What’s Your Art Style?

Do you have an eclectic style, or perhaps you don’t call it that, you just say it’s a mish mash that pleases you. Sculpture? Paintings? Classical modern post modern? Impressionist? Tell me about the artwork you own.

I build Cairns in the Desert. Assholes shoot them down, and Feral Horses rub against them and knock them down.

I’ve built 100’s of them. Most are gone, but my favorites are still standing, years against them. I dedicate some of the most impervious to distruction to people, and send them photos from time to time, if they are still living.

Or I rebuild them, and re-consecrate them. A Doper has one built in their honor. Guess who…

I also play drums. Badly. Can’t keep time, except for the most basic of 8 bar blues, played slowely. But I have fun making noise. Lots of beer involved.

90% hockey related, 5% aviation related, 5% my own art.

“I may not know art, but I know what I like.”

Like with most cultural things, I like the kind of things that I was into as a teenager. Somewhere in those formative years, you tend to make deep emotional attachments to different kinds of art that are available to you at that time, and no matter what happens to that art in the future, even if you go off the specific creator, the things you like as an adult later in life can almost always be traced back to those things you liked back then.

So though I don’t read comics anymore, the kind of comic art I like is not the superhero kind because I didn’t latch onto those as a teen. Instead I read funny comics or action sc-fi comics, and I prefer that art style over classic DC/Marvel stuff. And that pervades into the genre of movies and TV I like, and the kind of books I read.

And consequently, it also influences the kind of art I create too.

Though we are in a surfeit of geeky creative art right now, from actual painterly stuff through to stories and video games and music, I narrow it down to only a couple of types, and those have been consistent for me throughout my life.

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Whenever I drag Vaderling out to the desert south of town for an exploratory hike, I make sure to stack three or four rocks when we reach the turn around point, directly inspired by you, @Gatopescado So there’s that.

As far as what I was into as a kid, I was an “engineer”, tinker toys, lego, heck old ends of 2x4s (would have given an arm for an Erector Set). Art wasn’t a part of my world until I reached my later 20s. I collect what I like, it’s a mish mash. I do have some, carvings I’ve made. I suppose you could call them sculptures, not sure I would though. Not particularly good, but in another life with slightly different circumstances, I would be an artist, most likely a sculpture.

As for what we own - lots of prints by Ken Koskela - we first saw his works in a mall art show but we couldn’t afford them at the time. Some years later, we began buying them at a gallery in Annapolis, but that has since shut down. There are 6 large ones in our living room and 5 smaller ones in the hallway.

My own artistic endeavors are in clay and in yarn. I haven’t played in clay for some years, but I do have a wheel, a slab roller, and a kiln. I also knit and crochet afghans, lap robes, and other stuff. I wish I could paint, but I suck at it.

The art in my house is mostly my own stuff. Paintings I’ve done over the years. I haven’t made one in quite a while, but I have an idea for one that I want to do. It’ll be a landscape, corn field stubble as seen through a barb-wire fence in winter. I think I want a length of real barbed wire.

I think I know, and she’d love it.

Art nouveau. I would love to have lived in 1895 in some city in Belgium or country house in Catalonia.

Appears to be mostly folk art. In the narrower sense of the art/craft of non-industrial folkways, mainly European. Carpets, weavings, ceramics, basketry, ironwork and decoration of practical objects like furniture. I no longer make that many things but when I did, I worked in handbuilt stoneware, and pieced textiles, mainly.

Oh, I thought you meant the style of art we make. I exclusively draw in pencil, scratchy-looking outlines and details. Mechanical pencil, mostly unshaded. It’s pretty crappy, honestly. In the extremely rare cases where I want to color it I scan the pencil drawings and color them in digitally, while taking care not to reduce or clean up the scratchiness of the pencil lines. For examples of this ‘art’ (and a shameless plug), look at the covers of my books on Amazon.

As for what I decorate with, the answer is either “nothing at all” or “toys”. Mostly lego sets with the odd transformer here and there. Yeah, growing up has never been my thing.

No reason it can’t be both what you have and what you make.

Apparently, based on the typo in my last post, I am my own Pygmalion.

I really appreciate high realism and/or any painting or print of a land, town, or city-scape that I could imagine walking right into.

As for my own art (if you want to call it that) I used to really enjoy drawing and doodling, and I was reasonably good at it. I also enjoy noodling/improvising on my two six-string guitars (one electric and one electric-acoustic) and my recently purchased electric-acoustic bass guitar.

I have a lot of photography hanging on my walls. I never really set out to collect photographs, but it seems to have just sort of happened. A couple I got as gifts, but most I bought while traveling. Often times in touristy places you can find gift shops that sell works by local artists as opposed to the usually chintzy souvenirs. I usually try to buy something from those places, and I tend to gravitate towards photography, so I guess that’s what I like.

The second most common are reproductions of vintage ads, mostly from the art deco era. Most of them are travel related.

I’ve een trying to push my work abstractward, but my perfectionism won’t let me escape my photorealism by much.

As for art I like, I’m pretty focused on abstract expression these days