Frank Mayes 12 Dec 2013

and as in the Floyd tune.... "Is There Anybody IN There..."

Will Kirkland 13 Dec 2013

Frank: I love this style of painting. A collage look works the imagination in a way that is unique to each viewer. I work in colored pencil and use Dura-Lar polyester film as my surface. It is matte surface on both sides and allows adding color to both sides. I have played with creating "ghost images" in the style of Charles Peterson. This too works the imagination of the viewer. With the polyester film, I can put different images on each side. The ghost images are put on one side and the main image is put on the other. I haven't posted any of these images yet, but will eventually. I've been a bit slow of late to post new images. Have a great Holiday season. Best regards.

Frank Mayes 13 Dec 2013

Thanks again Will.... I like the process you described with the Prismacolors... I just may have to give it a go .... Thanks

Frank Mayes 14 Dec 2013

Come on people... lets talk about ideas....

Alan Berkman 17 Dec 2013

I see two very well done paintings (with SHADOWS!) but I don't understand, or can't get my brain to make, the connection between the two. Can you explain it, or I must I become "Comfortably Numb" and try to figure it out by myself?

Frank Mayes 17 Dec 2013

If you look at it that way... yes I can see two paintings. Fact is ....it is two paintings compressed together. There is no underlying reason... or meaning.... it is just for the enjoyment of the oddity, and the exercise of the weird.

But having said that... I’m thinking of pulling some of the red foreground around the girl into the middle background of the Crow. That might tie things together a little bit and not make the viewer fell stranded in one plane or the other.

Frank Mayes 17 Dec 2013

As to becoming Comfortably Numb.... enjoy... it's the hollidays...

Alan Berkman 18 Dec 2013

In that respect, almost every day is holidays! ;-)

Frank Mayes 25 Dec 2013

I've worked back into the painting with some red and black and orange in the far background in the left side of the painting... I think it pulled the painting together a bit more... I'll post a photo soon

Frank Mayes 05 Jan 2014

It would be nice to hear other comments....

Gail Caduff-Nash 06 Jan 2014

hi - great to see some new work in here - and talented work, too - as a great Dali fan I like surrealism. the only problem I see with this is, as you said, we're being pulled apart - the composition has a problem, as mine often do also, of not leading our eye as you want it to. Take the woman out and you have a fascinating painting of crows & still life. I would wonder if there should be a shadow of the large crow on the "sky". What would be fun is if the shadow seemed to be taking off, flying off toward the other crows. There's just too much space between the woman & the wine glass. Maybe have a scarf around her neck blowing off into the wind? You sure do have fun, though.

Frank Mayes 08 Jan 2014

I'm glad your here Gail...

Yaaah... I wasn't comfortable with it also. Had to put it aside for a while. Have a look now...

Gail Caduff-Nash 09 Jan 2014

Yes, that does give it more cohesion. Nice.

Frank Mayes 10 Jan 2014

I'm thinking of carrying the red of the far left background all the over to the girl just at the horizon line.

marlene burns 11 Jan 2014

Frank, I'd suggest another art website with an active forum and critique venues if you are looking for more..this place has a big echo echo echo echo echo

Frank Mayes 12 Jan 2014

LMAO... lmao.........lmao ..... yaah there is a bit of an echo... here.

Thanks for stopping by anyway.

Frank Mayes 10 Mar 2014

I'm not getting any reaction here...?

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