posted December 29, 2009 10:36 PM         

1 "Go on holiday to where you really want to go, and be inspired."

2 "Start with acrylics, then watercolours, then pastels and then oils"

3 When you set out to do a landscape, "start with the sky first, top to bottom."

4 "When you do distance, it's lighter, and when you do foreground it comes darker."

5 "If you're doing a figure in the winter, do a brown head, leave a small gap, do a blue jacket and brown legs. Then with the gap get a red pastel and do a flick of red so it looks like a scarf."

posted December 30, 2009 10:40 AM         

My Venus in Scorpio
doesn't "get" all these
paintings of beached boats
and beach houses.

Why is this cartoonishly simple
scene-painting so popular?

The pastel and water color ones,
especially, all look the same to me.

It's cool that he's so young,
but I hope his art isnt always
going to be so boring.

I say "boring",
because it is, to me.

But I'm sure if my Venus
was in Taurus (and not
tightly conjunct Uranus;
as in my Draconic Chart),
I might find it beautiful;
soothing or comforting,
maybe even inspiring.

I don't know...

Is it wrong to share my view,
if I cannot say something good?

I hate it when someone comes in
and just shoots down my thread.

I dont want you to feel that way.

I just feel like saying, "Big Deal!"

You understand that.

posted December 30, 2009 12:01 PM         

I think what people find amazing about his work is the techniques he uses and understanding of values, tones, color harmony, blending, layout, etc that he grasps this at such a young age and without much technical knowledge. I agree (partially) that the scenes might be somewhat "boring" and done by many, but there's more to it than that. I think the scenes are gently soothing and poetic mostly.

posted December 30, 2009 12:02 PM         

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But I'm sure if my Venus
was in Taurus (and not
tightly conjunct Uranus;
as in my Draconic Chart),

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