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Geoffrey wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 3:21 pm ...to obtain one specific, recognisable style is a dream; unfortunately i seem to be all over the place.

...july tomorrow, have a great summer! :)
When I said that you have a distinctive style that is all your own, I was not referring to a formal artistic style or a specific school of art, etc., rather, I was thinking more of a personal "essence" that is in your pictures. The way you do them has a certain unique quality -- i.e., certain characteristics, which are not really describable in words, but which are visually apparent to me -- regardless of whichever medium or formal "style"/combination of styles, etc., that you are using.

I experience the same thing when I look at numerous pictures by many people-who-make-pictures (be they artists or unlabelled individuals!) -- each person has a uniqueness to their work that can be seen in all (or most) of their pictures, their own essence or fingerprint or personal-style or whatever one wants to call it comes through. Mind you, not all people who make pictures have this: some simply copy what others do, and do not seem to have any distinct personal influence on the results. But, when I walk through an art gallery or an "art" exhibit of any sort in which there are several works by each "artist", I can often easily discern individual and identifiable qualities in all/most of their pieces.

I perceive something similar in some musical instrumentalists: some instrumentalists have a very unique "style", an infusion of themselves into their playing that gives the music a certain quality that nobody else has. Not all instrumentalists have this: some sound like many others, with no personal distinction in their sound. But others put something (a combination of things, certain qualities, intangibles...) of themselves into their playing such that one can often identify them just by hearing something they play.

Of course, there is a possibility (in fact, a probability!) that some of what I perceive as individual uniqueness in the work of others is actually some aspect of myself that is permeating my perceptions: for instance, knowing that a group of pictures are by a certain person, my mind may "see" them in a particular way that I associate with that person, giving them certain identifiable qualities, but there is no guarantee that anybody else sees them in the same way that I do. It is thought that each person perceives everything in a very unique way, for everything that we experience of the outside world (assuming for the moment that the external world exists outside of each of us), must pass through our own unique sensory mechanisms, and then travel through our own unique nerves to our own unique brains, where they are assembled and interpreted as images, sounds, feelings, sensations of whatever sort, etc., and inevitably, some of "us" -- some of our internal selves -- will be intermingled with our perceptions of the outside world.

There is likely some (and perhaps a lot of) similarity in what each person perceives and how they perceive it, because it seems to be the case that we can understand and relate, to some extent, to what other people experience through their senses -- we mostly seem to be living in the same general world/reality, more or less! But, there are undoubtedly personal differences (perhaps greater in some than others), that affect each person's perceptions, for there are so many factors that can contribute to how we perceive things, and what we perceive of them: what we know and have previously experienced, our attention to detail, our degree of sensitivity to various things, our personal biases of any nature, the physical state of our bodies/brains and sensory apparatus, etc., will have an effect on how we perceive the things around us.

I have often met people who cannot or do not perceive things quite the way I do: they do not perceive similarities that seem obvious to me, or they cannot distinguish characteristics that I can easily distinguish -- sometimes it actually seems as though they are seeing or hearing (etc.) something completely different from what I am seeing and hearing. For example, I may see a person who, to me, looks a lot like another person, to the point of being a doppelganger, and yet, if I mention this to someone else, they sometimes cannot see the similarity between the two individuals in question. Or, with colours, I sometimes meet people who think and say that something is green, whereas it is clearly yellow to me -- sometimes the yellow thing in question is actually labelled as "yellow", and yet, a rather large number of people see it as green. There have been times when I have wondered if anybody sees colours in the same way (or perceives anything at all in the same way!), due to the frequent differences of opinion that I have encountered!

Nonetheless, I think that most of us can agree that tomorrow is July 1 -- Happy Canada Day! It is summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere, while those in the southern hemisphere are settling into winter! And so, I will wish everyone a great summer or a great winter, wherever they happen to be! Cheers!
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:D

How kind both of you are.
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LisaLCFan wrote:
>I was not referring to a formal artistic style or a specific school of art, etc., rather, I was thinking more of a personal "essence" that is in your pictures. The way you do them has a certain unique quality . . . which are not really describable in words, but which are visually apparent to me . . .
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>I experience the same thing when I look at numerous pictures by many people-who-make-pictures . . . Mind you, not all people who make pictures have this: some simply copy what others do, and do not seem to have any distinct personal influence on the results.

i think i understand, because it is similar to when i see other people's pictures - including yours. 'essence' is a somewhat abstract ingredient in the realms of perception, something that gives identity to an individual's creations, and yet is difficult to explain.

>Of course, there is a possibility (in fact, a probability!) that some of what I perceive as individual uniqueness in the work of others is actually some aspect of myself . . .

cannot agree more. interpretations of another person's creativity will often reveal more about the interpreter than the creator, and one person's interpretation will probably differ in time, depending on circumstances - which is what you write.

>I have often met people who cannot or do not perceive things quite the way I do: they do not perceive similarities that seem obvious to me, or they cannot distinguish characteristics that I can easily distinguish -- sometimes it actually seems as though they are seeing or hearing (etc.) something completely different from what I am seeing and hearing.

this is a common occurrence with people whose brain does not have standard 'wiring', such as intellectuals, geniuses, inventors, etc.
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199Dan wrote:
>How kind both of you are. :)

thanx :)
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Geoffrey wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2024 2:31 am LisaLCFan wrote:
>I have often met people who cannot or do not perceive things quite the way I do....

this is a common occurrence with people whose brain does not have standard 'wiring', such as intellectuals, geniuses, inventors, etc...
Why, thank you! 8)

I like the Yoko pic!
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LisaLCFan wrote:
>I like the Yoko pic!
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that's a nice thing to say. she has never been a run-of-the-mill person, which i guess is why john loved her so much.
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I couldn't help myself to post this photo I took at 6:30 am today on a grey (uncommon for here) morning just before sunrise after being woken up by the very loud chatter of many pink and grey galahs (Australian rose-breasted cockatoos) across the street. Talk about "Bird on the wire", there are at least 70 of them on 4 wires and their weight has sagged the lines!

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In contrast, I noticed a pair of doves cooing quietly to each other on the TV aerial next door (it's their favourite perch) but I was too slow to take their photo and they flew off. There are so many different bird species here - different sounds and sights at different times of the day and night.
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B4real wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:14 am I couldn't help myself to post this photo...
How fun (well, maybe not at 6:30 am...) -- a whole flock of birds on the wires! I'll bet they were making quite the racket! Thanks for the cute pic -- so lovely to see all those galahs!
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B4real wrote:
>I couldn't help myself to post this photo . . .

so glad you are an early riser, took this photo and posted it! you make me want to post a related picture, and probably will do when time permits.
the holiday season is in full swing here with me, nothing but parties and picnics almost every day. did manage to do the pic below before going out earlier this morning. black and white on cardboard.
thanks for the photo! :)
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Thanks, you two!

It's usually the Laughing Jackasses (Kookaburras) that wake me up in the mornings, but they were drowned out this time by the raucous sounds of the many galahs :razz:

Geoffrey, that's an interesting sketch of Einstein which really does emphasis the natural texture of his hair.
You know, I do somewhat live by that famous quote of his :)

Yes, post your bird pic when you get time. In fact, just thinking, maybe it would be nice if everyone either posts a pic or a drawing they have done of a bird and try to relate it to one of LC's lines - songs or poetry. It could even be one Bird On The Wire or many of them, ha! No pressure to do that, it's just a random thought ;-)
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B4real wrote:
>. . . it would be nice if everyone either posts a pic or a drawing they have done of a bird and try to relate it to one of LC's lines . . .
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photos of birds seem always to be better than drawings, but my camera has never been any good at capturing wildlife :(
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Geoffrey wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:05 pm ...photos of birds seem always to be better than drawings...
I would happily take either: I adore birds, and I love this drawing of the ostrich on the wire, it's fabulous! The caption is perfect, and the little ears are a nice touch -- it made me laugh!
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LisaLCFan wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 5:18 pm I would happily take either: I adore birds, and I love this drawing of the ostrich on the wire, it's fabulous! The caption is perfect, and the little ears are a nice touch -- it made me laugh!
thank you lisa. doesn't seem right for a bird to be born flightless, but life is not always fair. "some are born to sweet delight . . ."
the big mystery is how the ostrich managed to get up there ;)
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B4real wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 5:25 am ...just thinking, maybe it would be nice if everyone either posts a pic or a drawing they have done of a bird and try to relate it to one of LC's lines - songs or poetry. It could even be one Bird On The Wire or many of them, ha! No pressure to do that, it's just a random thought ;-)
Your photo of all those galah's (and the timing of their chatter) relates to -- and, in fact, directly reflects -- a very famous line: "The birds they sang, at the break of day!"

I'll have to ponder your suggestion -- I like the idea, but I am very busy this weekend -- stay tuned! In the meantime, I shall simply repost a picture of a painting I did some time ago, "Listen to the Hummingbird"...
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One more quick photo in response to Bev's suggestion: Leonard mentioned sparrows in poetry ("The Sparrows", "Beneath my Hand", any others?), and here's six of them perched on the birdbath in my back yard:
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