Why You?

Another cow thread........LOL

Cows rock dude!

My work really mooooooves people.

Nice try, It would work

Experimenting

Why not me, everyone that draws a squiggly line or throws poop on a canvas is an artist these days. I think what makes mine different is the massive amount of time, research, and energy I put into each piece. I don't believe there are too many artists that (sometimes) put hundreds of hours into a single piece of art, there are some but I think it's rare. Of course, I could be wrong. :)

O.K. I couldn't resist. More cows. The devil made me do it.



Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

Color, composition, and how I approach my subject matter. Often my work is thought of as odd, so standing out does not always mean success.

I'm a message delivery boy, using art as language.

Peggy, what mootivates you? Always love your work Bill, Moo! Great work Kevin, success in my mind! David could you expend on your experiment comment? John, throwing poop at a canvas?...might just try that! Antonin, reflecting our times?

I'm still trying to figure that out.....maybe I don't stand out at all. I have started going back to exploring and practicing using a palette knife underpainting, I think when I do that the result is often a somewhat unusual style, such as with this one;

My art is for a future audience. Art is hit or miss in the here and now, but the future?

Digital art is the wild west still. Unlike abstract expressionism which more commonly
tears down rules, I build in rules. Constructs. Ways of doing things.

You can find digital art about futuristic scenes etc.....

But can you find great digital work?

Hanging museum pieces in your home is not acceptable to the middle classes currently.

The irony is that hanging museum pieces in the home is totally acceptable to the very wealthy.

Time will do me many favors. 3D printing is going to open up the great collections to the mass market.
Prices for 3D printing will fall all through the next two decades. Museums and wealthy families
will cash in on their long held collections. Art will be given values based on the potential for future copies to
be sold. Madison Avenue NY will sell the public on the great works.

What will come afterwards? Derivative works.

Dave

David King, you did not really ask but I will make a quick comment on your work. It is well done and the colors and way you approach the scenes you do are unique to you, very nice!

Woops wrong David

lol

Take care Ronald,

Dave

David Bridburg, sorry about that lots of Davids here! I watch what you do with great interest as always! Not sure as to your interpretation of "derivative" but I think artist will continue to produce and create new ideas as long as there are people.

Just my work....unintentionally.

why NOT me? :)

I try to keep from disturbing the status quo, rock the boat, stir the $h!t so i keep it humdrum....

There is going to be the time People will be looking for Mooooo's because no one has it.
King David, Stick with it. Your works are beautiful. Being stubborn will get you places.
Dig one well if you want water from it.

Funny story: I have 2 boys, both professional artists, I am a life long artist. My wife is NOT an artist, she often argues color with us. When we don't agree with her she calls us "color blind". We are trained, she is not. Yes I often make "odd" color combinations. I say that's what shakes things up.

David King I have already told you I like your body of work very much. Nice work you posted.

Well now I'm a little embarrassed, I really wasn't fishing for compliments but I do appreciate them. Thanks Ron, Hyoye, Kevin.

I guess if you look at anybody's work down to the microscopic level you'll find uniqueness, but not necessarily something that stands out. There are some that are critical of the current plein air movement because it's producing a lot of similar style paintings. There is some truth to that, but the result IMO is there are a lot of beautiful paintings being produced, I find it hard to be critical of that.

David King, I have always loved plain air paintings. I am not one but when it comes to color and paint handling they are second to no one! Every once in a great while I do one. Did this about three weeks ago up in Tahoe.

I would like to think that my attention and focus on unusual composition and color makes my work stand out.

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Love your art Jim.

Thanks, Susan, I'm honored that you mention it.

Maybe a more focused question might be: "Do I WANT to stand out?"

And my answer would be, "It does not matter - if I have not calculated my efforts to appeal to a particular mob, then, most likely, I will NOT. I cannot just go about doing what I like to do and EXPECT to stand out. WANTING to stand out takes a mechanical process to insure. You might get lucky, and stand out anyway, but doing it this way is a dice roll.

Robert,

Can you please tell me how, these words you wrote is a SUGGESTION?

"Blaine, you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art. "

I agree with Robert, I think that the best investment for life is to invest on you.
I don't want to be stand out. this may seem odd . surely odd to many people.
I paint something beautiful in my mind. I would keep that paint. Many times people would say look so gloomy too dark, etc.
my husband say nothing , and this almost like photo image painting i did people would say Wow that is nice, and I would erase them right away and paint over something I like.
So my idea is not popular, and I don't display here in FAA.

Robert,

Can you please tell me how, these words you wrote is a SUGGESTION?

"Blaine, you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art. "


Sure, I will be more than happy to explain how those words constitute a SUGGESTION.

First, let me ask YOU a question: Am I a God? Am I a king? Am I in any way ... any sort of all-powerful force who can enforce his words over the actions of another human being, merely by tapping out a few letters in one discussion box in one discussion forum among tens of thousands of such places on one measly, blue planet in the infinite, eternal universe of all being?

If your answer is NO, then you have your answer.

In other words, I view anything typed by anybody here as a suggestion. That is the default setting of my brain here.

Sounded more like a statement than a suggestion. A suggestion might be "You should grow another arm to help you become a better painter".

A statement in the understood CONTEXT is a suggestion.

What is the difference between such a statement and a "suggestion". Do I have to say, ... I SUGGEST? That would be a bit cumbersome to put at the beginning of every post I write. Do I need to include a disclaimer on everything I type form now on? Okay, here it is:

DISCLAIMER: In typing the subsequent words into any discussion forum dialogue box of any open discussion at FineArtAmerica.com, I am not in any way insisting that I am the final, all powerful judging authority on all matters of intellect concerning all life forms on the planet Earth. I am merely participating in the ever evolving, inherently fragmented abstraction of alphanumeric symbols adjoined in a linear fashion from left to right within the limited-life-span consciousness of any one reader, in any one moment of awareness, to add to the ongoing dialectical poem that is language - one of the many mutations of energy ensembles that compose the rhythmic inner and outer workings of the mind/body/universe fractal cosmological evolution.

THERE ... that should take care of it.

Ok, but they are still not the same thing.

Robert,

Let me get this clear

Is your "suggestion" to Blaine, "GROW UP"

Okay, guys, let's analyze it a bit further:

I originally wrote this: Blaine, you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art.

I could easily have written it like this: Blaine, I suggest the idea that you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art.

or

(with even MORE demure)

Blaine, might I suggest the idea that you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art.

or

(even cowardly demure)

Blaine, if you please, allow me to suggest the idea that you stand out here, because you insert infantile art into a mass of adult art.

I simply chose the most direct statement, trusting that the default mindset of most people here is that anything said in a discussion is, by default, a personal opinion, hence a SUGGESTION.

Semantically, the same thing, ... NO. But conceptually the same thing, ... YES. I stand by my original thought and my original choice of wording in this context.

Does standing by my word make me stand out?

I think we might be using the word, "suggestion", slightly differently.

You seem to be using it as enunciating my personal wish to change someone's behavior, while I am using it merely as a pure means of introducing an idea. Blaine IS grown up, but his art is not. That is all I am suggesting. You can reject it or accept it. You reject it, ... fine. Okay. Your rejection is a suggestion that I too might reject my own suggestion, in an implied way. You want me to take it back. You want me to apologize or something -- THAT's the suggestion coming through between the lines.

I do not apologize for making a suggestion. I do not take back a suggestion. I was not demanding or expecting a change from a suggestion. I suggest we drop it.

Could care less what you think of Blaine's work. You made a statement not a suggestion. Not the same thing and never will be.

I love them cows..............

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Fried chicken sounds good right

Don't know but food sounds good! FYI, I don't think that Robert is mad and I know I am not, think is more love of debate.

I don't mind if my art stands out, but I personally am more of a blend in sort of gal...

At galleries, I can stand behind the viewer and they don't even know it's my art....it's great!

Cheers, Barbara

Ron,

I tell stories, one frame at a time. Although...admittedly, you have to look for them sometimes :)

Jim, nice work!

Robert you tried to copy my INFANTILE art and put yours next too mine to be judged. Anyone that that judged the two liked mine better so why didn't your adult art stand out?


Grow up Robert and get over it! I got my own kids to deal with!

My art work is deep and makes the viewer drawn in to figure it out, with the use of colors.

Nice Janelle!

Jean wecome back! you are a person of many faces!! FYI if you have never seen Jean's work go to his site, very cool!

Hey Jean ain't your bath cold yet?

And what happened to all your art?

Everything and Anything..the moment I was born from the very first second the nurse turned to the doctor and said , you know.. he really stands out from the herd.. he is special and will always be special.. and well I am not sure Ron but I am special and what im not sure of is why.. I don't use drugs.. I AM DRUGS lol...I love it.. great thread man.. keep it up ..take care JGP

Jean, art?????????????

Everything Ron. You have written me so many emails in the past telling me that im different that my art is different and different is great that you get tired of the same old same old cookie cutter art that you see day after day night after night and is borning.. it is good art but boring.. isnt that your words exactly? You said that I was a radical artist that my art sticks out and is so different it blows other art away although their art might be 'good' as art should my is great and not boring..so Im asking you do you not thiink im different from the herd my art is different from the herd ..art art art? I am posting about art.. man,.just chill and enjoy the day... i was throwing a little humor into the mix ,,you know, like all the rest of you do here sometime.. get it?