Last post Mon, Aug 25 2008 5:48 PM by DanaNaomi. 106 replies.
We have got so many artists among us. Photographers, sculptors, People who use the computer for their artwork (sorry, don´t know a word for it), painters, and probably even more.
So why not make use of this section.
There is so much to tell. Sometimes artwork can help to cope with the difficulties we are encountering in life, especially a handicap (Disability always sounds weird to me when I´m satisfied with a picture.). Or sometimes a handicap can lead to a new direction of one´s creative work, and suddenly a whole new world opens up, one one might have never discovered without the handicap.
You will know best how much there is to tell, and maybe You will give us an example of Your work too.
Daisies
some of my art can be seen here
http://www.myspace.com/kan5a5
i did a series of carvings and drawings during a recent long hospital stay. it was about the only thing that mentally removed me from the medical setting. such vacations made the emotional load lighter, i believe.
you guys have great artwork. any tips for us that don't paint or draw? what to buy like a starter kit or do you just have to have a natural talent to be an artist? thanks
Debbie,
painting and drawing is mostly a craft. Anybody can learn it. The thing is, You just have to do it. I never took classes or anything. I just started to draw as a kid, and get better from picture to picture eversince. Or that is what I hope.
Starter kits can be nice to get something going, but they usually aren´t the best quality. Especially brushes. So if You wanna take up painting with acryllic colors for instance, (Will make great results very soon!), You might find that those cheap brushes are obstacles.
as far as drawing goes, i believe that anyone can execute a drawing that would exceed his or her expectations by breaking the subject matter down into a grid, reproducing the grid on your drawing paper, and concentrate on drawing each square as an individual concept.
not unlike the grids they often had/have in crossword puzzle books/magazines.
well...here:
http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/mechanicalaids/a/grid_drawing.htm
as a young'n i reproduced cells of sunday comic strips - that was my first drawing experience
there's always abstract expressionism. you use the pencil in the moment - "spontaneous, automatic, or subconscious creation." - draw now without concern for form, content, composition...
Okay, then I´ll go ahead.
I usually make pencil drawings. As I said, I started as a kid. And I always, always wanted to depict things as realistic as possible. And like kan5a5 I too reproduced comicstrips. But my first love are portraits.
I usually say I´ve been doing it all my life, but actually I didn´t for a good ten years of my almost forty. I´ve been married to a guy who .... I don´t know. I don´t think I want to get into it. He was violent. And I... I don´t know, I think I´ve been scared out of my wits. However hard I tried, I couldn´t make a single picture all through my marriage, and for as many years after. And that was a bad thing, because I usually made a picture when I felt bad. Now I felt bad, couldn´t do a picture, and felt even worse. It was the times when I was having severe back pain, and I really ended up standing beside myself.
Then my daughter started watching Diagnosis Murder, and I felt a really craving need to portrait Dick Van Dyke. He has a beautiful face. Full of life.
And when I finally gave it a try, it really kind of worked. Well, I had done better pictures as a teen, but at least my sense for proportion was back.
That was in 2003. I think I´m still on my way up, but it´s so rewarding. I think I´m cherishing my gift more now, after it was gone for so long.
thanks for the info both of you. wow daisies, is that a self portrait? what a beautiful drawing whoever it is, absolutely stunning work! sorry that you had to go through that honey. i hope things are good for you now. keep drawing..
Hi Debbie,
no, it´s not me. The girl is Aimee Mullens, a South African (I think) model. I´m afraid I can´t even take credit for the pose. I drew it after a magazine cover I once saw.
I´m still wondering if it is considered to be chicken, or at least bad manners that I don´t show my picture. So I just changed my avatar. My pic will pop in any moment.
So, that´s me.
I´ll leave it for some hours, but then it will be my beloved daisies again.
Thanks for the very nice words, Debbie
hi daisies, there you are! i think it's a nice picture, you should keep it here. your call though.
kan I really like the moon on your myspace page
daises you do have skill. I have decided I want to be an elementary school art teacher.
Hopefully, I will be able to draw as good as you some day
Yes, the moon on Kan´s MySpace is my favorite too.
Kan, don´t You want to put Your little girl with the green dress here? It´s sooo lovely!
