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10 Apr 2009, 7:57 pm

I really enjoy that first piece Nostromos!

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11 Apr 2009, 9:07 am

irishwhistle wrote:

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Hey Irishwistle I feel your work is close to what I do...

Yep, that rings a bell... tangled, complicated, but not totally chaotic, lines everywhere... That's what I've been doing lately. I wasn't finding time to do much but finally just found one day that I had to, that art had not been a hobby (it never was, it was always the thing I wanted to do) but an outlet, as cliche as that sounds. So I started using brush pens for a couple of years. I could work around the kids and my schedule using pens and I had had some good results using them in a couple of classes. I can make very complicated stuff with them but of course color is a different animal with them, and if they dry out, you can't just squeeze some more and thin it and go on. So I decided that now that I had gained some insight into what I enjoyed (even if I just made it for me) I could have better control over the color scheme and use up all those canvases if I went back to painting.

Besides, it's something of a mission for me to make sure I am always painting something or will be painting something... There's this old lady in my husband's family, his step-mother's mom, who took up painting in her old age. One of those Bob Ross viewers. I suppose she thinks she's connecting with me every time she sees me when she asks, "So, are you still painting?" but the way she puts it irritates me to no end. I can't shake the feeling that she's just waiting for me to say I'm not so that she can go into a speech about how kids keep you too busy... To be sure, they do. But it's like she's expecting me to stop at some point. Of course, when I was working with ink, I didn't feel like I'd quit painting, just made it more accessible.

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11 Apr 2009, 9:29 am

kxmode,
I don't think I understand what you mean with 'so that shapes didn't appear as single blobs of color'
It was interesting to see the photoshop file, but to really understand it, I guess one should see you at work.
At the same time, I don't think I have such a steady hand as yours, it takes me hours to do lines.
That's something I sometimes do when the occasion is there (like during an art fair or so), watching other artists work.

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11 Apr 2009, 11:46 am

Wow!

All the art works on here are really good!

I'm glad that my husband showed me this cause now I'm inspired to post up and draw some more art work myself!

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11 Apr 2009, 2:49 pm

reworking painted illustrations with the Gimp (=like photoshop)

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13 Apr 2009, 4:59 pm

I don't know where the energy to draw this came from the other day; I got possessed.
It's an unfinished pastel drawing (and I'll probably leave it that way.)

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13 Apr 2009, 9:07 pm

@xalepax: we'll wait for your stuff (:

lemon wrote:

reworking painted illustrations with the Gimp (=like photoshop)

nice stuff Lemon, love that it still has some of the texture in it (:

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I don't know where the energy to draw this came from the other day; I got possessed.
It's an unfinished pastel drawing (and I'll probably leave it that way.)

cool,
I think that state of mind is called "the zone". Nice drawing (:
how many hours did it took?

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13 Apr 2009, 11:26 pm

Pastels make some of the best unfinished work. Intentionally or un-. I also find I can't do a portrait nearly as well in any other medium. Seems like whenever I was in class learning to do portraits, it was in pastel.

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14 Apr 2009, 3:17 am

i've never been into pastels, don't know how to work with it

maybe being a teacher now and writing on the blackboard all the time can bring me closer to the medium

(thanks computerlove)

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14 Apr 2009, 5:26 am

computerlove wrote:

I think that state of mind is called "the zone". Nice drawing (:
how many hours did it took?

I need "the zone" more often; recently I've felt like a zombie and can't get much done.

I lost track of time, so am not sure how many hours it took ... at first it was 2-3 hours, before other obligations distracted me, then a few hours the following day, but no idea how many.

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18 Apr 2009, 3:02 pm

Charcoal sketch