pictures....

[Atalante]

if anyone is remotely interested (especially anyone who likes Tolkien), I've
posted my new picture up at
http://www.polarisbear.clara.co.uk/tolkart_trees_valar.html

the scan isn't the best - my scanner is old and a bit saggy, but it'll do
till I can afford a new one!

it's not a brilliant picture, but it's the most creative i've been for a
while.....

Becks x

P.S. don't say anything about the web site - it was bunged together tonight
and will be smarted up soon! and I haven't even checked it works under
netscape yet :)

[Caffeine]

Sweet! I like to paint and draw but I don't have any real talent.

Works under Opera .. Just so you know..

Kellie

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Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[@invalid.com jake]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:09:08 -0000, "Atalante" <pi...@clara.co.uk>
wrote:

>if anyone is remotely interested (especially anyone who likes Tolkien), I've

>posted my new picture up at
>http://www.polarisbear.clara.co.uk/tolkart_trees_valar.html
>
>the scan isn't the best - my scanner is old and a bit saggy, but it'll do
>till I can afford a new one!
>
>it's not a brilliant picture, but it's the most creative i've been for a
>while.....

I disagree it IS brilliant IMO

>
>Becks x
>
>P.S. don't say anything about the web site - it was bunged together tonight
>and will be smarted up soon! and I haven't even checked it works under
>netscape yet :)

Yes I will say something about it. It looks like its going to be
great!

>

"In its recent infatuation with symptomatic, push-button remedies,
psychiatry has lost its way not only intellectually but spiritually
and morally. Even when it is not actually doing damage to the people
it is supposed to help,it is encouraging among doctors and patients
alike the fraudulent and dangerous fantasy that life's every passing
'symptom' can be clinically diagnosed and, once diagnosed, alleviated
if not eliminated by pharmacological intervention."

Paul R. McHugh

[Colleen]

Wow! What medium did you use! I love the detail in the piece. Do you
illustrate? You'd be great at it!!
c

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[Atalante]

it's just pencil - my husband gave me a set of 120 caran d'ache pencils for
christmas and i'm using them all the time at the mo!

i'd love to do illustration - i've been thinking for the last year or so how
to take my art forward. the only good thing that's come out of my BP over
the last 2 years is rediscovering art. It was my first love when I was
younger - i'd spend all day and all night with my sketch book in hand. then
when i was studying and working, i kind of forgot about it, but when i gave
up work 2 years ago, somehow some of my inspiration came back, and i spent
about 4 months solidly learning about celtic design and illumination (and
I've done calligraphy since i was about 6). now i'm just about feeling
confident enough sometimes to start designing again :)

thanks for you kind words on the pic! i've neevr really thought myself very
good at art, it's just something i've always done!

Becks x

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[Atalante]

thank you!

hopefully the web site should pull together quite well - it's just finding
the energy to do it!

becks x

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[@invalid.com jake]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:21:29 -0000, "Atalante" <pi...@clara.co.uk>
wrote:

>thank you!
>
>hopefully the web site should pull together quite well - it's just finding
>the energy to do it!

Oh I am sure you will have a burst of energy in your own time
unlike me :>((

I have had a free website as part of my ISP package for years now
and have never managed to set it up.
some sort of mental block I guess

I admire you artistic types so much

I am merely saying that it does not PROVE anything more
than the fact that sane human beings prefer freedom over
tyranny, and often a belief system/ideology is a way of
rationalizing that attitude.

Unfortunately, a belief system/ideology can be used for
the exact opposite as well -- by insane people.

Libertarius
=====================

[Atalante]

i wouldn't really count myself as artistic - maybe as a bit of a sideline,
but that's it - i'm definately a scientist at heart!

i admire people with common sense - that's one thing that's always eluded me
:)

becks x

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[Colleen]

Don't sell yourself short. You have a lot of talent. Art is also a good
source for healing and connecting to what is happening sub-consciously.
BTW Colored pencils are a great medium. I use acrylics on canvas. I've
been working seriously for about two years now. It is the one thing I can
do that keeps this BP brain focused.

c

(Be posting my new works soon.)

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[Atalante]

i love pencils - I've never really got the hang of paint :) i can mix
pencils perfectly to whatever colour i want, and paints always just end up
sludgy brown whatever i do with them!

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[Colleen]

Different artists like different mediums. I hate watercolor!!! Too fussy
for me. I like to be able to slather on paint and have it dry in a few
minutes. I change my mind a lot while working so acrylics work great. If I
don't like what I'm doing, I just paint over it and start again. Some of my
paintings have 3 or 4 other painting underneath.
c

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[Atalante]

i also do a lot of work in ink - most of my celtic illumination and design.
that's fun too, but it is *so* hard to find paper that won't bleed under the
onslaught of inks!

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[Caffeine]

Try using water color pencils, pretty good..you can use a little water to
blend the colors smoothly

Kellie

--
Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

[Caffeine]

Hey, the Mona Lisa and The Picassos all have paintings underneath

Kellie

--

[Caffeine]

My Art teacher had us use Water Color blocks when we did ink, maybe try
that. I can't get the pressure right with ink...I always end up just
dripping it around the paper and ending up with a J. Pallok print.

Kellie

--

[Atalante]

mmm, most of my pencils are watercolour pencils, then I can play if I want
to :)

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[Caffeine]

I like those alot.

I can't use Oil paints for nothin', Watercolors aren't bold enouph for me,
I like Acrylics alot but I'm still trying to figure out what my style is.
Mostly, I just do black and white sketches and colored Pencil drawings
(cartoon style).

I can't draw facial features for the life of me. Eyes, Nose and Mouth...I
draw alot of aliens.

Kellie

[cassady]

youve all really inspired me, i used to be good at art once, i have a level
art and photography, i think maybe i should take it up again i love to draw,
pencil is my favourite medium.

cass

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[cassady]

i used to paint glass and sell it at craft fairs....
also jewellery
cass

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[cassady]

i went to see damien hursts cows in the tate gallery a few years ago....they
were surprisingly stunning

cass

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[Caffeine]

I am planning on oing to the galleries in DC while im away this weekend,
that usually gets me in the mood to do some painting.

Kellie

[Atalante]

I didn't see those, but I've seen his work in Quo Vadis restaurant - lots of
fish skeletons!

becky

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[Atalante]

did go to see the Frank Auerbach exhibition in the RSA last year - that was
***incredible***

becks

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[cassady]

hes got a gallery in east london somewhere i think..id like to visit him, im
not a big fan of contemporary art but he is inspiring....
cass

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[cassady]

i dont know who he is.......i havent been to a gallery for ages i love the
tate though, the william blake room is my favourite.
cass

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[Atalante]

i would find it very hard to describe his work. he paints in oils - and
paints a lot of faces - but he slaps on so much paint that the canvas almost
becomes a sculpture. Several of his paintings have inches thick paint. Some
are *very* disturbing, but most are simply amazing

i went to the exhibition as a friend wanted to go - i knew nothing about
him, and i didn't really expect to enjoy it that much, but i was absolutely
overwhelmed. the problem is now that it is very hard to see any of his
paintings - most are in private hands and the exhibition at the RA was the
first time all his paintings were hung together for many years.....

the RA link is http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/?lid=35

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,728542,00.html -
interview with him

becks

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[cassady]

wow striking.....i like
cass
oh by the way, i watched a programme about an american photographer a while
ago, he travelled around the country and persuaded the local people to be
photographed naked (in a non erotic way) in the local landscape, ive
forgotten his name but if anyone knows who im talking about id like to look
up his website.....

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[Atalante]

they are even more incredible in "real life" - some of them are something
like optical illusions - as you look at them from one way, they look just
like random blobs, then somehow they resolve themselves into faces or
landscapes or whatever.

and they are so touchable - though obviously you can't touch them! very
tactile

becky

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[cassady]

art is best when you see it in real life, some of dalis paintings they have
in the tate are amazing, never really got into his work though, too surreal
cass

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[TK]

Wow... that is so beautiful... I am really amazed you're not into this on a
professional level. You're really really good! *¤* :-D *¤*
thank you so much for sharing!!!
Do you have more...???????
Please???
TK

"Atalante" wrote

[Atalante]

not yet.... getting there - have decided to start a "silmarillion" series of
piccies - working on the second one at the moment!

thanks for your kind words :)

(((((TK)))))

Becks

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