lov-it!I think it going well,experimenting is the only way.as being a sign painter & artist I think I have used all types of mediums!Fantastic!

creates an impression of (somehow) cruelty...(?)

So good and so good work erland

The colours emphasise the form of the image really well. This is achieved in part by the colours in the sheet being echoed onto the canvas. Also there are areas of the sheet that visually disintegrate into the canvas This combined with the occasional merge of colour and tone into background add an extra illusion of depth and allow the attached surface materials to recede beyond the stretched surface. I enjoy the organic colours and rich painterly surface you have achieved. Im sure the actual physical object would be even better than the reproduction online. It captures a good sense of visual movement and although obviously laboured has maintained a great feeling of spontaneity.

Thanks for your comments :-) Yes, it is difficult to reproduce something like this as a flat photograph online (the overhanging part of the "hat" in the top right corner is about an inch above the surface of the canvas - there's a little cave in there) but what you see here is pretty adequate in showing the piece.

I love these works of you very much!

I'm sure Beksinski would like it. You've achieved fantastic "organic" effect, lights are brilliant too... Waiting to see more of it. Greets!

If you're looking to get a balance of values then I'd say it works, with two dark corners and two light. The choice of colours seems right too, being organic. Thanks for explaining the stages in the production of this. I was wondering how the oil pastels fitted in the scheme :-) Improvement? Difficult one. Hi-lights maybe? BTW, I thought Charles Saatchi had discovered you, till I realised the true nature of your new Saatchi page! Hard luck... but then I never thought he had such good taste in art to appreciate you :-D

Oh no, the Your Gallery section of Saatchi's website is for anyone really - but their pages are still nicely presented and it's free too :-)

Your use of colour for me is just right and brings out the human characteristics of this work (as I perceive it) to perfection! The similarity between your creation and the faces of the pickled remains discovered in bogs is uncanny! In Scandinavia numerous leathery remains of Bronze Age people that have been executed and thrown into bogs have been uncovered - leathery being the right word because the acidic conditions tans their skin as if it were a cowhide. Picture available here:- http://www.isbuc.co.uk/Wild/PStory.htm

i'm simply stunned.. this is awesome, dear jim... i love those colours... amazing... i can watch this for hours without getting bored... cool! way cool, jim!!! hugs christian

OUTSTANDING!!

I like the way you modelled the twigs with the sheet. And of course the use of colours is well done. I like it very much.

I find this fanastic Jim, because it seems so alive. Superb job!!

Wonderful slimy textures and colours; the detail is fantastic; it's such a suggestive piece of art.

It has been incredible to watch you work on this, its metamorphosis mirroring your rapidly evolving knowledge and a learning curve for me almost as much as it was for you. Your unique vision is not lost at all within traditional media, in fact I think it even more intreaging, and I can't wait to see what you create next! Stunning work my beautiful friend, thank you so very much for sharing everything you do hugest squishy hugs XXX

I dont think it would have mattered what colors you had chose, this still would have come out looking 'organic' in nature and I like that. Textures that reach out to your eyes and grab them not letting go are my favorite. Abstracts I dont normally care for because of their interpretive implications but this one...well, this one I interpret very easily as a Horror theme. Hey, it's what I see. Awesome work. frankmiller (Omen555)

Great technique with the right result