Headless Man Completed

J.R. Tamayo - Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 9:33pm

Pun intended...

JR- Congratulations! This

Rob Sigafoos - Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 8:52am

JR-
Congratulations! This looks great. The upper body anatomy is particularly impressive. This is really fine work.
-Rob

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Headless Man

J.R. Tamayo - Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 10:50pm

Rob,

After seeing your work, I consider your comments a very high compliment.

Thank you!

J.R.

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Very Nice! I loved watching

eligius1427 - Monday, December 31, 2007 - 1:40pm

Very Nice! I loved watching the progress of this piece. Great work.

Jake

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Kewl piece

warren - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 12:20am

JR,
Hey just getting around to saying that your Headless Man is really cool. I like the flow of the body and texture of flexed muscles. Impressive piece. So is the next one going to have a head? You know you can do it.
warren
http://www.metalrecipes.com

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Warren, Silly boy, that's

J.R. Tamayo - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 11:41am

Warren,

Silly boy, that's why he's called "Headless man!" (LOL)

Thanks for the compliments... glad you like it,

J.R.

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Don't bow to the pressure

Rick Crawford - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 10:06am

Very nice JR, and I think that this would (or could) be very different with a head. Depending on what type of head and/or what it looks like, the piece could be viewed very differently. Please don't bow to the pressure to put a head on your creations. Right now they are viewed for the value of the body itself. A head could change that, and probably would. Even the expression on the face could greatly change how the body of the art is viewed.

Rick Crawford at Smoky Forge

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Rick, You're right, my stuff

J.R. Tamayo - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 11:50am

Rick,

You're right, my stuff is a celebration of the human body, and I intentionally make them highly interpretational. Headless Man is more surreal, than realistic. I'm still relatively new to all this, so I haven't honed my skills enough to make a head that would due justice to the piece. Besides, like you said, it could lend an incongruent interpretation (view) of the piece.

As always, thanks for the feedback and the compliments!

J.R.

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I like how you represent the

AdamB - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 4:11pm

I like how you represent the figure- everyone's seen photo-realistic art many times before. That shouldn't be a benchmark for judgement...
Art should always be open to individual interpretation. My travels and experiences are very different than the other viewers, so my perception may be, too. I believe it is the viewer who completes the work.

I am especially drawn to the hands...

AdamB

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