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Any painters on here (and I don't mean gloss and emulsion).....
Any painters on here (and I don't mean gloss and emulsion).....
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Haven't done people since life drawing........
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Just showing live on the Scottish news there - the Mackintosh building is on fire, at the Glasgow School of Art...
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So all the students have lost their wet weather gear then!
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Described as a "major blaze" - you can see the fire burning through the window...everyone has been evacuated.
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The fire was reported at 12.30 this afternoon and it's still going...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27541883
Photo of the fire... |
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Tragic occurrence....just shocking to see!
Hard to imagine how the students feel with all of their hard work destroyed! |
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hard work and students ????
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hard work and students ????
You clearly never were one then! I gave up my position (lead guitar) in a group (band) because aside from a five day week, we had two night classes which conflicted with mid week bookings. How do you think a student such as my son graduates as a 2:1 in mathematics which is a notoriously difficult subject, and my daughter got a first in "Multi- Media", and when not at uni was here with me, and on the PC in every hour that God sent. They are not all dossers and ****s but just know how to party! |
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....to$$ers
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This is how hard James worked at uni..............
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4elEayM0Fs |
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Here is the little picture that I used.....
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very good aunty ,by the way there are some up and coming painters selling their wares on ebay just now ! I particully like the" northern art " its affordable and could increase significantly in value ,not fortunes at the moment, but good , affordable, and some of them have potential to increase significantly in the future imo , worth a look !
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It's interesting to look at the photo and the painting. People seem to accept that the photo represents "reality" but it doesn't.
About 95% of students in art schools still use photos as reference material...did you just paint this freehand or square up or what? One of the best things you can do is take a black and white photo of your painting...or even take a black and white photocopy of the original photo...and you can make a scale of tonal values, from the darkest point to the lightest point. IMO, that photo is uninspiring - very mundane, like it was culled from a faded 1970s recipe book. The very best thing you can do, as a painter, is make up a colour book -- just patches of colour glued into a scrap book -- you know, cut out from leaflets and magazines, etc. and then you try to match those colours with little colour charts done in acrylics or oils or whatever you are using. |
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I draw freely first but use a straight edge for lines such as the box
I did a largish one for my daughter, in colours that she requested, and I wish I had kept a record of it in the pencil, as it looked so good! |
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There's a square of highlights in the photo - you can see the light striking the tops of the stalks of the marrows or squashes or whatever they are.
You might have heard of these painters, but it's worth looking at artists like Lovis Corinth and Anders Zorn...and Valentin Serov...they are terrific painters and not as famous as they should be. There is a lovely fluidity about the way they paint and they have a great sense of tone and colour. "Girl with Peaches" by Serov is just beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqxPhvzWkQ Anders Zorn video. |
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One more post before I go to Tesco...
There's a tradition of "belle peinture" in Scotland, with guys like JD Fergusson, Peploe, Cadell etc. and there are a lot of very commercial painters up here, painting in high key colours and lovely, fluid brushwork...a recent one was John Cunningham - see johncunningham.org for examples. This is the sort of thing that is very commercial - doctors, lawyers and tv presenters buy it...  IMO, if you paint for another year or two and really devote time to it, you will sell stuff. But you have to be clear about what you are doing. There's never been a better time to be a painter, with digital photography and the Internet. |
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What I will NOT be buying at Tesco : squash, marrows, courgettes, etc.
What I WILL be buying at Tesco : beer, Tunnock's tea cakes, Mars bars, batter mix, frying oil... |
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Vel, Tunnocks teacakes, Mars bars and all sorts of other wonders are much cheaper in B&M and Poundland than they are in Tesco.
You'd be amazed at the food bargains in B&M in particular! |
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You can buy a 530g fridge pack of Blue Dragon Chow Mein stir fry sauce in B&M for 99p - enough for stir frying 5 portions of vegetables in!
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- that's 20p a throw. The single packets (110g) of the same sauce are 69p a packet in Tesco.
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Tommy - you know I like a bargain...I was in B and M last week...bought some condensed veg soup, 2 packs of screws and panel pins
 ...a burnt wooden wheel for ten quid...a yellow plastic goblet for 69p...a big yella bowl...some black markers...wood glue...some string...it was like the feckin' Generation Game going through the checkout. |
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Hahaha!! I'll bet!
I've seen those 'burnt wooden wheels' Vel. It's to be hoped you had a wheelbarrow handy to cart it home in! |
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I've got all these zips and pockets - ah couldnae find ma stash o' pound coins and held up the checkout for a good two minutes...unconfined joy...
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Hehe!
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Sparky has been telling me bout it (B&M) for years but I've only recently ventured into the place. I can't believe how cheap they are on all sorts of stuff. I didn't know what I'd been missing!
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I've painted the burnt wheel Kingfisher Blue - very nice. Can't understand why they're burning them - the charcoal ash stuff covered my jacket. Just a layer of extra annoying sh1te to contend with. It's obviously going to come off the first time it rains, anyway.
It's about half a mile away, in an industrial estate...I shall return...  |
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The one in Hanley (main town around here) is in a very handy place for the bus station and car parks, so it's very accessible.
I'll bet they do a bomb from customers here. I must say, I liked the look of the wooden wheels myself - and very cheap at the price. I suppose they burn them to make them look interesting? |
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What if...they sell burnt stuff from the Glasgow School of Art...
Right, I'm off now...for sure...they are saying on the Scottish News that 90% of the building is still structurally sound... |
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Yes, it's good news - and they've saved most of the contents too.
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Nice paintings Aunty... like the first 2..some talent.
I know a few artists...to be seen on a friday & saturday nights only !  |
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It looks like the door frame on the left in no.2 could do with some paint on it.
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Very well observed Jack.
There is so much natural wood in my house that it's like a tree house. Same externally as I am not ready to live in a plastic house, so all the windows were custom made, and are natural inside and black outside, with "Antique Pine" openers. At least I didn't post a picture with my reflection in the buff, in a mirror, as some have done! Eg....... [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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I dressed him in some matching pink panties to get it passed the mods.....
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Sorry Jack, I thought you were talking about my door frame!
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I would imagine there are plenty of "artists" on here, not neccesarily of the paint variety tbh.
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