CALLING ALL ARTISTS- Let's make an art gallery!

y'r welcome.

Crawfords, adding to your wish for an 'easy-peasy' chemo cycle. Glad you shared your self-portrait. Is that your artistic medium?

So much talent! What I have noticed is my scary diagnosis has super-charged my creativity and need for artistic outlets, I've taken to quilting, textiles, wall hangings, and furniture upholstery: apparently this spurt of a creative drive is a well-known evolutionary response to danger, a way to improve your odds of getting out of dangerous situations. So, when you recover a bit more, you may notice this, a least for me it was dramatic and seems to be persisting for a long time!!

Cure-ious,

I believe that is "Art Therapy". I, too have found myself making art ever since my surgery. Painting T-shirts, watercolour painting, beading, hand-sewing, embroidery; and now I am making a quilt by hand. Love it all.

GN is graphic novel, the "holy grail" of all cartoonists. I have one in mind but it would take years to draw. Maybe I should go for a short story first, huh?

My medium is Smith Micro's Clip Studio Paint EX, using custom brushes that I made, drawing on a small Wacom Intuos Pen/Touch but I disable the touch feature. It's a pretty old school setup but it works for me and is cheap (I am a cancer patient and all).

Today's cycle went easy-peasy... doc adjusted my meds and things just flowed a lot smoother... feeling much better after this infusion than the last. Hope I don't feel gnarly this weekend and next week. I think I may be getting the hang of this chemo thing. Of course if I feel bad later, I'll just marathon a bunch of cartoons and wait to feel better, haha!

Crawford'smom - I had to look those 2 things up, but not sure how they connect to each other.

Kathryn, your flowers are gorgeous

Community Art Project in Wicklow Town! 30 People each painting one part of a picture. DS and I took part.

I am taking the photo so am not in it.

We had a choice of paint, oil pastels or chalk. I did chalk.

My canvas is in the photo above. Second row up from bottom, it is the piece second from the right, mostly orange and blue.

DS had the piece directly above mine, with lots of masts and rigging.

Below is the finished picture with every canvas in. Pretty amazing how well they match up when put together.

No there was a big photo that was cut up into 30 equal pieces and then you each had to paint/pastel/chalk a rendition of your bit of the photo.

that's an interesting way to do a group paint feeling feline!! How much fun is that!

Well, I'm giving up on watercolor for now and taking oil painting lessons. This teacher is so good, it is said he can teach a monkey to paint!

My first and second (in progress) paintings. Only B&W for now.

It is so much easier than watercolor!!! Though I get a little queasy with "what am i breathing?"

I hope to do a forgery of this by spring (for the atelier's annual forgery show). Flaming June:

Yes, I have big ambitions, but I am so impressed with what this guy's students produce after only months of painting under him

QuinnCat, Ask your teacher about water soluable oil paint. I think it has a lot less of the smell and you don't need anything but water to clean up.

That's oil? Looks more like chalk- you have GREAT control!!!!

I have a huge copy (42x42") of that lady in orange that faces me every time I enter the house! I love that print.....

Great work, I remember you posting pics on some thread when it was just a few unconnected floral squares. You have done so much since. Lovely to see the finished (or you say almost finished) piece.

Hi everybody...I'm new to the forum. While I do not have cancer, nearly every female in my family has either beaten it or been taken from us too soon because of it. My maternal grandmother's story is amazing. She was diagnosed with BC at age 39 in the 1950s. She had a radical mastectomy, was terribly over-radiated and lost complete use of her left shoulder, arm and hand. It should have all been amputated. However, even though she was a chef and was left-handed, she never complained once. Ever. Instead, she would use her right hand to lift her left hand onto the carrot she was chopping just so she could hold it in place. She cut herself more times that I can tell her. She even caught on fire and didn't know it because her arm and hand were numb. Still never a complaint. I've always wanted to do more than just run a race in her honor (I do every year and the first year, my bib number was the last four digits of her phone number in order...I kid you not). As a way to be involved in October being breast cancer awareness month, my dad and I created breast cancer awareness note cards/stationery for the Etsy shop (The Enchanted Envelope) that we own. I thought maybe this would be a great place to tell you all about them. Maybe they will help provide encouragement to someone who is fighting this battle. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. My name is Mandy.