This is the final version (for the time being).

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> This is the final version (for the time being).
>
> Thomas

Nice scene. Has that guy been painting the rocks? I don't think he's finished ;)

That's a lot of paint.... Reminds me of the scene from THGTTG, where the guy is
painting Ayers Rock. A thankless job, I'm sure!

Sam

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> This is the final version (for the time being).


It's an odd scene, Thomas, and is perhaps too easily dismissed based on 
an initial response to the foreground.  The foreground does not easily 
map to common experience.

So you take a step back and say to yourself, "Let us suppose that that 
is the point?"  Now what do we have?  We have a landscape whose terrain 
is harsh and chaotic.  It suggests the random turbulence of the sea, but 
its heaving disorder is combined with unnatural, squared-off geomtries. 
  It is the worst of both worlds, neither organic, nor ordered.  Worse 
still, the strange, striated coloring, has nothing to do with either the 
unnatural cubes or the pitching topography.  Instead it records a third 
and alien force involved.  We are hardly surprised when we find a 
creature, formed of these same strange molecules, planted forlorn in the 
foreground.

But then there is the sky.  The sky is the chaos we know. An 
appreciation of the sublime celebrated in romantic brushstrokes for a 
century or more. Yours is complex, a brilliant sheen of cloud vapor, 
tufted and matted into hazy, imponderable layers, which mock the parched 
surface.  Yet the sky is the familiar which makes us believe the 
unfamiliar.  Or at least entertain its possibility, while an drifting 
balloon travels beyond the such a desperate land.

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"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Nice scene. Has that guy been painting the rocks? I don't think he's 
> finished ;)
>
> That's a lot of paint.... Reminds me of the scene from THGTTG, where the 
> guy is
> painting Ayers Rock. A thankless job, I'm sure!
>

Thanks Sam. Lots of paint indeed. Maybe the guy has been painting too. I 
don't usually know what they are up to. However, the Master Painter is 
sitting in the balloon and the guy here has been a bit unlucky...

Thomas

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> It's an odd scene, Thomas, and is perhaps too easily dismissed based on an 
> initial response to the foreground.  The foreground does not easily map to 
> common experience.
>
> So you take a step back and say to yourself, "Let us suppose that that is 
> the point?"  Now what do we have?  We have a landscape whose terrain is 
> harsh and chaotic.  It suggests the random turbulence of the sea, but its 
> heaving disorder is combined with unnatural, squared-off geomtries. It is 
> the worst of both worlds, neither organic, nor ordered.  Worse still, the 
> strange, striated coloring, has nothing to do with either the unnatural 
> cubes or the pitching topography.  Instead it records a third and alien 
> force involved.  We are hardly surprised when we find a creature, formed 
> of these same strange molecules, planted forlorn in the foreground.
>
> But then there is the sky.  The sky is the chaos we know. An appreciation 
> of the sublime celebrated in romantic brushstrokes for a century or more. 
> Yours is complex, a brilliant sheen of cloud vapor, tufted and matted into 
> hazy, imponderable layers, which mock the parched surface.  Yet the sky is 
> the familiar which makes us believe the unfamiliar.  Or at least entertain 
> its possibility, while an drifting balloon travels beyond the such a 
> desperate land.

Thank you indeed, Jim. Your analysis is very to the point and relates quite 
faithfully what has been unconsciously going on in my mind during the whole 
process of creation. This is one of those images that has been triggered by 
chance, and I feel those are not the worst ones, compared to more "planned" 
scenes.

In the final stages I have been "kept" on the right track by several members 
of the French POV community. So, I acknowledge here their unrelenting 
criticism :-)

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> This is the final version (for the time being).
> 
> Thomas

I like it :)

...Chambers

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"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> schreef in bericht 
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> I like it :)
>
Thanks! Don't go there without a raincoat! Or should I say a paintcoat   ;-)

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> This is the final version (for the time being).
>
> Thomas

I like this one, Thomas. It kinda grew on me. The rocks have great shapes. I
like the way the guy's clothing is checkered, kinda like the rocks, and also
painted like the rocks. I guess the Master Painter gets a little thrill when he
gets to paint something besides rocks. ;-)

Janet

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"Janet" <par### [at] attnet> schreef in bericht 
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> I like this one, Thomas. It kinda grew on me. The rocks have great shapes. 
> I
> like the way the guy's clothing is checkered, kinda like the rocks, and 
> also
> painted like the rocks. I guess the Master Painter gets a little thrill 
> when he
> gets to paint something besides rocks. ;-)
>

Thank you indeed, Janet. I used the guy from the first TINA CHEP competition 
again, as he seemed to be familiar with the landscape :-)

Yes, I suspect the Master Painter has an evil side to his personality...

Thomas

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