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Posted by Alsdouble (U524298) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Just interested.
Where do you, what do you, how, etc etc.
All the questions associated with...painting out what you put in front of, or comes, to mind.
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Oh excellent Alsdouble. I don't do cats or dogs but I love a bit of watercolour painting.
Can't get the hang of oils though.
I can really lose myself in painting. It's my drug of choice.
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Yeh. It is. Mind absorbing, mind draining.
Water colours. Acrylics, oils.
I'm dure you could handle them all.
I paint but I don't paint. Write but don't write. Make music but...I wont repeat it again.
Odd aint it?
(All of thse things are the best fun in the world. The absolute best. Being fully alive.)
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I paint miniatures (well not quite) in acrylic with a palette knife, but I don't do nearly enough and frankly it's hard work.
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT, in reply to alsdouble in message 3
Didn't Hitler dabble in watercolours?
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Miniatures with a pallette knife.
Eh?
Show us. Interesting.
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He doesn't come to my class.
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Posted by velveeta_dreamrabbit (U14203840) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Knife-painted miniatures. Please show us. Don't be shy, now.
occasionally I get the easel out, along with the oils and the painting knives but my medium of choice are embroidery threads. But I 'paint' with them. I'm not an embroiderer.
Threds are easy to put away. no palaver getting them out and set up. They don't smell.
I live in a small space, you see.
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I reckon l.j will be working ith the Kerrygold as we speak.
You will then be a big fan of oriental embroidery?
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:45 GMT, in reply to alsdouble in message 9
Almost on-topic, I used to dabble with acrylics when I were a lad. The secret was to put a drop of Squeezy liquid in the water bottle; that way you could dilute them on the palette to the point they would pass as watercolours, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
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Never used acrylics ever, until I went to Croatia.
They're cheap, and convenient. A little like extreme sport water colour painting.
Got used to them. Hands, feet, elbows, nose. You can push them all over the place, with anything. Fantastic stuff it is.
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Pastel, oil pastel, guache, ink, charcoal, pencil, water colour.
It's a truth that I rarely get enough time to do much for pleasure these days.
Sit me still with paper and pen and I'll draw you anything.
Oooooh, Indian ink. Love it.
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Posted by velveeta_dreamrabbit (U14203840) on Friday, 6th November 2009
not a great fan of anything oriental.
love Tracey Emin's embroidery/textile works.
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I have a collection of oriental house coats, pictures and dressing gowns.
Exquisite, some are.
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Posted by velveeta_dreamrabbit (U14203840) on Friday, 6th November 2009
I have a smoking jacket that I bought in Hong Kong.
but I no longer smoke.
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Those people can really sew.
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Posted by goalpostsoflife (U10655386) on Friday, 6th November 2009
I don't do much lately but I when I do, I do small detailed pen and ink drawings of bits of plants, often decomposing (there do be far too many 'dos' in that sentence). And buildings (not necessarily decomposing). Just for myself, though I've done some - in a tiny way - commercially in the past.
I've never been any good with colour (which isn't to imply that I'm good with the rest either).
I wish I could kick start myself, I'm very lazy these days.
Someone, kick me!
Reading this thread could help, it's interesting to see what talents people have.
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It's gotta be full colour.
Every time, which aint often, I get down to it, I am Turner, tied to the masthead, in a storm.
No, not Tina. The Mallord. (May be peace be upon him.)
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Posted by Shirley Knott (U14164156) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Anyone remember that thread a couple of weeks ago - can't find it, sorry - with the soldier who painted scenes of Afghanistan. ( It was in the Bull).
He was really good. That's the kind of loose watercolours I like, but struggle to do. I always fiddle too much.
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Yeh, saw that.
Good gear.
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I've tried most media over the years. I love watercolour painting and have even sold a few. I've dabbled with oils and found it a hugely forgiving medium (compared to watercolour anyway). Can't get on with acrylics at all - they seem to me to display all the disadvantages of both oils and watercolours, but none of the advantages of either!
I've invested in some good pastels and would love to find some time to use them.
My latest venture, though, is making tiles. MrLovelyHorse is a potter, so I'm making the tiles from scratch and am decorating them with cobalt pigment. I'm very new to this, so am experimenting a lot and learning a lot. If I produce anything worth showing you, I'll let you know!
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Posted by Rwth of the Cornovii (U2570790) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:47 GMT, in reply to Mylovelyhorse in message 21
I'm pretty useless at most forms of art, but enjoy seeing other people's work.
Would it be an insult to ask you to link to pics of your work anyone? Or a pic of Alsdouble lashed to the mast with materials akimbo?
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Posted by That Old Janx Spirit (U2140966) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Velveeta,
Interesting what you say about embroidery threads.
I have a large tin (used to be full of Japanese crackers) that contains a whole bundle of embroidery threads. I call it my paintbox.
Have you ever tried Florentine embroidery - otherwise known as bargello?
You can see some of it here;
and I also do cross-stitch
Half-cross stitch
Right now.. I'm doing a half-cross stitch picture of sunflowers for myself. I've got a small, yellow living room and there's nothing on the walls. I have been looking for something bright and yellow to fit in there for over a year now. I hope it works out alright.
Getting back to art... two summers ago, I started to sketch. I go at it for a while and then drop it and after a few weeks, do a couple of more evenings. Just pencils and paper.
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Posted by velveeta_dreamrabbit (U14203840) on Friday, 6th November 2009
your work is stunning, dame celia. Thank you for showing it. I love to see what other people do.
I have never tried florentine work. I tend to work using a variety of stitches on very small scale needlepoint canvas. This way I can add detail. I sketch directly onto the canvas from photos I take. Then I just paint in threads. People think that my pictures are conventional painings, done with paint until they get close and find that i have fooled them.
paints, threads, pastels, all great stuff. Makes life worth living, that and cats, of ourse. Rabbits, too.
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Nice stuff Dame C, especially the geometrics.
Samplers too.
You know some people are actually pushig antique samplers through action rooms now, all appearing in antqiue aged frames, under glass, loads of dust, grime and general distress but, you get up real close and, they're prints.
Very very tricky. I've seen them sell for semi-real money but, they're worthless.
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Posted by That Old Janx Spirit (U2140966) on Friday, 6th November 2009
Fake samplers? Why?
When I lived on Mallorca for six months, I discovered a great magazine that contains various handicrafts (knitting, embroidery, cross-stitch, half-cross stitch, crochet, lace-making, stuffed toy making, jewellery, cooking, hardanger and stuff like that.
Anyway, all the sampler designs came from that magazine. I must have about 40 copies of it. Sadly, it's becoming more 'modern' which means a lot of very simple stuff.
I did a small exhibition called "A, B, C". It was supposed to stand for Alphabets, Bargello and Calligraphy, but I fell out with the calligrapher. So I substituted crochet. A few samplers were small enough to be done in their entirety, but there others were so big that I either did single letters or just the first three letters. The interesting thing is how many different fonts you can make with just small crosses.
I'd love to be able to sell them, but don't know if anyone would buy them. I met a lady in the haberdashery department of my favourite department store yesterday who said that most people don't want home-made things. Oh, well.
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They are lovely Dame C, you have a good eye. How clever.
I'm lucky enough to have a sampler made by my great grand mother,
Alphabet, numbers to ten, her name in full and the name of the school.
Quite simply done but again, I couldn't do it now.
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Why, Dame C.
Money.
Everything's faked. Even some of the right things are fakes. Even museums have fakes.
I'll try and dig it out, and put a picture up here but, years ago I bought, for 40 quid, an oil painting which I suspected may be a Canaletto.
Sotherby's said it wasn't. Mmm. Still sold it for semi resonable money.
I regret selling it, it was really something. But when you're a dealer you sell. Sell sell sell, it's the name of the game. Somewhere, I have a shot of it.
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Yup money's the name of the game, I agree with als, lots of forgeries out there and you have to have your wits about you to tell the difference sometimes.
Not a Canaletto, no not o grand, but I have got a grubby oil bought for next to nothing at a very small auction for charity, very amateur, that I suspected was a Corot.
Had a look at the canvas and stretcher and under the muck it said Windsor and Newton, so I thought "Nah, he wouldn't have used that", but he did. I did a bit of research and nearly fell off my chair.
Big auction house said it wasn't, but it was a very cursory look.
I still have my doubts and it's still filthy and I still have it.
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Posted by EurekaBlitzen (U11200477) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
Art often comes from sheer disdain. What a fun game.
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Posted by Doodlysquat (U13738858) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
I use all media but have a preference for oils. Wonderful things can be done with oil on paper.
When I have the use of a studio I do large landscape and seascape based abstracts but as I am now working in the wheelhouse of my boat I am limited , on the whole, to works on paper.
Embroidery and beading on thick, dark grey wool blanket is also fun and less messy in a small space.
I hope this thread really takes off as I work in isolation and have little contact with other atists and enthusiasts.
suze
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
How thrilling, sweetfeet, a wonderful thing to have, and you probably bought it only because you liked it.
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""I hope this thread really takes off as I work in isolation and have little contact with other atists and enthusiasts""
Isolation. That's they key though, aint it?
You and whatever you are painting, sculpting, ebroidering. There isn't much room in there for anything else.
When I do get involved, there is nothing else in the world, and whenever the finish comes, of what I am doing. A time which you cannot plan, that's the whole moment of incredible joy, satisfaction, creation. Whatever is the word it's the best feeling in the world.
My eldest daughter seems to have it. In her quite busy life, she appears to always have two easels with something happening on them. Things she starts and finishes. Sometimes sells.
Myself, I have the two easels, the paints, the brushes. They're under a sette, whispering to me. "Use me."
Ah well,there you go. Oil paints, large canvases. Doesn't that work out pretty expensive?
And how aout the drying time?
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Go on then.
Could do better.
(Somebrush work involved)
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Wow jim, those are brilliant, what a talented feller you are.
I specially like the 'red dress' but they all work for me.
What sort of size are they btw, like you need to measure them now, just curious?
Off you go, get a scale and measure up.......
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Blimey Charlie.
Primitive style they are but, those are great. What comes to mind, and the wife has just bought one for her bedside..(don't ask,) a Russian orthodox church icon.
How small is miniature?
Impressed.
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Reminded me more of the miniatures the Mughals did, especially their later stuff.
I always associate Russian iconography with religious themes and more muted colours.
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Thank you sweetfeet and Als, I do try although as said down thread I don't find them terribly easy to to do, much sweating and cursing involved.
They're about the size of a matchbox.
Funny as my eyes get worse with age, I choose to paint smaller and smaller, I'll be using an electron microscope soon!
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Matchbox size is pretty small. Pretty succesful really.
Number 1 of your images has real deapth. The figure sits back, and in the corner, almost reluctant to appear.
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Most of my figures are compromised in some way, missing arms etc or some only half in the frame, they're mostly the same paining over and over again, some work and others don't, I have a whole box full of rejects.
But thanks again for the vote of confidence, one would hope it will spur me on to do more but knowing how good I am at displacement activities it may be a while.
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Who is the emerging one. The one that bits get missed off, lost?
Are we talking something deeply Freud?
Thing about these that is good is it's coming from within and not from an 'out there' subject. If you know what I mean.
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:17 GMT, in reply to lord.jim in message 38
Funny as my eyes get worse with age, I choose to paint smaller and smaller, I'll be using an electron microscope soon!Â
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Deeply freudian?
Yes probably, I think they are about otherness, I have no real plan and yes they come from inside and just come out that way almost every time, but I can turn my hand to still lives on occasion. made up of course, rather than painted from life.
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Wow..incredible link Peet, now that is what I call small,and pretty good detail too.
Thanks.
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Posted by velveeta_dreamrabbit (U14203840) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
lord.jim. just brilliant, love your work.
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Thanks Velveeta, it's always a bit of a crisis of.. um, confidence to show them off but I always think the hell of it, they are done for sale so I may as well tout them out in public so to speak.
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Thing about yours jim is, they're original. They're not like anything out there, and they say something.
Pretty difficult to come up with something getting close to original, when everything's been done.
They'd also blow up as prints.
Space y'see, especially number one. It has that space that says more than the figure bottom right. He's the puzzler.
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Thanks Als, what they say I like to leave up to others imagination, but space, yes...I'm interested in the space as much as anything else, the figures are often incidental. I have others that are just space, but I tend not to show them, people like a visible hook like a figure.
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Posted by Doodlysquat (U13738858) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
Lord Jim...your work is seriously good...jaw droppingly so.
suze
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Posted by Shirley Knott (U14164156) on Saturday, 7th November 2009
Yeah really good Lord Jim - so much so that I think I'll just keep mine hidden from you all!
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