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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 4:06 pm
(October 19, 2011 at 8:50 am)leo-rcc Wrote: This is one of mine from long ago:
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(October 19, 2011 at 5:35 am)orogenicman Wrote: I didn't do this art work (the galaxy did). I just documented it with my telescope:
A friend of mine got this today:
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Nice work, Leo. That is an interesting Dobsonian design. Never saw one quite like that one. Don't quite understand why, if they were going to use a truss design, that they left so much of the OTA at the bottom. Truss designs are generally used to reduce weight. However, by leaving so much of the tube assembly intact, I suspect they didn't save much, if any, weight. I could be wrong, of course. I bet it gives great views, though, and having a 'go to' makes life much easier as well.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 5:21 pm
(October 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm)Phaedra Wrote: They're very personal. I don't really expect people to like or understand them. But I will share. Cool. Yeah but that's what I love about art too, the subjectivity. People find their own meaning and quality withing works that they view and appreciate. I'd say very rarely has anyone, other than the artist, truly understood the meaning behind any artists personal work, and I think most artist prefer there to be something that only they know hidden in there, something just for them.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm
That is certainly the case with me. The pieces that I am working on now are very painful for me to create. They require me to probe into aspects of my personality and being that I do not like. It takes a lot out of me, emotionally- I often cry when I do them. But at the same time I feel compelled to finish. They are my attempt to express my inner conflicts and explore what it means to be mentally ill in this society.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 6:05 pm
(October 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm)Phaedra Wrote: That is certainly the case with me. The pieces that I am working on now are very painful for me to create. They require me to probe into aspects of my personality and being that I do not like. It takes a lot out of me, emotionally- I often cry when I do them. But at the same time I feel compelled to finish. They are my attempt to express my inner conflicts and explore what it means to be mentally ill in this society.
Wow that sounds like very intense subject matter and your approach seems just as involved and intense, I admire artists that are brave enough to really soul search and leave a big part of themselves on the canvas, it's not easy.
People who have never left a part of themselves inside a body of work, be it painting, writing/poetry or music or whatever, they find it very hard to understand the weight of the whole process, and they understand even less when artists don't want to sell some of their personal work, but it's like selling your soul sometimes, it really is.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Oh gosh yes. I have a hard time selling my work. I don't know if I could sell the ones I'm working on now. Not that anyone would want to buy them...
I know that a lot of people will see what I'm doing now and call it talentless bullshit, but I'm not doing it for them. It's for me.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 6:33 pm
(October 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm)Phaedra Wrote: Oh gosh yes. I have a hard time selling my work. I don't know if I could sell the ones I'm working on now. Not that anyone would want to buy them...
I know that a lot of people will see what I'm doing now and call it talentless bullshit, but I'm not doing it for them. It's for me.
You could be pleasantly suprised though, it could be the work that opens up all kinds of attention and opportunities for you as an artist, even if that might not be what you are after. either way, whether you sell them or not, or if they bring you sucess or not, I hope they bring you personal happiness in the end, I'm sure they will 
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RE: Your Artwork
October 19, 2011 at 11:41 pm
I'm curious though Phae, do you paint with the blood as it is, or do you prepare it in some way?
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RE: Your Artwork
October 20, 2011 at 12:02 am
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(October 19, 2011 at 6:33 pm)Jay1982 Wrote: You could be pleasantly suprised though, it could be the work that opens up all kinds of attention and opportunities for you as an artist, even if that might not be what you are after. either way, whether you sell them or not, or if they bring you sucess or not, I hope they bring you personal happiness in the end, I'm sure they will
That would be a pleasant surprise. Creating them is bringing up a lot of things I've repressed, but it is cathartic.
(October 19, 2011 at 11:41 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: I'm curious though Phae, do you paint with the blood as it is, or do you prepare it in some way?
When he draws my blood he puts it in a tube with a chemical which keeps it from coagulating. I dilute it with water to get different values.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 20, 2011 at 5:03 am
I might put up some more artwork on here later on, but I think I'll wait until other people post stuff again before I do, I don't want to be flooding it with just my stuff. But hopefully if I keep this thread current we can coax more of our artsy members to share their creations.
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RE: Your Artwork
October 20, 2011 at 7:36 am
Doesn't blood get toxic if it dries?
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