Frustrated
LizardGumbo
normal or am I just deficient?
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Never, in my wildest dreams did I imagine using the dark on the left
until the gold on the right just...wouldn't behave.
Now I'm feeling all askew.
--
Lizard Gumbo
aka Elizabeth
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ellice
<eliz...@bubbleseffervescentdesigns.com> wrote:
> Why do things never turn out the way I see them in my head? Is this
> normal or am I just deficient?
>
> http://www.effervescentdesigns.com/images/000_0538.jpg
>
> Never, in my wildest dreams did I imagine using the dark on the left
> until the gold on the right just...wouldn't behave.
>
> Now I'm feeling all askew.
>
>
>
Well - it's interesting - just tilt your head when you look at it! I like
it either way...
ellice
Karen C - California
> <eliz...@bubbleseffervescentdesigns.com> wrote:
>
>
>Why do things never turn out the way I see them in my head? Is this
>normal or am I just deficient?
>
>
I have never in my life been able to get a drawing or sculpture out my
hands the way it looks in my head. I'll look at a cat and something
comes out of my pencil that looks like a horse.
With the advent of CCS, I discovered that I do much better at it with
colored squares. Maybe if my junior high art teacher had let me do all
my drawings on graph paper?
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Fred
"LizardGumbo" <eliz...@bubbleseffervescentdesigns.com> wrote in message
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> Why do things never turn out the way I see them in my head? Is this
> normal or am I just deficient?
>
> http://www.effervescentdesigns.com/images/000_0538.jpg
> Never, in my wildest dreams did I imagine using the dark on the left until
> the gold on the right just...wouldn't behave.
>
> Now I'm feeling all askew.
> --
> Lizard Gumbo
> aka Elizabeth
>
> http://www.effervescentdesigns.com
>
> Pop the bubbles to reply.
You might have concentrated too much on the illusion that resulted.
Next time try concentrating on the reality that was in your mind?
--
Fred
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> > On 2/21/07 12:04 AM, "LizardGumbo"
> > <eliz...@bubbleseffervescentdesigns.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Why do things never turn out the way I see them in my head? Is this
> >normal or am I just deficient?
> >
> >
>
> I have never in my life been able to get a drawing or sculpture out my
> hands the way it looks in my head. I'll look at a cat and something
> comes out of my pencil that looks like a horse.
>
> With the advent of CCS, I discovered that I do much better at it with
> colored squares. Maybe if my junior high art teacher had let me do all
> my drawings on graph paper?
I think the dark on the left looks great. The gold on the right fades to
the background. Junior high art teachers are terrible. Never would let me
do things my way. If the project was a still life and I didn't want to do
still life, I got a D for doing a perfectly great illustration of boat on
the beach next to a dilapitated lobster shack. If we were doing trees and I
did a still life, once again a D. I can only draw what the muse wants me to
draw. Nothing on special order. Always do what seems right to your eye and
to heck with what anyone else thinks. Which side do you prefer?
George
--
There is no such thing as being beneath one's dignity to put in an honest
day's work. Work *is* what gives us our dignity, as well as our sense of
self-worth. "Mishna 2(a)"
LizardGumbo
> I think the dark on the left looks great. The gold on the right fades to
> the background. Always do what seems right to your eye and
> to heck with what anyone else thinks. Which side do you prefer?
My mind likes the gold. My eyeballs like the green. Somewhere in
between a little something is saying, "There's a better color out
there--you just need to find it!"
> Junior high art teachers are terrible. Never would let me
> do things my way. If the project was a still life and I didn't want to do
> still life, I got a D for doing a perfectly great illustration of boat on
> the beach next to a dilapitated lobster shack. If we were doing trees and I
> did a still life, once again a D. I can only draw what the muse wants me to
> draw. Nothing on special order.
Well, in a classroom setting (or work setting, for that matter), I can
see the teacher's point. The teacher wants to grade a particular skill,
which you did not demonstrate.
In my Adobe Illustrator class, our teacher was very conscientious about
drilling it into us that graphic design is PRODUCTION work for pay and
that time is of the essence. There is no muse on the clock. In that
regard, I get it.
A good friend of mine is an artist at Hallmark Cards. They don't allow
muses there.
I, however, am not on the clock (well, to a certain extent I am--I can't
be palavering over one decision forever) and you are not on the clock
(or under the gun for grades), so context is everything.
There are some places in the world muses aren't welcome, mores the pity.
LizardGumbo
> You might have concentrated too much on the illusion that resulted.
> Next time try concentrating on the reality that was in your mind?
You are 100% spot-on. I must fiddle with stuff and re-try and re-think
everything as I'm going along.
LizardGumbo
> It works nicely though !
Thank you.
I still have the feeling that there's a better color than that dark,
dark green AND the gold, though if I could only have one or the other,
I'd choose the green.
Cheryl Isaak
"LizardGumbo" <eliz...@bubbleseffervescentdesigns.com> wrote:
> lucretia borgia wrote:
>
>> It works nicely though !
>
> Thank you.
>
> I still have the feeling that there's a better color than that dark,
> dark green AND the gold, though if I could only have one or the other,
> I'd choose the green.
>
How about a dark green metallic instead of the gold if you are looking for
glitz.
Or tweed the dark green with gold?
Joan E.
LizardGumbo wrote:
> I still have the feeling that there's a better color than that dark,
> dark green
What about a green that's not so dark--maybe 2 or 3 shades darker than
the background? You'd get the contrast without it being so in-your-
face, so to speak.
HTH
Joan
LizardGumbo
> What about a green that's not so dark--maybe 2 or 3 shades darker than
> the background? You'd get the contrast without it being so in-your-
> face, so to speak.
Yes, that's precisely what I was thinking. I just ordered 8 different
green Kreiniks to see if I can find what clicks.
It's like wanting something to eat, but not knowing what, but you'll
know it when you see it.
StitchingNut
gold perhaps? I prefer the gold, it looks more elegant.
Nevertheless, it looks good both ways.
Is the same with Hardanger, I have an idea, I try to recreate it on the
computer, by the end I sit down stitching it, before I draw the chart.
I reckon that's called creativitiy. Sometimes things also don't work the way
you think em up.
Happy stitching
Sibille
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