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The Secret by *abatage:iconabatage:

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Once again... a SALA 2006 exhibition piece.

This painting really frustrated and annoyed me while I was painting it because I couldn't get anything to go the way that I wanted it to... you have those days. The colours were terrible in the beginning, but I'm not a big fan of greens and blues anyway so there's no surprise that I hated using them... for some reason I thought it was a good idea at the time. When I look at it now all I can see is layers... the different stages of wrestling with every little part of this painting that now stand out in my mind and make me cringe at the thought of doing it. Thankfully though, the end product is something I am happy with and in fact, it's better than I thought it would be after starting.

acrylic on canvas.

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~unstable-isotope Sep 22, 2006, 2:50:53 AM
This painting makes me anxious - in a way that high-contrast mixed color temparature art sometimes makes me. That's a compliment - art should shake me up. :)

Not even to mention that secrets make me anxious unto themselves.

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art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship - ingmar bergman
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~phantomofnyc Sep 25, 2006, 7:31:26 PM
Your series on this looks alot better than the one's I have done :hug: great work.

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" No One Dies a Virgin, Life Screws Us All"
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*abatage Sep 30, 2006, 1:48:44 AM
it should shake people up I think
one of the great things about the feedback that i got for the exhibition that this piece was in was that it was all quite extreme - people either loved it or absolutely loathed it... sometimes I prefer the negative because it really gets into some people's heads!

that's why i love art though... =) thanks!
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~pollkath Apr 14, 2009, 2:40:53 PM
This is gorgeous...it's very chaotic but not stressful. I love how you distributed the weight of the paint...it's perfect and yet not too deliberate.
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*abatage Apr 14, 2009, 3:35:14 PM
Thank you... not sure if I'd go with perfect (haha) but I appreciate your view, "chaotic but not stressful" sounds alright to me =D
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~Saint-Gut-Free Jun 30, 2009, 8:53:29 AM
stressful, maybe not, ...but i do perceive tension. however, the tension surrenders with white. i find a nice balance in this.

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September 19, 2006
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Canon
Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
1/100 second
F/5.6
21 mm
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Sep 20, 2006, 12:17:03 PM

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