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Ikebana - Totem

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An abstract acrylic painting inspired on Japanese flower arrangement and the bright colors of the Caribbean.

-Hacsev

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Awesome

And here was an awesome piece of art and once again you bring us that abstract style and it's so artistic that yellow portion actually looks like a fox or even pikacho lol but anyways very nice use of meshing and great use of color as well I love your artistic style here you bring a lot of flavor across the board

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
No changes as this was a beautiful piece of art

~X~

The totem is on fire

Ah, a piece that I can see something in - I see a Totem Pole, rising through the middle of the piece, surrounded by a yellow flame at the base. To the front of it, I can see a black figure dancing amongst the flames, so I have pictured this as some sort of spirit, that is either patron of the totem or in being exorcised from it, somehow.

Again, the directions of your brush strokes can really affect people's perception of the piece as a whole and I can see various things moving about within the picture. I'd love to see your own thoughts in the comments, so that I can compare my notes after I've seen the piece.

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Something's missing.

After a while, I'm stumped to really find any kind of theme in this painting. It's only through your comments that I managed to figure out what was being represented. No worries, though, it's still nice enough to loom at.

I think, even for an abstract painting, it's a little too scatterbrained. I'm really not getting the flower arrangement motif, but the Caribbean colors theme works very well. Yellow, green, and red at the bottom make a nice explosion of imagery, even if it is tiny.

It's probably the discrepancy between the jagged shapes of the top and the more flowing, curved shapes on the bottom. That difference is a little bit disorienting, and it made appreciating the piece as a whole difficult. I think there needs to be some figure through the piece, like a stem, or a couple flowers that weave in and out of each other.

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Very amazing

I actually tend to do these kind of doodles on paper as well but the teachers think there is something wrong with me just for drawing them which is odd.

The detailing of this is rather cool feeling to be honest, I enjoy how the colors don't flow or overlap each other either.

I also kind of get a feeling like I am looking down at a city of some sort as well which is strange feeling, very good piece of work on this overall.

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Nice

The color variation is good in this one, and it also doesn't seem to have the 'screaming white' problem that I described last week in a couple others. This painting doesn't really jump out at me with anything in particular like most if not all of the others have. It almost seems to be outlining something very large and round, but I can't quite imagine what it could be.

It's still very interesting to look at nonetheless, I just can't seem to make anything out of this one.

Awesome as usual.

-RRC-

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Uploaded
Nov 27, 2010
3:51 PM EST
Category
Fine Art

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