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

[*pepe]

moonlight you can buy retarder to mix with the paint or dip your brush into before you dip into the paint to give you a longer working time.

Also using a 'wet palette' will help stop your paint drying too quickly.

get a plastic take away container, dampen a sponge and wrap it with lunch paper to use as a palette - if you have to stop and don't want to waste the paint you can just pop the container lid on, if its a really hot day you can even put it in the fridge.  I have had paint in the fridge for a couple of days and still been able to use it.

I used folk art acrylics.

[kengillard]

can anyone tell me what is an excellent cheapish camera?  I want to take good pics to sell on ebay etc.....don't want one that will fly to the moon and back..just take clear crisp pics.?

[moonlyte]

So now that I am an "artist", I am allowed to be temperamental, right? 

So if someone criticizes my work, and I reply that they have a fat ass, would I be out of line? ]:)

Anyway, off to Officeworks now. BBL.

[moonlyte]

Oh, and thanks for the replies about the paint.

[kengillard]

good tip Pepe.    I have one of those....stops the paint drying out till the next day.

[kengillard]

I bought 2 sponge refills for a floor mop, ripped the fittings off and they fitted my plastic container perfectly.  

[cosmosgrove]

Lol, now that your an artist, you're allowed to be temperamental and eccentric but you also need to grow a thick skin 😛 

[*pepe]

good tip Pepe.    I have one of those....stops the paint drying out till the next day.

that was the best tip the instructor ever gave us.  apparently you could buy wet palettes at the time but they were quite expensive.

[soul_art]

The amount of products around is amazing.  I love the look of oils but am too impatient to wait for each layer to dry so I use either an impasto medium or moulding paste medium which is mixed into your paint or you can put it on your canvas then paint over it.  My next project is another underwater scene with coral/fish etc but having heavily textured areas for coral rocks.

You can also use those tubes of silicon/tiling or whatever it is that you put in the gun thing ?  That's what I used on the mural and it works fine.

There are good utubes showing how to use almost anything !

[cosmosgrove]

Yep you can texture your canvas before you start, try gluing tissue paper with wood glue, leaving creases and wrinkles etc. Or even just wood glue left to dry in runs or blobs will give you a textured surface to work on.