ART/CREATIVE THREAD ( all skill levels welcome )

[LeBleu]

I'm pretty much sold on Faber-Castell Polychromos. They are oil based and you can layer forever with them. I don't do any blending techniques, just layer upon layer to create depth. I also don't use the Black color pencil, preferring the richness of combining other colors to create shadows etc.

They sound pretty impressive from what you're saying. I'm starting to branch out to other mediums, and that my sway my purchase in the future.

 

[FrankenVol54]

"Sun Crosses" 2000bce (Late Bronze Age). Found in Switzerland. Color pencil on illustration board 4" x 5"

 

[Carl Pickens]

little something I've been working on

This should be hanging the Louvre

 

[FrankenVol54]

This should be hanging the Louvre

LOL! Turn left at the Mona Lisa, down the corridor to the Rubens gallery...U R there.

 

[FrankenVol54]

My daughter graduates Wednesday with a Master of Science in Biomedical Communication degree from the University of Toronto. In my day they called it Medical Illustration, but things change. Anyway, this was her first project - Fall 2017. The skull was rendered using the old school "carbon dust" technique, then scanned into Adobe Illustrator for type and layout.

 

[bignewt]

Chameleon

 

[FrankenVol54]

Chameleon

A character driven, literary contribution to the thread. Welcome!

 

[LeBleu]

A character driven, literary contribution to the thread. Welcome!

I couldn't have done that to save my life. lol

 

[FrankenVol54]

I couldn't have done that to save my life. lol

I know what you mean LeBleu. I don't have that gift either. However, my daughter's BFA Exhibition was based on drawings and Printmaking to support narratives she had written. We also live right down the road from The National Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tn, so my appreciation of this art form is constantly reinforced.

 

[LeBleu]

I can come up with ideas, but can't put the details in the middle. lol Much appreciation to bignewt

 

[bignewt]

thanks I never thought I could do it either. I've written a pile of screenplays but never a novel. Once I got into it though it started to really flow. Sometimes I wish I had made it longer, expanded some things but in the end I think it's what it wants to be. Excited to start another one early next year.

 

[FrankenVol54]

"Untitled" Oil on canvas board 8x10

 

[LeBleu]

My response to this is YES.

 

[LeBleu]

For Funsies, Did it a while back, just mechanical pencil I think

 

[FrankenVol54]

Ima throw this abstract work in here. Boos and hisses welcome as long as it gets a reaction lol.
"Ancient Aliens Wife Swap" acrylic on canvas board 8x10

 

[FrankenVol54]

After Francois Boucher - Charcoal on tinted paper 9x14

 

[LeBleu]

Was that compressed charcoal?

 

[FrankenVol54]

Was that compressed charcoal?

General's charcoal pencil if memory serves me. This was 1985 lol.

 

[LeBleu]

lol

 

[LeBleu]

Did this awhile back.... was trying make something for prints, and did the gray scale digitally. Probably mechanical pencil or a 2b ( over did it using the eraser to make the fabric creases on the knee )

 

[FrankenVol54]

Did this awhile back.... was trying make something for prints, and did the gray scale digitally. Probably mechanical pencil or a 2b ( over did it using the eraser to make the fabric creases on the knee )
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This is very nice LeBleu, and the Batman is my favorite good guy.

 

[LeBleu]

Thanks, definitely in the top for me

 

[FrankenVol54]

The assignment was to take a piece of thrift store art and "re-direct" it. This is "Trouble In Bucksnort" oil on thrift store find 11x14.

 

[LeBleu]

definitely interesting, What were you supposed to learn from the assignment? I didn't go to art school or take classes. I've been trying to sponge peoples brains lately that have had training. lol

 

[Jackcrevol]

Did this awhile back.... was trying make something for prints, and did the gray scale digitally. Probably mechanical pencil or a 2b ( over did it using the eraser to make the fabric creases on the knee )
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evokes memories of Frank Miller's Batman.