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Thank you Ilaria for setting a distant goal! May we all fetch $10 million! I wonder if it was the white canoe that did it? Maybe it was the water or trees. Hmmm...
Carlos, thanks for your vote of confidence in my ventures into figurative painting. For me it is the most difficult. Portraits and landscapes are each challenging in their own ways, and I find that they say something if the artist is true to his/her concept and has the skill to carry it out. But I have to think and evaluate more when it comes to a figurative piece. Am I saying too much, am I hitting the viewer over the head with the message? Or is it not clear enough? Maybe this type of work has a more clearly defined message, or maybe I'm just new to it. You do this so well, Carlos, in a different way, of course.
Plus, there doesn't seem to be a definite point at which portraiture becomes figurative, or landscape becomes figurative. It's more than the size of the figures in the composition. There really are no answers---I just like to ponder these things.
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