Saint No.33 _detail_ by ~Doc-Hammer:iconDoc-Hammer:

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©2004-2010 ~Doc-Hammer
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This is a semi out of focus detail of Saint No.33. Those little white specs are light that reflects off the variegated surface of the painting. It is hard as hell to avoid unwelcomed lighting effects when photographing oils. But, I guess, little specks of light beats a big glare that covers half the canvas.

All my crap is painted lifesize. So just look at the figure and you can get a good idea of how big the canvas would be.

It's all just oil on canvas. Ya know, with an underpainting and successive glazes of transparent and opaque paints.

You gotta trust me, they look much more gratifying in person. I am just not a very good photographer.

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~Mulysa Nov 22, 2004, 5:43:59 AM
Great work, love the shadowing...
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*makeyou Nov 22, 2004, 8:57:32 AM
It's very beautiful. You've captured the smoothness and light of her skin well. On full view it looks quite grainy- is that the painting or just the photograph?
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~Doc-Hammer Nov 22, 2004, 10:27:21 AM
did you read my comment? It is about that graininess...
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~nitescence Nov 22, 2004, 8:53:56 PM
i am in awe; this is gorgeous portraiture.

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~paroxysmal Dec 12, 2004, 2:45:43 AM
It's hard to believe the painting is just that - a painting. You are excellent at what you do. Keep it up (=
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~Adoniram Dec 12, 2004, 3:10:55 AM
Your sense of light is phenomenal. It reminds me of how rembrandt captured light (and from the left too...). I see that you are living in NYC. A tough place for painters, to say the least.

i have little encouragement for you, i believe you already know yourself.

selfawareness is of far greater value than any sycophancy or passing barb.

so consider this a salutation. but know you do a great credit to this community.

~adoniram
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~Sillyyellowrabbit Dec 12, 2004, 4:03:16 AM
This is stunning! It looks incrediably classical, i don't know, alotof painters now don't think its important to be able to actually paint, especially in oils, but this is just gorgeous. There is SO much emotion in it, all i can think to say is wow!!
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~Doc-Hammer Dec 12, 2004, 4:11:31 AM
I know what what you mean about painters who don't think it's not important to know how to paint. What the fuck are they thinking? Like a surgeon that cant operate, "It's not how I close your wound, it's the spirit I close it with." That, of course, is said to a guy that bled to death.

Some painters are just too "smart" or "clever" to bother with the lowly art of painting.
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~DeLaV Dec 12, 2004, 11:09:36 AM
excellent. stunning. breathtaking.
There are so many word to describe this picture. But these should be enough... for first.

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