painting
rosenose
checked out the website...
I see a Francis Bacon influence with the mad birds
and I like it...especially the grey owl
and big yellow center figure one.
I am gathering materials
to do some acrylic / canvas paintings...
A girlfriend gave me a ton of very heavy cotton canvas.
The planning and process gets me high.
If you've ever stretched a 5 x 6 ft canvas
feel free to give me advise !
~dhyana~
rosenose
can't figure out why new previous post landed
where it did.
~
ome
Picasso, Francis Bacon and Japanese brush painting:
My three main obsessions.
Stretching canvas?
Kind of hard to describe in mere words, but let's try:
You lay the canvas on the floor, frame on top of it,
start tacking it to the back of the frame (looks cleaner
than at the sides and is much easier, too). Start in the
middle of each side in turns, advancing evenly towards
the corners. Don't stretch it too tight, or it'll get
skewed or too flabby, either. Try for a nice bounciness
after you've put in the first tacks on all sides.
If your fingers hurt from stretching just the first eight
tacks, you're probably stretching it too tight, or your
fingers are even weaker than mine...
Hard work. I mostly prefer making small pictures:
More creativity for less effort and I can do a lot more
before I run out of storage space. Still, a big one
every now and then is a fine challenge that will show
how much you've learned about composition.
One thought on learning composition: Once you've done
a few thousand pictures, you get a feel for how things
should sit, how the elements influence one another and
where to put the center of force. Learn by doing.
I'm sure there are books that teach some rules, but
your pictures will still look stilted until you have
them in your backbone.
Enjoy!
~~
ome
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JayDee
wrote:
>
>can't figure out why new previous post landed
>where it did.
crap@home
rosenose
> One thought on learning composition: Once you've done
> a few thousand pictures, you get a feel for how things
> should sit, how the elements influence one another and
> where to put the center of force. Learn by doing.
>
>
I'm gathering supplies and ideas for the big ones.
I have some large heavy watercolor paper to use.
When I get enough paints...( expensive )...
I'll stretch some small canvases.
Thank you for that great information !
I'll be sure and put any new work on the website.
LOVE
dhyana
~
demitria monde thraam
it be known that...:
>mr ome !
>checked out the website...
>I see a Francis Bacon influence with the mad birds
>and I like it...especially the grey owl
>and big yellow center figure one.
i really liked that series of his that had to do with communication in
relationships...that was very expressive and struck a chord. reminded
me of people i have known in the past and how i communicated with
them, does not remind me of current relationship thankfully.
>I am gathering materials
>to do some acrylic / canvas paintings...
my artist life was thoroughly renovated and reinvigorated by the
digital art revolution.
lots of people disdain the digital painting medium, on the grounds
that it does not let the artist get his/her/its "hands dirty" in the
medium, and does not create original works of art but instead just
meaningless copies.
i disagree tremendously; those are the things that make it GOOD, not
bad. after losing all the canvases i ever created in the eighties (as
of the last few years a few have found their way back to me through
photos and such sent by people who knew me before they were lost) but
with digital i will never again lose my art, never! it is backed up
from here to eternity, plus one day.
also, there is that wonderful thing called
"UNDO"
which in recent revisions of painting software has been adapted to the
"HISTORY FUNCTION"
-now, not only can you undo what you just did, but what you did 45
minutes ago, or any other stroke you made. you can go back to exactly
where the piece went wrong and correct its course.
will the wonders never cease?
also, thinking of acrylic canvases reminds me of a pain i used to go
through with oil and acrylic painting. the oils dried too slow,
making me have to wait for days after screwing up a painting to paint
over the screw up if it was not the kind i could just wipe clean...and
the acrylic would dry too fast to get good blends going. the slow-dry
polymer helped a tiny bit but often compromised the opacity.
i finally settled on goache on illustration board as my medium in the
pre-digital times, because i could manipulate the paint with water for
blends, and yet it dried pretty quick. goache is a kind of thicker
watercolour which behaves like acrylic in some ways and oil in others.
but nothing beats digital!
the only disadvantage i can see is you can't paint huge mural sized
pictures on a computer, and then PRINT THEM IN THE SAME BIG SIZE using
a home printer.
this can apparently be gotten around with the help of an experienced
printer who can print a large piece in sections which are then
connected and a photo taken and printed with a very large printer.
this is the sort of thing done by your average corporate wheatpaste
poster guy with the five by six movie posters they come tacking up all
over. and also some billboards, though most of those are put up in
sections. you can do large work on the software, in fact it is
strongly recommended to work big so you can get better detail and a
nicer print resolution.
>A girlfriend gave me a ton of very heavy cotton canvas.
>The planning and process gets me high.
>If you've ever stretched a 5 x 6 ft canvas
>feel free to give me advise !
and one other thing i love about digital is NO STRETCHING CANVASES!
it's a monumental pain in the ass. i did it all the time in art
school. messed up most of the time since even as a thin person back
in those days i was not physically fit, and you kind of need to be to
get the thing to not be too loosely hung to paint on properly.
make sure you pull the canvas VERY tight and fasten with a strong
staple gun, not nails.
demitria monde thraam
psychotextrician & pixellatrix
& recreational insomniac
http://involution.org
rosenose
> my artist life was thoroughly renovated and reinvigorated by the
> digital art revolution.
>
fun stuff !
>
> lots of people disdain the digital painting medium, on the grounds
> that it does not let the artist get his/her/its "hands dirty" in the
> medium, and does not create original works of art but instead just
> meaningless copies.
>
to get involved in whatever way they can !!
>
> also, there is that wonderful thing called
> "UNDO"
> which in recent revisions of painting software has been adapted to the
> "HISTORY FUNCTION"
> -now, not only can you undo what you just did, but what you did 45
> minutes ago, or any other stroke you made. you can go back to exactly
> where the piece went wrong and correct its course.
>
>
> also, thinking of acrylic canvases reminds me of a pain i used to go
> through with oil and acrylic painting. the oils dried too slow,
> making me have to wait for days after screwing up a painting to paint
> over the screw up if it was not the kind i could just wipe clean...and
> the acrylic would dry too fast to get good blends going. the slow-dry
> polymer helped a tiny bit but often compromised the opacity.
>
love these first hand testimonials !
thank you monde !
***
JayDee
>will the wonders never cease?
I see Bryce has come-along
Corel...
I'm looking-for 4.0, since I already have the crack/upgrade