Paintings
 

I can't seem to find the thread for the last thing you made, but I wanted to share some paintings.

If any moderators see this and want to merge this thread with the one I am thinking of, please do.

Very nice! I like both of those.

What Dana said.

Thanks :)

I like them both, too, but, I like the top one better.

It makes me think of a wave washing away different colored layers of sand off a beach.

:cheerldr:

They warned us about the brown acid.

Far be it for me to criticise anyone effort's in art but I don't get this kind of abstract painting, anyone want to explain what I'm missing?

Drugs. ;)

The meaning of abstract art depends on what the artist is feeling at the time, but is later based on the interpretations of the individuals viewing it.

The bottom one looks like a thunderstorm.

You're missing nothing. You see what we see.

What you see will change from time to time depending on things like mood.
Unlike a sterogram, what you'll see is not preordained.
Sometimes you see a menagerie sometimes just clouds.

Thanks everyone! I really liked these two.

I's hard to explain - I'm not fuly sure I understand why stuff works or doesn't. There's something about them that seems to convey something raw - an emotional state, or sense of action, or concept without actually stating it. That bottom picture, for instance, to me seems to suggest some kind of wild natural phenomenon - like a forest fire, or some kind of tumult. There's a sense of raw power and energy to it. Whilst the top one suggests a kind of order or natural pattern, but on a massive scale - like some kind of celestial event, or the corona of a sun.

But different people will see different things. It's like it hits at an emotional rather than intellectual level - at the same time, we naturally, as humans, seek out pattern and meaning and will each see different things because of it.

I like this explanation. :)

Probably because you don't have one of your own, other than what most painters have. That's gut feelings, painting emotions, putting feels on canvas, which is really what art is about, but many people don't accept as a real answer. Only you can decide if it expresses what you wanted it to. The paintings you did you weren't happy with, might be because your mood/feelings changed, a nagging problem was resolved.

Maybe this is why I think art critics are pretentious twits. You paint something that expresses your feelings, and when I look at it, the painting will either resonate with my gut or not(at the moment), so there's no way I can say it's good or bad, right or wrong.

Of course there's the whole, it's a Picasso it must be wonderful, bullshit. If a famous artist does something way out in left field, it's ground breaking, whereas if you do it, what the fuck, not following the rules.

Damn the torpedoes, paint on, paint on!

I think that might be the best description of painted art ever.

Well I'll use the old cliché about not knowing anything about art but I know what I like, and abstract still leaves me cold.
I can handle fantasy art! Surrealism I love Magritte , Dali can get weird, and although not an artist more of a illustrator I love Robert Crumbs comic art.

Some abstract stuff doesn't speak to me at all - some does. I'm not so much for surrealism, heh.

I say that like I have a fucking clue - I also know nothing about art, beyond the fragments that stuck in my head from school art classes 30 years ago. Some pictures I see, I like. Others I don't.

what kind of paint are you using, bro? is that tempera or acrylic? It looks like you're painting on canvas. Are you priming the canvas? I can't tell if I'm seeing the canvas not being quite covered in the blue areas, or if' you've painted those white dots.

I mainly use oils. I do have acrylic and watercolors, but I have used oils the most. They are easier for me. It's on stretched canvas from the craft store. I never took the classes that taught you how to create your own canvases. I should eventually.

The white you are seeing is just the reflection of the overhead light, I think. That being said, I had diluted the paint quite a bit before applying. That's why you can see the lines behind the blue.

There aren't any missed spots......they bother me - lol. It's one of the main reasons I can't use canvas board. I can paint so that some of the white shows, but not with holes not filled in....That's what she said

Crumb is a god.

Soooo, looks like the picture without the brown was done on canvas board. Which means I should clarify my earlier statement. I don't normally use canvas board. :)

As payment, here are some old ones I did. First three are the orientation of how I painted them (I think. I can't really remember how the second one was supposed to be anymore). The last is showing how I actually hang them on the wall.

The second one shows a tremendous variation in texture. Hard to believe it's the same medium. :thumb:

Thanks Bruce. :)

These are all stretched canvas with oils.

I love the middle one. I like them all, but I love the middle one. It's like a landscape or a quilt. Gorgeous.

That's my favorite too. The more I look at it, the more I think it was supposed to be the other way up....

I like it that way up. It looks like the glow of a sunset at the top. And the land (or possibly sea) scape has a kind of roll and crash to it. Could be waves, or hills with a rapid river.

This was my senior year final project for my Art Major class. I gave it to my dad, who hung it up for a couple months, but it's a bit grim... so it went into storage... and has been wrapped up since. 1989? looks like the day I finished it.

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I was big into the environment back then. I had some ideals. Life beats that shit right out of you. I used to want to save the earth.... Now I'm cool with being able to pay the bills.

That's actually pretty nice, Jim.

I like it.

Very cool, LJ

Bleeding Canadian Oil Sands.

What's youth without ideals? I like it.