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Impressionistic ACRYLIC Cityscape at Night - AUSTIN

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SvetlanaNovikova wrote
on 18 Oct 2010 9:02 PM

I painted this cityscape during a demo at Jerry's Artarama in Austin few days ago.  Canvas size is 18x24", I used both - the brushes and palette knives.  It was fun to paint, and there are still few adjustments needed.   I'd love to hear your comments :-)   Some 'field notes' from the demo on my blog - www.moodyartist.com

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Lauren19 wrote
on 22 Nov 2010 12:59 PM

Lots of energy in this, I love it!

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Pistachio 01 wrote
on 26 Nov 2010 5:13 PM

absolutely beautiful

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sylvesterkoh wrote
on 29 Nov 2010 4:09 PM

it looks messy right in the middle. but your use of colours is superb.

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KatPaints wrote
on 29 Nov 2010 5:02 PM

This painting has really good energy because of the bold juicy brushstrokes. I like that the cars have their headlights on while the city is "aglow."

By the way, to the person above "messy in the middle" is rather vague. I think you need to clarify what you mean since makes for a "bad" poorly understood critique.The middle looks fine to me. I like the office building and what I assume are tree tops.

I find that there is some light from photographing the piece coming from the left which would make the right side darker. I like the pop of light along the right side about a 1/3 of the way up.  The surrounding dark area may benefit from a few extra details of your choosing.

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SvetlanaNovikova wrote
on 29 Nov 2010 5:14 PM

Thank you for all the comments.  This painting was done during a 3 hour demo, so time was a bit short to develop it further....And although I liked to keep it looking fresh, I do agree that there are several things that I need to tweak, as some posters mentioned.  :-)
But I don't know if I will though lol

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KatPaints wrote
on 29 Nov 2010 6:36 PM

Then your done. don't change a thing!

Nice work

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SvetlanaNovikova wrote
on 29 Nov 2010 7:18 PM

Thanks! Smile

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azra s painting a day wrote
on 5 Dec 2010 7:28 AM

Hi Svetlana,I love this painting,its painterly loose style really appeals to me.I try to paint more like this but at the moment I still neaten up the edges! Have you painted anymore since?      Azra    Also have a look on my blog azraiqbal.blogspot.com and tell me what you think of my work.

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Pheenix wrote
on 17 Dec 2010 3:14 PM

I like it just the way it is. Looks very nice.

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Robert S Flores wrote
on 17 Dec 2010 5:20 PM

Great brush and palette knife work, hope you didn't change a thing.

 

Is this a view on Congress!   It's been years I've in Austin

 

 

Robert 's Studio

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