I have just started painting. Focusing mainly in acrylics and doing abstracts. WHy abstracts? Well for one i really enjoy them, for two, I can’t draw worth a damn.
So how many of you paint for fun/profit? What is your medium of choice? What cool tips/tricks have you used? Do you have any of your work on display anywhere?
As for me:
Working in acrylics on standard canvass
Abstracts / expressionism
I’ve started using opjects to distress the paint while still wet (forks, combs, etc) and just started using some molding paste to create some textural elements on the canvasses. I have a few other ideas I want to try out as well and will report back once I do (if anyone is interested).
I don’t have any pictures of my work yet but once i finish another one or two maybe i’ll post some.
Wow, it sounds like you’re having fun with all the textures and stuff with your paintings! Have fun with it! That’s great!
I haven’t painted in a few years because I need to set up a suitable studio (I “paint” digitally with Photoshop instead), but I’ve painted many a painting in my day.
I usually do portraits and have painted in oils, watercolors, acrylics, gouache (or however you spell it), and alkyds. I especially like alkyds. They’re kind of like a waxier, slightly less opaque oil paint (and they thin with paint thinner or turpentine), but they dry in about a day. I love alkyds. Oh, here’s an example of an alkyd portrait I did a while ago.
I’ve had my drawings and paintings (and ceramics as well) in art shows, galleries, etc.
I paint, landscapes, mostly. I guess, impressionist style (I can’t draw either :)) Its just little dabs of paint here and there, until it looks like something. I’ve never sold any paintings. I do stained glass for fun and (very little) profit.
I had some pieces (both paint and glass) on a friend’s website, but I guess he needed the space; they’re gone.
My son did non-representational work. He would glue stuff to canvas and paint over it. Some of it was quite fantastic. He also used a transfer technique where he mixed print images and painted images, making them play hide and seek.
What you’re doing sounds interesting. I think I’m too literal to do non-rep I try, and It come out looking like a landscape.
I’d love to see some of you pieces, do you have a website for them? I’m too computer impaired to do one myself.
Good luck, I hope you become rich and famous (unlike me, cool but neither rich nor famous . )
ANd Howdy to you neighbor. Actually I’m in Sammamish, but more people would know Redmond so that’s where I list myself as.
I don’t have anything up on a website yet since I haven’t taken any pics of my work. I hope to remedy that in the coming months.
I’m very much non-rep right now but i suppose some day i’d like to try something that looks like something. I do a lot of photography. Some of my photos can be seen here: http://mysite.verizon.net/res81yn5 there are 2 sets, general photos and then flowers and plantlife.
I’m just having a good time doing it, i never thought of my self as artistic but i’m having a very enjoyable time working on these. I’m very much inspired by Miro and Pollack, but i’d also like to try something a little mor Bacon or OKeefe.
I totally forgot to tell you, that painting is great! I’m jealous Maybe one day I will also be able to paint something that looks liek something. But for now color and flow will have to serve me where actual skill does not
I paint, pretty much anything goes for me, though I really like figures and landscapes. I like drawing and painting impossible things, like dragons or people with wings.
I use acrylics because oils give me a headache, though I prefer them. There’s something nice about being able to blend for days. Though much can be said for not having to wait days for the paint to dry.
I’m in school right now, just painting assignments now. Right now were doing impressionistic stuff, but I prefer realistic glazing. Glazing is the technique where you put the paint on in very thin alternating complimentary layers to get a really nice feeling of depth in the dark areas.
One of these days I need to get myself a digital camera and put my stuff online.
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I do a lot of photography. Some of my photos can be seen here: 
