Page III ... They left before I got to know them ... they crossed an undisclosed divide.

[Enyaw]

Wayne Gaudon .. Alla Prima .. 11 x 14 inches .. Oil on Panel ..

 

[Donna T]

Well that’s kind of a sad title, Wayne, and your colors fit the mood.

 

[ZenDruid]

Dramatic, I like it. And there's a story. I like the high colors of the character against the darker background.

 

[snoball]

I'm sorry, they were such nice entities, You would have liked them. I'm afraid to comment on the work because I can't figure it out.

 

[Enyaw]

Thank you Donna, Zen, Sno, and Jo.
Not much to figure. Non representational abstract. You like it or you don't.

 

[snoball]

I do like it, the movement, shapes and colors, but don't understand it. I think I'm going to start letting you title my paintings.

 

[Enyaw]

Well Sno, it's like this. When I was painting this it appeared to me to be a big old bull under the weight of a family crossing a sheet of icy snow in which the bull was sinking into the darkness under as a result of trying to carry too much of a load.

 

[snoball]

Well if that's the case, it looks like he was carrying the earthly belongs of the Beverly Hillbillies.

 

[Enyaw]

Well now, that's taking the bull by the horns...that's a good rendition of the painting.

 

[Enyaw]

Thank you JennieJo.

 

[Donna T]

I see the bull now that you've pointed him out, Wayne, horns and all! When I see things like this in my work I never know what to do; leave them alone and let them live in abstraction or define them, lose the abstraction and veer off into ... weirdness.

 

[Enyaw]

Well Donna, I just go with the flow cause if I don't I quickly come to the realization I can't paint and accidentals are what make my paintings look good. Of course looking good to me don't mean they are good but I do know what I like. You is who you is an' that's the way the wind blows. Grammar for Sno.

 

[Terri]

Well, I love this! It has nothing to do with a bull, who in my mind isn't really a bull but the badly broken part of a large ship, with the bow pointing upwards dramatically as she is tossed in stormy seas.

It's a dark and stormy night...

 

[Enyaw]

I can see that. Art is in the eye of the beholder. Thank you Terri.

 

[Artyczar]

I suppose I'm with sno on this one.

Now that you point out the bull, I still am not sure how to comment. I love your work otherwise though.

 

[Enyaw]

Thanks Ayin, Joe, and Terri.
It's not important that someone should like or understand everything. Some I love for awhile and later when I go through my books to thin the herd I wonder why I ever kep it. Keep smiling.