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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited November 2011

    Sunflower...I'm going to sound like a broken record. Let's see your stuff. We will not say bad things. Would you like some good critiques? That's how we learn.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2011

    Sunflower, THANKS for the links!!! I liked that guy and the bottom woman's work only, really. They are more my style. But, like artsee says, show us your stuff!! I get so inspired by other people's uses of colour.....we're not here to critique, but to admire.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2011

    I have so little "finished" - really, just studies, playing - and I still haven't figured out how to use the damn digital camera ;-))))

    Barbe -  Wolf Kahn  is my FAVORITE - I love his work.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited November 2011

    Sun...he is a very colorful painter. I do love his stylized trees. I love, love to paint trees myself.

    Do you need help with the digital camera? I'll bet some of us are good at it and get you out of a bind.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2011

    I'v taken a course, and let's just say I'm "digitally challenged"  ;-)  I LOVED my Olympus OM2 which I used since 1976.  After bc diagnosis, I decided to replace with Canon SLR - some day, I'll concentrate enough to learn....

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2011

    OMG I just watched that pan pastel drawing video of the sunset!! I think I'm about to spend a LOT of money!!!!!!! Yikes!!! BUT, it does look like make-up sponges can be used...dollar store anyone???

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2011

    NO NO NO  MAKEUP SPONGES ARE DIFFERENT!  Barbe, these sponges are SO durable, flexible.

    Go to Dick Blick - the Pan Pastel 20 Painters set - will give you every color.  I also bought a Paynes Gray t make more tints - every other color is derived from those basic colors.The sponges are cheap and SO, SO, SO worth the small price - also the tools - with little sponges you put on them -

    It is SO painterly, sensual, NO DUST, easy to blend on the sponge or paper - makes me SMILE to look at the pastels.  MAKE SURE TO GET A TRAY - they come "stacked" and you'll want to keep them all displayed flat - 

    did you watch the Deorah Secor video, that's the sunset I think -  the pan pastels are SO much more economical than the soft 'sticks" - you use very little, only need the smallest "swipe' on the pastel to get the color.

    Also check out the Colour Shapers - rubber tipped tools for blending...

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2011

    I want EVERYTHING to do with them Sun!!! I can get a set of 20 for $75....then I'd add a tone set, rather than the tint set. My work will probably be moodier...Then of course, I would need the paper, and a larger easel...!!!!! Santa! Sant!! I've been REAL good!!!!

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited November 2011

    Barbe.....It's called a wish list. But you have to let people know. Christmas is near and you deserve them. EVERYTHING.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2011

    Barbe - the 20 set us usually $69. at Dick Blick.  More you buy, higher the discount.  The tools come in a set - very worthwhile - and the Large Oval Sponge is HEAVENLY.  As are the spnge wedges - definitely not makeup sponges -  but that was MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO!!!! ;-))  Great minds....

    Paper - Canson Mi-Tientes (sp?) somes in wonderful colors - I buy it in pads.  Use the smooth side. Sometimes I prep the paper with GOlden Acryllic Grounds for Pastels - but Pan Pastels really don' t need that tooth.  SO much cheaper than buying the already sanded papers.  Use a gesso bruch, or a sponge brush ( cheapo craft shop, Michaels, ACMoore)  Get the Golden at Dick Blick.

    Just placed another order with Art Supply Warehouse http://www.aswexpress.com/ to buy the Art Spectrum COlorfix ( clear) Primer.  Will use on the colored paper, and plan to add bits of acyrllic paint to make my own colors.  Think it's a finer grain than the Golder Ground, even tho I do mix the Golden with water b4 using.

    LOVE LOVE LOVE the Color Shapers - set of 5 soft for soft pastels, set of 5 FIRM for oil pastels

    Have you checked out the website Wet Canvas.  Great threads with good info.  I keep trying to "register" but get an email saying I'm already registered, and still can't post.  So, I techied something wrong ;(  Still you can access all the threads.

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  • thenewme
    thenewme Member Posts: 1,611
    edited June 2012
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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    Very cool stuff above.I can see where that would be meditative.

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  • thenewme
    thenewme Member Posts: 1,611
    edited June 2012

    Thanks, Artsee!  Here's another:

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    thenewme - I LOVE THEM - and hope to see them on Etsy soon.  Does your website have a link  to Etsy?

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  • kenyohunt1
    kenyohunt1 Member Posts: 53
    edited December 2011

    Soooo glad to have found this thread thanks to being lead here. I enjoy various kinds of crafts but mainly do cards, junk journals, make charms, stampinf, cricut projects just completed a memory book for my sister her mother just passed away in June. So glad to get to meet all of you. Hoping that crafting will help see me through all of the treatment to come. Oh I just bought a new slr camera earlier in the year so we shall see. Right now I am learning to work with copic markers.

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited December 2011

    I've been following this thread since Sunflowers started it and just wanted to tell all of you how much I love it!!!  You guys are so talented!

    I throw pottery a little and have recently started doing mosaics.  Are any of you into either of those?

    I don't have any pictures of my work to share but I'll try to take some soon.  I do have lots of pictures of my landscape design, which I'm constantly working on, but I don't think that exactly fits in with the works of art you all have posted.

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited December 2011

    PlantLover, a well designed landscape is a work of art. There are so many famous gardens that wouldn't exist without landscape artists.What peace and joy the rest of us can find in those gardens that are open to the public.  Well designed landscape can be art on private property just as much as a painting is art in a private home. 

    I'm not a gardener - my Father used to say I have a green thumb, gangrene!  There is a Seattle gardening show that I usually watch because they often feature a famous local landscape artist and I enjoy seeing his work so much.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2011

    I love mosaic too!! Once, I did the riser steps of my home in a mosaic design and had the stair itself carpeted. Once I discovered mastic, I was truly in love!! I did tiling around a fireplace, the bathroom floor and back-splash and the kitchen back-splash too!! I had a grand plan to do a mosaic garden against the side of our house where the patio was. I didn't do it in case it turned out bad. As much as I love mastic, I know it holds forever!!

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    Well the artist group that I belong to had their 1st annual Holiday Art sale and auction. It was Friday night and all day Saturday. We had 240 pieces of art and I'm happy to report I sold 10 watercolors and a ton of note cards that I made from original paintings. It was such a huge success and fun as well. Food, drinks and music...think we'll do it again next year. Now I have to get my butt to painting because my house is kind of bare.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    Plant Lover - LANDSCAPE DESIGN..oh, be still my heart, thump, thump thump - one of my all time favorite art forms.  Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jeykl - Sissinghurst, Hidcote Manor are two of my favorite places in the world - and Vita S-W writings about designing Sissinghurt still inspire me. "Capability" Brown, is responsible for much of what we know ( and some of us love) about Great Britain. A friend taking a Botanical Drawing & Art Class with me is a landscape designer - we all "tease" her she's "cheating" cuz she's SO GOOD at illustrating

    Kenyohunt1 - "junk journals" - I'm so interested in creating "visual journals" -a dear friend sent me Danny Gregory's An Ilustrated Life.  I find it fascinating to see how so many people "ullustrate" their lives. Really a good book - I had it on my mental wish list - and my friend must be a mindreader ;-)))

     Note Cards - went to a Craft Fair this weekend - and so many talented people had created notecards from their work.  Artsee - do you use your own color printer????  I'm still trying to figure out which one to buy - my old ( very old Canon Pixma 500 MP is on life support!)

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    Time to give this a little BUMP.

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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited December 2011
    Thanks, artsee!  I have been so fatigued that I have just not been able to create much art lately, but last weekend I had a couple of friends and 2 little girls over on Saturday afternoon, and we did watercolor pencils, Twinkling H2O's, and glue glitter cards, some on white, some on black! We had a wonderful time - hope to do it again soon.  Not exactly fine art, but such a lot of fun.  The little girls are home-schooled and their mother doesn't do art with them, so they were just loads of fun!  Smile  (Unfortunately, took 4 days to recuperate, but well worth it!)
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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    Linda..that sounds wonderful. I'll bet the kids really loved it, and I'm sure they will remember the Sat. afternoon for a long time. It's amazing what those little minds remember and how wonderful of you to think of doing it with them,even through  your fatigue. Good for you!!

    My one daughter -in - law home schooled for about three years and she did amazing things with them for art. Their HS group also was very fortunate to have a retired art teacher volunteer his time and give the whole group art classes. After her fifth child my son said they were going to Christian school. The last two were 1 year old and a newborn. She said she could keep homeschooling but we all know how hard that would be with 2 babies and 3 school aged kids.

    They love it at the 'real' school now.

    I started a new watercolor this afternoon. When I'm done with it I'll post it. Haven't been able to get into the mood since my 'mentor' passed away last month. I do need to paint as there are several exhibits that I want to enter in the new year.

    Thanks for posting.

    Artsee

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2011

    Santa DID buy me pan pastels!!!!

    They are in a bag under the lights with a pad of special coloured paper, some extra foam shapes and 25 pans in total!!! I also have a tabletop easel on order....woo hoo!!! Merry Christmas to ME!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    YEAH, SANTA - I can't wait to hear how you LOVE that LARGE OVAL SPONGE - and I hope Santa also bought you the 24 pan holder - which he forgot to get for me when I got them!!!  Makes it SO much easier, to have this clear tray with ALL of them available at once - not having to unscrew all those tops!  For those buying PAN PASTELS, the sets come in stacks of 5, they screw into each other, with a screw on top.  The flat plastic tray holders are sold separately, and make using them SO MUCH EASIER.

    Which tabletop easel is Santa getting you? Mine is the Lypus Richeson, and BOY, is it heavy!  Find I am using more of the Dick Blick "boards" with the paper taped to it.  Will go to the website so I can link.http://www.dickblick.com/products/hardboard-panels/ 

    I love these  - CHEAPO, durable, all sizes, can have several projects going on at once, useful in all media - well, I don't use acrylic or oil, so I don't know about that....

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    Good for you...and Merry Christmas. I wish I knew your Santa, but I think I must have his cranky brother that stops over her. :(

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2011

    I got an easel with the box under it to hold supplies. Table top. It's heavy. Then I bought a sheet of masonite and tape to hold down my paper. This easel has the top clip as well as the bottom slot for the masonite. It's hard not to open the bag!!! I didn't know about the empty pan to hold the small pans. It makes sense. I'll have to see if I want the 10 or 20 pan holder. I'll know once I start working with them. I got the 5 set as gray tones. I want to try those heavy storm clouds.....!!

    Boxing day here I come!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    I use one of those easels sometimes too.  And agree, it sure is heavy.  I stopped taking it to my class.

    AND, barbe, I think you'll find that with the white, gray, black that comes in the 20 set - you really can make so, so many tones.  Easier with what you've got - I bought one "extra" gray.  

    The thing about those DB hardboard panels for me, is they're SO CHEAP, and so many different sizes, I can keep several projets going at once in my very very very small living space.

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited December 2011

    Artsee ... thanks for bumping this thread!  I missed the last few posts.

    chabba ... "a green thumb, gangrene"  Aww, I'm sorry but that's kinda funny.  I bet I could hook you up with some plant ideas that you'd be able to grow.

    barbe ...  What is mastic?  Wow, you've done a lot!  I'd love to see pics of your work, I bet it's beautiful!.  I'm starting small.  Candle holders, stepping stones, etc ... 

    Okay ... I'll try to come back soon and post some pictures.  Right now I have to clean my messy house and wrap presents.  I'm soooo behind this year.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited December 2011

    After Christmas I hope we'll see all kinds of neat stuff....from the great gifts some of us are getting. NOT ME.

    Sunflower..I'm sorry but totally skipped and forgot your question on printers. I have 2 ink jet printers ( hp and hp photo-smart) I wanted to perfect the note-cards even more so I decided to stick $$ into a Lazer printer. That one is nice however I cant seem to get thicker card stock for it. The card stock for the ink jets are nice and firm. If anyone has any ideas or knows of a good stock place let me know.

    Thanks

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