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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

MicroVisions No 1

For those of you who missed last Wednesday's post, I am going to be entering a single 5x7 oil painting into this year's MicroVision's show. This piece is going to be done without my usual digital trickery. It will be a completely original, unmonkeyed-with painting. 
I will be a Jedi with no mind powers, a samurai with no sword, a man without any pants on. 
(Some of you may say that pants, swords and mind powers are all overrated, but still, I feel a bit naked without my tricks.)

I NEED YOUR VOTES

Now, this series is going to be a little different than past series because I would like to ask everyone's feedback to decide which of these I should send in. The main question is, which of these paintings will do the best at an auction?
My deadline is next Tuesday, the 24th. So, with that in mind I am going to break with tradition and post these pieces very quickly, with their development stages all at once. I am going to post a new one each day. Then I am going to post the final 4 Monday morning at 9 AM. If you can make it, swing by here Monday and cast your vote!

MicroVisions No. 1






Posted by Justin Gerard
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7 comments:

  1. Jared ShearMarch 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM

    WOW....great start. Really enjoy this. Definitely has a bit different feeling to it than your watercolor/digital. A good different though.

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  2. RobArtMarch 18, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    You know...a couple of years ago, when I first started checking out your work, I thought to myself, "Self, you can do this! Just do a simple drawing...scan it...then 'fix' it in Photoshop." I have since come to the realization that Self is stupid and I could no more paint something this detailed, this amazing, than I could squeeze a piece of coal and produce a diamond.

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  3. Peter UnderhillMarch 19, 2009 at 2:33 AM

    Predictably, great work considering the constraints. To my mind, you've lost the guy's eye from your initial values stage. This could be affect the piece's performance at auction.

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  4. CoryMarch 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    Bring on the goat-man

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  5. BenMarch 21, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    Wow, that is wonderful. I agree about losing the eye in the last two, in the first there is much more feeling in the man's face. But the coloring leaves you looking a lot longer either of the second two.

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  6. anima-baseMarch 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM

    Gorgeous painting.
    I really love it.

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  7. tayeteApril 3, 2009 at 7:24 AM

    Simply fantastic. I have no critiques.

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