Do we have any artist out there?

• Do we have any artist out there? by Bolohead on 29 Jul, 2011 13:29
• I can finally say that I am an artist  and was wondering if we had any others out here who paint, draw or sketch.  With my last one, which is my first attempt at using Daler Rowney simple Oil Pastels on a Sun Conure.
  
  Here is my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/61240529@N06
• #1 by Bolohead on 12 Aug, 2011 23:52
• WOW, I thought for sure some of you guy's had some artistic abilities 
• #2 by Arnie on 13 Aug, 2011 10:07
• I have a couple of friends who are artists and in business with me.  One of them actually painted a portrait of me with my fiancee...and won some scholarships with it(and two other of her paintings).  That portrait is actually on the wedding invitations.
  
  Painting by Brittany Smith
  
  

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• #3 by Mike on 13 Aug, 2011 11:57
• Everyone in my family is great at painting/drawing/music and all that but all I can do is photography. In my mind I can picture how I want to draw/paint something but when it comes time to do it I always make it look like it was done by an elementry school kid.
• #4 by Arty Chris on 13 Aug, 2011 17:16
• Hey J_B
  
  I like your paintings! You truly are an artist! (I really like the green lizards!
  
  I paint and draw a fair bit too... (hence the name, arty Chris!) I'll put a few on flikr and post a link in a couple of days...
  
  And Mike, if you can picture the images in your mind, then you're half way there! Just keep trying to make pictures! Practice is everything. My feeling is that it's like trying to learn the violin, or the guitar. I know how the music should sound, but just by picking up an instrument, I won't get it right the  first time, (especially as I've never even touched a violin!) It takes repeated practice to learn how to do it. So make pictures, then make more pictures! (And then make even more!)
  
  Have fun ))
• #5 by Arty Chris on 23 Aug, 2011 12:42
• Finally got a couple of pics on flikr... here's the link
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/53233452@N02/
  
  I'll add a few more pictures soon
• #6 by buddha on 23 Aug, 2011 15:49
• I'm a B. S. artist but I don't know if that counts.
• #7 by Bolohead on 24 Aug, 2011 22:25
• Quote from: Arty Chris on 23 Aug, 2011 12:42

  Finally got a couple of pics on flikr... here's the link
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/53233452@N02/
  
  I'll add a few more pictures soon
  

  
  Love your work there Arty Chris 
• #8 by Arty Chris on 25 Aug, 2011 01:53
• Thanks J B! Much appreciated!
  
  You've been busy though... I noted a few new pictures on your flikr link! I have to comment on one in particular.. Gracie In Ths Shadows is SUPERB!!!! I really like that one! A lot!
  
  Chris
  
  
• #9 by Bolohead on 25 Aug, 2011 06:38
• Arty Chris
  
  Thank you, Gracies grandmother took a picture of Gracie standing in time out for getting in trouble.  She looked over and saw her making those wall shadows, and took the picture.  I'm still trying to learn to do faces better thru Darrel Tanks video's
• #10 by Noodles on 26 Aug, 2011 20:53
• I guess one could say this is "ART"!
  
  As most of you guys may know, I take ""Hallmark Moments" of the fire dept. and turn them into "Noodle Doodle" classics....
  
  Below is one of "Johnny", who sometimes has "issues" just getting his day started!!
  
  Enjoy! 
  
               
  
   - Cap'n Noodles -
• #11 by ronthejazzcat on 26 Aug, 2011 21:18
• Photography is definitely an art Mike, don't make it sound like you're selling yourself and your talents short!
  
  I am a musician and composer myself, but I can't do visual arts at all either... To each his own I guess!
• #12 by Acme on 27 Aug, 2011 08:41
• I'm a jack of all trades but master of none.  I can look at something and copy it (bigger/smaller, doesn't matter) but I am not creative.  In my previous house, I painted some 6 foot wide cartoon murals on my office walls and people commented that it looked like I took decals and pasted them on the walls.
  
  I also play the piano (mediocre) with music but can't play by ear or make up my own stuff.  I lack the creative gene (or maybe it just wasn't encouraged when I was younger) but I have a critcal eye and ear.
  
  I like your stuff J_B.
• #13 by Bolohead on 28 Aug, 2011 17:54
• Quote from: ronthejazzcat on 26 Aug, 2011 21:18

  Photography is definitely an art Mike, don't make it sound like you're selling yourself and your talents short!
  

  
  Well my wife informed me that as soon as we can get it, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21 MP that also shoots HD Video is mine, but we will see as its $3,627 - $3,857  She knows just what kind of pictures that I can take, and when we got married, I had quite the set up for shooting weddings, outdoors etc. but that got ripped off when we got married.. everything I had put together for it.
  
  Canon EOS 5D Mark II: 21MP