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Post by ragamuffin on Dec 7, 2010 13:10:21 GMT -5
altrusion: Sounds like an interesting project, you should post some updates, hehe. I also didn't see the EDIT 2 before now: I'd be honored! suburbanmyth: I very agree with this quote. Stealing or not, it doesn't matter as long as it's heartfelt. And you can't be truly original unless you know of EVERYTHING that's been done before, and you then manage to avoid it, so it's better to just aim for quality rather than originality.  |
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Post by suburbanmyth on Dec 12, 2010 4:17:17 GMT -5
Oh man, ragamuffin, I think I love you for this quote. And this: Stealing or not, it doesn't matter as long as it's heartfelt. = YES!!!! Honesty & Vulnerability. Those are my two aims in any artistic endeavour. Actually, just in life in general. Your post really made me feel loads better. (Thanks!) I tend to worry... Like a lot. So very silly of me. I've hit a weird-not-so-weird stand still with my video/drawing project lately. It's not-so-weird cause when I'm working on something specific (as opposed to random scribbling) it takes a LOT of my energy and I've had none to spare lately. I DID manage to finish a painting though. It was for a friend of mine and I'm rather happy with how it turned out, despite the fact that I ended up with red paint smeared all over my apartment. The damn cadmium red didn't dry for like Four Effing Months!!! WTF??? Anyways... yes. Oil on canvas (please ignore my crappy photography & the annoying glare) The Avian Admiral  |
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Post by ragamuffin on Dec 22, 2010 16:00:20 GMT -5
Especially the feather is lovely. The rest is good as well, but the colors are a bit strong for my tastes, and I think the face sticks out a bit too much (could be your intention?). Except for that I like it!!
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Post by czaravm on Dec 31, 2010 4:16:28 GMT -5
Did this last quarter for an art project. We had to create a typographical design, which was right up my ally as I was able to combine my love of sufjan with my love of the font helvetica! Let me know what you guys think. Attachments:
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Post by suburbanmyth on Jan 9, 2011 5:35:12 GMT -5
Especially the feather is lovely. The rest is good as well, but the colors are a bit strong for my tastes, and I think the face sticks out a bit too much (could be your intention?). Except for that I like it!! Awww, thanks, luv!!! I cannot help the intensity of the colours. I think it's because I work so often in b&w inky inkness that when I paint it's just like Exploding-Heart-All-Over-The-Canvas!!! I keep the subtleties for the details. Haha. And yah, although there is a pretty stark contrast, some of the delicate colouring in the face kinda got washed out by the flash. Oils are so lovely but they're also annoyingly reflective. I feel kinda icky for making semi-excuses for my painting. It just is. I like it. And I'm glad you appreciate some of it.  I was lucky enough to see an exhibit by Jack Shadbolt at the VAG (honestly, the fact that the Vancouver Art Gallery's acronym is a vagina, that's just... IDEK) but yah, and his paintings are so VIVID & INTENSE and I was just 'Woah!' so I think that influenced me when I was very young. My mum was taught by Mr. Shadbolt when she went to Emily Carr. Best Shadbolt quote = "If you put one more stroke of paint on that canvas I'm going to hit you!" She didn't. Moral of the story, sometimes you're too close to something to know when to walk away.  (I tend to get philosophical & ramble on about all aspects of Art+the-development-of-Society+Art-in-Politics+etc+etc when I'm drunk. 'No!!! Really??!!!' Why, yes. Yes, I do. I apologize profusely.) czaravm: I Like!!! What a cool project! and also your love of Helvetica... Yes.  |
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Post by ragamuffin on Jan 11, 2011 9:44:17 GMT -5
Whatever you fancy. Personally I tend to like softer colors (on the other hand I do love expressionism and such). Always when I paint I try to get a soft color when mixing the painting, but it always seem so much darker on the paper than it does when I mix it, so I've started to have more and more white in it 'just to make sure', but it never seems to be enough. Hehehe, fun isn't it. So I did this emu the other day, and I am really happy with it <:  |
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Post by Alea on Jan 16, 2011 23:55:41 GMT -5
Love this thread! I feel the visual arts aren't as appreciated as performance arts, though I do love both.
I do a lot of painting and drawing, besides being musical - I actually think I'm stronger visually than musically. I don't have any art up on the internet as of right now, but I'm thinking of making a flickr or something; where do you guys recommend I post my art? I'm currently actually trying to master the violin so I can have a violin-off with Owen next time he comes to Vancouver, ha!
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Post by dannyboy on Jan 17, 2011 1:33:01 GMT -5
I like that emu. Reminds me of Big Bird. Also, it strikes a chord in my heartstrings, as #2 on the list of favorite animals of Dan is the ostrich- a cousin of the emu.
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Post by ragamuffin on Jan 17, 2011 12:48:28 GMT -5
^Cool, then you might like my picture of an ostrich that sort-of accompanies the emu. (I started the ostrich, then I did the emu, then I finished the ostrich. And originally, they weren't supposed to resemble each other).  I do have a deviantArt, but I don't particularly like it - I only have it to have somewhere to upload it too. flickr is probably a better option I'd guess, or make a blog of some kind. I believe that tumblr-blogs has a better layout, or possibilities, to make an art-blog, at least as far as I've seen. |
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Post by dannyboy on Jan 18, 2011 0:58:20 GMT -5
D'aw @ostrich |
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Post by suburbanmyth on Jan 18, 2011 23:55:47 GMT -5
Hey Alea! Yayy for another Vancouver fan on this forum! I'll be seeing ya at the next show. I have an art website hosted on my sister-in-law's server... but it currently quite sucks. I haven't really done any work at all on it. So yah, unfortunately I'm not really qualified to be helpful in that area. bleh. Love the emu & ostrich, ragamuffin!!! Are you using acrylics when you paint? Cause I've found they tend to darken & dull once they dry. I'm sure there's a medium you could probably add to your paint though but maybe you should just switch to oils. If that's not what you're already using, haha. OH! And I wanted to recommend the Derwent watercolour pencils since you like soft, blendy colours. My friend uses them, but just dry - don't add the water cause they're honestly not that great as watercolours - and he says they have a texture like butter. His art is all about the soft, blendyness as well. |
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Post by ragamuffin on Feb 3, 2011 18:03:18 GMT -5
Are you using acrylics when you paint? Cause I've found they tend to darken & dull once they dry. I'm sure there's a medium you could probably add to your paint though but maybe you should just switch to oils. If that's not what you're already using, haha. OH! And I wanted to recommend the Derwent watercolour pencils since you like soft, blendy colours. My friend uses them, but just dry - don't add the water cause they're honestly not that great as watercolours - and he says they have a texture like butter. His art is all about the soft, blendyness as well. I'm using acrylics, yeah. I'd like to try something else though. I'll try to get hold of something oil something. Thanks for the recommendations (: I also thought I would try out something else to paint on as I'm not particularly fond of canvas (I usually paint on paper), so I tried to get some plates of wood, but I went around for hours and couldn't get hold of anything. I haven't done anything in a while (I think I was too happy with my ostrich and got depressed and thought that I'd never manage to top it. I'm rarely happy with the things I make, but I got really happy with that. In addition I have these really strong ups and downs, so in periods I'm just really unproductive and tired and depressed. I think I must be bipolar or something, lol). BUT I did this cat the other day, which I think turned out o.k. It's very much in the same vein as the emu. I'm thinking I'll add some color to the white wall and the floor also - I hope that won't ruin it. In my head it looks nice. Oh, and my scanner sort-of ruined this. It looks really different from the original. It ruins anything pencil in fact, but those birds were less distorted as a lot of them were drawn stronger.  |
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Post by ragamuffin on Feb 15, 2011 12:56:29 GMT -5
 Here's another emu, and I like how this turned out as well! Perhaps I should start solely drawing emus. |
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Post by suburbanmyth on Feb 19, 2011 3:30:36 GMT -5
Oh man, ragamuffin, I love these!!! And yes, "A Series of Emu in Blue" or.. well, pink? Series are fun! Btw, what IS the plural for emu(s)? "Emus"? "Emu"? "Emui"? A murder of Emu? err... right. I especially LOVE Yawning Kitty!! Besides the gorgeous fur (and CUTENESS!!!!) the composition on that one is really great. I'm using acrylics, yeah. I'd like to try something else though. I'll try to get hold of something oil something. Thanks for the recommendations (: I also thought I would try out something else to paint on as I'm not particularly fond of canvas (I usually paint on paper), so I tried to get some plates of wood, but I went around for hours and couldn't get hold of anything. You don't like canvas?? I painted on a skateboard blank once and that was kinda fun. How about just like 'found' materials? My mum-in-law sometimes goes to this recycling place & paints on cupboard doors and they already have a kind of built-in frame... I dunno. *shrugs* Find something flat! Smear paint on it! Yes!! I totally understand with the ups and downs thing. Maybe it's even necessary in some strange way. Sometimes the weirdest things stop me from creating. Like, I'll have the picture in my head, or at least the idea, and I somehow think I can't draw it. Or I can't draw it RIGHT! I can, but my head argues with me and so I just don't put pen to paper for a long while.. or until I tell my brain to shut up and let me draw! Stupid. Luckily I always end up winning arguments with myself. And I've got a couple more drawings done for the video project that's been an Atlas-sized weight on my back for awhile now. There's 28 drawings/frames done for it now and there's oh, so many more to go! I don't know how to describe the story without the poem that it belongs to so I'll just post a couple of the drawings. There's a marionette. She breaks her strings but then turns into a beetle. But beetles fly, which is awesome. Fini! hahaha    |
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Post by Alea on Mar 2, 2011 2:10:51 GMT -5
So I did this painting of Owen - it's relatively small, the size of a normal sheet of paper. It's acrylic on canvas paper, which SUCKS to paint on, just a head's up. I was thinking of giving it to him when he plays in Vancouver this Friday but I'm not sure if it's overly creepy to give someone a painting of their face. What do you guys think? Attachments:
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I was lucky enough to see an exhibit by Jack Shadbolt at the VAG (honestly, the fact that the Vancouver Art Gallery's acronym is a vagina, that's just... IDEK) but yah, and his paintings are so VIVID & INTENSE and I was just 'Woah!' so I think that influenced me when I was very young. My mum was taught by Mr. Shadbolt when she went to Emily Carr. Best Shadbolt quote = "If you put one more stroke of paint on that canvas I'm going to hit you!" She didn't. Moral of the story, sometimes you're too close to something to know when to walk away. 
(I tend to get philosophical & ramble on about all aspects of Art+the-development-of-Society+Art-in-Politics+etc+etc when I'm drunk. 'No!!! Really??!!!' Why, yes. Yes, I do. I apologize profusely.)
