the ART COLONY

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

A rough sketch done with my graphic tablet. Its not a Wacom though. My pen tablet is iball. I never got enough time to finish this picture. Its supposed to be a nymph floating over the sea!

I was taking my chances with traditional Chinese style.

Very nice sesame. Your nypmh seems to have a very irritated look on her face though. I think that may be part of the Chinese style as I have seen similar figures with the same irritated/frowning expression. Perhaps your figure is showing her displeasure with the world? Also you have some printing in your picture (at least it looks like a word), but I couldn't read it even when I enlarged the picture. Your sea looks like there is land in it. At first glance it looked a bit like India and when I enlarged your picture it looked like Burma (Myanmar). Was this intentional or just the way your picture turned out?

[sesame]

Its only a rough sketch, Ila. I didnt work on her face at all; I only tried to bring out the Chinese style in the sketch. The thing you are mistaking to be the sea is part of her flowing cloth driven by the gale. Its not a landmass or map. I havent drawn the sea below her yet. I guess its my laziness

Thank you for your kind comments.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by ila

Also you have some printing in your picture (at least it looks like a word), but I couldn't read it even when I enlarged the picture.

Its my nickname, sort of ! It sounds like my real name, though.

[jimnaseum]

I like the blue colors, would go great in my livingroom.

[sesame]

What a great idea, Jim!
Ok, its settled then, I will complete the painting, Pronto!
(all my slack and laziness suddenly evaporated!)
pack it and send it to you, only for $ 1000! Courier extra :D

Hey, you dont have to hide,
my friend, I was only joking!

[jimnaseum]

I got a bulletin for you, a grand ain't that much anymore. You should price frames.
You could sell one a week and after taxes, ......
If you own a house worth $500,000. you really should have at least one really nice painting.
If you rent an apartment for $200/mo, you should have a fridge full of beer.

You have a good eye, sesame, the best artists are depraved, you know...

[sesame]

Originally Posted by jimnasium

You have a good eye, sesame, the best artists are depraved, you know...

And that automatically brings us to Van Gogh. The Master painter who couldnt (just a few actually) sell a single painting in his lifetime. And now after (2nd Aug 2008 - 29th July 1890) xxx years and yy months after his passing, his art is worth billions! How many years is it? I'm too lazy!!

He, after a failed love affair, lived with a prostitute and acted as a surrogate father to her boy! A Tragic hero! He finished one painting a day in his last 200days! Imagine! One masterpiece every 24 hours! What a creative genius he must have been! A penniless champion! If his art didnt sell, why then, did he paint? Just for the love of art! Because it was his life, his breath, his essence! Salute to Van Gogh.

Vincent painted the auvers_town_hall_on_14_july_1890 (image at the right) only 15 days before his death!