Swept Away

No haha – I’m talking about what you portray :)

Wow, I love the colors you choose!!
I can picture this hanging in a gallery somewhere, especially in a huge format! :D

Carmen this has mood, and I am glad I am not the only one who paints in front of the t.v. my coffee table allows me to mount the easel studily.

Nice work…like the brilliant colours and the mood of the image.

Wowzers…this sweeps me away!

Wow!! An hour!! That’s amazing!! Such beautiful work!!

looks great, your quick ones always look fabulous!

Brilliant yet again Carmen, can’t imagine what you were watching!

excellent Carmen .. that sky is very impressing as is the contrast of the land .. well dome :)

love the little characters they look very lost….so scary!!! oh its great!!

Like the colours /light /shade and the sense of vastness.......V interesting

Dont need to reply but that sounds a good idea to put to RB as sometimes I miss other peoples comments if I am away for a while ..Thanks for taking the time and never change your art for anyone but yourself ! There must have been a reason you put those figures there in the first place ..your choice .your art !

Gosh just one hour, I would love to watch you painting in front of the television. What a interesting bird you would be to watch painting away, multi tasking in front of the tube! I lo ve your images. BillyLee

It must of been a good hour, just like a good drop huh lol
I would of helped. Would of kept the bottle away till you had finished. But it hasnt detracted at all. I would leave the figures in.

Absolutely love this , wonderful, wonderful…:0))

I love your HUGE sky!

Thank you EVERYONE for your comments : ) Always appreciated even if I don’t thank you individually. x Carmen.

Beautiful work! love the rich colors and the subjects :)

fabulous!!

PS ..love your hair

very very lovely….the wide open sky and land…..a feeling of space…..the two figures…a feeling of how small we are in the big picture!

The figures make the painting, it’s very reminicent of an Arthur Boyd
Please don’t harm this beautiful canvas.
Rock

Hi Everyone, thank you very much for all your comments, on this painting and all the others too : )

With a crash the vegies and their pot of boiled water finds the sink
Seconds later the thud of the back door
Sitting on the trailer’s edge the sounds of the neighbourhood blissfully fade
As I stare up at the blue evening sky and …
... breathe
How did I become so contained in a box
With screaming demanding stir crazy kids
Cant he see that we need space to grow …
... to express to …
... breathe?
The sky is darkening,
my neck is stiffening
but I cannot tare my eyes from the vastness the peace …
of the fathomless azure
How I wish it would all blow away with the clouds and I could just float in the peace of the sky forever
A screech of pain assails me through the ambiance of meditation
Wearily I drop my chin and blink and return to the shamozzel that is my life
Until tomorrow night
and woe betide anyone who prevents me from sky gazing then!

~ please forgive me for this, I tend to create when inspired & this picture reminds me of the life I endured & survived once
Thank you ♥

Oh this image is simply stunning. I cannot believe that you painted this in an hour… in front of the tv… and with a wine too! This beautiful piece of art evokes so many different stories and emotions. What a lovely title too. Just perfect :-)

I’ve called my poem/prose Azure Gazing and I have added a link through to here if that is all right with you
Thank you again

And yes your work does reflect Boyd
Like him I love your use of deep passionate colour and dramatic brush stroke movement
Keep the characters they give perspective and interest
and NEVER turn your telly off if this is the work you do before it! :O)
You have to do something! It’s amazing how much you can get done in the ad breaks nowadays! :O) I mean I actually caught myself reading a novel during one show … well it was yet another Generic like American crime thing! I turned the TV off and the family thought I’d gone mad! No one else was watching it so I didn’t see the point in wasting power! But many a night I have worked all through on assignments and projects with the TV for company [I have no idea why, the over night shows are Horrendous!!]
Sorry for blathering on! [bloody writers! lol]
Keep Happy! :O)
Chookas!

Awsum,pure gold.i luv this

i love the colors .. and i love how the ‘people’ look so small compared to the rest of the image … its beautiful

um. stupendous. stupid, stupified. your poem left me speechless…. and honoured, I need to respond tomorrow, I need to think, I need to absorb the flattery, honour…. I am speechless.

Thank you all for your comments. I am still so astounded that this little painting in every sense has evoked some of the emotions I have been bubblemailed with, left comments with, poems… you have made the significant and final imprint of what everyone around me is saying “Carmen, we miss your paintings with the little people” ... ok, watch out, here they come. As for the comments, I still intend to send some personal ‘thank you’s’. Thank you everyone. x Carmen

Gorgeous Love the flow here.

This is amazing Carmen… quick? Wow… what a gift!

So beautiful

beautiful ~ such warmth, light and movement ~ love it xx

Love the richness and the emotions this paiting portrays, your colour tone and composition is fantastic! and you did this in an hour, not to mention grog and tv!!

and ofcourse, congratz on making RB feature page, well deserved!!!

RB featured page?

Wonderful colours, it looks like something from a dream!

The color of the sky is fantastic.

awesome work

love the rich color and vastness,excellent work

cool painting

I love the choice of colours and the balance of colours

wow… this is just amazing!

lovely piece of art mq

awesome…

Sold – whoo hoo, i really need to get to work, fast!

wow…this has such an awesome sense of space..and the kind of space that’s filled with some intangible beauty. I LOVE this Carmen!

i love this picture! very well done!

fabulous piece of work mq

Fantastic work, I love your portfolio.

Love all your work
& this is so eyecatching !

Yes, this is really got a nice feel…Beautiful!