DUDE!! I LOVE the fish eye perspective on this. He’s on a planet that is only 40 miles in diameter!!! Even at this scale I feel like I am going to have to catch this guy as he falls out onto the floor.

the detail

Forgot the attachment. I’ll follow with a detail that does it’s texture more justice

Hi Scott. Miss you at the drawing workshop. Seems to me that consciously or unconsciously, the composition has a precedent in Bruegel’s Fall of Icarus (1558?). I was fascinated by that spacial shift and played with it in a pen and ink drawing and acrylic paint on paper back in 1979 entitled “Theory of Landscape.” I made the curvature of the earth more extreme by halving the earths diameter to 4000 miles. I’ll attach a scan of a badly scratched and slightly out of focus slide. I’ve still got the piece, so maybe I should pop it out from behind the glass of the frame to rephotograph it. Bruegel loved that kind of abrupt spatial shift and used it on multiple occasions (See the Hunters in the Snow and the Harvesters from 1565 and Landscape with the Magpie on the Gallows from 1568.

It really is a great perspective. I don’t think the guy is Reagan…. I’d guess Joe Maross.

It’s so interesting, I just had an idea for a painting with a wacky perspective a few days ago in which the viewer would be looking up at a man stabbed.. Seeing this painting is great because the idea was basically the exact opposite of this perspective, just with the figures larger and more focused.

Flying/falling and the only place to land is the top of the head. Wonderful composition -as always!

Sizzling heat! and the bush on the left is just poised, waiting to strike; you can see the tentacles almost writhing!

So the chicken legs are there, in the underpainting? Am I correct? Is this the one time you didn’t photograph the work in this state, or are you just not wanting us to see them?!!

Once again, great to see a new work.

If I recall, THE WAVE also came to you in a dream. The wave and the Secret Service both banging at your door, bursting in on your home. You’re the only one who can understand the associations to the beef stroganoff and the waiting president. I like the weight of the water here, dammed up in the background, pressing down on the figure. Your perspective virtually tilts the entire canvas forward, top over bottom. Hell, maybe both paintings originated with a wish to sleep a little longer with a very full bladder. Nonetheless, you’ve got another magnificent painting here!

LOL i didn’t quite understand all of that. Was it really for reagen? And where does the stroganoff come in?! Hey I’m still working on my tempera. The white layer is getting much. Better but my glazing is terrible – so streaky looking. The tanspare ts are so lean they seem to need some solvent instead of medium. Any suggestions?