RoCkInG The Boat!

		Friday, January 12, 2007
		I'm A Tail Wind Road Locomotive From The Days Of Cheap Gasoline Okay, here's the completed version. Stayed up until 1:00 a.m. adding in the final element, but it just seemed to want to get itself to the finish line, as it were, so I kept going until it was done. The lighting isn't the best, as the image is a lot brighter than it appears here, although I think this actually does a better job of capturing the greyer, more muted lighting quality from the original photos. And I'm not at all happy about how the clouds turned out - I would have preferred something more naturalistic, but it turns out rendering decent clouds is pretty difficult, and I'm going to need to do a lot of technical exercises before I come anywhere close to getting them right. Oh well, what was it Picasso said? Something like, "You never finish a painting, you simply reach a point where you have to stop working on it." I'm still debating on the title, and right now have it narrowed down to either, "Still Life of abandoned pickup, dairy tanker, and farm buildings, Stinky Corner, WA" (kind of long, I know, but I LOVE the fact the place really is called "Stinky Corner"!), or else "Rusty Old American Dream", which is the title of a song by singer/songwriter David Wilcox, from whence today's headline comes (If you happen to be in Bend or Salem, OR this weekend, you can catch his gig). So, now the question is: would you pay $300 for this, assuming I mount and matte it? (and of course, assuming you had $300 to blow on an original work of art created by a somewhat talented, completely untrained artist with no name value whatsoever.) Labels: Art Posted byCOMTE on 10:24 AM

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