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Southwest Seekers – In Search of the Truth (digital painting)

Southwest Seekers - In Search of the Truth
Southwest Seekers – In Search of the Truth
30 by 16.51 inches
Digital painting 2007
J. Kearns

Enlargement

Thanks Intergalacticstock, whose “I’m Waiting, 5” was used for reference for the model. Great expression.

That stock image is here.

Background reference was a personal photo taken at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. Fun place.

Detail is below. The painting is about 30 inches wide, as is a lot of my stuff as my computer can comfortably handle it. Done at 300 dpi. Detail below is at actual pixel size.

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As with a lot of my digital paintings, I really don’t expect an “OOoo, oh, wow” response. Especially on a monitor where they’re not viewed as large as they’re intended to be. Many of the paintings are of fairly mundane settings, like this. They’re not freshened with the fantastic and highly symbolic details. You’ve got here a very unattractive wall, fire extinguisher, part of a door, and the model placed before the print of some art work at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. High drama it’s not. And I’m not mocking the UFO culture. It’s a pretty straight forward painting.

I’ve got several more I’d like to do using the UFO idea. Have already done one of H.o.p. The Registration Desk.

When I got home from the trip which took us by the UFO museum, I looked through my pics and saw with the one of the “In Search of the Truth” poster I’d not avoided the flash reflecting off the glascine. I don’t recollect what that portion of the painting looked like, whether the man’s face was shown or not, but it seemed appropriate to me, the bright light covering the person’s face in an art work titled, “In Search of the Truth”. What you end up with here is a painting of a piece of art. You can’t see the whole of it. A woman with an expression very similar to old silent movie emotiveness is standing before. One way I could think of it is I’ve painted one view of what the universe made of itself in that place at that particular time, including my camera flash (but not a thermostat that was also on the wall), and added a woman looking back at the presumed presence of a viewer of the painting.

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3 responses to “Southwest Seekers – In Search of the Truth (digital painting)”

  1. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    I like this one as well.

    I am amazed at your productivity. You seem to be very prolific. I could use some of that. Right now I feel like I’m strangling ideas in an effort to control every bit of their outcome instead of just throwing caution to the wind. I know that doesn’t work, but it’s how I’m feeling.

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  2. Idyllopus Avatar
    Idyllopus

    I know how that is. Who doesn’t know how that is?

    I’m kind of sitting on the new book I’m working on like that. I haven’t gotten far enough along in it to get a flow going and keep stopping.

    The paintings I just go ahead and start, even if I’m not sure exactly where I’m going with it in general or in the particulars (if I have the in general I may not have the particulars and if I have particulars I may not have the in general). I start and then I’ll stop and set it aside to ferment while I work on something else where things are falling together, and so I usually have several sitting to the side. And a fair number of those end up being tossed in the trash eventually.

    Giving an open to serendipity, I leave in mistakes, things that didn’t go as planned.

    This one I started on a couple of months ago and went through a couple of different versions of it, starting and stopping. It used to have a big old orange of a sofa in it but however much I loved that fruit jello of a sofa I needed to center in on the painting and cut the sofa. It took me a while to make that decision.

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  3. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    “Giving an open to serendipity, I leave in mistakes, things that didn’t go as planned.”

    I like that thought.

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