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[2009-07-16 13:15:58 +0000 UTC]
"John D Moulton"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 29; Deviations: 70; Watchers: 28
Watching: 41; Pageviews: 9466; Comments Made: 73; Friends: 41
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Steve HanksFavorite movies: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Favorite TV shows: Faulty Towers, Have I Got News for You
Favorite bands / musical artists: Pink Floyd
Favorite books: Power of Now, A Passion for Excellence
Favorite writers: Tom Peters
Tools of the Trade: oil paints, Derwent Artists Pencils
Other Interests: family, art, writing, music
# About me
"My art has always been my passion ...and my appreciation for the female form goes back before my teens, when I would take a ballpoint pen and map around every change of colour on the faces that adorned the front covers of mother's 'Woman's Own' magazines. The contours fascinated me, and those crystal clear eyes all but hypnotized me.
"Women, horses and Red Indian heads were all I wanted to capture back then, and it seemed it wasn't long before the Indians rode off into the sunset on those horses and left me, for the most part, with my ladies."
"Pencil was my favoured medium back then and remained so for a great many years. I wasn't lucky enough to have a formal education in art as I finished school in 1962 at fifteen years of age and was married by the age of eighteen. With a growing family to care for my art remained on the back-burner, but never far from my heart. Somewhere amidst the turmoil of husbandry, fatherhood and work-related ambition, my art continued to shine."
"I drew in pencils, dabbled in watercolor, played with my airbrush, and recently overcame a life-long fear and took the plunge into oils.
"I always think of my pencils as my comfort zone, I adore them. When creating images such as 'Medieval Dream', the eye detail must come first, if they don't shine out, the rest of the work will be many hours of wasted time.My Moonlight Cameo's I think of as exercises in pure white light – See the light, paint the shadows is my rule. To me, an artwork is defined as much by chosen subject, balance and framing as it is by any other factor. Nothing tests this theory more dramatically than the absolutes of pure black and white.
"Then there is that wonderful device, my air brush, used for nearly one hundred years by graphic artists and more recently by some of the best the fantasy art world has to offer. To date I have only put my water colors through it, but virtually any medium can be used, provided the head is cleaned regularly. It's an amazing tool that brings a delicacy to skin tones that is hard to equal with a brush. "The Rose" is a fine example."
"Last but not least, my new love of oils. Forty years it took me to open a starter kit bought for me back in 1967. I feared and revered oils in equal measure. On the one hand believing I could never master the tecnique and on the other adoring their capacity for rich, warm color, texture and flexibility. Surely I would never be able to master the skills required to make the effort anything like worthwhile. How wrong I was, and what delight they have brought me. "Laetitia" was my fourth attempt in oils and I still look at her in disbelief, for the hope she offers as I work to improve. The message is as old as the hills: Go with your passion - dare to see where it can lead.
"Now retired from work-a-day life, I'm free to let my pencils and brushes fly and what joy they bring, not just to me, but it seems to others too. With local shows, sales on the Internet and the offer of gallery showings in the USA, who knows where my new life may lead?"
Current Residence: England
Favourite genre of music: Rock
Favourite style of art: Realist
# Comments
Comments: 9
Thank you for joining
We are happy to have you aboard; your art is truly breathtaking. If I only had the funds this would be the sort of commission I would want done!
Please take a moment to read the submission guidelines found on the right side of the blog!
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thanks a lot for joining !
Feel free by submiting your art and enjoy the group!
Please, could you check our last blog entry? We are making a votation for our first contest, and also if you wish you could donate whatever you want for the prizes! (Of course if you donate you will also be able to participate! We don't excluse anybody!)
Thanks a lot! ^^
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randomly I watched your gallery and I realy like your art
keep it up
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There isnt one of your works that I love more than another, they're all so beautiful.
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