Love the overall in this my mate. Your style here shows your own sense of spacial freedoms. Each entity within the whole has space to breath, yet each remains connected and attached to the complete effect.
Your choices of entwined topics are complimentary to each other without losing the ability to stand out as thoughts within themselves. Within each item lies varying level of detail, though in my opinion, just the right amount to allow them to remain free. This lovely work does not overburden the eye, it is as Dawn says, it gives me so much to look at and ponder.
You seem sometimes to "knock" your ability to portray what is in your mind. This is not "You" my good mate :-)
All the works I have seen from you since joining are " Yours ". They have "Essence of Hinsel" tattooed all the way through them, they are unmistakeably yours.
I love your style, its like mine. We have these very deep inner selves, that constantly drive our ideas to seek Light. How we portray them is defined by our percieved artistic ability, yet how they are perceived by the viewer is determined by our inability to make them Super Realistic.
From viewing this Marathon Hinsel, for that is what it became, I can already see the desire that drove you to donate this much of your life to your creation.
In finding "out", our ideas no longer remain "in". It is this awesome sense of self found freedom that drives us to produce. The self satisfaction of being able to simply produce my friend, surpasses my fears of my actual ability to do it in a style of those I admire.
Where my skills fail me, my thoughts drive me to seek other ways of releasing this same expression/emotion.
I have said it often before on here Hinsel, " I see many works of outstanding Art that portray Restraint/Constraint, simply by the manner in which the rules dictate how these images are created"
I likewise get great joy from seeing the freedoms of those not so restricted or constrained in the manner in which they are allowed to produce "Their Art". It is the complete innocence of imagery created by Free thinkers that keeps my brain functioning, for all else around me in life lies constraint by the nature of what it is :-)
Your art is Free Hinsel, Its Pure, Its Yours :-)
Never question how long something takes or if it was worth the effort, simply move through your life with purpose and a sense of Destiny/Goal, but always remember to ENJOY what you choose to do.
When my art becomes a chore, I stop. When I have the time and space, creating art/concepts brings me pleasures nothing else in lfe gives me. Art is unique to us all.
You have worked hard on this my good friend, very hard. No doubt it has pushed your boundaries some, but Marathon works are in my humble opinion, a feat of dedication, regardless of the result at the end of the journey.
By the way, I can't stop humming those lyrics " build a little birdhouse in your soul " Who sang that ???
This is a great work Hinsel, a nice piece of you that you can be proud of. Keep smiling, and keep producing, but Stop knocking yourself, thats our job/fun. Tehe Your cage is your fear of not being good enough, yet your output belies these fears you have. Your freedom lies in accepting your own style, and letting your freedom create without fear.
All the best to you. Laz
PS Mike my good man, you can stop knocking yourself too :-) or I'll make your head hurt with some hefty maths ;-)
Everything you said is right, but my good fellow, remember also that in your works, a dedication to portayal of detail is beyond most. When such works are produced, they too give great insight into the artists soul.
In my humble opinion ALL art is a window to the artists soul, we simply have to recognise which window it is we are looking through, and at what we look at :-)
I still look at your Pebbles Oil. At the time I tried to explain why I found it so incredible, now it is easier to simply say that it hit me so hard for it was a work of art you never tried to create.
As a work of super realism, it had many flaws, but as a "Work of Art" it contained so many different catagories of styles. I said it then and stick by my words now, " I believe Pebbles in Oils to be the best piece I have been priveliged to see on AW simply because you innocently ended up creating imagery that portrayed so many thoughts and styles within 1 single image, something I have striven to achieve for many many years, Surreal Realism.
All the best buddy Laz.
thank you dawn !! glad you like my picture!
thank you most kindly helene for your comment!
wow laz ! hehe ! thanks for the killer comment...you've said much truth; i know its a dis-service to my talent to question its worth but its hard not to doubt sometimes...most people i tell about my work think i am crazy for spending so much time on something i am "not even getting paid for". they ask me 'whats the purpose' and i don't know. i am driven to create...but they don't understand that. creation has become an addiction, the withdrawal pains of which are worse than the habit itself...so far.
art really isn't ever a chore for me, even when i get fustraited with a particular piece...art is one of the few parts of my life that i think of as "chore-free" or completely safe. art, since i first picked up a pencil as a child in church to pass the time during sermon, has been an escape, a refuge.
i guess i picked the wrong skill-set for not being 'misunderstood' by the masses hehe! 'get a job, long hair' and all that...and more than anything thats the nag that pierces into my perfect world of creation...the fact that all this time spent creating could be (should be?) time spent being a provider for my woman, building a fund for our future, "making something of myself", all that stuff. (all the old ideals of achievement i can't seem to shake and honestly not sure i should be trying to lose)i dream of finding some way to be able to live off my art and photography. to not work a sh!t job i hate so i can continue to create but rather to create AS my job because to be able to do so would bring me much *joy*...to show the people who doubted; to prove my worth moreso to myself - but it takes alot of time to even get started and even then nothings guaranteed...i am shamed to admit in my dark moment recently i betrayed the ray of light shining in my heart and spoke the words "...dreams don't pay the bills..."; even though i know they were said in a time of despair the truth of those bitter words haunt me when the 1st and 15th of each month come round...
strangely it makes me work even harder to create. even harder to refine my skills into being something i can "make something of" in this world...as time goes by i have to fight off doubt, but i feel i AM making progress of some kind...but towards what i am unsure.
it will all be whatever its meant to be. guiding by my hand or letting the wheel fly. there's no stopping that. as you have said, best not forget to enjoy the ride while it lasts - and my art allows me to do that...it lets me continue believing in the power of dreams despite all the things that tell me otherwise and i guess the worth of THAT to ME i *never* question.
the version of the song "birdhouse" that i know was sang by "They Might Be Giants".
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