I'm working on this painting and can't seem to get the snakes right. What do you think should be the surface of these 'carven images'?
@dragonlady: "Carven images" It's in the bible. What can I say?
Lets stick with King James.
"Graven Images" it is.
Doc Watson
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Pat attention to Soundproof and Groovy Baby and to your own gut instincts. All of the work I've seen of your's is first rate.
It would seem pretentious of me to suggest to you how to 'improve' your this creation. I like it think it's stands on it's own merit as is and I'm sure I will like whatever direction you take this painting should you decide to alter it.
If it were my work and i were painting this I might add a bright red apple (with a bite taken out of it) sitting on the table. But it's not my painting and this is why I shouldn't make suggestions. I tend to overstate meanings in my art work.
(Check out Groovy Baby's art. It's pretty impressive, too. A lot of surrealism, tempered with spiritual overtones.)
Soundproof
I would say that there is absolutely nothing to improve on in this painting. It really is beautiful and the message is clear, at least to me.
The phallic symbols are evident enough.
I like the subtle and gentle forms of the snakes, thought provoking "Freudian" relationship.
I think that if the snakes were more obvious you would loose some of the thought process that is needed in order to obtain the true meaning of your image.
Some humble suggestions that you could call your painting ;
Carved Eden
Carved Beginning
Sculpted Images of Eden
Carving Paradise
Sculpted Eden
Adam and Eve's sculpted passion
Carved Temptations etc.
I am sure that Dr. Watson and other great contributors in art on this forum will have even better answers for you.
I love your work!!:)
Bellini
I like the painting as it is, it's very Dalinian. Everything seems fine, I think if you make the surface of the snakes a bit smoother and add some veins it would look a bit more organic and more phallic. Other than this it depends on what you want to do. If it were my painting, out of personal taste I would make a higher contrast between light and shadow in order to give the painting more tension. .
guess who at large
Hi Puppy,
It's so nice to meet you:)
And don't let them give you a hard time... "carven" it is!
Read: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Carven+
Don't touch the snakes. They're beautifully 'sculpted'
and characteristically self-absorbed (ha! I'm a girl..
can't you tell?)... and simply perfect. And they're the
gorgeous color of shagreen (which was traditionally
prepared by embedding seeds in untreated skin...
and how biblical is that :). I see a pearl (and properly
named: 'mother-of-pearl') in an oyster as metaphor
for the unprecedented emergence of 'the circle' of life.
Paradise" (Hebrew פרדס PaRDeS) used as a synonym
for the Garden of Eden shares a number of
characteristics with words for 'walled orchard
garden' or 'enclosed hunting park' in an ancient
Persian language.. which seems so apt in your
painting...with a missile readying for target. It's
just bursting with symbolism... thank you for sharing:)
I think it's wonderful!
captsnuf
actually in the king james book it is "graven" images... but i don't know about the other translations what they might say.
i see nothing to improve in the painting... i think it is awesome. and the surface looks great. i'd put the eyes and forked tongue on them but that's just me probably going overboard... y'know if you do anything else it may be too much, that one is probably done.