[Aquanet] So ... what best embodies "close up" to you?

[Richard Price]

Hi Bev,

I wasn't even sure what to call those things. Thanks for the kind words.
I do flowers as an excuse to use bright colors as a break from some of
the more somber colors I use in other paintings. I don't do a lot of
them, but enough to admire artists who do such wonderful work with them
like Janet Walsh, Lorraine Dietrich, etc. I think I should have had some
soft edges in there, too, but maybe next time. 

As far as close-ups go, I had second thoughts after sending that
painting when I do have some really closeup textural things. I think the
horse's eye or a single blossom blown up almost to abstraction are
better examples of closeups. Those are very imaginative, unique views of
realistic subjects. 
Still, I like seeing everyone's work, no matter what their
interpretations are. 

Richard L. Price
www.richardprice.net

www.northeastws.com


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Subject: Re: [Aquanet] So ... what best embodies "close up" to you?

Hi Raymond and all Aquanet list.

I am choosing "Orchidaceae Phalaenopsis" by Richard Price  of the
flowers
featured on closeup page as detail is so good and gives a very "close
up" of
the orchid veins and shape of flower.Color is good too and putting black
background brings out features even more.  Great work Richard Price.  Do
you
do flower features for books by any chance?