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]

I've been running around for days Katy, everything is in full swing now until Easter break .. but having lots of fun doing a few creative things in between.

[katydidthat]

I've got a CD full of Easter activities, Fleur, if you want some ideas for that  .... 🙂

[tasfleur]

Sounds lovely Katy, yes, I think I'd be interested thank you .. 🙂

[katydidthat]

Let me know age groups and genders and whatever you're catering for, Fleur, and I'll post some ideas tomorrow ... ya know ... Easter egg hunts, blowing (snigger) and colouring eggs , making bunnies ... 

[tasfleur]

I'd really like to know how to colour eggs Katy, is that with wax or .... ?

I'm not exactly going to be catering as such, but there will be that Creole CAKE you know .. 😉

[tasfleur]

Off to bed now, the first early night in weeks really .. :-x  Night night xx

[godsandmen]

Godsandmen can I ask what software you use on the computer for your artwork. My daughter is 14 and very artistic, she has just started to do her drawings in basic paint.  She has no skills in computer software for digitally enhancing the pics.  She draws them freehand and then redraws them in paint.  Is there something better she can use. 

Her 'thing' or niche for now anyway is like the japanese anime. 

I use a combination of Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Corel Painter. Painter is a great program for digital artwork. It has tools that mimic everything it a real artist's studio. It's pretty awesome. It's got quite a learning curve though, and I wouldn't recommend it for a 14-year-old. If the "Paint" program you are referring to is the one that comes pre-installed on windows computers, I wouldn't recommend that to anybody. It's pretty worthless. Do a google search for art programs, I'm sure there are many out there that are inexpensive - far better than Paint yet much cheaper than the high-end programs I use.

[godsandmen]

Created in Corel Painter...

[godsandmen]

A baby. Airbrushed and hand-painter acrylic on illustration board...

[godsandmen]

Illustration for the local newspaper. The story is about a woman who has an interesting way of keeping insects away from her garden plants. She gathers up about a cup full of the bugs in her garden, throws them in a blender along with water, and turns the blender on. Then she takes the bug/water mixture and sprays them on her garden plants. She swears it keeps the bugs away.