Artist Spotlite – Jaime Moxey

Manjula Singh on Mon, 29th Dec 2008 5:05 pm 



It’s lovely!

Ingrid on Mon, 29th Dec 2008 10:16 pm 



Hello Jaime,

First I would like to say that I lived in your country for 4 years, from 1970 through 1974, and loved every minute of it! I have traveled all throughout Argentina and especially loved Isla de Lobos, Isla de Pajarros, the petrified forest, Patagonia, Ushuaia, and all of the “hot spots” in Buenos Aires! I have many very fond memories of my life back then in your country!

Now for your painting! As I look at your painting I ask my self, “What is this painting about?” Is it about the gardeners, is it about the building, is it about the grassy area, including the tree and brown ground area to the left of the building? My reason for asking this is because it is difficult to tell WHAT is more important in your painting. ALL areas have the same amount of importance, the same values, and when I squint down through my eyes, everything all seems the same.

IF the gardeners are the most important features of your painting, (and I assume this because you have titled your painting……Gardeners), why not make them stand out a bit more by giving them more value contrast, more color to their faces, punching up the color of the flowering plant the one gardener is holding, and by moving them closer together. I like the color of the building behind them, but I feel that you should tone it down a bit. I see that color OVER the gardeners! It seems to be more important. Also punch up the color in the gardeners’ clothes, or maybe change their pants to a dark color that would help to POP them out in the painting!

I really like the interest you have created behind the glass windows in that blue door! So many times those areas can be “dead zones” in a painting, but you have created some interest there! Good for you!

One last comment….maybe have some plants, gardening tools, etc. around the gardeners to get them more “into the scene”. Sometimes we have to invent things in our paintings to get the feeling across!

Keep painting, keep practicing, and thank you for sharing this with all of us!

Ingrid

Lynn Marlowe on Mon, 29th Dec 2008 10:52 pm 



I like the detail in the clothing. The people are the main thing to look at in the picture and time was taken with them and care. The building I like but feel it could’ve been eased into the darker end more gradually unless that truly is what it looks like such a stark difference at one point. Congrats!

Mike Nelson on Tue, 30th Dec 2008 1:16 am 



A very nice painting as far as you took it, but I agree with Ingrid that the values in your painting are too much the same and you have no real center of interest. I assume, the gardener with the red shirt would be the center of interest because he is located on the canvas in an area we call the “Golden Mean” or maybe even the blue door. If you wanted gardner on the right to be the center of interest, you should make sure he has the lightest lights and the darkest darks as compared to anything else on the painting. Putting him in a red shirt was a move in the right direction. The other gardener is too much in the center of the canvas to be the center of interest, so he should have values between 4 and 7, while the other gardener in the red shirt should have values 1 through 10.

I like the yellow building but its hue should have been knocked down a little by adding it’s compliment purple. More purple on the shady side of the building and left side of the tree would add interest. Your shadows are in the right place but are a little muted, especially on the one gardner and for the shadow side of the building. Based on the shadow locations on the two gardners, we can make an assumption that the sun is at 2 oclock. If so, your tree would have sunlight hitting the top 2/3 and would also case a shadow onto the dirt.

Sometimes, paying attention to the little things takes your painting from one level to the next. Keep painting, it only gets better and remember, don’t be afraid to take some artistic liberties when creating your composition. You don’t always have to paint what you actually see, sometimes painting what you don’t see is just as important.

Good luck and have a very joyous new year.

Susan on Tue, 30th Dec 2008 3:50 am 



I would like to hear your thoughts about this painting. I don’t think that I understand because of our cultural differences. Good job painting the humans.

War Roya on Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 2:37 pm 



I really love the perspective of this painting. The only thing that I thought was a bit more color on your gardeners and his the plant in the one guys hands. Otherwise the painting is very soothing.

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