thats pretty. i like the colours, very... emotive

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The movement and the textures you've created here are amazing

The colors are quite eye-catching, and the lines are fascinating. Without the title, interpretation could have been difficult, but it's one of those pictures where a person blinks, stands back, and goes, "...huh. Oooooh." and moves back in for a closer look.

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Incredible coloring, wonderful mix of vagueness and detail.

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Do you not do paintings in this style anymore? I think it could do with a lot more exploration than I can see in your gallery so far...

First of all, thank you. No I havent been doing paintings like that in the past year. I know that that stuff looks like the best stuff that I do, and you are more than welcome to belive that it is. I know that the formula of urban landscapes plus trippyness can equal some very charming little paintings. Pretty, charming, and trippy does not get you famous these day's, because everyones done drugs before. The idea of psychodilia and surrealness has been around in art now for a very long time, and thus is no longer as contemporary as it once was, though does still appeal to many people. I just want to do work that makes people feel realy fucked up without being bluntly tripy and surreal. You may or may not have seen that one slither painting I posted. It really dosn't matter if you did or didn't. If you do look at that slither painting #1 You must read the story below to undersand at all what's going on. The detail is so small you pretty much cannot appreaciate it at a glance on a computer moniter. It's basicly a picture of me naked dangling from a forklift, streaching my scrotum out and taking aim at the womans vagina in the trash can with a hammer. The naked man is a charactor named slither an ex pornstar turned gold prospecter. You see there's a gold rush in her crotch part and he want's to chip himself off a peice. JUst look at it and read the story. This is the first painting of a series I've been working on for the past year. I have twelve so far, but there will be at least twenty. I'have no doubt in my mind that this series kicks the other serie's asses. The reason is is there is a very high amount of my personal idas and who I am as a person. I'm not a guy who sits around doing acid all the time, so why should I paint like I am? I shouldn't. I'll post the rest of the slither paintings When I'm done with the rest of the series. In the art world having work that you can talk about in great detail and chrisma is the differance between art that's interesting and art that get's largly ignored. One must be stratigic.

I know that that stuff looks like the best stuff that I do, and you are more than welcome to belive that it is. I know that the formula of urban landscapes plus trippyness can equal some very charming little paintings. Pretty, charming, and trippy does not get you famous these day's, because everyones done drugs before. The idea of psychodilia and surrealness has been around in art now for a very long time, and thus is no longer as contemporary as it once was, though does still appeal to many people. I just want to do work that makes people feel realy fucked up without being bluntly tripy and surreal

Well, I got the impression that it was largely your own idea to mix realism with surrealism in this particular way. Because of that, I just thought it would be worth you exploring it a bit more, seeing as it has a pretty strong effect. If it's in fact a formula that you're following though, then it doesn't matter. This stuff is I think the artwork with the most initial impact that you've done, though I don't think it's the most technically skilled (Baby's blanket is amazing in its realism).

Really good news to hear about these slither paintings you're doing. And no, I hadn't read the description before, so I didn't know about this. Yeh, by the sounds of it these new paintings are the ones you should work on. I wasn't aware just from skimming through your gallery that these were ones that meant a lot to you and the psychedelic ones weren't, and from that vantage point I had to assume they were all equally significant.

So yeh, if in the psychedelic paintings you're following a past formula, whereas in these slither paintings you're really putting yourself into your art, then absolutely you should keep working on the slither ones. I hope you don't forget to keep uploading them! The way you describe your work reminds me a lot of the art one of my friends does.

On a side note, have you been influenced by Lucian Freud at all?

Well that formula of that realisum with surrealisum was definatly my own idea, but still I yearn for more.

No I have not really been influenced by freud at all. I, at this point in my artistic life, am more for learning everything that I can about the technical aspects of painting and abandoning being influanced by other painters. Right now with the Slither series I'm more influenced by musicians like Prince and Seal, than I am by painters. I'm glad that you would ask me that though because he is a great painter, but I don't think that his style is as big of a deal as a lot of people like to think. He just mixes a ton of differnt colors and values and puts them in the geometrically correct places and does minimal blending. The effect is awesome of course, but anyone could learn to paint like that. Plus, I can't really say that I'm too impressed with straight up figureitive work with minimal additional subject matter. The human body is to easy to seduce veiwers with on it's own, no matter how much you "express yourself" with brush strokes. The same goes for seville. I don't know, why do you ask?