Woah.

that's rad.

Very good. Wow. :o

wow, i love it.niiiiiiiiiccccceeee! so beautiful!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8&feature=BFa&list=ULraqlSLWhyXQ

Oh, come on.. US is still a lot comfier than other places.. In here (Israel) we've got our 'friendly cousins' from all our surroundings (except the sea), and we've got the stupid imitations to your stupid tv shows.. And- while your stupid reality show lasts for 20 mins, our imitation lasts for 2 hrs a chapter, and two chapters a week (no kiddin!).. can you get any lower?

Apparently it can, or else there wouldn't be so many Eritreans refugees around here..

wow, shalom; MA ha? (My HebrEW is bad.) my right hand is really messed up, from excessive drawing; my left does not wRitewell. hm m.... what do I remember? ( I only had beginning H, i can't even parse a verb, damn.We Americans, we learn H. for the temple.)

welcome back

cool stuff. :} Wait a minute, are those bluefers in that pot?

I'm not sure..they could be

ya think?

AB-SO-LUTELY. :}

Great work

if I had to draw the two angels that I saw at my bedside when I was really sick with pneumonia, they would look like this, only more concerned looking... but they were this heavenly blue color.. it was so weird... I've often thought about drawing them but didn't think I could do it

reminds me of old magazine illustrations, or cartooning style, with that foreshortening effect.maybe it's the face and nose,too.but very much drowning effect, alright,and reminded me instantly of Michelle Pfieffer (?spelling) movie where her husband has killed,drowned his other wife.

this is particularly a difficult type of scene to depict.from films, & photos of a body, & face drowning,the light diffusion from above, thru the water,can be tricky, & have strange effects, shadows that are hard to predict.

while this is good,(yes, very nice blue)I myself would want to use a real photo,film,or even a model somehow to see how the depth of water,clearness,ect., affects the overall picture. (we have had artists, here, who did some very good depictions of bodies submerged, and i don't know how they did it;it's hard.) so, yes, pretty good and ambitious. If you're still interested, there are movies with drowning,or deepwater scenes of bodies worth studying.any experiences from life, swimming, diving, or just underwater could be helpful.(quite a coup you got marcello to comment.:) ) yep, this is a particularly difficult type of scene to paint; i think it's good. (sorry if I seem too analytical, i'm used to being that way on myself.)

It looks like stickmen but it says sin city eh

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yeah, pretty good; i thought the red was a tattoo,yep.i especially like the job of the hair, texture you got.altogether, nice style .i'd hate to meet him in a dark alley, brrr!! :)

HA HA, YOU DO OBAMA SO GOOD!HAW HAW!!

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HeHeh I love it

funny that's how I talk to my dogs. :}

Was just looking through your gallery, you do amazing work..something about this one just draws me to it

always a pleasure seeing your work man. :} Have 2 watch out 4 those with such pale blues. :}

pretty eyes he has.

I've been meaning to comment on this since I saw it some time after you first posted it, didn't do it just then and since have been too lazy to go looking for it when I was here, which isn't often anymore. Just now as it came up in the Showcase thumbnail strip I realized if I didn't do it now, I might never. You know I've always hated you because I'm so jealous of your talent, and loved you because you're so very real, which is rare. (and because you always inspired me to strive to do better)
This, I believe, is one of your best paintings, because as a self-portrait I see in that expression the Staci I think I've come to know and love/hate here. ;) Along with being absolutely perfect realism, you've done the impossible "capture the expression" thing... something that almost NEVER happens in a portrait. There's depth in those eyes, something fascinating behind them. Some people see that in the Mona Lisa and say that's why it's so upheld. (One major difference there is that I think she's ugly and you're beautiful, so... ONEUP on that one for sure... hah)

I've looked at this a lot of times and been blown away every time. I just now realized what I like about it most, the way you slightly exaggerated the things a camera does when the shot is a little overexposed and the flash is causing it. How the light shows the details in the skin in a way normal vision would never pick up on. And the corona of color around the iris. And the way the hues of the skin tones are uniformly off. It's a great painting of a 'bad' photograph. That and the killer cupid's bow mouth.

yes! you totally get it. this is a HORRIBLE picture, horrible. Bags, blotchy skin and all. if I had a zit that day I would have drawn it in as well. thanks!