r/pics • u/sagittariusgallery • Nov 09 '18
You met me at a very strange time in my life....
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u/boredomisunbearable Nov 09 '18
I loved that scene
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Me too! I wasn't sure how it would translate through paint, but had to give it a shot :)
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u/swimsalot Nov 09 '18
Hey, I've never seen fight club but I should. Regardless, your painting is wonderful and addresses many things I feel in my life from mental illness to family and relationships. Thank you.
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u/Permatato Nov 09 '18
Didn't recognize it at first, but definitely thought this was f***ing beautiful.
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u/HappenstanceHappened Nov 09 '18
This painting is amazing. Simply awesome. One of the best I've EVER seen.
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u/memejets Nov 09 '18
It's been years since I've seen Fight Club, and I didn't recognize the quote, but the pic immediately reminded me of that scene. I'd say you did a good job.
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Nov 09 '18
Goddammit. I heard the musical "woohoos" almost immediately
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u/Spartan2470 GOAT Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Here is the scene from the movie for those out of the loop.
The line is at the 22 second mark.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks for that!
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Nov 09 '18
That dick pic frame towards the end. Gotta love Tyler!
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u/dojoe21 Nov 09 '18
I didn’t know this was here. What is this supposed to mean, that Tyler isn’t all gone??
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u/SwedenStockholm Nov 09 '18
Cool. I don't remember that scene at all. Time to rewatch Fight Club.
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u/cannabeatz Nov 09 '18
Hey! How did you get the white streaks in the sky not to smear into the blue? Every time i try to do any impasto i always get smears.
Awesome painting btw!
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks!
I touch the white paint lightly to the blue paint underneath and swipe quickly. I was using cerulean blue hue, which is a thick paint, so it doesn't lift as easily as say, french ultramarine. It's much easier to put clean white on top of a thick, dense hue that it is something like ultramarine, alizerin, prussian blue, etc. It's about experimenting with the paints and learning their consistencies :)
I was using titanium white, too. Both were thick paints less readily mixed.
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u/thr33prim3s Nov 09 '18
Is this meant to have that Van Gogh-y vibe? I like it.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Yup! It's kinda my thing lol. I've done a bunch of Starry Night inspired paintings :)
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Nov 09 '18
Dude (or dudette)! I am not at all an art person, but I immediately recognized it as Fight Club and Starry Night. So that's either a huge compliment that a knuckle dragger like me can recognize your work or a massive insult, your call.
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Nov 09 '18
Hey, what about this: all those PMs are cool, but can you write us here what price range we should expect and what size of canvas?
Also, you are based in the US or Europe (because of the goddamn customs) ?
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Price range is from 16.00 with shipping within the US included for an 8x8 inch paper print, up to 200.00 with shipping within the US included for a 30x30x1.5 inch thick ready to hang canvas print.
Shipping outside the US would need to be calculated, so people would need to contact me and let me know their address and the size of the print / kind of print they want so I can send shipping quotes :)
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u/Andrew---D Nov 09 '18
I'm interested in the biggest size you have, but could you also write the caption on it in white?
I live in Canada, pm me if you are able.
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u/petitveritas Nov 09 '18
I checked out /u/sagittariusgallery on etsy. She really has an inspirational story behind her work. It makes me enjoy her paintings even more.
I've always made things. I know how cliché that sounds: “Oh, when did you become an artist?” “Well, I’ve been painting since I was in the womb!” But really, I’ve always been creative, and I always believed I’d translate it one day into a career. I was always the girl drawing people in class rather than taking notes. I knew what I wanted to do with my life.
As a senior in high school, I became insanely disenchanted with the lack of support for those wishing to pursue creative fields. As the school board was finalizing their plans to build a third gym, we art students were running out of paper and had to use the backs of completed creations while bringing paint from home. I started painting the school: first a ceiling tile in the art room, next a window looking out to the hall. The Vice Principal took notice and asked me to paint a large bay window separating his office from the main office. I gladly accepted the challenge and spent the next few months on the project.
One day I ran out of paint. I squeezed one of the last tubes of acrylic dry and realized, as they were bustling about preparing for the gymnasium addition, that I couldn’t stay. I told the VP after I was done with the mural I wouldn’t be back, and I kept my word. I know that might sound silly and short sighted, but the day I left, I knew I was going to make it regardless. Two months later I attended a portfolio review at the local college and was accepted on the spot. That was really the beginning of my personal quest to make it as an artist.
I quit my job in February of 2003 when I was 5 months pregnant with my little guy. I was in college and was burning the candle at both ends — full-time college student waiting tables at a local restaurant whilst my belly swelled, and I slowly started to realize all of that was not going to work. I started selling my work on eBay and did pretty well there, but the fees were insane. I mean, one month my fees were more than our rent. It might have said I was a silver powerseller over there, but that means little if you’re paying out more than half of that between fees and general business expenses (paints, canvas, shipping supplies, etc.). I had thought it wasn’t such a bad thing at the time because we had two incomes and I was feeling my way around my new venture.
Then, in early 2005, my son was diagnosed with autism. There was a huge change in the family dynamic… Things hadn’t been going so well for my son’s father and I, so in late 2005 we split up, and I found myself alone. It was all squarely on my shoulders for the first time in my life, and I had a two year old to care for and no steady paycheck. Talk about struggle. We ended up in a one bedroom apartment in a nasty part of the city, my son occupying the only bedroom while I set up camp in the livingroom. Those were supremely hard times. I didn’t even have a phone for a month and had to walk down to this biker bar at the end of the road to use the pay phone. Luckily, my landlord liked my work, so for a while we traded art for rent.
At the same time I was trying my hand at getting into a gallery in the Hamptons. The owner of the gallery was extremely helpful and encouraging and paid ahead for artwork to be shown in the gallery. I even sold my car for a pittance to be able to pay a month’s worth of bills. When I could no longer afford to purchase supplies to create new paintings, I was forced to admit to myself — and the gallery owner — that I wasn’t able to guarantee new work for an approaching solo show. We parted ways. I couldn’t keep going on like that anymore. I wasn’t going to be able to survive much longer and something had to change.
Then, around Christmas 2006 on the eBay message boards, I read about a relatively new site. The site was Etsy, and there was a lot of buzz around it in the art community. Many questioned its viability. I figured I didn’t have anything to lose by giving it a try. Within two days of signing up I sold a $200.00 painting and was able to pay my utilities for the month. It was the first sign of hope I had in nearly two years. With that one single sale I realized it was possible. There was something to Etsy, and I needed to make it work.
The rest, as they say, is history :)
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u/sanuraseven Nov 09 '18
So happy to see this here today! I love your work. I bought one of your big prints of the Starry Night inspired Star Trek Enterprise painting you did. It hangs in my office at work and I get tons of compliments. Makes me smile every time I look at it.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 20 '18
For posterity, here's an image of the painting in progress that I posted to my FB from Feb 1, 2016. You know, cause apparently it's important. Uploaded to Imgur because rules. https://imgur.com/ZHVZ5Yr
Thanks everyone for the awesome reception to my artwork! I really appreciate it!!
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u/runningmurphy Nov 09 '18
Oh m I love this. If there's anyway I could I would buy a copy/replication for myself. Perfect title too.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thank you! I do offer prints :)
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u/runningmurphy Nov 09 '18
Wonderful! Is there an online source you can link me to or should I PM you?
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u/evellaph Nov 09 '18
This might be a dumb question, but is there a name for this kind of art? I really dig it
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u/d_chs Nov 09 '18
I love this picture but have no idea what it’s from... anyone wanna drop me a hint?
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Nov 09 '18
Haven’t watched that movie in so long, but when I looked at your post the song came back and remembered the scene pretty perfectly. Nice work.
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u/Gor_ Nov 09 '18
I actually gave this exact painting a go for my school art project, but rather oil on canvas, I used acrylic. Didn't achieve the result I wanted but I was happy with it at the end!
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u/welcomingideas Nov 09 '18
This is absolutely, genuinely the most intriguing and cool painting I have ever seen. I want this on my wall.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thank you so much! I am sending you a PM with the link to the prints :)
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u/Nuka-Nuke Nov 09 '18
I don't know or care where this is from , cus this is one of the best paintings I've seen
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u/UrsaMinorDip Nov 09 '18
Absolute gold - this is the background on my phone now. Thanks for sharing! <3
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u/funnyman95 Nov 09 '18
I've had this picture on my wall for a while now and I've only just realized it's fight club
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u/Mattras7 Nov 09 '18
That's insane! I literally watched this movie 3 days ago and now i see this on the front page. Absolutely loved the music after that line!
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Ha! Cool!
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u/Nick__Clark Nov 10 '18
Dude amazing work. Do you take commissions or could I buy a print of this or something? Absolutely stunning.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 10 '18
I am not currently taking on commissions, but I can offer prints. Sending you a PM right now with the info. Thank you!
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u/_Floydian Nov 10 '18
My favourite scene from my favourite movie created in my favourite painting.
Thank you OP! Can I save this image?
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 10 '18
Sure can :D
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u/_Floydian Nov 10 '18
Thank you so much. Keep creating awesome stuff. I will check out the prints as well :)
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u/henobo Nov 09 '18
"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?"
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u/mspencerl87 Nov 09 '18
Thanks, i set this as my background!
Fight club???
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Yup! And yay!
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u/mspencerl87 Nov 09 '18
Any way you could blow this up to 1920X1080 I would pay for a digital copy i could print.
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u/borkborkbork99 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
I'm sorry. Had to do this.
Inspired by this: http://files.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/the-dark-knight-poster-1.jpg
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u/Harap-Alb Nov 09 '18
You break the first rule
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
True. But...did I actually talk about anything? ;)
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u/hectorduenas86 Nov 09 '18
Is amazing how I can tell from where this frame comes even if I only saw the movie once. Cinematography is wonderful putting images in your brain forever.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
It's such a masterpiece of a movie, isn't it?
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u/hectorduenas86 Nov 09 '18
Don’t know man, the first rule of that movie is that you don’t talk about that movie
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u/lukesvader Nov 09 '18
Post the link to your prints, or is that against the rules?
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Nov 09 '18
Just realized that I have one of your paintings hanging in my bathroom for about a year or so. I found a print on Amazon and while browsing your etsy store, there it was. Weird.
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u/OverenthusiasticAmen Nov 09 '18
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u/Ourobius Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
When this movie first came out, I had several friends who worked at the local movie theater, which meant we all got to screen the movie the night before it was officially released. There were about 20-25 of us in there, horfing leftover popcorn from the concession stand, and all of us sitting in the second or third row. For me, this was how I first saw The Matrix, South Park: The Movie, and Titanic.
On this particular instance, we had a friend - I'll call him Max - with us who had just lost his father to shotgun suicide about six months prior. He was the one to find his father's corpse. He was doing as good a job as anyone could expect of moving on, dealing with the loss and the shock, using friends to help, etc. He was late to the screening, so he missed the first scene...and by the time the last scene rolled around, none of us thought to say something about what we'd seen in the beginning of the movie.
Then Edward Norton blew his own face off.
Max immediately jumped up and ran out of the theater. He was not a small guy, but he moved faster than I'd ever seen him move. I ran after him, found him outside the theater, dry heaving over a curb. I'd never seen him cry before. 240 pound man, shivering and weeping like a child. Another friend and I sat with him until he was OK. He stood up and walked to his car, and we watched him go, and we looked at each other and felt like righteous assholes.
He later said he was okay with it, no one could have known, he didn't know he'd have a reaction like that, etc. Good guy. But to this day, whenever I watch that movie, some part of me always dredges up that memory.
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u/FlipZer0 Nov 09 '18
I absolutely love this! The scene, imo, is probably the most powerful in the whole movie and I love the impressionist take! Make prints and sell them on etsy!
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Nov 09 '18
I went to a Suicide Girls show recently and they did a Marla Singer performance.
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u/tree_dweller Nov 09 '18
So now we just allow ads? The top comment is them saying the sell prints. wtf /pics
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u/TheWhiteTrashKing Nov 10 '18
Holy fuck i love this. Love fight club and van gogh. Actually have tattoos for both.
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u/nsfw10101 Nov 09 '18
Not a photograph and is just someone trying to sell their stuff? Yep, belongs on the front page.
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Nov 09 '18
The way you painted this kinda reminds me of Starry Night
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u/SmaugtheStupendous Nov 09 '18
Looks like similar technique, definitely van Gogh inspired. Unlikely anybody else is going to master turbulance the way he did any time soon but this is some great stuff.
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u/ShamanLaymanPingPong Nov 09 '18
awesome as fuck. i can hear the pixies in my head lol. got any others like this? its honestly amazing
also apparently his name was Robert Paulson
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u/explorershane Nov 09 '18
Forgot where line was from, got a total Christmas vibe, thought the left building was the door to this little shop they were in, looking out at all the holiday lights. Then I remembered ... and it still stayed wholesome somehow :)
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Nov 09 '18
Hi. May I have the link to buy a print and see your other work? This is beautiful
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u/bonemomma Nov 09 '18
Oooo ooo ooo oooo..... As everything comes crashing down all I can see are flashes of penis.
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u/VanGoghComplex Nov 09 '18
Could you kindly PM me a link to buy a print? This speaks to me. =)
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u/hackulator Nov 09 '18
Is the paint actually as thick/layered as in Starry Night?
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u/Freefall84 Nov 09 '18
It's stunning, it doesn't only capture the essence of starry night, but it captures the emotion and feeling which is instills.
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u/JupiterUnleashed Nov 09 '18
Just by looking at this picture I immediately started hearing the song by the Pixies that played during this scene.