Hey Fellow Taggers,
I was talking about the TAG web site to my portraiture teacher at the Athenaeum, Ken Goldman (he asked after you Marty). I told him it was where a bunch of us artists got together and talked about movies, toys, artwork and the like. He sent me the web site of this artist, Dan Thompson, and asked me to pass it on. As Ken put it, he "... Would be interested in the response from your world."
So please opine away. Ken has the address to the site so I guess he will be able to read your comments, (right? he just can't post?)
http://www.danthompsonart.com:80/index.php
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I checked out his work. It reminded me of Jeremy Lipking's approach with oil. He has a great color scheme sense, pushing compliments of warm and cool. In fact he seems to be beyond doing monochrome stuff and always goes for saturation and compliments. A guy that brings oils around to this final polish is alien to me. I've never spent the time on an oil painting that would give me his results. I always like the sketchey stuff. Paintings started and partially done studies. When the energy is still intact with the big strokes. Awesome stuff
Yes, I feel the same way. I like those partially done drawings too. I find the intense complements, especially the reds and greens, a bit unsettling, but maybe that's his purpose.
Nice, clean presentation, strong portraits, good color work. I think I like the still lifes (lives?) the best... they are the most daring as far as color and composition is concerned. I think his portrait and figure work could benefit from stronger compositions. Otherwise, outstanding work... I wish I could paint that well!
Follow on observation. What he's up to with the pushed saturations and contrastey warm and cool would be more commonly in the toolbox of an illustrator than a fine artist. i compared him to Lipking mainly because of brush detail. Lipking never plays with color in this way. He uses the approach of graying most color and then having the most intense color saturation be what draws the eye. This artist is using the saturation of Asaro, but not doing the thing that makes you forgive the Asaro which is stay very impressionistic
I agree about the still lifes. The color and composition make them the most exciting pieces.
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