His paintings are a hell of a lot sharper than my photographs. ;-)
I suppose that his technique (or at least the result) is interesting, but the subject matter is rather banal. It looks like that's the way he wants it, and he's entitled.to that. If some find that the technique or style overwhelms content to the point that the mundane has value then they're entitled to that, too. I actually like hyper-real painting but for me it works much better if the subject matter holds my interest. This gentleman's work (from what I've seen) doesn't. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> Sent: January 20, 2012 1/20/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: So wrong, also ? So on the Scrabble discuss list last week someone posted this link http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/hyper-realistic-paintings-by-steve-mills/ I found it hard to believe. so what is going on here? I think this guy used a projector to project a photo he took (the first one I might find slightly interesting as a photo in a piece about glass , the others, not at all) onto canvas and then added acryllic. In the way illustartors used to do to pump out stuff for books quickly. I cynically wrote the poster that I thought they were fake totally (photoshop) but apparently they are really large "paintings" . Anyone know more about Mills? "Look what I can do" (or look what can be done) art kinda always annoys me - unless it is just for fun. This stuff seems just, well, shallow What say you guys? ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
