Title: A Study in Blue
created on 17 Nov 11

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1. Angela wrote:
 These are fun & pretty.
2. chelydra wrote:
 [continued from Love Bug] I suddenly realized that the new gallery system was going to consider Love Bug "New and Popular" if I kept adding commentary on it, and then 3 of my favourite TD people (and artists) would see how I insulted their approach to ado
3. chelydra wrote:
 ...reableness—mortifying for me and maybe for them too. Thought I has something more to say on the subject to see if I could get the heart of the adorableness problem and arrive at a General Theory of Authentic Adorableness...
4. chelydra wrote:
 The mystery is how you're managing to do something that 3 of the best artists (maybe the 3 best artists) on TD cannot do, although they're all excellent people as well as excellent artists . . . I'm sure there must be non-technical skills, like when I do
5. chelydra wrote:
 a good portrait I am either feeling what my subject was feeling, and imagining I am with enough conviction, to make it work, and the brush and ink flow more naturally into the right places...
6. chelydra wrote:
 "and" should be OR imagining... So it was be reasonable to assume you may be doing something similar with your love bug, etc., like knowing how to be adorable, or at least feel adorable, or at least vividly imagine how adorableness might feel... it hardl
7. chelydra wrote:
 ...hardly matters which, if the feeling feels real enough to you. But I'm even more sure there's some formal, abstract factor you are making happen... I like it's probably in the geometry, the arrangements and precise shapes, and how they go so naturally
8. chelydra wrote:
 ... with your colours, even tho it all seems kind of carefree-verging-on-mindless, in other words very casual, at first glance, and usually at second and third glance, but not at fourth glance. in the good ones I mean... and you have a respectable percen
9. chelydra wrote:
 ...tage of good ones for sure. (In #7, I meant I THINK not I LIKE... ) I mean there's something in the colour-shape thing that emanates adorableness, gives one permission to feel it.
10. chelydra wrote:
 "If love goes into the pudding, good is the pudding" —DH Lawrence Plus in this case it must be the innocence of a 3-yr-old too which only the most mature and wise adults can feel within... and communicate...
11. chelydra wrote:
 (That last bit's just a guess because I'm not speaking from experience.)

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