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Missing Child Portrait 20 by `johnpaulthornton:iconjohnpaulthornton:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Portraits

©2008-2010 `johnpaulthornton
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The question is... How to communicate flesh under distress?

This is a portrait of a missing boy, painted in oil.

It was Inspired by the one inch square black and white image on a "Have you seen me?" mailer.

Who is this portrait really for?

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=jadedlady Jun 4, 2008, 9:14:41 PM
The colors in this one are fantastic! The technique that you use has such impressive results.
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~SquidProQuo Jun 4, 2008, 10:26:02 PM
I agree, the colours are amazing.

Who are these portraits for?
What do you do with them when they're done?

To me, you paint them for your own need, because I think you feel that you would want someone to think about in such away after you were gone.

You really do amaze me.

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`johnpaulthornton Jun 4, 2008, 11:32:58 PM
Your comments and insights are always very thoughtful. I greatly appreciate that.

Thank you.

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`johnpaulthornton Jun 5, 2008, 11:44:40 PM
Thank you. Color can be restrictive for painters, like walking slowly across a room at a charm school, carefully balancing a book upon your head...

But I prefer to use color as a weapon.

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=jadedlady Jun 6, 2008, 9:45:57 PM
I like the way your mind works. :)
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`johnpaulthornton Jun 6, 2008, 9:54:41 PM
Thank you. This missing child required thousands of tiny marks, many passes. Sometimes the image got too clear, sometimes too soft. This best describes the quality of the image I was working from.

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*gromyko Jun 7, 2008, 6:49:12 PM
there is something in the colors that hypnotized me...I love the fact that it is impasto, otherwise many would have mislabeled your art as faux impressionism...there i would disagee and defend you to the death...yours are an expressionism of personal warmth and concern...i will always be an admirer of your portraits

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`johnpaulthornton Jun 7, 2008, 8:47:09 PM
Thank you.

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