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Published: 2007-06-06 01:41:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 2414; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 0
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Neglect; 30 x 40 inches - oil on canvas.Completed June, 2007.
This house served as a backdrop in another of my paintings "Storm Warning" www.deviantart.com/deviation/4… (I changed the color of the house and it's the side instead of the front).
Photo updated June 9, 2007.
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Apologies for the watermark. This is why it's necessary: My Strange Encounter With an Art Thief on dA .
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Comments: 51
I'm glad you like it! I checked out your gallery. Maybe it's the colors and light in mine? Yours seems much more subdued. Maybe it's the location. The light is very bright in Florida where I grew up, and where I shot the reference photo for the painting.
You also seem to appreciate Salvador Dali. I do too, but surrealism isn't something I'm very good at. Reality is disturbing enough.
Thanks for your comment.
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You're welcome.
....and true about reality. It is, indeed, disturbing.
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Wow, truly amazing painting!
So much detail... That lighting is really really awesome!
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Liking the realism of the painting and the message behind it. Good job!
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Gosh, the distinction between the shadows and the light in this one is excellent, I really love your style...the colours are so vibrant. You really have some good ideas in your pieces. Keep up the good work.
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Truly awesome. It says something about this country being the richest in the world and still not able to take care of its most needy citizens. Sure, have the free market, but does that mean those who do not benefit from it deserve to live in squalor?
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this is exactly why i moved out of hte us....poor US I used to have pride now I just feel sad for it..anyways, I hope things pick up for the US and this is a great depiction of it. Lovely painting too, I love hte shadows and hightlights in this particular piece.
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It's difficult 1. to continue feeling patriotic when your country does awful things, and 2. weed out the awful things to focus on what the country was intended to become, instead of what it has, hoping for and perhaps working toward regaining that vision again.
Thanks so much for your comments!
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Your gift is your application of shadow and light in your paintings. All of your paintings look like photos. Now, I don't know if you take that as a compliment, but trust me when I tell you it is meant to be the best compliment ever.
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I will graciously take that as a compliment. I do use photos as references and I take most of them myself (or my partner does). The finished paintings aren't quite like the photos, but I do like the play of light and I tend to exaggerate some features that I think are more attractive and inviting.
And I very, very much appreciate that you like the painting. Thank you!
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awesome. i thought it was a picture at first. well done.
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Thanks so much! I'm so glad you like it!
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wow. i thought this was a picture. haha. GREAT job. im very impressed.
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Thanks! I appreciate your comments!
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not a problem! Your work is amazing!
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i love your metaphors, and, again, the way you paint sunlight.
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Woah, this is amazing, I didn't even tell that is was a painting until I saw the description Lol.
Great lighting, and painting skills
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Thanks for visiting, and the comments!
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lovely painting great fibe to it. And believe me
when you have a new president and administration than the fools you have now it will get better. Some time people forget that power isn't everything!
Marty
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A lot of people forget that power isn't everything. History teaches us that in so many painful lessons, but so many people forget or ignore them. Is it human nature or will we finally get enough lessons that it's impossible to ignore?
Thanks for the compliments!
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Thats so true, i am not that old (30) but if i asked a young person nower days if they now how anna frank ore Hitler is they frequently don't now.
And the scary thing is is that holland is getting more and more extreme Right every day.
Marty
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Lovely lovely work. A shiny new flag does not a great government make..I am quite sure that the American people did not make the present administration. I well remember when President Gore receded. Where there is greed there is no true democracy. "God Bless us" never meant more..I am very thankful as a veteran there is a two term limit. May we survive this, and become the country we were founded to be a land where "greed and religion" had no control over the people that make this great land. BIG
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Thanks. Your comments mean a lot to me.
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Very good work. You make oils look like watercolours. Great description too.
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It's my fascination with sparkly things and light combined with my spine-tingling fear of watercolors (they don't allow you to screw up!! Flee!!!)
Thanks for the great comment and the favorite too!!
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very thoughtfull...when I first saw it without reading your comments, it reminded me of a family waiting for their love one/s to come home from war.
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Perhaps I shouldn't add such specific comments at all. I do like to know what people see or think without the artist's input, but then knowing the purpose behind the piece gives people an extra connection to the image...
Thanks for your comments!
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I am ecouraged to know that I am not alone with regard to our country and our flag. You are so right about the heart of America existing in it's people. Hopefully the last seven years will wake them up and get them to the polls. Thanks for painting this and sharing it here.
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No, you're not alone a bit. I wonder though, if people are aroused by 7 years of poor governing what they were thinking 8 years ago (I disliked and distrusted the president at once), and would the same tricks work again in the future.
Thanks as usual, for visiting.
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Me too and I don't know what they were thinking. The problem really, is that no one is thinking or paying attention.
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I've recently been stuck on that problem wondering if people will always do this, or if it's possible for many people to learn from past mistakes and change.
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Hard to say, butg I have hopes.
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Hey thanks! Thanks for visiting!
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As a Dutch guy living in Europe it sometimes feels if America is the country responsible for a lot of misery in the world... For me it's good to see that there are still people caring for their country despite the fact it's politically a mess.
Your painting says more than words! Well done! I hope a lot of people will feel the same way and react by putting positive input in their own community.
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I know it seems hard for people outside the US to separate the actions of the government from the heart of the people. Please remember that this administration's term is one of the most unpopular in history and it consistently gets low ratings. Political disagreements always run hot, so although I feel like this piece is well-crafted, it might not get a lot of attention because of the comments I wrote up there. I don't care anymore.
I believe very strongly in what the people who started my country intended it to be. I hope that a new administration can live up to those ideals.
I appreciate your comments. Thank you very much.
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THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION!!!
this is so oooooooo good
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How can I possibly agree any more emphatically?
Thanks for the comments and the favorite!
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Much like our imperfect country the house has more things right with it than wrong...With a bit of cooperation, hardwork and vision, we could make it the country it ought to be...Nice control of light and texture....
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I like comments like this. It makes me think of how to put in words what I was thinking while painting it...
I've recently had a loss of idealism professionally and personally. I guess it only stands to reason that it coincided with my patriotic loss of idealism as well. Ironically, that's what I think is wrong with politicians - they have no idealism rather than their own self-serving interests. That seems a shame to me.
Thanks for the compliment and the favorite!
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i must say its well done.lighting,textures,reflections.all 
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Thanks so much! I appreciate your visit and your comments!
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