I like the colors, the skin tones are particularly spot on. As a guy who's done portraits, I'm particularly enamored of someone who can catch a face, and you know that's exactly what the person looks like, and yeah, I'm a fan of hyper-realism.
Grew up reading comic books, and never made the distinction between fine art & other arts. I appreciate a patchwork quilt as much as a painting.
Wandering off here, but I used to be a huge fan of Richard Amsel, who was a movie poster artist and did practically every high profile movie in the late 70s-early 80s.
Then I realized he got the great likenesses by tracing photos. Check the way the pistol butt sticks out at an impossible angle because of tracing two photos. I'm a sucker, though, for art deco, old style, and decorative art, anyway.
Interesting that you brought up Kinkade, cause he was a guy that WAS really good, but sold out and got the money. Here's one of his early paintings.
He took what was a great natural talent, and as he sold out, started making his paintings completely out of frosting, rather than using his gift for lighting as a small part of his work.
[[Wandering off here, but I used to be a huge fan of Richard Amsel, who was a movie poster artist and did practically every high profile movie in the late 70s-early 80s. ]]
Yep- good stuff there (Thanks for pointing that artist out- first I’ve heard of him)- More an illustrator style- a little bit in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec (and even some Degas pastels a little bit)- I don’t mind the tracing- as he does impart a very unique to him styling in the rest of the ‘painting/illustration’ process (Mainly his use of lines, curves, angles- kinda stylized- this style is where thick line becomes part of the art- in hyper-realism-like styles, it makes the person’s features look almost cartoonish, ruining, in my opinion, the hyper-realism look they were trying to achieve-)
[[I appreciate a patchwork quilt as much as a painting.]]
Yep me too- I really appreciate almost all forms of art- (Even acting when done very artistically, but not overacted- can’t stand that)
[[I’m a sucker, though, for art deco, old style, and decorative art, anyway.]]
Yep- me too- Really loved the works of Telouse Letrec- and anyone that worked in that kind of illustration style IF they were good enough to have a very distinctive trademark style of their own
[[ Interesting that you brought up Kinkade, cause he was a guy that WAS really good, but sold out and got the money. Here’s one of his early paintings. ]]
Absolutely agree- but he saw that the ‘real money’ was in creating cheaper paintings that people could afford to hang on their walls, and those folks weren’t true art appreciators, and just wanted eye catching, eye candy type paintings-
[[He took what was a great natural talent, and as he sold out, started making his paintings completely out of frosting, rather than using his gift for lighting as a small part of his work.]]
Sadly that is true- too many artists take this route- but really, for many, it’s either that or starve- so they take the cheap way out and leave their talent potential in the dust unfortunately-