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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The thumbnail looked a bit more interesting than most of the other stuff I zipped through, so I opened it. Wondering what I was looking at, I read your blob and couldn't see the
so called "mega-ultra-symbolic." But that's probably a sujective thing.
What I would like adress more than a lot of other things, mainly the composition of the piece. Amateur artists quite often make the mistake of dividing the canvas right in half
with the horizion line smack in the midde instead higher or lower. On top of that amateurish mistake you have placed all those black triangles radiating out from the very center of the canvas that only serves to intensify the ereor. And lastly, BTW, in nature there is no black. Commertial art yes, nature, no. Hope this is of some help. Keep painting.
The symbolism was kinda...Well, now, looking back, it was foolishness. I did make it symbolic, but a large part of that symbolism was personal symbolism, and so, most people won't recognize all that.
As for the composition, you are 100% right. I made the composition early on, and not long after that, I learned the rules of composition...it's still something I have to work on, but it was too late for this particular piece. One thing I didn't realize, though, was the black lines accentuating the issue...you're right about that, and I feel honestly a bit dumb for not realizing it.
As for "In nature, there is no black", I agree, but in this case, I wasn't going for a natural feel. In fact, I wanted to make it look as unnatural as possible. I guess that didn't get across quite as well as I'd liked.
Either way, much thank yous for the comment, it did help!