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    Building Blocks

    starting out the new year with a look back at some earlier works and used them to build something new..there is a lot of detail work in this so view as large as you can to see it... hope you enjoy this one..
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    WOW Gary, you had to spend a lot of time on this fantastic painting, the detail and colors are wonderful, time well spent, I would say, super job

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    Quote Originally Posted by pat1940 View Post
    WOW Gary, you had to spend a lot of time on this fantastic painting, the detail and colors are wonderful, time well spent, I would say, super job
    thanks Pat I did spend quite a bit of time tweaking the details in this image.. so glad you like it...

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    Yep Gary I agree with Pat Qeulle Colour

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    Not quite accessible to me, but glad you enjoyed it. I was looking for something to grab onto in this one but there's really no handle I can grab based on the criteria I value as graceful or thought provoking or what have you. Doesn't mean it's not there. But for me it's a bit remote. Hopefully others will see the good of it and comment. You have 2 in the plus column already.
    "Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream

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    Great colours, shapes and design, Gary

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    All the lovely colors!

    So interesting to look at like the flyover view of an interesting land scape.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eighty+ View Post
    Yep Gary I agree with Pat Qeulle Colour
    thanks dear eighty+

    Quote Originally Posted by D Akey View Post
    Not quite accessible to me, but glad you enjoyed it. I was looking for something to grab onto in this one but there's really no handle I can grab based on the criteria I value as graceful or thought provoking or what have you. Doesn't mean it's not there. But for me it's a bit remote. Hopefully others will see the good of it and comment. You have 2 in the plus column already.
    thanks D Akey, not every abstract I expect to appeal to everyone, this one was an experiment in pushing geometric forms onto some colorful loose expressive lines and textures..

    Quote Originally Posted by justjean View Post
    Great colours, shapes and design, Gary
    thanks justjean that is where I was aiming for this one.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marilyn Anne View Post
    So interesting to look at like the flyover view of an interesting land scape.
    great to hear from you Marilyn Anne ... glad you like this and I like your view of it ..

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    I can't elaborate too much on this impression I got, but I found this painting the most fully, intregrally "American" (US) speaking kind of artpiece You showed so far. To me it talks of what used to be the American style of life and perceptions, of shining, chome, finned cars and McDonalds, and commercial ads, music superstars attires etc.... Maybe the building blocks of the American dream all over the last century. It provides a burst of optimism.
    Panta rei (everything flows)!

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