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Gearworld: Weightby `ursulav

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We now interrupt the horrified lizards and small happy animals to bring you a Gearworld painting!

The nice thing about rusted iron bars is that you never know if they're keeping someone in or out. Initially it looks sort of like a cage, but if you consider that the gearworld goes on for miles, and most of it is concrete wall, maybe the world inside the walls is bigger than the world in the tunnels outside it. The graffitti (hard to read at this size) says, among a lot of other stuff "More weight!" which is supposedly what the witch they pressed to death at Salem said when asked if he had any last words to say. Read into that whatever you want. I just figure that history loves a wise guy.

I decided that the wombat, while it had gears, just wasn't set in the Gearworld. This one definitely is, though, making it the first real media Gearworld painting ever.

Hmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm. This is notable for being the very first painting of a really realistic human I've ever done in acrylic. I learned a lot about blending and skin tones. And it came out okay. It lacks the slickness of my digital work, but for a first stab with acrylics, not bad. I dunno. I was also trying for a really top heavy composition, and a feeling of sort of crushing weight bearing down, but suspended, and I dunno if that came across either, or if it just got wildly unbalanced. But I feel better for having painted it.

Anyway! Acrylic on clayboard, 16 x 20, original is for sale, prints available, drop a line or visit [link] for details.

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Oh, the fear of confined spaces. Gearworld: Weight by ~ursulav is a crushing monument from an imaginary world.

Acrylic on clayboard.
16" x 20" ( Featured by `frail )

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~tuathadanu Jan 30, 2012

Evocative piece!

I was wondering; maybe the comment 'more weight' was to the crushed man the equivalent of "I burn too slow' for the burnt witch?

~marquiswyld Jul 18, 2008 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Acrylic - nice!

Have Tried them myself from time to to time, still prefer oils myself- despite the s l o w drying times. think that might be part of the charm for me (I am

at painting).

This is a nice study, the oxide and skin tones are well represented whilst the blue material makes for a good highlight and focus for the subject matter.

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