art thread?

[moonlyte]

Hi folks. I've just bought a box of coloured pencils, and will be working on my first drawing soon. I'll post the completed work here. Would love people to post their art here for us to see. Doesn't matter what type of art - drawing, painting, photos/photo manipulation, cake decorating, quilting, poetry, origami, whatever. Let's have some fun and show our creativity. 🙂

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff349/pluckaduck2/Image0062small_zps2c36aa27.jpg

[tasfleur]

100 .. 😛

[the_great_she_elephant]

Yes, but you do awesome poetry ! That is an art

:-x:-x:-x

fFattery will get you everywhere.:^O

[the_great_she_elephant]

fFattery will get you everywhere.

Oops - make that Flattery.

[lurker17260]

That's a great first try moonlight!

If portraiture is your thing it's worth studying proportion of the face. There must be lots of info online these days.

Amazing art there godsandmen!

Speaking of portraiture, I recently went to the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in Canberra.  Some of his portraits were really just the merest hint of a nose or face but were amazingly "complete" at the same time.

Try googling Toulouse lautrec sketches or Toulouse Lautrec portraits to see what I mean (although I can't just find the actual one that I'm particularly referring to)

If you can, anyone, (as Molly would say) do yourself a favour and go and have a look at the exhibit.  It's wonderful.

[lurker17260]

This kind of thing, but the one I really liked was much "prettier"

[godsandmen]

This is a quilt I made in 2008 for a friend.  It's huge and was my first king sized one.  It's made with Japanese fabrics and are 'silk like' to touch which made it rather difficult to handle but finally got there with a bit of wonderful husband help.

That is beautiful! You could sell those for a lot of money.

[cosmosgrove]

Love the quilt, very beautiful.

A great first drawing moonlight, faces and figures are quite difficult to draw, there's lots to learn about proportion and scale. And oh lord the difficulty in painting/drawing hands and feet :_|

DDB, with your canvas, don't stress about it just go for it, choose colours you like and just enjoy the act of doing. Canvas is actually very forgiving and if you hate what you've done, just paint over it with white (gesso is ideal) and start again. Canvas's are so cheap and easy to buy these days, it wasn't so long ago I had to get a cabinet maker to make the frames and then stretch the canvas over the frame myself, quite an art in itself.

A couple of years ago I was mentored during a limestone carving symposium, I took a week off work to do it and loved every minute. I'm not a sculptor and had never attempted anything like it before, the pieces in the foreground are mine (the small bird and the lizard birdbath). I still haven't sealed it to put it in the garden though :8}

[2106greencat]

fFattery will get you everywhere.

Oops - make that Flattery.

*sobs*  s'ok, I am carrying a little Xmas weight still *hic*sob*

:_|

[tasfleur]

I think the lizard birdbath is splendid, fantastic lines and so 'earthy', congratulations Cosmos.

Don't know about selling such things Godsandmen, but thank you for the compliment.  I'm no expert at quilting but will be attempting more challenging projects soon.

[lurker17260]

http://www.allposters.com/?aid=2028400121&search=Henri+de+Toulouse-Lautrec&DestType=5

That link didn't work for me, Lurker, but I found this one from it:

http://www.allposters.com/?aid=2028400121&search=Henri+de+Toulouse-Lautrec&DestType=5

The posters were wonderful, but it was the simple portraits and line drawings that I enjoyed the most.

This sort of thing