And why wouldnt we like it ? Its a beautiful piece Dana. What a lovely gift.

Thank you very much. I got word that she loved it, so I guess that's what matters.

And many thanks for the


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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
-Albert Einstein

Exactly and my pleasure

Nicely executed composition and theme, I am sure she liked this quite a lot. Amazing how much work can go into these digital paintings, perhaps I will try one some day. Superb work with a great sense of ambient light and dimensional space.

What a nice surprise! I appreciate you stopping by and giving your thoughts on this one. As I mentioned in the artist's comments I was hesitant to post this painting just because of the subject, but your compliments have made it well worth it. As you should know by now, I treasure your input and opinion. After all, you are a master of realism/ hyper-realism whose ability is absolutely through the stratosphere, and your words do nothing but inspire me to put forth more effort to improve. Many thanks to you, Mr. Peterson!

I look forward to the day you give digital painting a go. I'm sure you would kick serious butt at that as well

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Everything is on its way to somewhere... everything.

The one thing most artists fail at, myself included, is to realize when they have stumbled upon a successful and appealing genre or original motif that can be developed rather than to keep moving around in circles looking for something new to conquer.

Well said. I've never thought of it like that, but it makes perfect sense. Moving in endless circles sounds like something I would do.

How did you know when to stop experimenting or looking? Was it simply a "wow this is really fun" type thing or was it something more complicated? I'm extremely interested to know what "it" was for you.

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Everything is on its way to somewhere... everything.

It just took a tremendous amount of discipline and resolve to decide not to waver from theme, medium or amount of completed pieces in any particular series.

That said, I do knock out experimental stuff from time to time, i.e. the racetrack stuff, but I will not drop a series for it. There are enough distractions within a series to play around with, i.e. varying sizes, medium techniques, compositional perspectives, etc. that it makes no sense to go off and do something new that has no continuum. It was recognizing that by doing something entirely new, it was really doing something quite safe by hiding behind it. This in turn effectively forces those creative drifts back into the work where it belongs for the work itself to mature and change from within.

What really helped was to go out and do a lot of photography which gave me a veritable library of referential resources to choose from without getting distracted. Currently, I am still working from photos I took up to a year ago, but I continue to shoot new stuff as an integral part of that creative process.

In your shoes, I would take a long, hard look at Sunday Afternoon and then take off in a certain direction, resolved to finish 10-12 pieces without looking elsewhere for additional inspiration or ideas.

The only thing I can pick out are the light curves of the girl. She sort of looks out of place and 'asted on' next to the other things in the picture because her lighting and brightness are different than the other pieces. Just something to keep in mind.

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^{<Huber>And ~luckymaroon is like a younger version of =NoodleDoodler
<Huber>but less weird and hyper}