2014 Art Thread

[moon]

Painting I made at the weekend - There is just us

 

[chilango]

doodling

 

[chilango]

got another couple of small ceramic pieces heading for the kiln.

...and I'm still playing around with the self-portrait.

 

[chilango]

 

[heinous seamus]

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You've changed your look Love the colours.

 

[heinous seamus]

Painting I made at the weekend - There is just us

Quite a folk art-y style you've got. I like it

 

[moon]

new picture 'She's not happy!" graphite and charcoal

 

[moon]

Another Lifebook lesson (as was the above) Week 26 a realistic eye, I used inktense pencils, watercolour paints and various pens..

 

[Miss Caphat]

that's so cool moon
I love all the little details and the way you made it your own. I can see that as a large painting.
I am a big fan of making giant eye paintings myself

 

[moon]

Thanks Miss Caphat the course I'm doing is fantastic.. I didn't realise painting was so addictive either..
Show us yours then??
xx

 

[moon]

I decided to paint a new art journal page with an Elephant Hawk-moth and lady, it’s sort of supposed to describe how nature is both in us and around us..
I had a weird thing happen when I scanned the image though, the eyelids and lips were grayscale.. all the others colours were ok, i had to add the colour back in with a paint app but the eye area still looks grey and lighter than the original..

I'm going to post smaller pics in future... lol

 

[Miss Caphat]

Thanks Miss Caphat the course I'm doing is fantastic.. I didn't realise painting was so addictive either..
Show us yours then??
xx

I've posted up stuff over the years on various threads...I got nothing new, sorry...will post something when I do. But yeah eyes are cool, and photographing artwork is definitely tricky. All sorts of things can happen to distort the image and the colors. Make sure your white balance is on the correct setting, that you're photographing from straight on in natural light (I like to lay pieces on the floor and shoot from above) but your photos look good to me and I think the size is good too

 

[slightlytouched]

I dug these out to show someone....so I thought I'd share on here too....my art college efforts at life drawing when we were allowed to freestyle it!

 

[moon]

lovely!
I don't understand though, you weren't 'allowed' to be expressive at art college?

 

[slightlytouched]

lovely!
I don't understand though, you weren't 'allowed' to be expressive at art college?

Most of a particular module was training to do something a certain way. The idea being that when it comes round to freestyle you have all the necessary skills to achieve what you want.

 

[moon]

New moth lady painting - Cinnabar

 

[heinous seamus]

I did this for my mrs' birthday, it needs a bit more shading but I'm pretty pleased with it overall:

 

[heinous seamus]

My girlfriend has informed me I'm not allowed to do any more to it as I'll 'probably fuck it up'

 

[moon]

It is good Maybe make a copy and add to that one?

 

[moon]

I've been working on this.. Painting dark skin is hard..

 

[Miss Caphat]

I've been working on this.. Painting dark skin is hard..

you've done a nice job with it though! how are you creating those effects in the background? I love them.

 

[moon]

you've done a nice job with it though! how are you creating those effects in the background? I love them.

The background is lots of layers, stencils and gesso..

 

[wayward bob]

set of postcards partly for the swap, partly for people i've been out of touch with and one's gone to oslo for a mail art show (juried, so no idea if it'll get in, fingers crossed). text is from a c17th popular science book, conversations on the pluralities of worlds.

 

[tufty79]

Tilly Willis copy now dried.
Next up: attempting stuff straight from my branes, rather than someone else's

 

[moon]

Just made this, it sort of matches my mood at the moment, i used inktense blocks, neocolor ii watersoluble crayon and a little white acrylic.. I never made a face with water based media before, am surprised at how quick it was compared to acrylics..

 

[heinous seamus]

Just finished this. The background is a bit shit so I'm considering cutting out the building and mounting it on some black paper or something.

I picked up some lino cutting tools today so I'll be giving that a bash next

 

[Miss Caphat]

I like the background, it give it a lot of motion and liveliness

 

[heinous seamus]

It was a bit too rushed I think, I couldn't be arsed by the time it came to drawing the background

Here's what it would look like mounted:

I think I prefer that... any thoughts?

 

[RoyReed]

I think making the trees darker to help frame the building would be better. I think the cutout on black looks too harsh.



I just masked the trees and made them a negative of the original just to do a quick and dirty version.

 

[heinous seamus]

Wow, that looks great.