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Submitted: November 14, 2008
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Love Stinksby ~theancientofdays

Traditional Art / Paintings / Landscapes & Scenery

You know, I've studied a lot of Asian art, and one of my favourites is a very old sumi-e painting with a mountain and a poet standing on an outcrop. "Poet on a Mountain" or something like that. I always thought the lone figure looked a little depressed. I dunno.
So I thought I'd try a similar painting, but make my idea of the discouraged lone figure the theme. This is watercolour on coffee-stained 140 pound Arches CP, 10" square. Yes, it says "Love Stinks", or more precisely, "The Stink of Love."

My thanks to Mr. Wolf and the J. Geils Band for the title inspiration.

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~RyanEddieJones Sep 25, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Really awesome i have always been a amazing fan of cultural art and like this is sick dude

~Anna52 Feb 1, 2009

It's sweet, an adorable piece

~theancientofdays Feb 2, 2009

Thank you very much! It's really fun painting in this style after doing all the portraits and stuff. ^^

~Anna52 Feb 2, 2009

You're welcome

*milbisous Dec 15, 2008

Asian art is so simple yet so elegant. The caption is quite funny

~theancientofdays Dec 16, 2008

Thanks! I tried out a little Asian style work with my adult watercolour class a couple of weeks ago - they thought it was going to be easy. After a few botched attempts, I was getting a lot of, "Hey! It looks simple! Why's it so hard!?!"

*milbisous Dec 16, 2008

I get the same feeling with illustrations. They look so easy, yet it is hard. Well, at least for me

~theancientofdays Dec 20, 2008

I agree with you - I've found that paintng something realistically is much easier for me than doing illustration or cartooning. I guess I just don't have the eye for it.

~Horseluver411 Dec 5, 2008 Writer

This is beautiful! It looks like something I studied in my history class! Very nice work, I love it.

~theancientofdays Dec 8, 2008

Thank you very much! I tried to follow the old style pretty closely. ^_^

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