Mine came yesterday, haven't had a chance to hang it up yet so it's just resting against a window on top of some of my crap, but it's awesome:

I didn't see this when it was first posted, but these are really cool, gorie.

awesome, glad you guys like them !

here are a few new ones...

36x24"
"The Dance"


36x18"
"Remember Us"


36x18"
"On Fyre"


36x18"
"Above and Below"

I like them, but I think your representational stuff would probably command a higher price on avg, particularly the meme-based stuff if you find the right purchaser. A good Cryil playing cards would probably go for 600+. Good work though gorie.

Hehe gummi worms!

OH hai.

very nice.

This one is captivating.

u mean "FUUUUUU guy receiving axe to head" right?

OMG i could've added a tree and babbling brook FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

^^

haha i just saw the pooptoad w/ toad pic now - that rules.

anyway... thought i'd add a couple more new paintings to this thread.


36x18"
"Consumed"


24x18"
"Always"


24x18"
"Easy"


24x18"
"Slipping"


36x18"
"First Verse"


20x48 (3 panels 20x16 each)
"Scratching the Surface"
(SOLD)


36x18"
"Modern World 2"
(SOLD)


36x18"
"Hidden Secrets"

hopefully i will have more to add soon..
thanks for looking!!

i like your paintings, how do you know when its finished? how long have you been painting? do you have a bunch of paintings going at once, or do you focus at one at the time?

scuzzlebutt- thanks
hmm, sometimes i just can tell it's finished and it feels obvious. when it's at a point i really like it and feel like if i tried anything else to it i'd ruin it. i don't know how to explain it, but i guess i go for a balance of some sort. but there are other times when it seems ok like it could be finished, but might not feel quite right and i have to keep working on it at the risk of ruining what i do have, or it won't feel right otherwise if i'm not really happy with it.

i had an example of that tonight actually..
the other day i made this one:

and i was really happy with the colors , but the more i looked at it the more it didn't feel right. but i kept going back and forth as to whether or not it was done. and i guess it bothered me enough that i decided to work on it more even though i knew i was going to ruin what i did have.
this is where it's at now after working on it more tonight
(photo taken without a flash, so it's more blurry and not the best quality to compare...)
so it obviously changed a lot and some people will prefer it where it was, but to me it just was lacking some sort of balance, and i think i achieved what i was going for now and am much happier with it. i might have to work on it a bit more, but overall it feels more complete to me now.

i started messing around w/ oil paints back in 2004 i think... but only painting here & there. pretty sure this was my first:

and then the next one i painted was some really bad flower that i garbaged. sometimes i think with painting it's like a hit or miss for me. like sometimes i just don't know how to paint at all, and other times it flows really easily.

i just started with the abstracts w/ acrylics the end of last year. and since i started doing abstracts, i've been painting a lot more! was harder to get myself in the mood to paint doing realism even though i'm probably better at that. it just takes a lot longer and harder to come up with things to paint. i'm sure i will still go back to realism w/ oils at some point though. i kinda believe that a lot of realism is patience more than talent though, since you basically just work on something until it matches what you're trying to copy.

i usually end up having more than one painting at a time. because sometimes i paint one and am not happy with where it's at and would rather start fresh on something new and go back to the other one later. but in general i like to focus on one at a time, just doesn't always work out that way depending on how things go. also sometimes i like to work in layers n stuff where i need to let it dry before going back to work on it, so it can help to have more than one at a time.

I think the fruits painting looks nice but I dunno about the others. They look like just colors to me but maybe I am bad at art appreciation

they're definitely very abstract, garcia. For me, it takes a very specific painting to make me like something as abstract as these paintings are, and gorie has managed to do it a bunch of times. Of the new ones, I definitely like Modern World 2, First Verse, Always, and Consumed.

I don't necessarily get them, but I like them.

From the old ones, I also like Escape I, Escape II, Modern World, Forever and Good Feeling.

And IDK, i'm very dumb at art, I know nothing about it. I generally like landscape paintings and scenes of nature and that sort of stuff, so its bizarre to me that I'm into these paintings.

I really like the before red and blue one. But like garcia i'm dumb at art. I liked modern world a lot when i misread and thought it was modern warfare.

Gah, every time I see this I turn green with envy. I really want one of those! Gorie won't paint any more of them

I forgot about this thread, but I've been the owner of this painting ever since I first questioned about it in this thread.

hey gorie that was a really good post, you pretty much nailed allot of the stuff i was wondering about, but had a hard time putting in words. when i saw the first picture i thought that was pretty cool and then i scrolled down and saw the progress, i liked it better, so that was ehhm pretty cool.

i think you guys put to much into being smart at art, when i look at abstract art i just like it or not.. but maby i'm just dumb at art

Gorie-- 2p2 rarely surprises me anymore, but wow -- very, very impressive. Also, thanks for posting that fantastic youtube video. There are so many different techniques when painting abstract expressionism, and it was nice to get some insight into your style and technique. Very cool stuff.

In fact, this thread has inspired me to start painting again. Maybe I'll post some stuff sometime in the near future.

hi gorie i just added u on fb omg woot.

anyway. great paintings! not rly a fan of the titles tho. abstracts dont need explanations or attachments to emotions...in fact it kind of cheapens them to make them into a expression of some psychological state of the artist whilst she was painting. The names should either be just Red Study #1 etc or something really clever and obnoxious like "Brangelina" or "Driving Off A Cliff Wearing A Burberry Scarf". or u shld just name them after Brandon Benson songs, u know u want 2.

just my O. i especially like the hitler face one which u should re-title Hitlerface asap.

keep arockin'

hey thanks to anyone who added me on facebook!

soo this is how that red & blue one turned out...


THE RED PONY IS DROWNING IN TEARS AND DEATH

i thought i would post this one too, since a few people had interest in the "modern world" painting and this is a new one i did that is a similar style to that... i like how it turned out.


"Ocean Mist"
36x18"

i have it up in my etsy shop w/ a few others. i might try listing a bunch on ebay soon idk. more to add soon...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that last one.

MAYBE I WILL BUY IT.