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Sue
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The last couple of years , the artists and semi artists amongst us have had a go at painting the same picture. is anyone up for it this year
Sue
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/03/2010 : 07:36
This was a big and complicated turning job I did for me engines. It started as a solid cylinder of steel and I had to find this shape inside it. Sculpture when you think about it. I could sit and look at this for hours! Chacun a son gout!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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belle
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Posted - 27/03/2010 : 11:51
I have been pondering my own resistance to "training" and I suppose it boils down to the fact that I don't want to learn how someone else does art, I want to discover how I do it, but it has made a rod for my own back because there is a lot I don't understand. I think you are right Sue, if you are the sort of person that can adapt someone elses training to your own style it is the quickest way forward.
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Posted - 27/03/2010 : 12:49
Nad so you should Stanley. When I finish a painting I like , I leave it in a place where I can see it , for some time before it gets put with the others. My better picures have found their way to the walls of our house in france
Belle I always wished I could just do paintings, but I can't. I enjoy watching DVDs, programmes and reading books. There are so many different ways of doing things. All the reading etc has helped me identify what i like and what i don't like. I am definitely NOT a loose painter, and it has taken me some time to adapt my paintings so that they reflect what i see and what I feel rather than copy a photo or a scene exactly. You see my scientific training makes me want to copy exactly as I can , with no emotion , just factual interpretation . It has taken me 5 years to get away from that
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Posted - 27/03/2010 : 20:36
OK then , just spent the last couple of hours doing my still life
here it is
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 07:34
Sue, I had Conor's pic on a chair in the front room where my eye could wander to it but it has now graduated to the picture wall in the kitchen where I can keep an even closer eye on it. It doesn't get worse with time, if anything it's improving.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 09:10
and a very good picture it is too. I haven't tried portraits yet. Apparently we are going to have a go in my U3A Practical Art group
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moh
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 11:26
What do you do with all your pictures Sue? I used to do cross stitch but got so many I gave it up.
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 12:16
I store them in a folder!! The better ones I have given as presents to people, or hang them up in the house in france or at home. Lots of them are awful and I just use them as a learning experience. I keep meaning to redo the worse ones to try to improve. I have started doing many of my paintings in books of paper, and there they stay. I have sold one painting at the PEOPLES ART exhibition at Rochdale Art gallery.
I know what you mean though. I am the same with my patchwork and my knitting . I just treat all pieces of work as a challenge and skill development rather than a means to an end. I just enjoy being busy!
I actually use alot of my paintings in my card making. I scan the pictures and eiher print them off on textured card , or print them on glossy paper and mount them . I superimpose the greeting on to the picture. They look very effective. Some people have framed the cards i have sent them
Edited by - Sue on 28/03/2010 12:51:10 PM
Edited by - Sue on 28/03/2010 5:05:10 PM
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 15:40
When I've made something I put it somewhere on a surface.... That's why I have such a cluttered world but I like looking at the things I've made. Same with the books, it's nice to see them on the shelf. You can see them on the top shelf above me rocking chair.
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frankwilk
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 21:22
Stanley is that a Test Pressure gauge on the top shelf ??
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 23:25
HEY!!
Is Stanley stealing the show here on the Art page!
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Posted - 28/03/2010 : 23:25
Sue the still life has definitely got something..I am not sure I am not also a copier.that's why I always prefer to paint outdoors or from life so that the copying is more impressionistic. But art was very definitley about likeness in it's origins, either likeness of form or likeness of function, I would say I am probably more realist than anything else so I feel there is still a place for likeness...painting how you feel can give rise to some very bad art as well as some very good art...more of a gamble I guess, painting what you see, tempered by what you feel , is about where I am happy to rest.
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Posted - 29/03/2010 : 05:55
Yes Frank, It's a Budenberg Standard Test Gauge 0-800psi and newly refubished and calibrated given to me by Mr Budenberg himself when I went down to Broadheath for lunch and to collect all my gauges for Ellenroad which they refurbished and calibrated for me free.
Sue, it is a work of art but slightly different. Frank just has sharp eyes! Conor's pic isn't a painting either so I''m guilty on at least two charges......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 29/03/2010 : 08:45
I really struggled withe cloth on my still life, hence the pen work to try and show the folds. The jug and bowl are actually much brighter on the original than the scan, maybe I should have used a different colour cloth as a contrast to the jug, which was a similar colour,but I didn't like the effect of white so I used a plain peach pillow slip.
I will have ago at another one soon, whilst the mood has taken me
As for Stanley , well whatcan I say , he will be doing sculpture next
Sue
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Posted - 29/03/2010 : 15:49
It'll be on a lathe or a milling machine.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Are we painting a picture this year
