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No pictures from Hank
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Great thread, keep em coming.
Would love to be able to draw/paint to that standard or even close. Has it given you the motivation to get drawing again Diva? |
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lol MD I will, but I have to take the pics and upload yet, prob be on tomorrow - don't get your hopes up about the quality though
 and yeah that is Hank Jr from a while ago |
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oh, and Dstyle good to see you! yeah I am trying to get the lad to draw along with me. Will take some effort as he gets easily frustrated - not sure where he gets that from...
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Thanks, Hank
 Yes, Aka, this thread has made me think about drawing again. I regularly do colouring with a group of adults with learning disabilities  So you could say that I get paid for my artwork   |
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Must be like a busman's holiday for you on here, MD
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Foinavaon made a great point earlier.
Don't try and draw the lines. try and draw the negative space. the area around an object not the object. Best thing you can do is mess the paper up slighty at start. Get energy into your drawings. Try holding the pencil in your fist. mix it up. Don't be too precious about the paper. Oscar knows.  |
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"Must be like a busman's holiday for you on here, MD
"That's very good Crags! I have to say that the folks I work with are a lot smarter than some chit chatters |
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Walter Matthau. That's excellent, Zorro.
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This painting of a famous sculpture was drawn from photographs. Gouache on watercolour paper.
Does anyone recognise the sculpture and it's creator?  |
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Foinavon, I'm afraid I don't recognise it but you've definitely captured something dramatic. Impressive isn't a good enough word.
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I agree with Galivanter.
But all of you guys who have posted have impressed me. |
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is it a group in a lottery syndicate that forgot
to put on their ticket the week their numbers came up ? |
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Thanks Gallivanter and Flowermyth for your very kind comments.
The sculpture represents a dramatic event in history where six noblemen offered themselves for execution in order that the lives of their fellow citizens be spared. Several copies of the original were made and one can be seen in London close to the Houses of Parliament. I won't give the answer just yet in case someone else knows what it represents. |
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Very good Zorro, it could well be.Why is the cat looking so sad Crisp, is he waiting for dinner? Keep them coming. |
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thought it was the death of a greek teacher like
socrates or homer? or the apostles grieving for christ? or the tories weeping at the departure of cameron from office. |
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Is it about McDonalds opening at a port in North France?
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It's not religious at all and represents a heroic event in history.
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Northern France - getting warm.
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good example of figures in a field of depth.
a lot of art is diagram like. my ink portraits don't show any depth - two figures would show depth if one was behind the other. you really need to think out your composition, before you start. nice painting. gouache was used by one of my teachers for poster work. It's best for flat solid areas. Acrylic paint or oil paint would be better. |
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the Fall of Edinburgh to the hipsters?
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burgher this, i think crisp has it in a slightly obtuse way
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The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin
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jollyswagman just beat me - nah - i googled it.
sculptures within parliament. |
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Can't use oils Zorro. After a lifetime of working in the chemicals industry I am allergic to the solvents.They bring on my asthma terribly. Acrylics tend to gum up the brushes after very little use no matter how hard you try to keep them clean so the only opaque media available to me are gouache and pastels.I know acrylics are very popular these days so I might give them another chance one day.
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Well done guys. Yes, Crisp had it but I was a bit slow on the uptake with his cryptic clue
Here is a photo from the same angle that I used.The difficulty was judging how the light falls on the figures in order to get the drama into the image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais |
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saw a film twenty years ago with Gerard depardieu,
Camille Claudel he plays Rodin in it. Isabelle Adjani was in it too? never noticed anything of interest in it. bbc showed - the kiss, on open uni program. kept repeating it. they would go round the sculpture in circles. |
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Well I'm even more impressed, I prefer your painting. I had in mind some white statues in a similar light to your painting that you'd essentially copied. You've really made a convincing painting out of it for my money.
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i thought i had breathing problems a few years ago.
figured out i was leaving turps open to the air. sleeping in same room. evaporating. found Acrylics easy to use if you rinse quickly in water. I use cheap brushes from WHSith - dozen for £5. sick of ruining good brushes by forgetting to clean them. Sable brushes turning to mulch is not a good thing. Acrylics are commonly mistaken for oil nowadays. most people can't tell the difference. |
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Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
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To be fair Flowermyth, I looked at lots of photos of the statues not just that one. Took me about a month to do last summer.
On a lighter note, I spotted Tommy Toes recently, taking early morning refreshment in the Horse Box...  |
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This is about my standard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZl04UV7ANc |
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sculpture beats painting's brains in.
i kept some chisels i was going to sell a few years ago - medical chisels - real quality tools. Was going to try sculpture. but i've got enough mess in my flat to contend with. I think Michelangelo thought that painting was a waste of his time. a distraction. Can see his point when you see something like the Pietà. |
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Awesome - IT crowd is brilliant.
my dad watches Dragon's Den. their episode with Moss and his cool bra had me in fits. |
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Those men in turmoil is -- "The Desolation of the Celtic Bench In Gibraltar."
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Barnett Newman : "A sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting."
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sir with all due respect
horse radish. |