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Knowing when to stop he says

Splashy Fish is the site of Dat Nguyen. In his own words, It’s where his thoughts go to play — usu­ally to end up in the form of blobby sketches.

And what mar­vel­lous sketches he pro­duces! Take this one, “know­ing when to stop” (that might just be the name of the post and not of the piece itself, but there’s no other name mentioned):

Acrylic 4x5 inches piece in black and white

This was a 4’x5’ acrylic piece in mid-production — I try to doc­u­ment my work through its phases to study the thought pro­cess at a later time. It turns out that this was best it got before it went into its irre­vers­ible dir­ec­tion. Now it just stands to be ges­soed over. It’s dif­fi­cult to will a paint­ing into the optimal dir­ec­tion because many strokes open new pos­sib­il­it­ies.
~ source: Splashy Fish

Now this piece might not be everyone’s taste, but I like it. It’s awesome.

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4 Responses to “Knowing when to stop he says”

  1. Dat Nguyen says:

    I think the biggest sur­prise is that you actu­ally read my minus­cule ver­tical text – that kinda of thing is frown upon here on the internet :)

    I’m glad you like the paint­ing and good work on the reboot.

  2. Haha, no prob­lem in read­ing ver­tical text! What’s the paint­ing called? Or doesn’t it have a name yet?

  3. Dat Nguyen says:

    I could call it some­thing cool like “The Windmill of the East” or “The Quiet Storm”, but unfor­tu­nately, it’s an untitled piece. Don’t you hate it when artist types do that?

  4. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

    Of course, I hate to name my own work too — so who am I to complain?

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