Calling all Artists
If you are an artist, if you draw, paint, sculpt, do needlework, take pictures or any other art, or if you have an interest, I'd like to meet you!
Now that I'm retired, I've gone back to the drawing I love but didn't have time for. Here is a little of my WORK. Show me yours!
Original Post by cesty8:
I used to write stories, but when I went to engineering college all of my talent went out of the window. Now I can't write at all anymore. But I remember it was such an enjoyable experience to sit down at the computer and type away at some story I was working on. I never was one for making outlines or anything, I just typed what came to mind. I especially liked to write romance novels involving vampires. I only ever finished one however, but I have lots that I started but never completed.
I know what you mean! I spent years working at a job that required analytical thinking and lost the ability to draw. I feel as if it was just crushed out of me. I'm getting it back though, now that I'm retired.
You have to start somewhere, so just keep going!
Original Post by jupufo:Hey Clairelaine - I'm starting a portrait drawing class on Monday!
I've done a lot of different types of studio classes, but I avoided portrait/figure drawing classes in college since I believed them to be to difficult. However, I'm finally going to try it out. I'm nervous but real excited since I haven't taken any art classes in a few years. Good luck on your charcoal portrait!
You're going to love it! Think of the face and figure as just objects like any other, with proportions and light and dark, and it's no harder to draw than anything else. Everybody thinks that it's hard to draw people, but it's not! The human face is endlessly interesting.
Diane, you said "Picasso once was a fine painter, but when he could throw his sketches out, and grab up thousands for them, don't you think he dug through his pile of 'trashed' pieces; dusted them off, and started making MORE money than he'd made when he labored for perfection."
Picasso's early work is "perfection" if your only view of perfection is accurate rendering. What he did later on was revolutionary - he wasn't "striving for perfection" but for vision.
The cubists, the fauves and early impressionists, taught us a new way of seeing. Picasso did not make much money when he was young and experimenting with cubism and primitivism. Van Gogh died vilified and impoverished, only having sold one painting, yet his paintings now appear on everything from calendars to mugs.
Art is born of art. That's why we have museums - to educate and inspire. And that's why we study art history - to broaden our vision.
Find a book about Hitler's Germany, look up "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst) and see what he did to artists who didn't comform to his ideal of perfect rendering of sentimental subjects. The stifling of creativity is what happens when someone has only one view of "perfection".
Just my humble opinion.
Original Post by artsyrach:
HOLY COW!
There is some serious TALENT on cc! How awesome! I really enjoyed viewing everyone's art :)!!! I hope you deviantart users don't mind me watching you!
I'm a bit shy about showing my art because I really never learned the basics and my art is just really kind of awkwardly flamboyant (just like me :P ) AND YEAH! SCREW THAT! I'll suck it up and show you guys anyways~ you all are such a nice bunch :)
Here is my deviantart site!
I love it! I'm especially taken with Water 1 and 2. Very evocative use of color.
http://youareorange.deviantart.com/
that's my deviant art account with most of my photography. my strongest media are photography and graphite pencils. i've also tried a lot of other media due to my art classes.
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