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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:47 am
Have you got the touch? Can you take a blob of clay and turn it into a showpiece? Are you able to envision a landscape and turn a blank piece of paper into a framed treasure? If you'd like to share your artwork, this is the place to do so. I can't draw a stick figure to save my life, so I am truly in awe of artistic folks. You don't have to be a pro, just as long as you enjoyed the process, and/or learned from it, then its been a valuable experience for you, and I hope you'll share that with us.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Mameblanche asked me to post my ceramic eagle here to get this thread going. I did this
thirty years ago. It's 18 inches tall and took several layers of paint, glazes, and firings to complete.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:08 am
 Closeup of flowers in the left side of a wall mural I painted for my son Kit's room.
The right side of the beach mural that wraps around onto the adjacent wall.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:11 am
Angels: These were made from a dishtowel, hot pad, and a washcloth all tied with 2 ribbons and very easy. I made them for Easter.

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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 11:05 pm
Gracie, those are very cute towels all made up like that. It's amazing what people come up with. I remember you posting pictures of Kit's mural when you working on it, but I'm glad to see more of it now that its completed. You did an awesome job! I'm finally at a place in my life where I'm willing to make a go at selling my art. I've been hard at work, drawing for weeks now, trying to perfect my technique, and thought I'd share one of my latest endeavors here. Because of the kilobyte restriction of under 65kbs, the picture here is small and blurry, but I hope you can see it ok.

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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 3:33 am
Woo hoo, This is a coooool thread. Urgrace your son has the most beautiful Eyes! and I love what you've done with the walls. Sage I love graphic art. Your piece has a lot of fluid movemetn. Very eyecatching. Are you familiar with the work of MC Escher? He is amazing. *** I think it would be great if people gave a little blurb as to what materials were used and what it represents (if anything LOL) Well, here goes my additions. Most done when my hands were more flexible and steady. Frankly I've broken most of my delicate pottery already but a few pieces survived my 'juggling'. Handrolled Coil Bowl 12' wide- Raku glaze was deep metallic blue but seems to have Oxidized greenish in a few places.
Freeform Raku Vase (coil slab and plaster form) - various experimental glaze tests
First real Watercolour 11x14 inches ( based on a card design LOL)
I love BIRDS! 8x10 (done with plain ordinary REEVES childrens waterpaints) Watercolour (coil and balls formed in a kitchen mixing bowl LOL ) Raku vase- representing a Giant Pollen (yeah, I know...I'm weird)
Back detail....Glaze temp was a little too hot. a little speckly.

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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Sunshyne, yes, I've heard of Escher. I appreciate what you said about my art, the fluid movement. That is my goal, to have some fluidity to it, and at the same time keeping the eye interested. I use a mechanical pencil and eraser putty when drawing the design, then I go over it with three different sizes of India Ink pens. I am drawing them on paper made for pen and markers. Your artwork is fabulous. I have done some watercolor, but it's something that I don't do too well, as I want to mush the colors together to blend and shade, and I find using oils is a better medium for me. I LOVE the Raku vase. Even if it is weird, it is so cool, and original. I love originality. Thanks for sharing your work, I just love to see what others are doing/have done.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:29 pm
Wow, I didn't think anyone had posted in here since me, because it never came up on my new messages! Sage, your art is wonderful and this piece shows a wonderful side of you. The little fish caught my attention. Sunshyne4u , you have done several mediums I've never even thought about trying, and I think each piece is wow! BTW thank you both for adding your artwork! And thanks for the compliments on my art and my son's eyes.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 11:29 am
I learned most of my stuff in Highschool LOL Would love to take an acrylic or oil painting course as I dont have a clue what I'm doing. It ends up looking all wrong and incomplete. I thought about doing a undersea mural in my 10x10 bathroom (no shower just a big soaker tub). but I got scared that it would be a disaster! What did you use to paint the mural on your Son's walls? wall paint and mixed them like oils? I'm curious
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 5:38 pm
You guys are so talented!! WOW.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 4:12 pm
urgrace and sunshyne, i wasn't aware of your artistic talent. very nice. sage, i already know how talented you are...i've seen photos of your beautifully painted rocks.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 4:18 pm
mameblanche, then you'll be in awe of me. take a look at this! _+_+::""<>\/<>""::+_+_

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 4:53 pm
Wow Abby - I'm thunderstruck! GRIN.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 10:37 pm
arent those the alien symbols found on the side of the metal piece from the Roswell crash??? Very good reproduction I believe everyone can do art. There is a medium or technique that anyone can succeed to amaze in. for some it is paint but other need to get their hands dirty. I saw an incredible Paper Mache Art show once. I laughed at the amazingly HIGH price they were marked at. It was very fun. Paper mache cows and stuff LOL Anyone can paper mache at home. Flour water to make a paste and Woo Hoo, Newspaper strips. Kids love to do it too. Use balloons as forms ...or crunched up newspaper to make long snake shapes etc. Painting them up after drying is the best part. I've always wanted to make a big 6 foot high Gargoyle for Halloween. It would be so cool perched on the dark side of the roof.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 8:05 am
You have a very symmetrical aptitude and have given your artwork a beautiful blue hue, Abby! Your signature also is an eyecatcher. Sunshyne, a gargoyle would shake me up if I saw it on someone's roof at Halloween! As for the murals I've done, I used semi-gloss interior paints. Here are some pictures of a mural underwater I did for my granddaughter. It is about 10ft long by about 5ft high and broke up a very tall wall. She is partial to dolphins, and I didn't have a good example to go by so the dolphins are not good likenesses, but the overall mural came out good (in real life anyway - the (3 in each frame) pictures are hard to take pictures of! lol)

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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 1:03 pm
you have lucky kids and grandkids. Murals sure brighten up a room! semigloss interior eh? Do you put on a basecolour first and paint overtop? Or is it all done when the paint is tacky? If you did those dolphins based on your memory (without a pic) they are excellent. For some reason I think they look more like Porpoises. I think it is the colouring and the bigger fins. We dont have wild dolphins here but I have great childhood memories of going up the whole coast of British columbia by 40ft Fishing boat. It is very wild off the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) and we'd have porpoises leaping infront of the boat playing in the waves off the bow. Beautiful animals!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 1:03 pm
oh....and Latex or Oil?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:07 pm
The mural in my son's room (beach) took a long time, because I was doing it in my spare time and I let it dry. This underwater one was done all in one day - just a few hours - and I also let it dry, in between colors mostly. The paint is interior latex washable. Some stores will only sell you a gallon size or more, so if you can find the primary colors and black in a pint you are lucky. However, sometimes a pint is almost the same price as a gallon! Hey, my granddaughter liked it so I wasn't too unhappy about the dolphins looking like - uh, porpoises yeah that's it! LOL I wanted to fix it, but when all was said and done it got left the way it is.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 10:11 pm
I enjoy popping in here so much. It's like a free trip to the art gallery. And nicer cuz I 'know' the artists. 
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Jaja
Member
02-16-2006
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:08 pm
I bought a book called Drawing on the right side of your Brain by Betty Edwards. She says that anyone can learn to draw. Course I poo poo'd it but I kept reading and I could not believe it but it is true. I couldn't draw a stickman, until I reaad her book and started practicing and learning how. It is like learning to play the piano or learning any other thing. If you want to learn and you put in the effort you can learn it. So I taught myself to draw using her book and on to other books to learn. I may not make any money at it but it sure has been entertaining for me. One of the first things you do is practice drawing upside down. I did an old man and I did a soldier on a horse. You would not believe how good they came out, I was totally amazed. These are in her book and they are upside down. The lesson is you cannot turn them around to look at them you have to just draw what you see. When I did them I thought they would be unrecognizable but when you turn your paper around this is what you get. LOL

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:14 pm
JaJa, how cool is that? Wow. 
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Jaja
Member
02-16-2006
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:14 pm
One of the things I learned is that I can not draw in the morning. It is the weirdest thing but I just can't. I believe it is because I am a Left brain thinker and in the morning the left side of my brain is in charge and by the evening it gets tired and then the right side of my brain is easily reached. Call me crazy but I can prove it over and over. Every time I think I can draw early in the day it is a disaster but that night I am good to go and can draw what I was trying to draw in the am.
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Jaja
Member
02-16-2006
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:35 pm
Thanks Mameblanche, it's awesome how it works. This thread is so neat. Some very talented folks here! I love the drawing by Sage! I am just getting into ink, mostly I prefer drawing in pencil, for now.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 1:13 am
I have that book in my library and have never read it LOL You have made me want to read it. I bought a whole load of Art books during an estate sale years back.
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Jaja
Member
02-16-2006
| Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 8:38 pm
I think you will really like it I learned a lot from it. I have only been drawing since the summer of 2005. I have a lot to learn. I saw your work above, I really liked it, you are very talented. Here is a picture of my African Gray Parrot, Max, that I did, thought you might enjoy seeing him! He is much more handsome in person though! LOL

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