The Artist Challenge

14 responses so far ↓

• 1 Vikki // Jan 8, 2011 at 8:57 pm

  Hi Rusty!
  I’m so spoiled. I get to see all these pieces close up and personal! Your beautiful intricate layers of a texture come shining through…And please tell me if I’m wrong or are my eyes are just matrixing something wild? I see a landscape, dry remains of trees and tiny house a flame in center of the sun. THAT’S SO UTTERLY COOL RUSTY.

• 2 Sonya Meglaurel // Jan 8, 2011 at 10:01 pm

  Knew it would be a boiling multi-faceted piece Rusty! Well aware the background firelite sky is going to be fantastic in REAL Life! Signature element of your work; rich and full bodied.

• 3 RiikaInfinityy // Jan 9, 2011 at 1:45 am

  I am seeing a mountain on high clouds! XD~ It is a wonderful crimson journey :3~ Hmmm, and a desert like atmosphere within the sun? I hope my eyes are not taking me anywhere too wild than this, haha!

• 4 Paul Pinson // Jan 9, 2011 at 2:39 am

  Are you lost in the red mountain, mister Sun? Angry that you dont find the Moon?

• 5 Rusty // Jan 9, 2011 at 6:31 pm

  Vikki,

  While the work is very deliberate it allows for the viewer to bring her own experience to it. I’m enjoying what you see. Thanks

• 6 Rusty // Jan 9, 2011 at 6:32 pm

  Sonya,

  One of these days I’m going to fall short of your high expectations. I’m please you like this one. See you soon.

• 7 Rusty // Jan 9, 2011 at 6:35 pm

  Riikalnfinity,

  Don’t be afraid of the journey…it leads to beautiful places. My goal was to create the
  atmosphere for the sun. Thank you

• 8 Nancie Johnson // Jan 9, 2011 at 9:19 pm

  The design is so simple, and the patterns are so complex in this. I can stare at it for hours, it seems, and still see it differently. Definitely enjoyable.

• 9 Rusty // Jan 10, 2011 at 10:34 am

  Paul, Vous êtes correct, il est un soleil fâché. Qui d’autre verrait ?

• 10 Rina // Jan 10, 2011 at 7:23 pm

  I am really impressed that you were able to give the 2d surface an 3d appearance.

• 11 Sarah // Jan 12, 2011 at 1:33 pm

  Rusty, I love how your sun is strong enough to stand on its own, yet doesnot take away from the background.

• 12 Gail // Jan 12, 2011 at 3:24 pm

  Rusty, beautiful color and texture in this. For me, it is like looking through a cutout in a hot pink veil to a brilliant sunlit landscape. So much depth…..lovely!

• 13 Lelan // Jan 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm

  My favorite property of this piece is that depending on your depth of focus, you can see either a backlit stencil on a paper lantern (two apparently perfectly flat surfaces given great perceived depth by distance) or an arial photograph of Nebraska farm land as if viewed on a projector screen and covered by a brightly-colored transparency (a heavily contoured surface viewed at great distance through a perfectly flat film). Which perception you get depends on where you land your eye in relation to the edge between the background and the sun. Simply put, you have created an exciting piece that is just fun to look at. I like.

• 14 Rusty // Jan 19, 2011 at 5:20 am

  Lelan,

  I enjoy your description of such different perceptions for this painting. Until you and Gail mentioned the “cutout”or “stencil”appearance, I hadn’t seen it. When I view them as such, I see the them each trying to be the dominate element. I strived for the atmospheric condition but the reality was, I painted this on a day I that I was angry. I think the high energy that I had internalized came through on this painting rather unintentionally. Creating art fromthe sou is such an interesting and unpredictable process. Thanks and btw, glad you join the challenge. I hope you will again.

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