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"Go Ask Alice" by *davidmacdowell:icondavidmacdowell:

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Submitted: June 25, 2007
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Make: Hewlett-Packard
Model: hp photosmart 735
Shutter Speed: 1/63 second
F Number: F/2.7
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jun 26, 2007, 2:29:31 AM

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24 x 30 Acrylic on canvas.
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~reina-sama-san:iconreina-sama-san: Jun 25, 2007, 7:15:31 PM
Very nice. =';) The detail is really gorgeous.

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~pgraves:iconpgraves: Jun 25, 2007, 10:22:50 PM
this looks great! definitely one of my favorites of yours! I absolutely love the movement, texture, colors, light, and clarity here! I really cannot say enough about this piece.

and Alice with the violin, sitting in a clear teacup with the cheshire cat!!! brilliant.


I just love this.

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=DiegoTripodi:iconDiegoTripodi: Jun 26, 2007, 5:47:39 AM
Dave, this looks fantastic... everything here is great... the colors, expressions, the composition. I love this. I think I'll choose that the statement here is "how girls/children have tremendous {sometimes imagined}burdens/worries", but I've got to say that the other way of view it (the girl is passed out on drugs) made me smile.
*Decarabia69:iconDecarabia69: Jun 26, 2007, 8:24:39 AM
Absolutely wonderful work, Dave! I love the fact that everything is off-kilter except the little girl in the upper, right corner. This really lends itself well to either interpretation (dreaming or drug-induced). I love the cup with the Cheshire cat, the Jesus image and especially the vortex. Great imagery! :)

You are really talented!

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"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ~ Paul Cézanne
~dawno:icondawno: Jun 26, 2007, 5:59:17 PM
David, you have definitely blown me away with this one! I absolutely love it! It truly portrays the story that you are telling. And the little girl is lovely!
I love the dream imagery. Maybe her dream image of Christ is foreshadowing for the hymn she will have to play at her recital?
*davidmacdowell:icondavidmacdowell: Jun 26, 2007, 8:06:08 PM
Yeah, I thought of that too while thinking of titles..One possible title was "Nearer my god to thee" that violin solo that was at the end of the "titanic"-but I didnt wanna make it a "god" painting..and another title was "I have lost track of the world" a song composed by Gustav Mahler, wich is supposedly the saddest song in the world..My wife suggested "Are You there God, Its Me Alice" a teen book from Judy Blume about menstruation??!I think well stick to the "Go Ask Alice" for now..
~dawno:icondawno: Jun 27, 2007, 2:25:38 PM
Good thinkin'! It's not a god painting and it's not a menstruation painting (I've seen those; they're icky). It is a beautiful painting of a little girl dreaming of the Cheshire Cat and some other stuff! Titles are misleading, anyway. This title is ambiguous enough that it does add to or take away from this painting.. the way it should be.:)
~dirtball:icondirtball: Jun 28, 2007, 12:04:47 AM
her face really does have the expression that children have when they worry, and it's such a tragic one. whether or not they need to be, children can be so anxious! they get so worked up over their recitals and schoolwork that they end up in swirling oceans of tea with jesus dying on the cross. man, being a kid sucked. just one big panic attack.
but hey, the whole painting is very beautiful, it's got that warms&cools type of depth going on. awesome!!

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*davidmacdowell:icondavidmacdowell: Jun 28, 2007, 11:21:06 AM
Yeah-Its for the anxious kid in all of us that can definately relate no doubt..
~MAD-Uninc:iconMAD-Uninc: Jun 28, 2007, 4:43:03 PM
Amazing compositon. It pulls me in...The images ebb and flow.
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