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About anglicanbeachparty
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http://hotrodanglican.blogspot.com
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I paint (oil paintings) when I am not doing one of the following:
Traditional Anglican worship
Motor Racing
Kar Kustomization
Posting on LiveJournal
Sleeping
Working
Cleaning my garage
Playing Guitar
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Occupation
Automotive Engineer
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About my avatar
It is a painting I did (after Holbein): School of the Prophets
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Favorite movies
Wise Blood, The Third Man, Teenage Confidential, White Heat, Bladerunner, Bikini Beach, Muscle Beach Party, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Eraserhead, Hot Rod Girl, Amadeus, Take the Money and Run, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Carnival of Souls, Easy Rider, Cool Hand Luke, Gimme Shelter, Head, The Nutty Professor, The Errand Boy, Grand Prix, Yellow Submarine, Chariots of Fire.
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Favorite music
William Byrd, garage punk, Healy Willan, the Volcanos, Thomas Tallis, Frank Zappa, J. S. Bach, Kemper Crabb, baroque, The 13th Floor Elevators, the Byrds, the Monkees, the Vanilla Fudge, Buffalo Springfield, Palestrina, Strawberry Alarm Clock, psychedelic, Moby Grape, Electric Prunes, Ultimate Spinach, Shadows of Knight, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Jean Langlais, the Byrds, Buxtehude, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Herbert Howells, They Might Be Giants, Cesar Franck.
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Favorite creative writing
Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, G. K. Chesterton, John Kennedy O'Toole, A Canticle For Leibowicz, Dorothy Sayers, George Herbert, John Donne.
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Favorite visual art
Hans Holbein the Younger, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, myself.
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anglicanbeachparty started following Visual Art, Architecture, & Design
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That's exactly how I was seeing the work. Your approach also has a way of affecting the flow of observation. For instance with "Ever Love" you seem most detailed with the dress. I wandered around and followed the dress first and then branched out from there. Her shoulders, chest, calves and ankles also seem to have a higher level of photo-realism than her other body parts (principally around the tattoos, it seems). Then the further away the less detailed, such as the grass in the background vs the grass in the foreground. But that is also based on how it looks on my computer. Wish I could s
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I guess if I had my way, I'd be as realistic as possible everywhere throughout a painting. But what is "realistic" is up for debate. When I can find (or take) them, I love to paint from thin-depth-of-field photographs, so that the background is blurred. I think it is more representative of the way we actually see things to not have everything in a painting be in sharp focus. Which part(s) in that painting do you consider to be less realistic or less detailed?
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I know I haven't posted in this thread for a long, long time. I'm just stopping by to say that I plan to enter another bodybuilding contest in July, 2013, just after my 55th birthday. I actually tried quitting bodybuilding for a while, to become a beer connoisseur, but after several months, I missed the discipline and structure of the bodybuilding lifestyle, so I made plans to enter another contest. I'm no good at it, really, but doing it helps me be better in other areas of life.
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Beauty Will Save the World (2011)
anglicanbeachparty replied to J.A.A. Purves's topic in Literature & Creative Writing
I don't know if I can still reply to this thread (since it was later moved), but I would just like to say that Fred Folsom ROCKS! I want to be him when I grow up. -
This one is called "The Bishop's Angel", and contains a deep message about The Episcopal Church. I took the reference photo for this painting with a former Playboy model in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit. I think the photo shoot was almost as fun as making the painting. This won me a $500 prize in a church-sponsored art contest.
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Wow ... it has been about two years since I've posted anything in this thread. I've been busy making more paintings, and I will now share some of them with you. One of the most exciting things that's happened to me is that I've started showing my work publicly again, and have won 2 major awards so far for my paintings. Here's a fairly simple oil. Amanda: