if you could have a painting of absolutely anything...

[Tash]

tell me what it would be, be as descriptive as you like in terms of subject matter, medium, colour, style etc!!

i'm bored, and i feel obliged thanks to siberian husky to paint something other than a t-shirt (btw i have created some really cool t-shirts the past few weeks), despite the fact that i had vowed to never open my paints again- i'm trying to remove the label as an artist from me except it doesn't seem to be working...so  i might as well paint something, so i need inspiration, who knows your dream artwork may become a reality!! otherwise it's just interesting to know what people would like

[m1469]

An abstract with lots of deep, deep textured purple... maybe a couple of slightly different shades, or dramitcally different... like periwinkle and eggplant.   Red, thick-oiled, protruding accents and nearly horizontal, black lines.  Maybe globs of brightly and shimmeringly golden colour as highlights here and there... blackish/greyish circles with fuzzy edges... some kind of blank and untouched part of the canvas... some brown/earthy lines running almost vertically, and some running somewhat horizontally...  Some very bright yellow splashes and speckles... the numbers 2, 9, and 7 of differing sizes, each placed once somewhere in there.  Maybe a touch of lime green somewhere within the purple and not near the red.  Only enough to give the detailed eye a nice surprise.. almost as though it were an accident.


hmmmm... that's the thing for now


m1469

[Bob]

How about a piano?  (whack!,ouch!)


I liked the pink piano one.  How about different colors (still that same brightness) or different types of performers?  Maybe with the effect of motion in their body or hands and fingers?



(How about one of Bernhard? or m1469?    Show us what you think they really look like.)

[pianistimo]

i don't know why, but i've never liked landscapes (unless they mean something particular).  say, if you lived in a certain area and got to like the landscape behind your home or something.  but, i do like close-up detailed paintings of children, flowers, animals, insects.

[Tash]

lol interestingm1469i could probably actually attempt that!! must agree pianistimo i'm not a fan of landscapes i hate painting them more than animals!! haha

hmm could try a pink piano that's not hard, however a pic of bernhard orm1469could be a toughie

[Motrax]

How about a piano?

I seem to remember this Australian painter once saying... "I'll never paint a piano again, it's a b*tch!"

 

[Tash]

LOL yes i did say that!! haha actually i still stand by that comment and yours is the only one i did in any remote detail thus it's still special:) things always seem so much easier when you're thinking of them, and then you actually try drawing it and it's like what!! hmm now piano drawing nightmares are popping up again hahaha

[e60m5]

How about a painting of my future wife?

[stevie]

How about a painting of my future wife?

tash is good at self-portraits

[I Love Xenakis]

Paint an abstract while listening to Xenakis' Persepolis [GMR Remix].  It's a one hour piece (musique concrete) and uses lots of sound effects from recognizable things, along with a lot of unrecognizable ones.  It'd probably come out looking like Kandinsky ^^  Like as the piece progresses, paint what visions it puts into your head, and it could be a big collage of all the different images the piece evoked.

I'd wanna see that ^^

[zheer]

How about a painting of my future wife?

  Thats a good idea, i would like a painting of my family members.

[Tash]

future wives and family members eh, i could do that, i can't guarantee it would look anything like them haha!! e60m5 your future wife will be drop dead gorgeous who will swoon everytime you play the piano for her lol

tash is good at self-portraits

i'm hesitant to think about which self-portrait you're referring to there haha

i can paint music, i did that for art this session and my teachers had a fat rant about the problems i was encountering with it (which were in fact not problems for me and i got seriously pissed off at the fact that they were going to take marks of for my own intentions- since when do art teachers dictate what you paint?)

[stevie]

  Thats a good idea, i would like a painting of my family members.

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

[rlefebvr]

My wife when I first started going out with her, lying on her stomach in some field  reading a book with nothing on but a big straw hat. Her back end and a little nipple showing with one  leg bent up at the knees.

I have had that painting in my head for a very very long time.

[pianorama]

An abstract with lots of deep, deep textured purple... maybe a couple of slightly different shades, or dramitcally different... like periwinkle and eggplant.   Red, thick-oiled, protruding accents and nearly horizontal, black lines.  Maybe globs of brightly and shimmeringly golden colour as highlights here and there... blackish/greyish circles with fuzzy edges... some kind of blank and untouched part of the canvas... some brown/earthy lines running almost vertically, and some running somewhat horizontally...  Some very bright yellow splashes and speckles... the numbers 2, 9, and 7 of differing sizes, each placed once somewhere in there.  Maybe a touch of lime green somewhere within the purple and not near the red.  Only enough to give the detailed eye a nice surprise.. almost as though it were an accident.


hmmmm... that's the thing for now


m1469

Please tell me you are describing an abstract painting, because I can't think of anything that looks like that. Hmmm.... That wouldn't be bad to paint. Doesn't sound too hard. I wish I could paint better.

[Tash]

you know, randomly, i had a dream i actually painted mayla's picture, except there were apparently dolphin shapes in it and i forgot so had to put them in later...according to my dream dictionary dolphins aren't a good sign...haha

rlefebvr i can see that being quite a nice painting!i'll go put it in the archibald prize haha, oh not the archibald, the sulman prize it'd fit nicely there haha

[Waldszenen]

These days, you could put three red dots on canvas and sell it for millions, claiming it to be an expression of the vague avant-garde style...

[pianistimo]

yes. somewhere in a ny art gallery there's this little kid that paints pics - forgot his name - but he lives in or stays in the studio and just paints away - and his pics sell for huge sums.  he does have a 'style' though and it's not totally random - but just looks that way.

[leahcim]

These days, you could put three red dots on canvas and sell it for millions, claiming it to be an expression of the vague avant-garde style...

Three? Ah, damn...

[Torp]

Please tell me you are describing an abstract painting

Uh...I believe that's exactly what m1469 was describing.  Or so I was led to believe by her first sentence of "An abstract with lots of deep, deep textured purple..."

I could be wrong though...

[m1469]

Uh...I believe that's exactly what m1469 was describing.  Or so I was led to believe by her first sentence of "An abstract with lots of deep, deep textured purple..."

I could be wrong though...

ha ha, you are not wrong, but oh so right.   I think I am on the verge of trying this painting myself.  I might get myself a canvas and some oils... (so exciting).. instead of just thinking about it.  I have had this painting in my head for maybe a year or so now.  Maybe I ought to pay attention to it 


m1469

[m1469]

Tash, I hope you don't mind me asking this question on your thread, but I am not being able to resist my desire to take up painting again.  I am going to attempt my ideas on that painting.  Okay, now for the questions :

1.  Do both Acrylic paints as well as oil paints allow one to paint over the other and have tactile texture ?  So, I want globs of red that literally stand out on the canvas, I need oil, right ?

2.  I need to prime the canvas somehow, right ?  Is that with both oils and acrylics, or just one of them ? 

3.  What is that primer called again ? 

4.  What's the difference between oil and acrylic as far as performance is concerned ?


Hope these questions do not bother you, and thanks in advance,

m1469

[Torp]

I have had this painting in my head for maybe a year or so now.  Maybe I ought to pay attention to it 

I think maybe you should too.

[Tash]

Tash, I hope you don't mind me asking this question on your thread, but I am not being able to resist my desire to take up painting again. I am going to attempt my ideas on that painting. Okay, now for the questions :



Hope these questions do not bother you, and thanks in advance,

m1469

Lol that's ok i don't mind answring questions that's what this forum is here for isn't it?!!

1. Do both Acrylic paints as well as oil paints allow one to paint over the other and have tactile texture ? So, I want globs of red that literally stand out on the canvas, I need oil, right ?

yes you can paint over another layer of paint and provided you make it thick enough it'll have some kind of texture- you can do it with oils and acrylics but you'd want to mix them with an impasto medium (this thick paste stuff) because it'll help it dry quicker and for acrylics it'll make it look less flat, and with oils you never want to paint really thickly with them because of the way they dry- the reaction with the oxygen starts the drying process except will start on the outside, so basically if you have a fat blod of oil paint it'll pretty much never fully dry on the inside, and apparently has the potentiality to eventually fall off the canvas or something (we're talking like decades)

2. I need to prime the canvas somehow, right ? Is that with both oils and acrylics, or just one of them ?

you should prime your canvas for all painting mediums or otherwise the canvas will rot! though i think that's more for oils, mmm yeah acrylics might be ok because you prime it with gesso, which is essentially just acrylic paint but slightly different- like if you want to be stingy you can prime it with house paint- anything that'll act as a barrier between the paint and the canvas so the acid doesn't start eating the canvas...

3. What is that primer called again ?

gesso!!


4. What's the difference between oil and acrylic as far as performance is concerned ?

oils are lovely to use, they create brilliant effects but take forever to dry. and because they're oil-based you have to clean them with turps. acrylics are water-soluble, generally result in brighter but flatter colours and they dry really quickly, unless you add a retarder medium to them (but i reckon that increases the flatness of the colour even more). i personally find oils easier to use in creating more realistic looking paintings, though i have seen some amazing acrylic paintings and they have a more luminous quality. i love oils so i'm a bit biased- i had a friend who was dedicated to acrylics because she didn't like spending long periods of time on her work, but provided you are willing to wait for each layer to dry so you can then glaze over them and stuff you can do some really nice work!

hope that was some help to you! good luck with the work- you must put it up here when it's done!! ha maybe i'll go attempt it too and we can compare our visualisations!!

[ted]

My taste in paintings is as broad as that in my music. However, I have a deep liking for luminist and naive paintings. In particular I am drawn to those naive parallel perspective landscapes with hundeds of people going about daily life. The eye can wander over the macrocosm many times and discover many associations of transporting power.

I can actually get much the same effect looking at algorithmic pictures generated by my own programmes. Exactly what this says about my artistic discrimination I hesitate to conjecture.

[pianorama]

Uh...I believe that's exactly what m1469 was describing.  Or so I was led to believe by her first sentence of "An abstract with lots of deep, deep textured purple..."

I could be wrong though...

Oh. Ummm..... I knew that! I was just trying to test how much information you picked up while reading. *punches self in head for being so stupid* Oops. Never noticed that fine-print. I was kind of desperate to raise my average daily post number. It has dropped from 5 a day to 3.421 daily ever since Christmas break ended and school started. I've had a lot less time to post.