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Kerry:
--- Quote from: garycottle on April 04, 2009, 06:33:15 am ---Who would ever suspect a gay man of deliberately creating drama? 8)
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;) ::) :laugh:
sel:
--- Quote from: sel on April 04, 2009, 03:41:48 am ---
Yes, the eyes and the eyebrows remind me of Jack's too. I am also fascinated by the other guy, his closed eyes make me feel the intensity of the embrace, of their feelings.
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Kerry,
I wholeheartidly apologise. I wrote that the eyes of the other guy are closed, whereas they are not. They are lowered. His look is just as beautiful.
As I mentioned in an earlier post I am wearing this new pair of multifocus glasses (not sure whether it is the right English word, in Italian we say 'progressive' glasses), I when I sit at the PC I don't seem to able to find the right distance. After a while my eyes hurt too. I am shortsighted, longsighted and astigmatic, and thought that this pair of specs would solve all my problems once and for all but it seems I have no such luck ....
It is a pity that The Embrace will go back into the wordrobe, I imagine your house is full of paintings.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: sel on April 04, 2009, 08:36:36 am ---Kerry,
I wholeheartidly apologise. I wrote that the eyes of the other guy are closed, whereas they are not. They are lowered. His look is just as beautiful.
As I mentioned in an earlier post I am wearing this new pair of multifocus glasses (not sure whether it is the right English word, in Italian we say 'progressive' glasses), I when I sit at the PC I don't seem to able to find the right distance. After a while my eyes hurt too. I am shortsighted, longsighted and astigmatic, and thought that this pair of specs would solve all my problems once and for all but it seems I have no such luck ....
It is a pity that The Embrace will go back into the wordrobe, I imagine your house is full of paintings.
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I do have quite a few paintings hanging throughout my apartment, Sel, which is, alas, not large, meaning the majority of my paintings are relegated to storage. I tend to rotate the paintings, giving them an airing for a while and then returning them to storage. Only a few, much loved paintings, stay on permanent show, two of which were not painted by me.
Like you, I too am myopic and have worn spectacles for years. I tried contact lenses a few times but couldn't take to them. I always felt like my eyes were full of sand, which was very aggravating and painful. I was prescribed multifocal lenses about five years ago. Friends warned me that I would have a great deal of trouble with them and that it would take me a long time to get used to them. Well, can I tell you, just the opposite happened. I took to them like a duck to water! My vision was spectacularly improved. Coupled with that, my new spectacles were frameless, meaning my vision was unrestricted. I no longer viewed the world through a window-frame attached to my face. It was like a miracle for me. My advice is to persevere with the multifocal lenses. If you continue to have problems, perhaps you might consider returning to the optometrist to see if he set the different vision bands correctly. I love my multifocal frameless spectacles. They literally changed the way I view the world. :D
sel:
Thank you for your encouragement Kerry. I have been wearing my multifocal glasses since Thursday afternoon, while I am OK walking and moving about, even driving, when it comes to reading, sitting at the pc I seem to be in trouble. My eyes are hurting as I am writing this. I have tried contact lenses too, but like you experienced all sorts of problems with them. In my 20s (now I am 46) I worked for a couple of years as an air-stewardess, in those days we were not allowed to wear glasses, and in the end, after trying different types of lenses, I quit the job.
Anyway, that's enough about glasses, I look very much forward to seeing more of your paintings.
Kerry:
For me, the hardest thing to paint is a self portrait. I find it very difficult to view my own features objectively. I have too much emotional baggage invested there. I know exactly what’s going on behind the façade. Should I paint the mask or the reality? I have made several attempts at painting self portraits over the years, none of which have been particularly successful, in my view.
This is probably one of my more successful attempts. It was painted during a distressingly tumultuous period in my life. I started out with a traditional representation of my features and then dissected them whilst manipulated the paint by various means, until I arrived at a satisfactory representation of the state of my psyche at that time.
Self Portrait
Detail from Self Portrait
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