Michal's little gallery

Ah, thank you Tartan!

Your last abstract is a gem

Speedpainting with a mouse in Verve (+ "color" corrections in Photoshop). I still use a mouse for abstracts and for this type of "paintings".

Hmm, I don´t like little blured branches on the left side..

Fantastic, very strong, what a sky ! did you paint it in black & white or is it converted afterwards ?

[Taron]

I absolutely LOVE those blurry branches!!!
This feels so utterly photographic!
But then you have a real knack for that anyway, Lemi. It's quite incredible. Almost inconceivable that you accomplish this as a speed painting WITH A MOUSE!
You make me so utterly proud...but then, that's another thing you have a knack for!

Bravo!

Oh, you are so fast with your response! THANK YOU sooo much guys!

All was done from start only in black and white. I used Photoshop to correct contrast.

Below is little different version, with a hat..

There is very nice czech song "Hat in bush". Let me allow to translate first words of this song for you:

..the wind is blowing through desert, a hat is drifted on the sand, drove it into the thicket, old black hat, where is the head that wore the hat, was black or fawn, who probably belonged?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_itNywJLEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wB6h7dXQTI

[Taron]

Welllllll, you should've most certainly hung the hat into the branches, like the wind had trapped it there and also scaled it down to like 2/3rds of its size, I think or even half. Because it would then have a clearer silhouette and even though it might be small then, I believe it would support the drama of it!
Still great, of course!

What a very relaxing piano pieces and song!
What a cool landscape!

My only reproach is the signature!
It's disturb the pleasure of the eyes!
Must be more elaborate, less significant, with another style!
Seems made with a felt pen!

Pilou, you are right. I should use less distracting signature.. Maybe no signature would be the best for this kind of moody picture.

Taron, you are right too. It doesn´t make sense to have a hat laying on the ground in that windy weather, isn´t it? My reason was to calm down all atmosphere a little bit and set something like a nostalgic mood that reflects lyrics from the song I mentioned. And I didn´t want to mess more things on the left side. I used "golden mean" for a hat position. Ok, let us say that the wind stopped blowing for a while and left the hat resting in peace.. In any case, very good notice from you!

[Taron]

Oh, as an artist you should always follow your heart. "Golden mean" is very often a "head thing", though, when we want to rely on existing formulas, hoping dearly that there's everything to it, but the real magic is finding out where this perfect ratio wants to mean something on the image and what it should fulfill.
Example, the human proportions reflect a certain ratio all over the body. Eyes to head, fingers to hand, torso to legs and so on. Place a character in a scene and all its "perfect" ratios provide a certain harmony. The hat is small enough of a detail to be an element to the bushes, which could be placed there at a golden ratio to the brushes rather than to the entire image. Everything would gain strength, rather than being stretched thin by one element that makes one look around in hopes for reflections of the same ratio elsewhere, without being able to find it, you know.
It emotionally flattens the image.
Now, I'm not trying to persuade you or argue, but simply find it exciting to observe and analyze something with so much beauty to experiment with the chance of gaining yet some more, you know.
It's a great lesson or exercise for all of us, if something is as inspiring as your mouse-masterpiece.... (still incredible to me! My wife was stomped as well! Ugh, that does sound oddly wrong?!)