oil painting

[shooter]

 

Ok, I have done some painting

I'd say! awesome piece!
when I compare myself to society, I'm a A-
when I compare myself to REAL artists, I'm a C-

you still paint regularly?  I seem to get inspired at "seasonal changes", by January, I'm done, by May
really is a great work, thx for posting

dave

[kagliostro]

Guys you are really great 


Franco

[Ed_Chambley]

Ok, I have done some painting

I'd say! awesome piece!
when I compare myself to society, I'm a A-
when I compare myself to REAL artists, I'm a C-

you still paint regularly?  I seem to get inspired at "seasonal changes", by January, I'm done, by May
really is a great work, thx for posting

dave

Dave,
No, I get inspired in different ways.  Like one I painted is a sheep on a dark blue background, almost black.  On the head of the sheep is a Black Raven painted with a different pattern and finish to the paint.  Cant take a photo because you cannot see it.


I do not like canvas painting and it is sort of expensive when you not very good.


I have another similar one painted from the back of my Uncle's house which shows a rusting '49 Studebaker Truck resting at the edge of the woods and another of a 39 Plymouth. 


Like I said, I am much more of a commercial artist. For instance, when you passs through Atlanta heading down I75 South, when right now within 13 miles you would see 9 billboards I created.  I have been doing it for a living so long I don't enjoy it much.


However, I do enjoy interior design.

[J Rindt]

No, but while I painted, I often thought that's probably how she "thought" after marrying me
and NO, we are both 2nd round so money wasn't gonna be "an issue" tween us.

This is the 2nd of the 3 painting series, Her Son, my stepson wound up with it.

Wow.....coming from a guy with Very Little artistic talent, but who REALLY Appreciates the ability in others, this painting is very nice..!!!
Of course i do not know what this gal looks like, but her painting is very beautiful.
Well Done 

[lego4040]

I've dabbed in the water color painted and have attend classes down in Copper Square. I thoroughly enjoyed it and don't paint anymore. I have managed to get my kids into it and my two youngest have quite the setup for latex and oil. My little apprentice and I will watch Bob Ross and Bill Alexander and she can impress the hell out of me with her paintings, kids have some insight to this stuff

[shooter]

kids have some insight to this stuff

Kids can still see with clarity, they haven't been stilted by the world of grown-ups yet

[shooter]

Took a trip to the "3 corners area", East of the 4 corners 
The national grasslands, think Little house on the Prairie to the Dust bowl.  If you don't play well with other humans this is a great place    My 1st camp sight, Mill canyon, NM, was 73 miles round trip to get gas, 

this is my "interpretation",  fracking wells, fences, and wide open spaces;
this is the easy part  , dialing in the detail one line at a time

[davidwpack]

I really like that Shooter. Those colors are opposites on the color wheel aren't they? One of my favorite paintings is Van Gogh's "Figure with Landscape". Lots of oranges and blues. I actually bought a poster/print thing of it and framed it. Hangs next to my Wizard of Oz cuckoo clock.

[shooter]

Van Gogh's

I studied his works and pallet, I liked his "complex simplicity", O'Keeffe was another Artist I stole ideas from.

Yellow and blue, side by side messes with the eye/brain, you cannot focus, at the junction, your eye "twitches" causing you to have to "roam" around the image, but the brain keeps sending the eye back.   IF you're good enough, I'm still in training 

[shooter]

Since MI is now officially a rain forest, I got a little more done.  The "artist" part is about finished, now the tedium of technical stuff 

[shooter]

The Algorithm is up for sale at Christies 
worth a read if, short version;
imagine playing with a music critic listening and correcting you, forever if you let it. that's how the algorithm was set up, 500yrs of art for 1/2 to learn from, the other 1/2 an art critic!!

[silverfox]

I can't draw a circle but I've inspired my children in their pursuits.

Sarah-

silverfox.

[shooter]

I've inspired my children

you inspired well!!!

thx 8W, I'm ADD's poster child, gotta have something to do, not finish, just do 

[silverfox]

Thanks Shooter,

The image is digitally created, but she's learned with all the classic tools; Colour pencils, brush and paints. She is going to start the Bob Ross method with oil paints sometime soon. already bought an affordable easel. Youtube has Bob's whole catalogue of shows. Just amazing how quickly he could put a painting together and while he's doing it, at first you can't imagine how it's going to turn out as anything, then it suddenly appears, then again it gets seemingly all screwed up only to be perfectly completed all in about 25 mins. There's even a Bob Ross Store. Just like amp building, easy to spend $900. on a good setup.

One of the assignments I gave them was a night image of our creek area. Very hard to draw a good rendition of the forest with darkness and shadows.

The portrait you posted towards the end- Is that impressionist?

silverfox.

[Ritchie200]

I've dabbled in pencil and silverpoint doing animals, mostly horses.  If you have never seen silverpoint it is really cool.  I like the "softness" of the effect but super challenging.  That was a while ago and I haven't even sketched on a napkin in years.  My daughter is really good.  She recently did a 24x36 pastel of the alien girl on Avatar and it is amazing. 

I hope not too off subject...  I was watching the original Jurassic Park and could not believe how long ago that came out.  I looked up the little boy and girl on IMDB to see how old they were and they are in their 30's now!  Then I read a little factoid about the little girl, Ariana Richards.  It said she painted a picture for Steven Spielberg and he had it framed and hung in his house.  I'm thinking yeah, he's a nice guy and it's probably hanging in the basement next to the dogs playing poker....  Then I saw something that said she is regarded as one of the most talented portrait artists in the country.  That is an understatement!  I looked up her work.  Wow...  What a talent.  Check it out:

https://galleryariana.com/gallery/

Jim

[PRR]

> they are in their 30's now!

That happens to all the little babies. I just talked to a friend from college. I never met Jeff's son but son is in grad school (and Jeff does his taxes). Joe had a son, last year at age 28 he was gasping and passed-away, Joe very broke-up. Dave had a son and a couple years ago he got married; I found the video and he's no minimum-age groom. Not to mention Judy's rug-rats now mid-career and having kids. I know the 15 yo neighbor who mowed the lawn in a bikini is now much older. My brother's little brat is running rackets in the far east.

[shooter]

Is that impressionist?

that's the "box" I'd put it in, but being the 1st AI painting for sale as "fine art" I will always consider it's "box" digital art

and a tip;  go to the "craft" section, you'll find supplies cheaper, work just the same for learning.  let your works, and progress dictate "supply cost".

In the easy money days I bought myself 2 sable brushes, on sale ~~$40 ea. 
they did have "that feel", control, yadeda.  I mostly use AND abuse $2 brushes now

[Ritchie200]

PRR, We are not getting older, it's everybody else with that problem!!!

Another useless factoid - the little boy in Jurassic Park played John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody and he looks exactly like him!

Hijack over!
Jim

[Ritchie200]

I've been a fan of Denny Dent (RIP) for a long time.  People who can visualize like he does in the abstract is just amazing.  He has to be wired differently from the rest of us!  I was surprised to find this on youtube.  Its from an old Jimi Hendrix video tape I think I bought back in the 80's.  I was surprised as Janie Hendrix has stopped all youtube Hendrix music and video.  Turns out, they overdubbed the music to get around her.  This is so cool.  I don't think he is worried about sable brushes!  I know, I know!  Apples and oranges.   This is where my kids say, "you think your funny, but your not..."

Jim

[shooter]

"you think your funny, but your not..."

 
just left my daughters and made it back to the frozen north, my G-daughter no longer thinks I can "walk-on-water", I've been relegated to the "'ol folk pile"!! 
ah well, teens never change..thankfully!

[silverfox]

Funny thing about life: You're not a profit in your home town; and, the folly of youth will never recognize the wisdom of the elders. That's why humanity continues to make the same dumb mistakes ad infinitum...
silverfox.

[Ritchie200]

And it's nothing new to our generation....

Jim

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain

[shooter]

I was talking with my kid (37yrs old  ) about my theory on the tower of Babel thing, my thought was He scrambled the "generational gap", AND our ability to clearly talk with the animals also. I'm making headway with the animals, but the human race, not so much 

[shooter]

This piece is moving into it's 3rd year 
I put it in the frame last night to see the areas I didn't need to tweak 
realville is not my genre' but I like to do 1 figurative piece every now and then to keep the "technical" skills somewhat "tuned" kinda like doing scales as a musician 

[Ed_Chambley]

I never really think about my age.  I am quite sure just before I die, you will hear these words.  Hey ya'll, watch this.


I plan to die with my boots on!

[sluckey]

I put it in the frame last night to see the areas I didn't need to tweak 

I'd like to see the area outside the frame, especially anything that needs tweaking!

[shooter]

What! Google couldn't answer that?

[silverfox]

I never really think about my age.  I am quite sure just before I die, you will hear these words.  Hey ya'll, watch this.


I plan to die with my boots on!

"Everybody has a plan until they're punched in the face."


silverfox.

[Ed_Chambley]

I never really think about my age.  I am quite sure just before I die, you will hear these words.  Hey ya'll, watch this.


I plan to die with my boots on!

"Everybody has a plan until they're punched in the face."


silverfox.

Even Mike Tyson.  How true.  I missed the offspring painting until now.  Very good work!

[shooter]

dong my stint at the beerbaitngas I got to meet a lot of neighbors I didn't really know
John's 28, finish drywaller, Brazilian Jujitsu instructor, sent me his latest, I gave him the "artist of M drive" title 
(I got a flipphone so res is limited :)

[kagliostro]

 

[shooter]

Heard the name Robert Franks n got a treat!  Amazing eye.

I stole the one below, It made me smile cuz I know that road (other pic:)
mainly I chucked thinking, do all artisans stop in the middle of a road.........

[Ritchie200]

uhhhh...  To see the other side? To see from the other side? To encounter the other on the other’s side? To see where he had been? To give himself distance? To chart new territory? To get away from the noise? To be sure that the road was a road? To make his own way? To create something new? To consider the old? To consider the new? To start over? To appreciate where he had been? To be somewhere else?


Jim

[shooter]

while I was heat-stroking in the So FL sun, scraping 50yr old paint from decretive black iron railing a new painting formed, yellow & 1:2 format, not much but....

a quick study

Note;  There is NO white snow looking stuff in the mid foreground, it's black/brown - digital cameras 

the last couple have been mountain scapes, I think it's time to head back this spring 

[kagliostro]

 

Franco

[silverfox]

Sarah drew this, computer   drew this as a poster for me couple weeks ago. From the time I described the project to finished poster, 4 hours.


silverfox.

[Ritchie200]

Shooter, I found yet ANOTHER artist who has ripped you off!!!  Time to call the attorney....


Jim 


https://www.ursulasphotos.com/p423157790

[shooter]

You need your Wife to get your eye's checked!
That is an amazing artist 

forgot the artist, once I seen his work I blew through 10 canvases just blending color but I could NEVER unlock the brush work.
this is as close as I get, (12,518 miles to go :)
 "Time to call the attorney...."  that's another thread about BIG......

[kagliostro]

 

Franco

[shooter]

Franco, abstract art is best viewed at ~~ 8-10ft, when you get real close it all comes apart 

[kagliostro]

Oh, no problems to me, I can stay only at 1-2ft (I'm blind as a mole) 

Franco

[shooter]

stumbled on this pic, from my 1st 10 pieces  , seems appropriate in these times 

[shooter]

Started this on the beach in FL 
since it's now December again thought I'd work on it some

[kagliostro]

Very Very COOL 

I like it

Franco

[shooter]

My art store is still Q'd as non-essential, so on hold for paint n project 2,3,4,.....

here's some GndKid art, painted it in the car coming home from school
~2yrs ago

[shooter]

downsizing my fails, this one was set for the burn pile, got out the razor-blade, only burn 1/2 now   

[shooter]

I spilled High-Gloss, black enamel, maybe a quart, about 10yrs back.  Last night the Sun caught the floor just right, the "orange peels" in the paint POPPED!
Calling this one Dave's Jackson 
I Zoomed in on the "Peels"
If you've looked at modern-day RFID tags......
Maybe call the Zoomed; damaged QRC   

[tubeswell]

Started this on the beach in FL 
since it's now December again thought I'd work on it some

That's cool. Kinda like the desert, as seen through the Milky Way, or vice versa