Post #673979 by GROG on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 1:41 PM

GROG agree with ATP about the triptych. When GROG click on the thread and the window open and GROG see the painting, the dog just immediately looks out-of-place, or the Tikis. It's just not meshing right---doesn't have the right feel. This last painting---- god/dog works. It's making a statement/expressing an idea, showing humor, etc. The triptych, however, just looks like a dog portrait between two tiki paintings. It could be a horse portrait, a ferret, a gorilla, etc, and it would just look like an animal portrait between two tikis paintings The painting technique is awesome---very competent/skilled. Whenever GROG see the painting the Sesame Street song "one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong" pops into GROG' head. Now if, it was trying to be contrasting---where an element is put into the painting to purposely look out-of-place, like dogs playing poker--- that would work. But here, it just doesn't seem to quite work. It looks like the dog is meant to fit in with the tikis, rather than contrast with the tikis, and it doesn't quite work for GROG. It's just a really nice dog portrait between two tiki paintings.

That being said, GROG would love to see you do more tiki art, because you're a really skilled artist/painter.

The painting looks like you did it for yourself, and not to sell it. If you like it and it's what you want, then screw everybody. You're the artist--you do what you want.