We artists that still breathe love having our works compared to great artists who no longer do. Now compare our works to someone who is alive and whose been painting longer than us, and we become slightly touchy.

That damn ego again. down boy.

I certainly am not above the pettiness of feeling slightly hurt by such comments. On a comment where I'm compared to Rockwell I gush, because...well he inspired a lot of what I do. Compare me to a modern artist like Brom, Phil Hale or someone else when I'm not deliberately trying to emulate them & it's a sickly feeling I get instead.

NooOOooooOo... wait, really? NoOOoooooOo

On my most recent work, I've had it compared a couple of times [to me] to Enayla's "Spoiled" painting (which, btw I dig mucho, so it's not insulting per se).

It honestly wasn't meant to turn out that way. I know what you're thinking... "she used the word 'honestly', you know she's lying now". Granted, it's in a foresty type area, and there's green, and yes there's a golden lion monkey which made for more golds and reds, but the result was accidental. Oh and the chick has a masque... I can't even say much on that front because hell, she does have a masque.

I like masques. Who doesn't?

When I was a teen and given a Rorschach test to figure out why I was so glum, I pointed out that almost all of them looked like masques. You can only begin to imagine where that took them on the state of my psychosis. Incidentally, if you ever are forced to take one, the blots are clouds floating softly about or something along those lines. Definitely not masques.

Anyhow... back to the painting...

I went to the print shop about halfway thru, had a test print done and it had too much gold & way too much dodgey bits that didn't print very well (bad habit of mine I can't seem to break) so I decided to balance that out more with the green. It landed where it did. I didn't copy her image be it colours or otherwise. And btw, for those who don't know, doing that sort of "copying" by colour: not an easy feat unless you have some sort of talent. Were I deliberately trying to, I wouldn't have found it insulting. But alas, twas not the case.

People who've watched me for a long time, since my stuff was REALLY really bad, know I've posted similar colour paintings before. It just happens I'm getting mildly better at what it is I like to do.

Hope that lifts questions there without garnering the typical tripe I tend to with any journal.

You are now in one of 7 places:

A. Same place I would be, were it someone outside of my universe: the corner of Who and Cares
B. Hadn't noticed it before but now are pretty convinced I copied the other painting.
C. Thinking of something venomous or unprofound to say to let me know how ridiculous it is that I made this journal - and will still do it despite my pointing it out because in your excitement you didn't bother reading the entirety of the journal.
D. You left this journal loooong before now - you no likey when I speak not in riddles and gorrum it's long.
E. What do you mean this wasn't in riddles? I haven't the slightest idea what you're on about.
F. thinking mayhaps it's possible that the similarity in colours is coincidental and the cyphster might be capable of truths.
G. daydreaming about pie or how great the movie UP was. It was great, wasn't it?



this has been a pre-menstrual snot stain & should be treated as such.