Abstract Self Portrait
This painting is actually pretty darn huge, and it’s hanging in my living room. My wife hates it and often refers to it as the “throw up painting.” It’s a bit of an experimentation for me (the kind of work I really don’t do all too often.)
I don’t hate it. Even if my wife thinks it’s a “throw up painting.” More people seem to agree with her more than me on its merits, but screw em’...I painted it, I like it…
If you’ve got a problem with that, why don’t we step outside and settle our difference with out FISTS!?
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peyote
too much Chinese and beer…
Bloody nice mess you got there Steven! haha
xXx
Steven Novak replied
A nice mess is the best kind of mess. Mostly because the other kind is pretty gross. ;) Thanks!
darkestartist
hmm. yes i can see that, but also above the “main stream” as it were, are heart-shaped bits. so maybe puke with love inside? LOL! love the colors at any rate…
Steven Novak replied
This is what it looks like to puke fifteen boxes of Fruity Pebbles cereal. ;)
butchart
i like it… and find nothing pukey about it… more like breathing in good stuff…..............b
Steven Novak replied
I have no idea how in the world you always manage to figure this stuff out, but that is fairly close to what I was going for with it. Well done my friend, well done.
BLYTHART
I know what your wife means and I do hope for her sake that it doesn’t hang beside the dining table. Interesting to read butchart’s interpretation … I’m trying hard to see it that way too. Fancy me mistaking the frog picture for a self-portrait when this looks so like you.
Steven Novak replied
HEY! I don’t have nearly as much warts as the frog! Barely half in fact. ;)
Seth Weaver
Very nice abstract portrait. Your wife is like mine if I don’t do art that is recognizable to her she calls it “play.” She doesn’t like computer art at all and thinks I’m wasting my time “playing.” Oh well she dose the cooking and I get hungry from time to time.
Steven Novak replied
When I hung this up she said something like, “Steven, I know I said that I wanted you to decorate the new house with your art…but this isn’t exactly what I had in mind.” ;)
elisab
There are some great view points about puke. I know what your wife thinks about puke, now what do you think about it? This sure is an interesting piece of art.
Steven Novak replied
What do I think about puke? Hmmm…don’t like it very much. ;)
Marcella Chestnut
I very much like this AND can see what your wife sees. But my interpretation may be different. (?) I normally don’t offer my own interpretations here since ambiguity has its place in art… and besides, I’m usually ‘wrong.’ But here it goes. When I first saw this piece it struck me that the figure had a lot to say… The pleasing colors lent to my feeling that this ‘spewing’ was neither negative or positive. Perhaps the trajectory was a good thing, needed to be released or said and was understood. Or with the mixed lines perhaps it was misheard, misspoken, misunderstood… whatever the case, the figure recognizes he/she either loves or has been loved or both, possibly on the path to healing. Fanciful thinking-I project a lot. That’s sometimes why a piece is so meaningful to me, though. Should I not post such details? Hmm? Still learning the netiquette here.
Steven Novak replied
Actually, Marcella, both you and Butch are pretty close in your interpretations. Mix them together and you’ve pretty much got exactly what I was going for. The funny thing is that, despite this not being my wife’s favorite painting, it’s very much about me around the time that I met her…go figure. ;)
Romo
Wow…this is fantastic…very creative:)
Steven Novak replied
Thanks Romo! Not exactly my usual fare, but it’s good to mix things up now and then I suppose.
samedog
We could maybe settle it with projectile vomiting at ten paces?
Steven Novak replied
If I could projectile vomit at ten paces, I would take the show on the road. ;)
Walker Everette
It looks just like you.
Steven Novak replied
Awwww, you’re sweet. ;)
Niki Renee
wonderful…
Steven Novak replied
Thanks!
Lynda Berlin
Hey, maybe you’re God blowing life into the universe, who knows?
Steven Novak replied
Messy life. ;)
ElRobbo
Thas’s what you get for swallowing paint, I suppose!
:)
Steven Novak replied
It just looked to darn tasty. ;)
GloriaDK
Mybe you could call it ‘blowing bubbles’ and your wife may like it after all you do have hearts as well. ‘blowing pretty bubbles in the air’
Steven Novak replied
So you’re saying that all I needed was a name change? Hmmm…not a bad idea! ;)
Tracey-Anne Pryke
LOL! get a bowl! OH! toooooo Late wonderfully creative as ever steven
Steven Novak replied
Yep too late…now comes the clean up…sigh…I hate the clean up. ;)
Lynda Berlin
Well, at least we’re not bored. (Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.)
Ilmari Fabritius
Wow there’s lots of energy in it.. just great!
Mui-Ling Teh
Paint can look tasty if food was painted out of it :P
wait till it’s puked out and you find out the ingrediants.