Art

[TyphooToffee]

I haven't got the patience to paint a ceiling like that in the Sistine Chapel. It must take ages.

During tour of a monastery in Germany we were told that the similarly painted dome ceiling we were looking up at wasn't a dome at all. It was a flat ceiling painted to look like the real domed ceiling in another part of the monastery. It was incredible, you would never have realized. To be able to get that amount of perspective was amazing

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

During tour of a monastery in Germany we were told that the similarly painted dome ceiling we were looking up at wasn't a dome at all. It was a flat ceiling painted to look like the real domed ceiling in another part of the monastery. It was incredible, you would never have realized. To be able to get that amount of perspective was amazing

How do you know it wasn't a dome painted to look like a flat ceiling painted to look like a dome?

 

[TyphooToffee]

How do you know it wasn't a dome painted to look like a flat ceiling painted to look like a dome?

Hmm, interesting

 

[summerisle]

That's a big idol.

 

[TyphooToffee]

That's a big idol.

That's an interesting read.

 

[TyphooToffee]

Funny how things go full circle. After posting a photo of a painting I've just finished, on Facebook, I was talking to a friend about the art forger, John Myatt. When I looked on YouTube afterwards I found this video of him teaching how to paint in the style of Edward Hopper.

 

[summerisle]

Take a trip into the past: rare Australian vintage travel posters – in pictures

Early 20th century travel posters capture the era’s aesthetic sensibility. Two designers led the way promoting Australia to the world in the interwar period

www.theguardian.com

 

[TyphooToffee]

Take a trip into the past: rare Australian vintage travel posters – in pictures

Early 20th century travel posters capture the era’s aesthetic sensibility. Two designers led the way promoting Australia to the world in the interwar period

www.theguardian.com

I've learned that gouache paint is used by illustrators, and that it's somewhere between poster paint and watercolour. I'm trying to use it like watercolour but think I ought to use it as well as, because I have to wet the paper too much to remove it. I finished this last night and am not sure if it looks like watercolour or acrylic. I don't suppose it matters as long as I'm happy with it. I sort of am, but I was too heavy-handed with the whiskers so might paint them out. I shouldn't be too disappointed because it's only the second painting I've done, and the first using gouache.



Coincidentally, a cousin of mine who lives in Australia says she has a Shetland pony who not only looks exactly the same, but also has the same colour bridle. She asked if I'd call it Teddy from Down Under, but, as it was from a photo of a pony in a Paddock near Savannah in America, if I was to bother naming it at all, I'd call it Horse With No Name

 

[summerisle]

 

[LEONARD]

Here's a daub from my blue period, 'Ducks In Flight'.

 

[roydo]

Here's a daub from my blue period, 'Ducks In Flight'.

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That really done by you?

Fair play if so. Aint no rights or wrongs with art, but I really like that.

 

[LEONARD]

That really done by you?

Fair play if so. Aint no rights or wrongs with art, but I really like that.

Anthony Hancock ( The Lad Himself)

 

[BNJ1878]

I don't have an artistic bone in my body, i wish I did, but I don't. I'm ok at composing photographs but I don't class that as art, some do.

Friend of mine gave up a well paid job to follow his passion for art, it's not my taste but good on him for believing in it.

Another female friend, who I used to fancy told me she was finally getting married, so I said the usual congratulations and enquired about the lucky fella.

"he's an artist" to which I replied: "oh well, at least you have a steady job."

I googled him. His pieces sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds, sometimes millions, for what to me looks like finger painting.

It takes all sorts I suppose.

 

[Death]

love reading comics me

Why you keep ignoring my PMs Frang?

 

[coollino]

I don't have an artistic bone in my body, i wish I did, but I don't. I'm ok at composing photographs but I don't class that as art, some do.

Friend of mine gave up a well paid job to follow his passion for art, it's not my taste but good on him for believing in it.

Another female friend, who I used to fancy told me she was finally getting married, so I said the usual congratulations and enquired about the lucky fella.

"he's an artist" to which I replied: "oh well, at least you have a steady job."

I googled him. His pieces sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds, sometimes millions, for what to me looks like finger painting.

It takes all sorts I suppose.
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a classic frame makes that look great tbh