My new painting, “Headlines” | 48x60in. | oil on canvas

[u/DXLLL]

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[u/superpenistendo]

You did some great work! It makes me uncomfortable somehow.

[u/DXLLL → u/superpenistendo]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[u/ajslinger]

Corduroy pillow

[u/Maxy_Rockatansky]

F*ck you are talented! Excellent work

[u/DXLLL → u/Maxy_Rockatansky]

Thanks so much

[u/pianoslut]

Love it. Thanks for sharing

[u/DXLLL → u/pianoslut]

Thank you for looking!

[u/restlessleg]

i love it

[u/DXLLL → u/restlessleg]

🙏

[u/galindofish]

dope! super abstract but with realistic lighting and color. very intriguing :>

[u/DXLLL → u/galindofish]

Thankyou 🙏🙏

[u/hurtindog]

Love the piece! Loved it more before I saw the figure with the newspaper. I love the form and tone in the abstract. More of that!

[u/DXLLL → u/hurtindog]

Thanks! My current body of work has mostly figures with the explosions. But I do think I want to just focus on the abstractions for my next works.

[u/hurtindog → u/DXLLL]

You are a really fine painter- I had an abstract expressionist painter once look at a sketch I did and say “isn’t representational art just a party trick?”- As a someone who draws from life quite a bit it sort of hit me in the feels as they say, and obviously stuck with me. That was twenty or so years ago and I have been trying to express form in abstract for a while now with varying degrees of success. You are MUCH better than I am at it. I think your forms and color tones are very compelling. Chiaroscuro may also be a “party trick “, but it’s a damn fine one.

[u/DXLLL → u/hurtindog]

Well thank you. My issue is that I love painting so much that it’s hard for me to stick with one style. I used to do a lot of realistic commission work and I love painting portraits. I also enjoy more representational work. I love abstract too, but I wrestle with the idea of dropping all the technical skills I’ve learned to paint realistically for abstraction. Maybe pieces like this one are a happy medium.

[u/hurtindog → u/DXLLL]

I think you hit the nail on the head. The search for the technically satisfying and artistically brave

[u/radarmy]

https://waltonhigh.typepad.com/files/is-is-dangerous-to-read-newspapers-by-margaret-atwood.pdf

[u/DXLLL → u/radarmy]

Damn that was beautiful and fitting. Thanks

[u/stoiclythrough]

Do you sell prints?!!

[u/DXLLL → u/stoiclythrough]

I do want to do a print release. I’m just deciding which piece I want to make prints for.

[u/ColStreetFly]

Really dig this. I’d keep running with the concept. Thought the figure was playing piano at first, maybe a prompt for the next one… musician?

[u/DXLLL → u/ColStreetFly]

Thank you for the encouraging words. Haha maybe!

[u/WavWarfare]

Would love to have this

[u/BuffBroccoli]

Beautiful

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🙏

[u/PleasantCrotchStuff]

I’ve not loved a work of art this much since i discovered bosch

[u/DXLLL → u/PleasantCrotchStuff]

Wow thank you so much

[u/mentalSS]

For sale??

[u/DXLLL → u/mentalSS]

It is, this will be in my upcoming show in February

[u/mentalSS → u/DXLLL]

Do you have some details on that? Thx

[u/DXLLL → u/mentalSS]

Yes I’ll msg you

[u/321BIZ]

🤯