Comments on: Springtime Maiden oil painting and poem

By: Daz Cox

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:20:17 +0000

Thanks Karen! please don’t let your humbleness prevent you from creating art, it’s not a contest where talent can be compared and judged, Michelangelo wrote the most horrid poetry yet he wrote them anyway because he was an artist and that was a facet of art he was unafraid to explore.

What makes an artist great is making art that you believe in, realism is just a skill that anyone can learn but losing the fear that you aren’t ‘as good as’ is the key to good art!

By: Karen Swim

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:35:48 +0000

Great artists make art seem so easy and accessible that we somehow believe that we too can pick up a brush and create beauty. This is not only great art but magic, pure magic. I am humbled by your talent.

By: Daz Cox

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:19:39 +0000

Hi kim! well I’m not quite as skinny as I was back in the day but yeah, I think I can start to sell paintings and don’t worry I can’t stop being a painter now, even if I had no feedback whatsoever I’d still paint!

Hi Wendi! I’m not sure if the maiden has a story that I can tell you, not that there is some private story I won’t share, but that I’d rather you let her tell you her story as you know what you like.

Inspiration requires some work on your part too, I paint to inspire your imagination, all the ‘springtime maiden’ moments you have experienced are what you should think of when you look at her and that feeling of having a bubble pop on your cheek.

Magic only works when you believe in it! I’m finishing up some moon paintings too btw!

By: revo gruv

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:44:01 +0000

She’s so ethereal and spirited with colors that you find in dreams…
never let go of the artist part, maybe just the starving

By: Wendi Kelly

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:01:42 +0000

So I keep finding myself wandering back here, over and over and over again, staring at this springtime maiden, and I says to myself, “self? What is it about this paining that keeps dragging you back here?”

And self answers “It’s the story. I want to hear the story she has to tell. She is going on an adventure and I want to follow her.”

Where is she going Daz? Who are her friends? What is her story? What is her adventure? She is a book waiting to unfold. I want to read it…..

By: Wendi Kelly

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:26:49 +0000

ok…tooo hard to believe.
Let’s talk moons

By: Mrs. Chili

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:43:43 +0000

Yeah, well, you’re ABOUT to! Seriously – I’m interested in that horse painting from a few posts back; I think my BIL would really love it….

By: Daz Cox

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:43:09 +0000

Thanks Wendi!

The thing about oil paint that makes it so magical is it is translucent so a thin layer of white oil paint over a soild under-painting can look really nice!

and yes, I have never, ever, sold a painting – yet!

By: Wendi Kelly

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:29 +0000

How did you get her dress so gossomer thin?

And do you really mean you have never sold a painting? I can’t believe it. Amazing.
I am glad you are feeling inspired. Good things are coming for you.