Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon requested “a place, perhaps, where we poor MBs who aren’t incredibally gifted in music, and perhaps some who are, can talk about our art.”
(We had another Visual Arts thread last year.)
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I am so honored to have the first post…
Has anyone heard of Keith Herring??? He is an awesome artist, and I did an acrylic painting in school that is one of his designs, except in different colors.
First Post!
I am a good musician, but vary in the arts of watercoulor, pastel and color pencil in my still life,. I also love to write, and compose poetry in my spare time.
Yay! Thank you so much, GAPAs!
1- Nope. Who is he?
Now, I enjoy painting and caligraphy more than sketching with pencils and colored pencils. I’ve never been all that good at shading. Have you guys ever worked with oils? I did, and I could never get my paintbrush cleaned all the way. No matter how I try, I still get this sloppy blue from it.
Tempura is my favorite medium. I really like that chalky effect that you get when you use tempura on clay.
personally, i like crayons.
currently i’m working on a watercolour of mathew pattel, one of the characters from Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O’Malley. i can’t find any pictures on the internet.
recent art pieces include: close up of a flower in pastel, rearrangement of M.C. Escher’s The rind, THE Eye is the Window to the Soul: an acrilic painting on canvas, The Intense BAttle of the Kathleen G’s which is a comic i’m working on. it is currently on the sixth part. except i’m lazy because it’s summer so i havent finnished the sixth part yet
I”M GOING TO THE TCAF!!!!!!!!!!!!! that’s the Toronto Comics Artists Festival! Yay! verry happy. Bryan Lee O’malley and hope Larson are going to be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please excuse my bliss full state.
Yay! Say, can I give an outside link to my art web page on deviantart.com?
[Nope. Sorry. snip! –Rebecca]
WARNING: CARTOON FAN ART AHEAD
Oooh, fun. I wish I was a more skilled at drawing or painting, but oh well. Mostly I just do sketches with pensils on computer paper, or in a journel on lined paper. But what I see in my head isn’t ever the same as what ends up being on the paper.
I like Monet.
I like Monet too. He rox my sox.
6- Thomas O’malley the a-a-alley cat! Yeah! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
Ulp. I was really good at it when I was little, but now I just don’t do art. I just write.
As much as I like sketching and such, my skills with painting are still lacking….I hope to improve them with time though, ahaha. I’;m lucky enough that my mom was a really good painter and everything, so she encourages this sort of thing.
My main artistic outlet is with Photoshop. You’d be surprised what you can do~ I would send things in but unfortunately none of it is Muse related. Oh well. 8D
9- Sunday, I saw a bunch of real Monets and Van Goghs and Dougas ‘s at the biggest art museum in denmark.
3- Meloves my oils. Yeah, but they take forever and ever to clean. Usually, if you don’t let the paint get up to the metal part of the brush [that holds the bristles together; I dunno exactly how clear my description is, sorry] it stays cleaner. Alas, that’s mostly impossible except for really thin brushes…
7- You have one too! I know a few other people here do… Heh, we should do a fan club for it on devart… This’ll probably get snipped [Yup. –Admin.]
I still love pencils and watercolours most. Blending works wonderfully with both. I hate acrylic because it dries far too quickly. Heh, actually, I have an acrylic painting of a forest in progress back at home at the moment… it’s not coming along quite as horribly as I thought it would.
What would be MB’s policy about sending art to the blog?
yesterday I spelled my name out in clemetine peels, glued it on a thick piece of black paper, then cut out a small greenish-blue butterfly watercolor from off of a gift bag. I glued it next to my name then glued a leaf on the bottom and the top of it to sort of frame it. Is that strange? Afterwords a made a van-gough style tree and sunset oil pastel drawing
A week or so ago I made a painting of a wearing a mask without eyes. Her dark hair was swept to one side and she had a crimson dress which you could only see from the chest up.
I’m not really much of an artist though, writing is my thing. Art is fun but writing is my true love.
14- Hear hear!
Today I made a watercolor painting in pink and red of a siren that looks like a cross between aeiou and the angels on that ark that the ten commandments were kept in. Inspired by Mythbusters!
Everyone says that it looks like an angel, but I named it The Siren What do you think the painting is of?!
Anyone else do calligraphy?
8- I LOVE Monet! Speaking of which, I got a little journal with one of his paintings on the front for my birthday today. It came in a pretty little box with another one of his paintings on the front. He inspires me to paint…I absolutely adore his works.
The Queen (1): I think you might mean Keith Haring. He was an artist who started out doing graffiti in subways… ?? I like his art too. I went to an exhibition of his work and became semi-obsessed for a while. All those barking dogs, bold lines and bright colors really got me.
Awesome! I was just thinking a digital art thread would be cool, but this is broader, and better! I took Multi-media this year in school and I liked it a lot. Hey GAPAs, could we send in pictures of our art for you to post on this thread?
I don’t have any fancy digital art stuff on my computer, but I wish I had something like it.
ummm, I’m actually not gifted with music or art, but especialy not art, I’m really bad at art, but I guess I can’t have it all.
My art is taking good care of my cows and keeping them clean and brushed and all so they look really pretty and healthy, and they’re happy
I’m also very gifted in the arts of sleeping and eating ( I know, I’m bragging now…:) )
21- *laughs*
I don’t think it’s possible to be gifted at art. Art is your soul. You can’t possibly be bad or good at art. You sit down, you pick up your medium, and you just doodle. You look inside yourself, and you put yourself onto paper. It’s ok if that line’s all wavy instead of straight, or that circle looks like a squashed toad, because it came from you, and you are the art of the world.
22- Well, you can say that, because you are an artist. For me, I don’t do that. That’s writing, for me.
We all have are talents, and our callings.
Wow, this post expanded fast.
3-He is a modern artist. He drew lots of colorful people. I can’t post a website, but Google him and you might find something.
16- I love calligraphy! I did a big report on it one time!
18-Man, I always spell his name wrong! Yep, that’s him
24- Do you do caligraphy?
23- An artist can use their soul to make art. Not all paintings are art.
22- I can totally understand what you’re talking about- exept for the art part. I do the same thing with music.
That is, composing music.
I like making jewelery. Mostly I do things with seed beads and wire, but I made a pair of earings out of some feathers I found too.
Oh dear, my glasses just broke. Well, one of the little thingys that keeps them on my nose just fell of. Hmm, must attempt a repair. Both my lenses feel out seperatly a week ago too, and i had to put them back in.
29- wow. my old pair of glasses used to self destruct too. i think people who can do beads and stuff are cool. i am not good with my hands. i have little to no imagination when it comes to creating stuff.
29- I love to make jewelry. I have a large red leaf bead that I’m waiting to make.
22 – I think certain people are more inclined to like or be more talented in one art than another. I go to an arts high school, and everyone has a different major. Some of the visual artists don’t like writing, and are really fantastic at visual arts, but find it hard to express themselves through words. Some actors find it impossible to express themselves through music. I think it depends on the person.
29 (Jadestone) – I was playing tennis with my mom a few weeks ago, and she hit a ball to me when I was tying my shoe (yes, she was paying no attention whatsoever), and it hit me right in the nose and one of the lenses of my glasses fell off. I put it back in, but it has been constantly loose (well, not really loose, it just falls out more often than before) since then.
I like beading with seed beads too.
I like knitting with beads on the yarn, so that I knit the beads into the project.
I think that all artists, though their arts may vary, have the same sort of mindset. Or at least, I find that a lot of my writing rules (for lack of a better word) apply to my mother’s fiber arts.
I do calligraphy.
I do calligraphy….in Elvish. Does that count?
Of course it does! *pies self*
35- Cool!
34- 35- What nibs do you use? I like the medium sizes better than the large ones. Have you ever tried mixing tempura paints with water to make inks? It works if you really mix it to a good onsistency. Tube watercolors can also make good inks when mixed with water Do you guys have any real inks? I have a black, a green, and a sunset red that looks like its on fire. That’s for my dip quills. I have a bunch of tubes for my fountain pens. I also have caligraphy markers, which are great if I want to do some place names for a party or something.
25-Some
33-I am a knitting addict! I also love sewing, and i sewed a tote bag by hand
(37) Do you do any brush calligraphy?
And, by the way, the paint is called tempera, with an “e.” (Tempura is a Japanese way of frying food in batter. Delicious, but not especially good for artwork.)
Do you mean the classic tempera usually made with egg yolks, or the poster paints that are marketed as “tempera”?
I like tempera paint with egg yolks, although it is a bit more cumbersome. I have a few inks, and a bunch of tubes of calligraphy paint. I got a Chinese brush painting kit a few years ago, and I use the brushes and paints from that (it has some really cool authentic blocks/stones, which you can grind to get paint/ink). I also use calligraphy markers, which is kind of cheating, but they’re good for practice.
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39- woops. I love tempura in my stomach. But it’s synthetic tempera that gets you the chalky feel. Some poster paints do to, but not if they start out like slimy goo in the bottom of the jar. Or if they are neon. I use egg yolks when I want to do something serious, but for svhool projects i use synthetic tempera, but not those yucky poster paints. They make me feel slightly sick. I had a brush to do brush caligraphy, but my little brother used it /by/accident/ as a cleaner for his fish tank,a and I enjoy the nibs better.
40- They are great for practice, or when you just want to do some place tags or something for your little brother’s birthday. now, for my birthday it’s another thing…
We got a whole bunch of Calligraphy stuff for Xmas about three years ago (which is how I made my signature), but I’ve never been really very serious about it. I could never get it to look right, but then, I haven’t practiced much, either.
22 hmmm, no, I think it is possible to be bad at art,
If my art came from inside of me… well, no one wants to see inside of me, then and if I am the art of the world, I feel sorry for the world
29- I hate having trouble with glasses, it happens to me too. Once I was visiting someone in Vermont in the winter and the temperature made the metal on those glasses expand and get smaller and all that, so I was outside and a lens fell out, do you know how hard it is to find a glasses lens laying on the ice while it is blowing snow and I only have one lens to look through… gah, I hate having glases to take care of. Once that nose pad fell out of my glasses and I got all irritated there by my nose, and the screws sometimes fall our of the sides of the frames, oh, and sometimes the nosepads get off-centered so the glasses are crooked and it’s hard to ge them straight… I could go on and on, and no one that doesn’t have glasses would understand a bit
30-yeah, same here, usually, doesn’t it have to do with different sies of the brain?
38- I’m making a patchwork quilt by hand, I kinda like sewing, as long as I have something to listen to or watch on TV
39- that sounds delicious!
26- Indeed! Well put!
35- That’s pretty much awesome beyond compare.
39- Do you? Brush calligraphy seems really cool. I once watched a show on either TDC or THC about Chinese calligraphy. Fascinating. But it seems quite difficult to manage…
I have an amazing number of unfinished bits of artwork. Mostly because whatever I’m creating… depends entirely on my mood at the time. I don’t have a set style, ever. It’s quite depressing. This is part of why art class killed me this past semester. Some days I just don’t feel like art-ing. Alas. Anyone else experience this?
44- yes. quite awesome. Those are also the days that i feel reckless, though.
37- I use 1.5 and 2 centimeter nibs with black ink.
I have this cool calligraphy marker called a tintenknacker. It is German for “ink murderer.” What it does is repelles ink with one end, if you mess up, and then you use the other end, filled with repellent- resistant ink to write over the mistake.
My mom recntly got me a scetchbook. I have two scetches in it so far, one of a rabbit and one of two fish. I did them with a #2 pencil and a ballpoint pen to emphsise some lines.
I also like decorative knotting and making stuff out of the materials avalible at the time.
42- Me too
43- Yeah, I just sit and sew…
29- oh, I love to bead. I bought this expensive (well, six dollars) copper leaf thing and it is gorgeous but I want to do something good with it so I am waiting for perhaps a lot of little black (not seed) beads (ones in different shapes) to do something with it.
35- that’s amazing!
I write though that is a rather new thing for me. Well, an identity as a writer is a new thing for me. The writing itself only sort of is. I’ve written in a pen and paper journal pretty much everyday for four years now and I’d written in various journals and notebooks for five years before that. As a six year old or so I was always making little books and writing and illustrating them. (well, my mother/babysitter did the physical act of writing the words down but they were my words) I only wrote creative writing occasionally though until last June. I had taken a poetry class in 2003 and written some poetry in the 99/00 and 01/02 school years but I’d never actually written much by myself. I also wrote short stories and poetry in the 01/02 school year because it was a class assignment. I’d been part of a literary magazine at my elementary school in 00/01 and kept coming up with ideas for stories but not actually writing much. I’ve always been a voracious reader though. Now I write recreationally more often though not very often compared to a lot of you guys, probably. So that’s my story.
So I write, bead and occasionally sketch something with charcoals. I love to use charcoals to sketch whatever randomly comes into my head. I’m okay at sketching with contour lines but I fail at shading unless it is with charcoal. I wouldn’t really consider myself that much of a visual artist, though.
I liked sketcheing pictures on firewood with burned-tip sticks when camping. Any wood we leave for the next person I draw on (we bring some of this dry planking from the fence compaany across the road- they give it away). ‘Tis fun. I think it’d be cool to learn how to do wood burning.
The other day I was all set to bead, and I had a color scheme and everything (I was going to make a necklace to go with a black-and-pink dress I have), but I couldn’t find the proper beads. *sigh* I had the seed beads, but no larger beads, and that was absolutely essential. So I made a pair of knitted/beaded bracelets to go with my gorgeous feather-and-fan scarf I knitted.
I don’t have to many larger beads. I have some glass ones with flower pint on them that arn’t really my style, and some sqare glass ones about the size of when you put the tips of your fingers together and make a diamond.
I’d like to do some more stuff with feathers, but I can’t find any (oh, I suppose I could buy some, but those are all dyed goose feathers, and big and cumbersome. I like the ones I get from the yard better (I soak them in hot water with soap for a long time first)).
42 (Alice) – I used calligraphy markers for my signature, too!
My big arts are writing and music, though, neither of which are visual arts. But I am a huge origami person, and I bead occasionally, too. Usually around holidays and people’s birthdays, where my beading “skills” come in handy. That’s when I do a lot of knitting, too.
52- Oh yes, origami. I was into that once upon a time, but now I’ve forgotten how to make everything except a cup.
Pathetic.
I’ve never done much knitting. I was never really into it. I did crochet, and not much of that. But in January I went to a yarn store, and it was so amazing I promptly decided to take up knitting. So I knit a scarf, and it took me six months. Then I knit up two bracelets in two days, and for my sister’s birthday I made wristwarmers, which Pan at least must know about, if she reads my mom’s blog. (Not the individual specimens, the concept.) It was my first experience knitting in the round, and it was fun. Next, my mom is going to teach me to make socks. Fun!
I’ve done a bit of sewing; I made a pillow that won Best of Show in the fair, and a smaller pillow that has never been to the fair, and a nightgown and a dress.
Sometimes I make wool felt mice, with embroidered and beaded faces, and I make up little personalities for them, and that’s fun. I had Aunt Bleary, Uncle Slim, Chubby Charlie. Anabel, Bess, Pinky, and a whole bunch of others I can’t even remember.
My mom and I sew a lot. Well, she’s a part time desiugner, and we are making a website for her. i’ve made a few dresses, and a lot of coats for the chi, tons of pants and shirts.
I do knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, hand sewing, french knitting, beading, painting, drawing, sketching and I guess that’s about it.
54: That sounds really neat! I wish I could make clothes, but I’ve got an older sister who makes me stuff. I guess that’s my excuse for not doing it.
49- Ah, woodburning. It’s been so long since I’ve done that! It’s fairly simple, from what I can remember… You’ll do fine ^_^
52- Eek! Origami! I used to do that obsessively [through social studies class] in grades 5 and 6… I wasn’t too bad at it, either. Now I must rediscover my origami paper [it’s in my room somewhere] and fold! Heehee, this thread is so inspiring!
53- I envy you. I can crochet, but I never have the patience/attention span to finish anything unless I’m reallyreally into the project… Same with most sewing… Alas. How do you do it? xD
I cannot wait to head up to Mrs. Heron’s Tuesday. And finish my painting. Before I get bored of it. She’s this cool art lady who teaches little kids and pretty much lets the older kids do whatever… She does offer advice as to colour and technique, though. I’ve been running up there almost weekly since grade 5 or 6, I can’t remember… [eek! nearly 6-7 years!] It’s always great fun. Admittedly, I do quite a bit of talking to whomever else is there, but that’s part of it… heh heh heh… Whatever, it’s great.
I do origami too! See my ghost if it comes up as a contest winner in “Muse!” *feels hopeful*
53- I kinda like knitting, but I don’t really have the patience for that sitting down and doing stuff like that for a long time, so I’d do 10-15 minutes every once in a while and I made potholders for my relatives for christmas. (unfortunately, most of them didn’t know they were potholders, no joke, they thought they were little mats or something, I mean, they didn’t look that bad, did they? I didn’t think so…) The only reason I like it is the combining colors and stuff, so making small things like potholders is good for me, I think trying a sweater would never happen for me
53- I kinda like knitting, but I don’t really have the patience for that sitting down and doing stuff like that for a long time, so I’d do 10-15 minutes every once in a while and I made potholders for my relatives for christmas. (unfortunately, most of them didn’t know they were potholders, no joke, they thought they were little mats or something, I mean, they didn’t look that bad, did they? I didn’t think so…) The only reason I like it is the combining colors and stuff, so making small things like potholders is good for me, I think trying a sweater would never happen for me
My friend and I used to make potholders and we would sell them. But I haven’t done it for a long time. We used to be impatient and so we’d never leave the finished potholder on the frame for very long, which meant that they came out really tiny!
I made a blanket for the dog, but since the dog is a chihuahua, the blankket was as tiny as a welcome mat. I don’t know what happened t it. I think my step dad mistook it for a rag and used it to clean the engine… My brother could laso have made it into a mountain for his toy cars, though…
I just finished painting a Scheilch camargue mare into a welsh palomino that looks something like Wedderlie Mardi Gras, other than a few markings I was too lazy to get right.
Still trying to figure out a name, though.
62- that sounds very neat. I love Mardi Gras, having lived in Louisiana fro a shocking eight years, which is too long. Goodness, that state is going to the dogs…
53- i sew too! i like making stuffed animals. i made ashirt once. my stuffed animals i’ve made are a floral patterened necco conecco, a bear and a mokona.
is drawing included in this thread
65: I should think so. That was a question, right?
Hm. Well, is it visual? Is it an art? I’d say you’re safe.
I suck at music, art, and about everything else cept ackting. I rock at ackting.
I drew a wooly monkey last night. It’s cool.
I stink at drawing and painting, (unless you consider one little itsy bitsy frog that everyone says is a butterfly a work of art) but I like to make bead jewelry and such. I like to dance, that’s visual, and most people consider it art.
I drew a nice combination of dementor/phoenix yesterday. But it’ll go to waste in the sense that I won’t win a book from it. I did enjoy drawing it though. ‘Twas fun to shade the dementor.
I have a friend who can draw insanely well. She could draw her own cartoons for TV and be payed for it now!!
i have a friend who draws really good anime
Lately I’ve been doing some abstract stuff in a notebook. It’s pretty interesting, follows no pattern, just lines with random scenes woven into it. Like a curved-outward city with half a rib cage underneath it and bubbles.
Hehe.
When I was younger (like 8), I did these really amazing shapes connected by lines. It was super cool, but my sister started coloring in the shapes…
whats wrong with colored in shapes? that could look cool
73-cool!
My friend who draws anime is also wrighting this whole series about her drawings, or vice versa, she is also an insanely good writer, which she actually likes better, but she loves to draw too. She wants to get them published someday. She is already like 300 pages into her first book, I dont have the patients to do that, but I guess she likes writing like I like dance, so I can understand why she keeps going.
77- Wow, that’s a lot of writing. To fill 300 pages. That’s like… 150 thousand words. O.O
77- Egad! I have a friend who’s a major comic artist. She’s probably going to publish, too. I know she participated in that “Rising Stars of Manga” thing and was a finalist or semifinalist or something…
I need henna. I tattooed my hand with red acrylic. Well, painted. You get the point. It looks rather awesome, but I’m doing everything short of typing with my right hand so I don’t smear it and don’t wash it off.
79- Oooh, henna’s fun. There’s a henna day at the library durring the summer every year, but I missed it because I was in Asia. *sigh* I have a little bottle of fake-henna-that-looks-similar I got from Barns & Nobel that I would like to use for halloween. And maybe the first week of school.
Got to keep up my not-image, you know. Defy what everyone thinks I am.
I like henna. It was always more of a grown-up thing, but I have had a little bit on my hands. Once, when I was much younger, I saw a woman with really elaborate henna-ed feet. She said she slept with it on…
81- With the pasty-stuff on it? I’d have thought it’d rub off. The pattern has about 2 or 3 weeks before it fades. More if you’re careful and remember to rub olive oil into it before taking showers and sleeping.
Lately I’ve been feeling rather depressed, and not really in the mood for art. I don’t know why.
83- Aww, I hate when that happens *virtual choklit*
On the deviantart, you can just type in… Tammi reference sheet and that should find you me pretty soon. If it works… wait…. that won’t work. O.o… Ah, well.
I LOVE all kinds of art! I sing, play piano, and draw. I LOVE cartoons, but realistic pencil drawing is fun too. I have my own cartoon called Edward Ant. He’s awesomely awesome.
Last night I made a really pretty pendant out of a button. The button’s sort of dark indigo mother of pearl-ish and I attached it to copper wire and made a spiral on it. I made one for my good friend A too as I had two of these buttons. they’re super pretty!
[The next Visual Arts thread begins in January 2008.]