Oil Painting.....In Your Face!....new image

[scumble fish]

Its nice to jump between working in pixels and pushing paint. So here's the latter from a series on people I met on the streets of NYC. It's fairly large....almost 5ft sq. oil on linen. Anybody out there been to Williamsburg Paints for handmade pigments. They offer a mean Cadmium Orange in a can. creamy....like butter!


http://home.comcast.net/~michaelaceves/FinallyFinished/face1.jpg

A SketchBook........http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11105

[scumble fish]

Another painting......Acrylic on wood.


http://home.comcast.net/~michaelaceves/FinallyFinished/face2.jpg
!!!

[Lunch_Box]

Great work

I like the first one best the angle of his face is nice.

:chug:

[walking-in-minefield]

i don't no if its me or the music (right now its the doors), but that second painting of the guy on the right with his face like looking at the sun is just miraculous, i don't know its just really sweet you know, anyways i really like it so......do more

[gauss]

does everyone in new york have huge, broad noses? :) all artists have their particular tendencies that sometimes need some shaking up--looking at the top image and most in your sketchbook, you tend to oversimplify the nose that doesn't always match up with your treatment of the rest of the face. i like the paintings, the second painting particularly, but in both (and all the sketchbook pics) there seems to be no marks that denote the tops of the nostrils... and given the amount of space the nose is taking up on the canvas in the first painting, it seems like a considerable oversight.
but hey, if everyone you're running into in new york have noses like that, then no problem :)

[scumble fish]

Lunch_Box.......Thanks for the look. I'm waiting for you to get that scanner so you can throw up some of your work!

walking-in-minefield..........Thanks!....I'm glad you see something in the last work. Its funny to see what clicks with others visual aesthetics. Often what you like the most, others say hmmm and what you think has issues, others see something more. Anyway thanks again.
Would you mind if I borrow your ending byline for my reply to gauss...just joking

gauss.......Oh my god.....I never really thought about it...I never realized the subtle effect those closest to me, My own family...is having on my work.

http://home.comcast.net/~michaelaceves/FinallyFinished/JimmyDurante.jpg
My Uncle Ernie during his Summer appearance on Temptation Island!

http://home.comcast.net/~michaelaceves/FinallyFinished/durante22.jpg
My Dad at my family's annual stage production of "Music Man"

http://home.comcast.net/~michaelaceves/FinallyFinished/proboscis-monkey.gif
My senior High School yearbook photo.

Actually......I hear ya. Typically its my hands that need work when I'm drawing fast. I'm tying my best to learn how to suggest the form without becoming too detailed. Maybe I should pay more attention to selected detail. Anyway I do appreciate the critique.

[gauss]

hahaahahah.... an excellent riposte :) you know how it goes, all artists need others to look out for them, because you the only perspective you can get on your own work is through time... but anyhow, it's still good stuff (just started with oils, myself, so i have newfound appreciation for a lot of this stuff) and i look forward to your next post.