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Saint No.35 by ~Doc-Hammer:iconDoc-Hammer:

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©2005-2009 ~Doc-Hammer
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TITLE: Saint No. 35

MEDIUM: 24"x36" Oil on canvas

MODEL: Natalie... McKenzie, one of my only online-exclusively friends, gave her my number when she was traveling through NYC. I can't thank the two of them enough. She was a fantastic sitter, and a bright, fun girl that made the awkwardness of posing seem like two old friends goofing around. I only hope the painting is half as beautiful as the sitter herself.

NOTES: The first painting that was done (entierly) during the Venture Brothers off season. I was nothing but a painter on this one. So it has a smidgen of symbolic "something" to me.

I have been concerned (of late) about how we all see colors and shadow on deviantART. What you are looking at is not the painting, that's granted. It's a photo of the painting. And beyond that, I have no idea what you are looking at this "on". Flat screens, uncalibrated monitors, monitors set for NTSC viewing, etc. The only thing I can kinda guarantee that we both see is the general pose, lighting, and with hope... emotion. And, if only the emotion makes it through the technical gauntlet of Murphy's Monitor Law, I will be okay with it. But you must take into account that you are only seeing an "idea" of the painting.

And if anybody cares, these are all painted at Astrobase Go!. So if anybody bought an Astrobase Go! T-shirt [link] and got (as crap) a rubber-band. Those were used by me to keep my brushes together when I bring them back and forth to my apartment to get a good scrubbing. (Brush care people! You gotta do it.) The Astrobase has been without hot water for like a year, because it is floating in space... near the MOON!

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~Majin-D Jan 16, 2005, 5:03:01 PM
Beautifully done, the lighting is great goes well with the pose that the model took. Looks pretty accurate to real life and pretty chilling on how realistic a painting could look :).

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~lostintheconfusion Jan 16, 2005, 5:05:51 PM
your paintings are always beautiful. and regardless of what monitor i'm using, it's always a pleasure to look at.
i like this one in particular. i hope one day i will be half as good as you are.
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~budji Jan 16, 2005, 5:08:11 PM
amazing painture. love your saints, keep going =)

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~mcjesus Jan 16, 2005, 5:08:22 PM
red and green and yellow, skin skin skin skin skin. what kind of light do you use in the astrobase, Go! ? maybe i just have yellow walls.
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~saoki Jan 16, 2005, 5:08:53 PM
I just love your painting. Even if it's just portaits of girls in bras, to hell with it, they're amazing, brilliant, emotional portaits of girls in bras. You take this theme, one that would look vulgar if painted by anyone else, and make it beautiful. These girls are saints. Their loneliness is sacred, and in their semi-nakedness they are truly themselves, in their very own world wich we can't quite grasp.

Always a pleasure to find such a lovely, inspiring and well executed art. Congratulations.

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"The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well."
- Bono
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~DeathPoint Jan 16, 2005, 5:12:11 PM
I do hope all monitors are able to see the detail.

I, personally, do not have an issue with this (monitor wise)...but that might be thanks to photoshop.



As for the painting itself, I do enjoy it. I like the eyes a lot. The glimmer.

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....Also, check out I Am Nerd.
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=Zorrino Jan 16, 2005, 5:19:39 PM
Exquisite painting. ;P

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~Sh4down Jan 16, 2005, 5:36:45 PM
awesome but it is very green,i dont know how you make green looks flesh...the photo is horrible,its really thousands of beter seen this "live" on front of the canvas!

anyway very nice work!

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~westwardcloud Jan 16, 2005, 5:42:07 PM
i was wondering about you. hadnt seen anything in a while.

brilliant work. your talent is beyond compare.

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"Miss Valentine, please don't run from me."
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~Doc-Hammer Jan 16, 2005, 5:42:30 PM
That "green" is probably a bit more brown in actuality... That's what I mean about monitors. You have a lot of G in your RGB.
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