Comments on: A Boat Painting

By: peaj

peaj — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:18:50 +0000

Fake.

By: peaj

peaj — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:17:51 +0000

It is pretty amazing. Isn’t it cool when you create something beyond your idea of what your abilities are?

By: min

min — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:54:44 +0000

Hmm, well in this instance “alas” is a a sigh of relief. This painting has been beckoning attention and needing an ending for months. It was a pitiful empty space where the boat was. It needed its “main character”, if you will. It was like telling a story but never revealing enough to make it interesting. Just shadows of the form… no being. And the void was driving me crazy…

Oh, and in other instances “a las” is a girl… In Ireland, I think.

By: min

min — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:48:03 +0000

Hi stranger!! It’s nice to know you stopped by! Thanks, Jase. I guess my painting is the calm before the storm… or the shark attack in some cases! LOL

By: min

min — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:46:21 +0000

Yeah, I think you are right, peaj. It would have jumped out too much if I executed it to perfectly. The image flows nicely the way it is… And that reflecting water! Gosh, I can’t believe that came from my hands!!

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:09:46 +0000

And finally… why the “alas, now it is finished.” What’s alas about it?

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:09:15 +0000

Ah, not sure why that link doesn’t really work.

This is what I was talking about:
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070503/jaws_l.jpg

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:08:37 +0000

I very much like this painting. Good job, Mindy!

BTW, let’s cut to the chase. Freedom, indulgence…

Boats make me think of this

By: peaj

peaj — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:42:26 +0000

I likes it.

I find your description of what, physically, a boat is (“shiny, detailed … textured”) to be surprising. If this is what you were thinking you had to put on the page, I can see why you were intimidated. Putting some sleek shiny thing in this painting would have worked, but I think that then the painting would have been about contrast – the boat versus its background. The way it is, the boat fits the gentle, sort of informal feel of the rest of the painting.

Let me know if you post a higher resolution photo somewhere, I’d like to look at the details sometime.

By: min

min — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:58:14 +0000

Thanks, Joe! I am excited to find out what else I have up my sleeve!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:36:29 +0000

I am so excited you pushed through and finished it. The final product is excellent. You do have a special gift! The greatest achievements are ones that have the risk of failure. If it all came easy, then it wouldn’t be special. Keep painting!