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paularoid
03-02-2008, 01:22 PM
My first thought upon seeing this was "RASPUTIN!" :D
This was/is partial payment for my webpage work for the New Dawn Gallery. Normally it would cost almost $200 unframed. The painter is going to put glasses on it to make it more true-to-life. Also, my beard has been trimmed by about two inches since this was painted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/paularoid/Paul_0208.jpg
Amy in Vermont
03-02-2008, 02:05 PM
Awesome... a very nice portrait.
DaveM
03-02-2008, 02:37 PM
You would make a great Rasputin, but you'd have to work much harder on the inimitable Charles Manson eyes.
Perhaps a promotion from "soapbox screamer" to "mad monk" would be in order?
Seriously, it's great work....captures your intensity very nicely indeed.
gisli
03-02-2008, 03:34 PM
Wow........will there be posters??????
paularoid
03-02-2008, 05:35 PM
Wow........will there be posters??????
Posters?????? WHY? :rolleyes: Posters could be arranged I suppose..... for a price. ;) But who in their right mind would want to buy a poster of ME!? :rolleyes:
Here's an actual picture of (Grigori) Rasputin for those that are unaware.
http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/rasputin/rasputin3.jpg
And the wikipedia bit about him is here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin)
Very nice painting.
Yep... you definately have to work on your eyes for the Rasputinlook...
Is that crazyness, drugs or a veneral disease I see in his? :rolleyes:
Eva
Oak Kitten
03-02-2008, 06:27 PM
Great painting, Paul, very flattering. I like that tunic you are wearing as well.
Oak
paularoid
03-02-2008, 11:27 PM
Very nice painting.
Yep... you definately have to work on your eyes for the Rasputinlook...
Is that crazyness, drugs or a veneral disease I see in his? :rolleyes:
Eva
Click the link to the wiki about him, read the info there and decide for yourself. It could have been any or all of that.
Great painting, Paul, very flattering. I like that tunic you are wearing as well.
Oak
AHEM! That's not a "tunic" m'dear. :p That's a bib-front western shirt. You know,... the type that's worn often by cowboys? Also seen in old cavalry uniforms in the old west or during the civil war era. They're still worn by the modern cowboys and informed motorcycle riders. Those things give you an insulating, wind breaking layer that keeps the wind from going down the front of your shirt and freezing you to your bones. Not that I wouldn't consider wearing a tunic but around these part you'd probably get beaten up for it. :p
Geeze, I'd rather wear a tunic than a bib....
as for the painting, I think it's quite good, and you certainly have a finer nose than Rasputin's!!:cool:
paularoid
03-03-2008, 12:00 AM
Geeze, I'd rather wear a tunic than a bib.... So would I but I don't want to get beat up! :p
as for the painting, I think it's quite good, and you certainly have a finer nose than Rasputin's!!:cool: Thankfully I inherited the nose from my mother's side of the family. My father's side has the same type of nose as Rasputin had. ;)
If I'm not mistaken, a military tunic refers to the jacket, especially one with a high collar, and Oak, being military, was undoubtedly referring to that type, not the ladies' sheath. :eek:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.belikoff.com/images/clothing/nuform.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.belikoff.com/intEurope.asp&h=576&w=432&sz=24&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=DaPEPJ7z-FiuNM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtunic,%2Bmens%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26s a%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8
GodSistah
03-03-2008, 12:19 AM
That is one incredible piece of art!
:)
~Andrea~
paularoid
03-03-2008, 01:03 AM
That is one incredible piece of art!
:)
~Andrea~
Heh. Just wait until the portrait show goes up in April. You ain't a seen NUTHIN' yet..... :cool:
And by the way Bat, what I was envisioning when I thought about a tunic was something aking to a long Mao jacket type of thing. Something that reaches to just above the knee. Remember I'm living in the reddest (most conservative) state in the nation and the locals don't look kindly on things "different". A true "tunic" -could- be just enough to set somebody off. That shirt I'm wearing is (around here) a mark of a true "cowboy" whether it be on a horse or a motorcycle and they'd let that alone.
Ah the intricacies of human relations..... :rolleyes:
I think he should go back and put the lake in the background...his background work is pretty lacking in imagination...but the portrait is very accurate. He did well to leave off the Aviators.
paularoid
03-03-2008, 02:10 PM
I think he should go back and put the lake in the background...his background work is pretty lacking in imagination...but the portrait is very accurate. He did well to leave off the Aviators.
I think you're confusing two different pictures. I think you're confusing this one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/paularoid/Paul_0208.jpg
with THIS one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/paularoid/Paul-Alaska-sm.jpg
I thought maybe he copied the photo...you look alike! LOL
He should still do something else with the background...looks like you have your back to the wall.
paularoid
03-03-2008, 10:07 PM
I thought maybe he copied the photo...you look alike! LOL
Well,..... seeing as how both pictures are of the same person... ME... you think maybe there's a -reason- we both look alike? :D
He should still do something else with the background...looks like you have your back to the wall.
Well,..... seeing as how it was a portrait and I -did- have my back to the wall... you think maybe there's a -reason- for that? :D
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