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Something new

Journal Entry: Sat May 10, 2008, 9:23 AM
Looking back, my work has always been based on experimentation with something new…


In my early career as a photorealist painter,

- acrylics were something new…

- photorealism was something new…

- airbrushing paintings was something new…

- airbrushing acrylics was something new…

(So new in fact, one of my close painting buddies ran my idea over to Liquitex and became a sponsor for a cottage industry, again something new...acrylic airbrush colors, voila!)

Oh well, moving on…

- projecting images was something new...

- spearheading a splinter art movement, something new…

- airbrushing house paint, something new...

- using urethane paints in fine arts, something new…

- and now enlarging a small drawing from my reference photo, then printing it on the canvas as a light halftone, effectively integrating my original drawing directly into the work as an underpainting prior to painting the hell out of it with urethanes, something new…


So there you have it, always experimenting with something new… accordingly, I will be posting my latest finished painting utilizing this new approach within the day.

Hoping you’ll like it.








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*emilytheartist:iconemilytheartist: 5 hours 31 minutes ago
I featured your work in my latest journal! Check it out!
~iris1:iconiris1: 1 day 13 hours ago
Everybody has his own opinion on art,I have mine. I said before that his way of painting people is incredible,sometimes I can't believe that they are actually paintings. I don't know,the truth is I'm not a big fan of that kind of hipperrealism,at least not of city scenes,I just don't think he did something different about it. But that's just the way I feel,doesn't make me right. I prefer psychology over the way of painting,I like the first reaction,the feeling of the painting. And city scenes...well.I always feel empty afterwards. I agree with you in something, and that is the fact that I also like to read my own thoughts into the subject,I do have "the eye". :D Otherwise I would be an amateur artist.
Have you seen the work of Gottfried Helnwein? Now that's what I call a hipperrealism,with the psychology expression.
Art is all about taste,there's something we like,and there's something we don't like. I respect his work,and I see that you also do,so let's just leave it that way :)
*RobM48:iconRobM48: 1 day 13 hours ago
Sorry to but in...........

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*RobM48:iconRobM48: 1 day 13 hours ago
I'm not sure that I would entirely agree with you.......yup, there are hundreds of city scenes but I do think that Denis is exploring something beyond the norm........OK, Hairspray may be the typical vista but as the series has progressed we start to look above the normal eye view......Dare To Be Happy has now moved the normal focus to an area where we rarely focus. Moving on to Gloucester Road there is an absence of people yet all around there is evidence that they are there, the rubbish in the plastic bags, the empty telephone boxes, the pasty shop. There is this juxtapostion of the innocent Taxi firm set against the sex shop advert........it does take an eye to get these subjects. Personally I like paintings that don't exactly hit you between the eyes with the whole story as many scenes do.......I like to read my own thoughts into the subject. I do believe that the later paintings in this series is starting to do that for me and therefore taking the subject matter above the norm.
I do think it a challenge when an artist has produced successful series in the past and is moving on and open to mild critism but there is a process of exploration involved, whether or not Denis agrees I don't know.

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Re-cycled hippy....just happy that I'm old enough to have seen Hendrix, Clapton and Mayall live!!
*Yamenja:iconYamenja: 2 days 15 hours ago
Paintings? No!.......:omfg:

:giggle:

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~iris1:iconiris1: 3 days 21 hours ago
You're welcome! I'm a big fan of your way of painting people,never saw anything like it.
`Denis-Peterson:iconDenis-Peterson: 4 days 7 hours ago
Thank you Iris... I fully agree with your thoughtful analysis and I do appreciate your support of my figurative work.

Cheers...
~iris1:iconiris1: 4 days 9 hours ago
I like your paintings of people...but I must say,your paintings with the city scenes are just not that new subject in hiperrealism. Just recently I saw this book of contemporary art in America,and the paintings are all the same,and I don't understand the excitement of painting the big commercials for products,buildings etc... There are like hundreds of people doing that.And you don't fit that image,cause unlike them,your work is stunning. I think that painting the city scenes is just... you're so above that.
Cheers,and sorry for my english...
=BitterGrapes:iconBitterGrapes: May 7, 2008, 11:53:38 PM
Thank you so much, my friend.

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`Denis-Peterson:iconDenis-Peterson: May 7, 2008, 12:45:01 PM
Hard to fit everyone in there and keep it viewable!
*White-Lily-Art:iconWhite-Lily-Art: May 6, 2008, 9:00:51 PM
Will definitely drop in often. I'm also having fun looking at your favs. Some great artists I've never seen before. ~ a

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~FlowOfAir:iconFlowOfAir: May 6, 2008, 9:07:53 AM Mood: Love
your whole gallery is fantastic! I'm impressed!
*White-Lily-Art:iconWhite-Lily-Art: May 5, 2008, 7:51:51 PM
Hi Dennis, met you on Myspace. You are new there, I'm new here! I was amazed at what I saw on MS, now I'm completely lost for words. I'll try to recover myself and return again soon. ~ Alice

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See my pastel painting videos at:
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
~cpatels:iconcpatels: May 5, 2008, 4:42:55 AM
just Browse and got your profile.

you've got very good skill and profile.

i'd like to see more art in future.

bookmarked it.

thanks
jay

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=ScENeYmE:iconScENeYmE: May 4, 2008, 11:16:50 AM
you've been featured in my latest journal ---> [link]

:heart:

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Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Oh and check out my gallery.... [link]

:gallery:
~NeonHaystack:iconNeonHaystack: May 4, 2008, 6:58:47 AM
amazing gallery :)

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~poppemieke:iconpoppemieke: May 4, 2008, 3:11:53 AM
wauw, I just adore your gallery!!!
mitchellnelson feature wasn't lying

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=mitchellnelson:iconmitchellnelson: May 4, 2008, 2:43:16 AM
you have been featured in my monthly features in my journal :nod: I hope you like :D

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=EuroFoxx:iconEuroFoxx: Apr 28, 2008, 9:47:25 PM
Thanks for the love Denis!! :hug:

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`Denis-Peterson:iconDenis-Peterson: Apr 27, 2008, 12:18:56 PM
I saw them earlier...I especially like the Jessica portrait. You are turning out some terrific work well worth developing.

Congratulations.
~tronie-23-ggy:icontronie-23-ggy: Apr 27, 2008, 8:47:16 AM
Hey i finally posted some new work :):)
~ZsofiaGyuker:iconZsofiaGyuker: Apr 25, 2008, 11:12:30 AM Mood: Wow!
Hi. I just wanted to tell you that your gallery is AMAZING! Keep up the fantastic working!

Zsófia

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`Denis-Peterson:iconDenis-Peterson: Apr 25, 2008, 7:22:24 AM
Well, if that is the impression that the work creates; then, I am very pleased, as I try to maintain a heightened sense of consistency both as to style and message.

Thanks very much.