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]

Meet "Sir Chilblain" ...  :^O  I made this polar bear a few years ago now as a first bear making exercise.  Everything went wrong .. I ran out of white fur so used that awful red stuff with the black dots for his feet, and then didn't have any ordinary coloured eyes so used the red ones to match the feet ... Mr. Tasfleur came home, fell about laughing and declared that it looked like the bear had frostbite and chilblains, so that made it easier to name him ...  😐 .... :^O

Next thing to collapse were the legs.  I ran out of the stuffing so used those beans used in bean bags, and given how big this bear is, well, he just splayed out everywhere like a drunken bruin.

To fix that, I sat all day unpicking his legs and restuffed them but then couldn't get all the beads out, so he ended up with 'leg' acne.  Finally, it all settled inside, but when the cat sits on him, he still collapses and looks twice as stupid (the bear, not the cat) ... 😐

he has had a hard life, but he is just beautiful!

i love his ladybug slippers!

[tasfleur]

Thanks Pepe, Soul and Greencat.  He has indeed had a very hard life .. if you look closer at his nose, you'll see where Latte, our wicked Burmese cat, has been biting it and is still trying to take it off ...  :_|

It's probably time to make a new polar bear and get it right ...  :8}

[*pepe]

its the imperfections that gives any kind of art character in my eyes.

[tasfleur]

Garage, the moggy, attacks it regularly too ....  :_|

[*pepe]

that is hilarious!!  :^O

[2106greencat]

You could send him to a Children's Hospital or something Tas, he would be well loved no matter his imperfections!

[2106greencat]

Hey - Make them and market them as Cat Beds, Puss looks like he is ready to get comfy 😄

[tasfleur]

Yes, that's true too Pepe, I'm working on it.  I think I read somewhere that the Amish ladies deliberately put mistakes into their hand quilting because nothing is, or should be, perfect .. so that makes me feel better about the silly things that happen in what I attempt to do.

[katydidthat]

I think art is a lot about learning from mistakes 🙂 I ran a beading workshop and showed some things I'd made that were FAIL GRADES, and I explained why.  I then held up another piece and someone said "too busy" ... I said "that was supposed to be a success story" LOL.  

One of the nice things about art is that judgement is subjective in most cases ... what one person likes, another might hate.  There is no "right answer" like in maths.  

[tasfleur]

We did try to give him to the hospital, but he is so very heavy and they suggested we use him as a door stop ...  😐 ....  :^O

No, I don't think I could find the time to do any of this commercially, I just do it for fun and making gifts in between doing everything else.