What About An Image Attracts You

These are the digital paintings I am posting to my “This Week” gallery today at http://www.risingrims.com. Each day I post 4 to 10 new paintings so I have accumulated over 3000 images in just the two years I have been working as an artist.

I am finding more folks here appreciate my abstract and wildly varying style that on other sites where I post.

So you folks are my target market and I need your input to survive as an artist. Is there anything particular that you notice attracts you to an abstract painting. Or is there a specific combo that prompts you to like one of these or dislike for that matter?

Insectophant Camo

This is titled "River Front Spokane". There is a photo hidden somewhere in the bottom layer taken on the bridge across the river entering River Front Park in Spokane Washington. But sometimes a photo is just too boring.

"Evening Insectophant Lair" is a slight modification of the previous painting and looks more like an evening scene to me.

I called this one "The Magician Dance". It resembles one of my earlier postings because it is the grandson of an earlier work. I am attracted to the strong contrast and almost mesmerizing flow of the lines that resolve into a larger shape. The bottom shapes reminded me of dancing legs, but it kind of seemed magical.

What attracts or repels you about a painting like this?

"The Dressing Room" seems to have a sensuous quality. It brings to my mind the excitement of an old fashioned dressing room where the actress is changing clothes behind a screen and you see partial bits of clothing and skin only.

This painting is based on the previous work but is stripped of most of it's color. Hence it is titled "Strip Tease". Without the title to entice the mind it would be a pretty dull image.

"Insectophant Camo" is a modification to the Insectophant that I posted to this weeks gallery. It is a line drawing of an elephant head on an insect body. In this version the line drawing is pretty much hidden. Hence the camouflage part of the title.