Art

[TyphooToffee]

I meant to post this a while back. It's a watercolour I painted over forty years ago, then gave up.

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You gave up too soon, Cels

 

[TyphooToffee]

I have painted intermittently over the years, this is my interpretation of an image I found, hung in my office.

My Art Class organiser, sadly passed just last week, so this is for you Dave, for your inspiration ?

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Clever, colourful and very Woodstock, Dixie.

 

[TyphooToffee]

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A painting worth £740,000 has been ruined after a security guard drew two pairs of eyes on the faceless figures on his first day on the job.

The painting by artist Anna Leporskaya, called Three Figures, was on display in an abstract art exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The guard in his 60s was reportedly ‘bored’ and ended up doodling eyes with a ballpoint pen.

Police have launched an investigation into vandalism, which comes with a £395 fine or one year sentence to correctional labour.

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Experts are hopefully the piece can be restored to its former glory without any long term damage.

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Former glory?

 

[TyphooToffee]

I think he improved it…..

That's what I was thinking

 

[TyphooToffee]

Thanks mate....that one is all acrylic...started with thin washes then built it up to thick impasto........that best way I find to make calligraphic marks on top of acrylick and have it stand our is to use a watercolour round brush like a dip pen into Acrylic Ink.....the ink from Windsor and Newton is good though I prefer the Liquitex stuff if Im doing a lot of work

Whatever you used I like it. You wouldn't believe how much stuff I've bought in my attempts to find what works for me. Watercolour, acrylic, goauche, acrylic goauche, oils, water-soluble oils, pastels, charcoal, Inktense pencils, watercolour pencils, pastel pencils...

In the end I recently decided I'm just too ham-fisted to be trusted with anything other than coloured pencils (two of my best works are such anyway). I'm also too impatient to wait for paint to dry so realise I'll never make a watercolour or Inktense artist.

 

[TyphooToffee]

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Work in progress today

You could stop there, I like that as it is!

 

[TyphooToffee]

I may have posted this before. The drawing was done by ballpoint pen (not by me) which is pretty cool.

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It's amazing how good some ballpoint-pen artists are.

 

[TyphooToffee]

The other day I dug out all the pads and media - most of it hardly used - including work in progress forgotten about. It made me realise what a waste of money it was, trying to find out what did and didn't work for me, especially now I'm back to where I started, using coloured pencils.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl3mv7PoGRN/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

[TyphooToffee]

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Glad I saw that. I'm about to start a drawing that will have a lot of water droplets on it

 

[TyphooToffee]

Sculpture made entirely out of pencils
Artist: Richard Salamanca

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Now that's what I call coloured pencil art!

 

[JimmyJeffers]

 

[Cels]

Everton Brow - Steven Scholes (1962)


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[Rita_Poon]

Everton Brow - Steven Scholes (1962)

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Sir Ridley Scott no less...

 

[Bedfordblue]

Was at St Pete’s Salvador Dali museum yesterday and saw his Lincoln Illusion painting for the first time, really quite impressive. In person up close it looks like a load of squares (one of which has smaller version of Lincoln’s image in it), but from a distance or through a camera it’s an image of Lincoln.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Everton Brow - Steven Scholes (1962)

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Love this. Can never get buildings the way I want in paintings