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Published: 2014-08-04 15:16:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 6782; Favourites: 286; Downloads: 0
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Personal workAfter lots of commissions (and months of only painting digitally), I finally found time to finish an acrylic painting.
Acrylics on canvas board, ca. 66 cm wide and 45 cm high
Edit:
I've changed a few minor things, which you may not recognize, but I felt that I had to change them for my own satisfaction.
I've made a new photo of the painting which is of better quality than the image before.
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Can you explain what it means? anyways, very eerie. (y)
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In fact, this painting came into existence step by step and I absolutely didn't have a plan of what I wanted to visualize when I started.
You may see a visualisation of an occupational burnout in it or something else - I want to leave it to the viewers imagination (my interpretations also came after the painting was almost finished, so it may be nothing really intentional).
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Awesome work with interesting concept. The color is powerful.
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I am continually impressed by how much you get out of a limited palette, the subtle temperature shifts in the background give it a very tangible feel. What looks like sun attempting to break through the smog is also very convincing. I love the symbolism as well. Great to see some personal work from you again, Markus!
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Hey Paul, thank you very much! Well, I think I prefer working with a limited palette - if you put an area with a contrasting (or more saturated) color into it, it would pop out much more than in a more colorful surrounding - and although I like monochromatic images, I really like extreme contrasts.
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Yes, I see what you mean, you're reserving the big punch of contrast for the most important part of the image. Interestingly, in your "children of the Damned' painting, you've combined two contrasting fields of limited palettes.
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Excellent work, sir! 
Peace.
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Thank you very much!
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You're welcome! And thank you for posting the painting!
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Thank you very much!
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It's absolutely amazing! Very dark industrial feel about it.
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Beautiful and mysterious production workshop... I can feel the smell of burned coal...
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Hello, I have got the same problem with digital art, I'm only on the pc and I haven't time to finish my oil painting. Congratulation for your work it's very realistic, I like it !
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Ever toiling away the inner workings of the mind never cease.
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Schön mal wieder was traditionelles von dir zu sehen!
Man könnte fast meinen das Bild sei aus Trotz und innerer Wut gegenüber dem aktuellem Zustand der Welt/des Weltgeschehens entstanden
Tolles Gemälde!
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Hey, dank dir! Ja, irgendwie hast du wohl Recht, wobei ähnliche Themen bei mir ja immer wieder mal auftauchen. Diesmal hatte ich allerdings sogar ohne Plan angefangen und erstmal nur abstrakt gemalt, bis dann nach und nach die Ideen kamen.
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Sicher hat man so seine eigenen Lieblingsthemen, aber die aktuelle Situation um eventuellen Weltkrieg, totaler Umweltverseuchung usw. kann man irgendwie nur schwer ausblenden und fließen hier und da automatisch mal mit ins Bild ob man will oder nicht - zumindest ergehts mir manchmal so. Ich habe ja aktuell auch ein Bild mit Rohrsystehmen und rauchig leuchtendem Dunst in der Mache.
Dieser dämliche Kampf ums Erdöl geht einem einfach auf den Keks!
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Ja, aber im Grunde ist es, wie es immer war - ein paar Mächtige können den Hals nicht voll genug kriegen und die breite Masse muss dafür leiden. Heute führen nur leider die technischen Möglichkeiten dazu, dass gleich die ganze Welt in Mitleidenschaft gezogen werden kann. Aber man will die Hoffnung ja nicht aufgeben...
Und an die eigene Nase fassen müssen wir "normalen Leute" in der sogenannten westlichen Welt uns auch. Vieles, was passiert, liegt ja auch an der Mentalität, in manchen Bereichen alles immer günstiger kaufen zu wollen und die meisten Güter innerhalb kürzester Zeit wegzuwerfen um sich etwas neues zu holen.
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Jap da muss ich Dir (leider) recht geben - traurige Wahrheit.
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It looks truly great. I like the amount of realism this needs to work. And that little off proportion that makes it surreal is supplied in just the right dose.
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Thank you very much!
Well, this started as an abstract painting until the shapes and ideas began to become clearer. So, this was painted quite spontaneously without preparation, vanishing point or reference (except the head, which is loosely based on a photo of my own face). It took only 2 days to finish, which is a very short period of time, compared to most of my other similarly detailed paintings.
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My pleasure - that is the way I usually work. I start with an idea and then I go spontaneously with what is coming up. It is like something deeper inside me is talking to me via my hand. Very often the outcome is astonishing. Usually my drawings are what happens while I look at the reference, but it hardly ever is the reference. I admire your effort and your perseverance. Two days that is a very long time for me. I take hours only for my work, sometimes only one, very often 4 to 6 and in rare occasions up to 12.
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Well, this one took at least less than 20 hours, maybe 15 (don't know exactly how much time). My average acrylic paintings of a similar size take 35 hours, I guess (ten years ago it was rather 50). But it depends very much on the kind of objects in a painting. And quite many of my paintings started with a rather clear idea and preparation before even holding a brush.
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I guess being able to erase easily might have its advantages after all ... 
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