Birthday wishes

[lyndaelyzoo]

Hello everyone!! I am new to this website and would love to get some critiques of my work, either the painting here or my entire website. Appreciate any comments or suggestions. Thank you for your time.

Birthday Wishes
http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab139/lyndaelyzoo/birthdaywishes.jpg?t=1273375793

My website
http://www.horseofadifferentcolorart.com

[johnwalkeasy]

Really like the pink and black in this work. Childern I think, Love
ithday partys better than anything. Thier own and going to other kids. And ofcourse the parents as well. Thier is nothing that
ings more happyness than wacthing children laugh and play.

[lyndaelyzoo]

Thanks!! Any other comments or suggestions for improvement? I was trying to make it look as though the girl is so obsessed with texting on her cell phone that she is oblivious to the pony and presents. Not sure if this really came across in the painting, though.

[Michael Ortega]

Nice use of the surreal! I like this one...

[lyndaelyzoo]

Thank you. I never know how to classify my work, surreal or pop art. I guess it is surreal lite!! Any suggestions about the other work on the website are greatly appreciated!!

[weirdpuckett]

I love the Marley one . . .What does the lion represent?I wouldn't categorize yur work as surreal . . .its just very original . . .

[lyndaelyzoo]

Thanks, that is from the song LionZion. I wanted to show how the King of Reggae is worshipping the King of the Jungle and the relationship between man and nature (the dreadlocks symbolizing lion's mane,etc.). Thanks again! I guess you don't really have to classify yourself. Would you say it is more pop art? I just would like to have some idea of the type of painting I do, instead of just saying "animal art."

[Michael Ortega]

We are all allowed to define ourselves...he who controls the definitions controls the word!

Surreal (adj) Dreamlike or Bizarre...

Your work has a dream image quality to it....

But, yes, you could define it as pop art...tho pop art would be more of the campbell soup can or marylyn monroe genre of art. pop art is a movement from years back that used mass produced images in juxtoposition and/or repetition to make a statement...comic art and commercial products were typical subjects...

altho the initial surrealists were political and the use of non sequitar was a key element...contemporary surrealists, tho maintaining the politics, still use dream imagery as a prime component...