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The Pook
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 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Finished!
The three separate photos make the sky look a different colour - it isn't really, it's just a slightly different exposure I guess.
My WIP page for this triptych - http://www.dokimon.net.au/art/WIP.html
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The Pook
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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| treborbob wrote: | very nice WIPs pook cant wait to see the finished product  |
Finished and framed! 'The Outing' will be in the NE Arts & Crafts Exhibition 8-11 June. I'm very pleased with the end result, though there are some things I would have done differently if I did it over (which is good since it means I'm learning!).
Here is the URL again for "The Outing" - Oils on Canvas Board, 28 x 22"
http://www.dokimon.net.au/art/WIP-2.html
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KimO
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Pook, I really love your tryptych - such a lovely happy bouyant painting! Love the colours - clean & clear & fresh, and would love to go running up that hill like julie andrews & burst into 'the hills are alive'  It has a real feeling of hopefullness about it with the new growth in the last one & the cloud shapes swooping like birds. Well done & good luck with the outing in the exhibition, also nicely done. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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| KimO wrote: | | Pook, I really love your tryptych - such a lovely happy bouyant painting! Love the colours - clean & clear & fresh, and would love to go running up that hill like julie andrews & burst into 'the hills are alive' It has a real feeling of hopefullness about it with the new growth in the last one & the cloud shapes swooping like birds. Well done & good luck with the outing in the exhibition, also nicely done. |
That's very interesting. It's amazing how different people interpret images differently. I just painted what I saw, although the title does point to an extra meaning. However, completely different interpretations and reactions are possible.
You interpret it as a positive statement. Perhaps believing it to be a journey from tree cover to no tree cover to trees once again. It may also reflect a new economic prospoerity after the failure of other forms of farming.
Another person may interpret it as portraying a negative or uncertain environmental future. Many farmers would see it as Forestry taking over prime agricultural land and degrading it by turning the soil acidic and bleaching it of nutrients. Many environmentalists would likewise point out that it is a progression from the right kind of trees (natural diversified bush) to pasture land to the wrong kind of trees (mono-specified uniform eco-system, all the same age etc) and detrimental to the environment in many ways (use of 10-80 poison, changing the water table and using too much water, loss of biodiversity, etc).
I'm just glad if it makes people think and engage with these issues. |
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Sierra
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Hi Pook, what a beautiful painting 'The Outing' ... just love it. Hope you win at the show. 
I also like your tryptych. I'm an environmentalist since a very long time but when going public with this kind of opinion we used to get a verbal bashing and are still called certain names toaday ... so I'm careful voicing my thoughts now but your painting gives me a sombre feeling. The birds are very dark or black in colour, normally associated with a dark shadow flying over.... and that's exactly what's happening toady .... there are dark shadows over the world (climate change, war, etc.).  |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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The same painting is described by one as 'bouyant' and another as 'sombre' - I love the way art has different effects on people and stimulates conversation as to meaning and interpretation!
Actually I'm pleased that those diametrically opposite feelings come out of it, because I tried to convey a certain ambivalence, controversy and uncertainty regarding the environmental future of our local land use. I think if you look carefully there are motifs of both despair, foreboding and hopefulness within the painting.
Sierra - interesting observation about the black birds (actually they are Prussian Blue & Umber). It's a Wedge Tailed Eagle being chased by another bird, probably a Magpie or Raven, and they are real birds from a photo, but yes, I think I did intend them to convey something like what you suggest, though it was a fairly vague sort of feeling that I couldn't have put into words exactly as I painted them in. Notice also that the Wedge Tail is heading towards the third panel and away from the large trees of the first panel. Whre will it nest in the future?
On the other hand, the main reason they are there is for better composition of the middle panel!
Thanks for the kind comments. |
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Sierra
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Your last words are so relevant, Pook. Didn't someone down South just flatten 750 ha of wetlands near the Murray. He left no tree standing. Where will the birds go, should they ever come back to look for nesting places?
I'm still  but I like your painting. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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| Sierra wrote: | Your last words are so relevant, Pook. Didn't someone down South just flatten 750 ha of wetlands near the Murray. He left no tree standing. Where will the birds go, should they ever come back to look for nesting places?
I'm still but I like your painting. |
Down South? That depends where you are. No it was not on the Murray, it was on the Gwydir, near Moree in North West NSW. I used to live there. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: I sold my painting! |
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I sold my painting entitled "The Outing" at the Max Fry Exhibition in Launceston yesterday! Still waiting to see whether my other one sells today.
We dropped in to the exhibition yesterday on the way through to another town to pick up a puppy we bought, and just happened to drop in at the precise time an older couple were admiring it - they asked whether it was mine when my wife took a picture of me in front of it, and wanted to know all about the subject etc. Meeting "the artist" tipped the decision for them, as they had been previously umming and ahhing over it, and the guy went straight out to the desk and bought it. It was very nice to see the little red dot for a change! (As you can tell, I haven't sold many up to now!)
http://www.dokimon.net.au/art/Outing/The-Outing-1024.jpg |
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KimO
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Yay! Thats fantastic Good on you Pook. Makes it all worth while when someone loves your painting so much that they are actually willing to shell out their hard earned cash for it  |
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Omphaloskeptic
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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| Congratulations on the sail Pook, that's great news! |
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Elisa
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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I have to say: I am quite impressed by your paintings.
The boats are really quite good.
But my favorite is the painting of the tree, in your Triptych.
I would go so far as to say in fact that it has a quality of magic about it!! Perhaps it is the brightness of the color used, but I like it quite a lot. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: Re - Three Plus One Equals Two |
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Thanks very much for the kind compliments Elisa. It is still for sale if you want to buy it!
I'm currently working on another one:
Above: "Bissett's Barn, God's Sky" 14"x10" (36x25cm) Oils on canvas board.
Below: Detail sections of painting:
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