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Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

New Abstract Painting

I just finished my first painting that is simply abstract. All of my art has a theme or face to it. What do you think of my new piece titled "Legacy."

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Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

As a tote bag design, it actually works for me.

For any other product that I see you offering it on, it does NOT work for me.

The image that you have uploaded currently is way too small for a duvet cover - the tiny version of the image that currently appears at the center of a big duvet cover looks ridiculous to me.

The original painting might make a different impression. I do not know that a print could ever have a similar effect. Some paintings just do not translate to prints that you hang on the wall. In any case, I would suggest that you upload larger images, if you want to offer them on the larger products.

 

Wee Eer

8 Years Ago

Do you want to critique ? ( youll not like it)

 

Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

Robert I took the picture with my cell phone. Is that why fine art America will not allow me to offer prints?

 

Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

The Digital

I don't mind constructive criticism. Please share what you think and then take a look at the rest of my paintings and feel free to comment.

 

Monsieur Danl

8 Years Ago

I see somewhat of a style emerging in a few of your works, but "Legacy" ended that.

 

Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

Mr. Danl

I still have that style. I was just trying to do a abstract without including a face or theme which is in majority of my paintings. Thanks for your observation. I appreciate it!

 

Marlene Burns

8 Years Ago

Perhaps, a little back info would help....It would seem unfair to critique it based on purely what we see.
I'd personally, love to know what concept, thought, emotion, etc., you are trying to abstract and thus, express......

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

Robert I took the picture with my cell phone. Is that why fine art America will not allow me to offer prints?

You might want to learn some basics about image specification requirements for producing the printed products here. Duvet covers, for example, require an image file sized that is 5000 pixels X 5000 pixels in order for the image to cover the whole cover. I would say that you could get away with something 3000 x 3000 if you uploaded the picture file as a .png file and then chose a complementary background color on the page where you uploaded that picture file.

Your picture file dimensions seem way too small. A phone is NOT the camera to use. You need a better quality camera that can give you something bigger, I'd say.

Unlike Marlene B., I think a critique is based PURELY on what we see. What we see has the greatest impact. What customers SEE has the greatest impact and decisive effect on how they first react to your images. You cannot explain away a bad visual impression. If you want honest critiques, then just understand that this is what you will get here.


 

Roy Erickson

8 Years Ago

Unless you told them FAA wouldn't know what you took the image with - you could have the best, most expensive camera and lens - and a bad image is still a bad image.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

the glare on it will prevent it from printing. the bad crop in the corner and your name being cut off will do that too, its also very tiny, too small to really print as anything. as art itself, i don't really get it. while there is a description, without it, it doesn't look like much.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

the prints need to be a certain size, even for a phone shot, this is very small. the image has to be at least i think 1000px, and yours is like 500. i'm surprised it can sell as a duvet though. and the same goes for the rest of your work. too small. scan them in. or get a pro to shoot them. its the price to make sales.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

Vincent, I'm far from an expert but I think the painting looks unfinished. Maybe add some black and white to "complete" it?

 

Marlene Burns

8 Years Ago

Robert,
I am trying to have Vincent understand that painting abstract is not a slap-dash process.
If he answers me, I am sure that he will learn something.

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

Marlene B.,

Your motive is noble, and you might indeed nurture a more conscientious approach in Vincent. That's often the effect of verbal interaction of any sort.

That being said, however, I do not entirely agree with the sentiments behind your words, ... that. "painting abstract is not a slap-dash-process."

"Concept", "thought", or "emotion", in my view, are NOT conscious requirements of painting abstract. They certainly CAN be, of course, but a pure action approach, refined through endless repetition, in fact, can "find" its own "concept", "thought", or "emotion". These can be after-products of a purely physical process.

I believe that the words you use describe things that DO need to occur, if not before, then certainly AFTER the process. A painter, thus, might "slap-and-dash", make a judgment about his slapping and dashing, allow this judgment to refine his next slap-and-dash maneuver, and so on, ... until the after-judgments about his repeated slappings and dashings subtly shape an outcome that accord more harmoniously with his future judgments.

I agree that you simply cannot slap and dash and be totally accepting of the result without further focus. You have to be an editor of what your impulses have produced, and if those impulses produce something that has little or no substantial appeal, then you have to see this and admit this to yourself, ... try again, and again, and again, until something emerges that you can live with.

You absolutely HAVE to feel something. But you can feel AFTER, rather than before or during the process. Either way, a feeling or an acute consciousness shapes the work, ... for some people from the inside out (like with you) and sometimes from the outside in (like with me).

 

Lisa Kaiser

8 Years Ago

I think it's excellent!

 

Marlene Burns

8 Years Ago

Robert,
Either way,
he needs to be able to talk about it.....so far,
nothing.

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

Yes, I agree, M.B.

As for "excellent", ... I think it's ... less than excellent.

 

Greg Jackson

8 Years Ago

I like it, Vincent, but all it basically comes down to is if you like it. Take everything else with a grain of salt.

 

Marlene Burns

8 Years Ago

Once a critique is asked for, it would be prudent for the asker to take note of what the responses are....I mean, seriously, why ask in the first place?

As an aside, I always marvel at how easy some people think painting an abstract is...oh wait, I mean a GREAT abstract.

 

Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

Hello All

Thank you all for taking the time in sharing your different insights. The reason I'm just responding is because my computer was acting funky. When I finally got it working I was delighted to see all of your responses.

Marlene Burns: I'm new to the art world and recently started painting. Typically, when I paint I have a idea of what I'm going to create because I've visualized it in my mind and doodled on a paper. With this particular painting I had no clue other then the colors I wanted to use. I enjoyed putting down the foundation layer because it kind of looks like hardwood in person. I had a hard time getting started because I'm a visionary. But the first thing I managed to put down was a dash which I liked so I did two more. As I stared at the three dashes my son came to mind. His name is Vincent T Spriggs III. My nickname for my son is V3. So I liked the idea of creating a abstract painting that looks random to onlookers but very intentional to myself. I call it legacy because my son is one gift I'm proud to give the world. My masterpiece if I may say so. :)
PS: I looked on your page and I like your style. Your advice is welcomed.


Sharon Norman: Sharon I can understand how you can say that it looks unfinished. But I did not want to add any other designs because I did not want to take away from what I already put down. One thing that I have come to love about art is that its primarily subjective and that everyone see's something different. Before I began painting I would see art in art galleries that looked beyond incomplete but that had $10,000 price tags on it. LOL, Seeing art in its varying forms that to me at the time looked like nothing looked like something of great value to the artist and the onlookers who appreciated the piece.

Lisa Kaiser: Thanks Lisa for thinking my art looks great. :)

Greg Jackson: Greg I agree with you 100%. Its amazing to me that when I create something that I love it does not matter what other people say along as I can stand behind my work. At the same time I am still open to feedback because I want to get better but the feedback never diminishes the pride I have in my work.

Robert Kernodle: Robert you made a lot of good points. I need to buy a camera to get a better image asap. Would say that people generally are quicker to purchase your print then they are the original? People can't purchase a print of my work if they wanted to.

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

Step back from what your spontaneous impulses have led to and now judge it. Ask yourself questions such as ...

Does it have a visual appeal to you still? Three days later? A week later?

Do you see forms that are fascinating, or merely mundane and uninteresting in the long run?

When you compare it to another abstract painting by another artist, how does it stand up - in the same league?, ... in a minor league?, ... looks like crap?, ... ??

Does the image on the screen or in a hard-copy do the PAINTING justice, or is this just one of those paintings that does not print well?

Divorce yourself from any strong emotions that you might have had when you created it, ... stand back, ... and try to see it as a complete stranger might see it, asking yourself whether there might be any UNIVERSAL qualities about the colors, forms, color combinations, lines, shapes, etc. that might appeal to a wide audience.

Do this honestly with yourself.

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

Vincent,


How much do you think of eye control, particularly in that piece?

Dave

 

Vincent Spriggs II

8 Years Ago

Dave

What do you mean by eye control? Explain

 

Marat Ivanov

8 Years Ago

Hello, I'm happy to see your art. Legacy interesting picture and every men can try to think what what legacy it can be for himself.

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

Vincent,

The human eyes run from the upper left corner very very quickly to the lower right corner of a work of art and right
off the page gone.

If you put things from the lower right corner such as triangles or curves the eyes will spring back to center.

You want this eye control to bring eyes back to center to keep people watching or looking at your art much longer.

Dave

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

David B.,

I just do not believe that the human eye does what you say specifically all the time. The movement depends on the lines, shapes, and angles of the whole composition, NOT just the rectangle of the composition's containment, as you seem to suggest.

If anything, I would be inclined to say that the human eye would more naturally progress from lower left to upper right, in accord with the general handedness of culture as a whole, and in accordance with our bodily predisposition to respond to gravity as a down-to-up orienting field of life here on Earth.

It would be interesting to do a study on this, since some people might be locked into the left-to-right reading reflex that dominates, ... some people might be locked into the center-bottom-to-center-top gravitational reflex, ... and some people might be led by other specific life-shaping reflexes, including cultural differences (e.g., other languages that do not flow from left to right).

 

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