A painting I recently did of the Packard Plant

[bif]

https://markdomincreative.blogspot.com

Comments and advice/suggestions welcome!

[samnsara]

1. really nice work!!

[bif]

4. Thank you!

I really appreciate it!

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. I really enjoy your creative perspective.

I especially love your "Super Bowl" painting from May/2019. Your use of color and light is so good, even down to the gravel in the bottom of the bowl. Looking at your work I get the sense that you really enjoy it.
You inspire me to want to take up painting again.

[bif]

5. You nailed it! I really do enjoy it!

In fact, if day goes by that I don't spend a part of it painting, I feel empty. It adds a richness to every day!

[lunatica]

3. You're an amazingly prolific painter

When I follow your link it always becomes a great trip to a one man museum show! There is so much to look at and study and appreciate and talk about! Over here are your nature and outdoors paintings and on that wall over there are your historic old time buildings. Then you have your vegetable and fruit studies full of texture and marvelous mouth watering colors standing out on a white background. Then there’s the wall dedicated to cameras with their juxtaposition with the floral backgrounds. And finally is your generous depiction of exotic flowers, painted like they’re portraits.

All your paintings have the bif touch. That something that people can look at and recognize as your style. And now you’ve added barns to your interests. You’re becoming more intimately in touch with the barns, perhaps a sign that you’re becoming familiar with them in the same way you have with your historical buildings. I love your depiction of the brightness, clean lines and simplicity of the Amish way of life.

Your Amish field is the essence of peace and serenity of a people who arrange their lives in line with quiet humble appreciation of their religious beliefs. There are no jarring lines in the depiction of the gently curving lines of the fields and the misty dreamlike shape of the trees and the soft grayish blue of the sky. It brought a sigh to my breathing.

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6. Thank you so much!

I've sort of reached the point where I look at the world around me and think, "How would this look as a painting?" It's funny, I was at the vet's this afternoon, picking up our little kitten--we have to wait in our cars--and I saw this chair with the late afternoon sun causing this really cool shadow, and I took a photo for reference. I think it'll make an excellent and simple painting! The whole world's a canvas, it's just up to us how we choose to compose it!

[lunatica]

7. Take photos of all of it

The iPhone, like everything else is just another art tool!

I know what you mean about seeing everything in terms of painting it. It can be exhausting sometimes!

[femmedem]

8. That's one of the great benefits of painting: you see the world differently.

It's as if I was walking through the world half blind before I started painting again.

[femmedem]

9. You did a great job with a complex subject.

Like the other commenters, I really enjoy your work. It's grounded in realism and strong drawing skills, but it goes beyond that, with strong graphic shapes and an ability to share visual delight in ordinary objects and scenes.

[bif]

10. Thank you

I'm trying!