made me think....

Every once in a while I get a note that I would like to pass along, this made me think.

Great work!

I can feel a conflict here about your DA followers not really accepting your versatility. You shouldn´t mind, actually if you keep up submitting abstracts -or any other style which I'm sure you're good at- you'll find there is a DA public too willing to see more of that, though at first it may seem less numerous  

And of course there are "the loyal ones" who will favorite your new trends and try to understand them even if it's not really what the expected in the first place  

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Teresa, I appreciate the sentiment. I do expect this kind of reaction or more "non-reaction" to these works after all it took me years to be able to think and express myself in this manner. What some fail to realize is that working in abstraction makes one a better realist, it frees your concepts and compositions, which in turn clarifies   that the "art" of just copying is anything but.

I'm a realist that's where my heart is,   I freely chose to intermittently experiment with abstraction for clarity sake, this "ism" lets me see within therefore I can better relate on how I see the world with my own artistic language.  After all, my goal is not just to transfer but to translate and reinvent what I observe.  The few who like these works make my day just as much as a thousand who like my graphite work.  For me it's all one and the same, for others it seems like a wide chasm of styles which I do understand.

Thanks

Armin