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David Handeye
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Wow, Pluto, you're an artist. Bello
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Pluto wrote:This painting took awhile. But it's a painting not a drawing. Paintings take time and so the making is more intense. It was in 2001 and I was in London and at that time I had this urge to paint a head being supported by a hand, we all do it from time to time. I thought the pose interesting and wanted to create sublime sadness somehow. The hand looks like it could be someone else's which brings in a sensitive almost sentimental aspect to the picture.

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Love it 8)
Interesting to compare it to this month's PN cover :wink:
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Pluto wrote:This painting took awhile. But it's a painting not a drawing. Paintings take time and so the making is more intense. It was in 2001 and I was in London and at that time I had this urge to paint a head being supported by a hand, we all do it from time to time. I thought the pose interesting and wanted to create sublime sadness somehow. The hand looks like it could be someone else's which brings in a sensitive almost sentimental aspect to the picture.

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That's cool. I like it. :D
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Thanks to all of you for saying so, your words are like (good) music to my ears, but I won't let it go to my head. I thought first I must mourn life before I could be engaged and even celebratory of it. After the twin towers fell I was asking what is its opposite, what is its inverse other. To go extreme in the opposite way, but this is still unclear. I would like to paint the inverse of the 'artist' painting but don't yet know what that could be, staying clear of fascist or communist images of ideal (wo)man.
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Is he saying his work is for children.

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This one was done in about 10 or at the most 18 seconds. It is not the time spent on a work that makes it great. You could count the years of study or practice as an artist, and say, it took me 25 years. What's there is over 20 years of practice. In a 10 second drawing. Is that not beautiful.

I wanted to show an expression that had not yet been seen. To have a drawing express a look that points to a new place of being.
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This was my first ever computer rendered image, back almost a couple of decades ago. There weren't 3D people models or decals then (at least not easy to find or affordable), so I drew the silhouettes behind the glass wall at the left.
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They look convincing. Be nice to see them in close up without the disco. Just them filling the picture with a white background.
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This one started out as a drawing but ended up as a sculpture
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The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually, such as creeping state surveillance.[1]

According to contemporary biologists the premise of the story is not literally true; a frog submerged and gradually heated will jump out.[2][3] However, some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true, provided the heating is sufficiently gradual.[4][5]

The story's common metaphorical use is a caution for people to be aware of even gradual change lest they suffer eventual undesirable consequences.
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Argentina Girl with Damaged Eye

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On a trip to Argentina I saw a girl in her 20's who had her left eye almost closed. We looked at each other, I was upstairs on a bus which her family member was boarding. She was beauty incarnate with her closed eye. The drawing doesn't do her justice, but I wanted a record of it somehow.
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Sweet
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Pluto wrote:
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^ Reminds me of BioShock or maybe something from Blade Runner. If you're ever bored Pluto, I think you might like to doodle around with this tool: Scribblertoo. Safe link.
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