are there any other painting forums out there?
nick
online painter's community where people trade technique info and discuss
artists.....
adult beginner
are active forums for jazz,
classical, folk etc. It surprises me not to find separate active
discussion groups for watercolor, oil etc. If they are here, someone
please direct me. Thanks!
Marc Sabatella
wetcanvas.com is the best I know of. Dozens of different forums for
different topics, most very active. There are a few Yahoo groups as
well. For whatever reason, Usenet just never caught on among artists
the way it did among musicians.
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jazz (or classical or rock) isn't music.
:)
Thur
<sculpt...@ethanham.com> wrote in message
news:1120761079.1...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Maybe that's because musicians don't spend all their time arguing that
> jazz (or classical or rock) isn't music.
>
> :)
>
But look at the ways music is marketed, and to how many.
Quite a difference, that could matter.
--
Thur
adult beginner
technique etc
rather than the marketing of.
It appears that it would be easy to establish a rec.arts.fine.painting
group and
a rec.arts.fine.watercolor group.
I don't have a lot of computer savvy and am not sure if there is any
responsibility to the person establishing such groups. Is it as easy as
following the google instructions for establishing a group, ie fill in
the form and then provide a list of email addresses to the first group
of members? Since
the resultant group would (should) be open to all surfers and by
searching the
rec.arts.fine for this interest, it appears that enough people would
get involved.
As an adult beginner I gain a lot from the posts.
John
Marc Sabatella
> It appears that it would be easy to establish a rec.arts.fine.painting
> group and
> a rec.arts.fine.watercolor group.
>
> I don't have a lot of computer savvy and am not sure if there is any
> responsibility to the person establishing such groups. Is it as easy
as
> following the google instructions for establishing a group, ie fill in
> the form and then provide a list of email addresses to the first group
> of members?
No. Creating a newsgroup in the "rec" hierarchy is a several week
process that involves first making a specific proposal, putting out a
request for comments on the proposal in all relevant newsgroups,
followed by a discussion period to take place in one specific newsgroup,
followed by a voting period to take place via email. Newsgroup splits
are usually precipated by there being too much traffic in the original
group, resulting in a lot of people eager to see the new groups created
("at last, I can visit a newsgroup to discuss X1 without having to wade
through all those posts about X2!"). Even if you went ahead with all
this, there is a good chance the proposal would fail, as there just
don't seem to be that many artists who would care enough to see such a
thing happen to bother voting in favor of it. If there aren't many
participatinging in in this newsgroup, I don't see any reason to assume
more would come running just because you split this one into several.
But if you want to give it a shot, be my guest. FWIW, wetcanvas is a
pretty great site; the ability to upload images into postings and a
number of other features make it a natural fit for discussing art.
adult beginner
I'll check out wetcanvas.com. I've enjoyed your posts on the
jazzguitar newsgroup.
Sad about Rich R. I just found out and called a dealer for RE cabs
who verified the post.
John
adult beginner
Thanks!