05-24-2015, 01:23 AM
Hello Lale, thanks for the thought-out response.
I’m glad someone finds my dedication impressive, even though I have (at least I feel) been making very little progress. It means a lot to me nonetheless. About what your suggestion for perspective studies-that’s a very good idea, and I’ll give it a try, so thank you for that. I think the problem really is understanding more “abstract” perspective, which I want to try and execute in some of my pieces. I guess I should just focus on the basics for now, I suppose.
On your other comment-maybe you have a point, to some extent. A couple of my recent paintings (the melting fennec fox portrait and the one I last posted) were in fact completed in one sitting each. I think a problem I have (which we’ve discussed before) is that I worry I will never have the capabilities of the artists I admire and that no one will ever like what I do. I don’t know, it’s kind of perennial, I know it’s not about doing it for the sake of being known, but I can’t help but fixate on the possibility that people may never actually like what I do.
If I may ask-what exactly do you mean specifically by “refining” my acrylic paintings more? I do care about that, the recent ones that I mentioned earlier are ones I did with a palette knife, heavily influenced by the works of artists such as Francis Bacon and James Juron. As I’ve said, they were also emotional ventilation, I was focusing more on expressing emotion through them then actually attempting to refine them. Not that it’s an excuse for my incompetence, because that’s probably another thing I’m doing wrong.
Anyway, sorry for my overly long response, I really appreciate your words, Lale.
I’m glad someone finds my dedication impressive, even though I have (at least I feel) been making very little progress. It means a lot to me nonetheless. About what your suggestion for perspective studies-that’s a very good idea, and I’ll give it a try, so thank you for that. I think the problem really is understanding more “abstract” perspective, which I want to try and execute in some of my pieces. I guess I should just focus on the basics for now, I suppose.
On your other comment-maybe you have a point, to some extent. A couple of my recent paintings (the melting fennec fox portrait and the one I last posted) were in fact completed in one sitting each. I think a problem I have (which we’ve discussed before) is that I worry I will never have the capabilities of the artists I admire and that no one will ever like what I do. I don’t know, it’s kind of perennial, I know it’s not about doing it for the sake of being known, but I can’t help but fixate on the possibility that people may never actually like what I do.
If I may ask-what exactly do you mean specifically by “refining” my acrylic paintings more? I do care about that, the recent ones that I mentioned earlier are ones I did with a palette knife, heavily influenced by the works of artists such as Francis Bacon and James Juron. As I’ve said, they were also emotional ventilation, I was focusing more on expressing emotion through them then actually attempting to refine them. Not that it’s an excuse for my incompetence, because that’s probably another thing I’m doing wrong.
Anyway, sorry for my overly long response, I really appreciate your words, Lale.