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Originally posted by Don_G:
I guess my appetite overloaded my ... wallet. I had no idea how expensive this would be. I was thinking $5k.

Maybe I'll keep the picture in my head and spend the money on a hunt.

fairgame, the viewpoint would be from my knees at a range of about 60 yards. The trees must have been 30 yards or so behind the line. But that's a very good painting, indeed.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
I don`t like Banovitch`s paintings.I do not like the style and what else.I find them too agressive.I think you can have a beatifull painting made for a little over 500 dollars.When I was at SCI I checked out all the paintings and there was something wrong with nearly all of them.One fellow-looked lke from Asian decent had some very nice stuff butt there was something that screwed it up,IMO.It was a nice leopard painting but the eyes on the leopard were shining too artificially.There was someones painting that were really nice,IMO.I think it was someone from Montana and they did hunting dogs and I can not remember what else but the paintings were really nice and I could not find anything wrong with them.It was not an expensive painter and it was easy to miss the booth etc...but I think the painter was a natural.Another thing is that when you spend alot of time in the subjects surroundings then the way things should be may become engraved in your head and the end product is very real or natural.It would be like me describing the street I grew up on and lived on for many years-everything is engraved in my memory.A painting has to have soul,IMO.

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
I don`t like Banovitch`s paintings.I do not like the style and what else.I find them too agressive.I think you can have a beatifull painting made for a little over 500 dollars.When I was at SCI I checked out all the paintings and there was something wrong with nearly all of them.One fellow-looked lke from Asian decent had some very nice stuff butt there was something that screwed it up,IMO.It was a nice leopard painting but the eyes on the leopard were shining too artificially.There was someones painting that were really nice,IMO.I think it was someone from Montana and they did hunting dogs and I can not remember what else but the paintings were really nice and I could not find anything wrong with them.It was not an expensive painter and it was easy to miss the booth etc...but I think the painter was a natural.Another thing is that when you spend alot of time in the subjects surroundings then the way things should be may become engraved in your head and the end product is very real or natural.It would be like me describing the street I grew up on and lived on for many years-everything is engraved in my memory.A painting has to have soul,IMO.

I studied Lions for my degree and my painting was more about impression and clout than realism. In this painting you focus on the Lion's eyes and in life this is what you do. The rest is irrelevant.

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Originally posted by fairgame:
The art of copying photographs.

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Originally posted by shootaway:

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Originally posted by fairgame:
The art of copying photographs.

True, but I think a photograph may be used to help in whatever but the art has to have soul above anything.The same way a singer has to have real life experiences in the things they write and then sing about.

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Originally posted by Don_G:
I bowhunted Tanzania for cape buffalo several years ago and have a
picture (only) in my head of a herd that stampeded from both sides of
us where we'd crawled up amongst 'em in an effort to get to a bull.
The herd ran from the plains towards the nearby woods and a dozen of
the older cows and bulls turned back in a line to face us (looking
down their nose as they do) as the rest disappeared into the woods.
The herd was about 200 head. The dust they raised was billowing about
them and partially obscuring them - especially the part disappearing
into the woodline. The sun was near setting about 45 degrees to my
right (sorta behind the woods) and the curls of the dust matched the
curls of their horns. The angle of the sun made the ones going into
the woods mostly dark blurred shapes - mostly asses with wringing
tails. The picture in my head is a mixture of detailed sharp images of
"the line" with an almost impressionist background/edges.

I wrote that description several months ago and started sending it around. So far I've not had a response from an artist whose work I admire. A painter named John Banovich has done some great work - even some with "the line" in the name - but he has not responded. (http://www.johnbanovich.com/)

Any recommendations would be welcome.