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Grex Arts Item 117: painting/murals/landscapes...discussions?
Entered by freida on Tue Jan 23 01:18:15 UTC 1996:

Hey, I express myself through writing and then...oil paints, brushes,
canvases...Is there anyone else out there who likes to paint?  I have
completed two murals and am currently working on a third.  Any lively
discussions?  I also do landscapes and boy, where I live there are plenty of
things to inspire you.  Any one who paints or does other (needs inspiration)
artsy things is welcome to come and spend time at Galeforce Farm...but right
now...discussion please!!!!!

5 responses total.

#1 of 5 by headdoc on Sun Feb 4 19:42:01 1996:

I am currently very interested in and pleased by American Impressionistic
oils.  Just browsed through "Art in America" and was delighted with the beauty
of some of the work by American Impressionists since 1900.  I would be most
interested if anyone knows any local (around the southeast Michigan or
Northern Ohio area) artists showing this type of work in local galleries. 
Most of the paintings in my home are original oils painted by my mother or
by a close friend who is an artist in New York.  I used to paint, long before
I became a psychologist and got so busy.  Now I just appreciate the work of
others.

#2 of 5 by freida on Sun Feb 4 22:16:53 1996:

Sorry headdoc, I don't live in the area...all my works (major ones) are in
the Maryland area.  One day I hope to have more time to paint....

#3 of 5 by freida on Wed May 15 19:57:32 1996:

Hey,  anyone else out there interested in painting?  If not, I could teach
you!  Come on!  There has to be more people on grex interested in paintings
than just headdoc and myself!

#4 of 5 by raghub on Tue Feb 18 19:48:01 1997:

Hi freida, I'm new to grex. I was browsing thru the conferences and thought

I'l fing something really interesting in "ARTS" sec. Of all I found this
topic interesting - but alas! there is no one to respond.
        I'm not a painter. But I love watching others works. There were times
when I spent hours together in arts gallaries watching paintings.
        At times I wonder what was going thru the artists mind when he was
painting. I thing you can help me. Is it that the artist tries to capture
what he sees on the canvas (like a photograper) or he tries to give his
thoughts ( and dreams ) a shape on the canvas ( like poets do in poetry)?
If its really got to do something with giving a shape to one's thoughts,
I'm very interested in learning ( if it is something which can be learned ).

#5 of 5 by gangrene on Sun Feb 17 08:17:45 2002:

I am an artist and I have been for many years. I paint in acrylics and
watercolors. I have done sculpture also. I used to have an art gallery where
I sold mine and others paintings hhere in Omaha. Right now I am studying
computer science. It seems as much an art to me as traditional painting. I
have done illustration and anmiation on the computer also. My website is at
www.briardy.htmlplanet.com

I guess that qualifies me to answer that question. What goes on in my head
when I paint? It depends on what it is that I want to paint. I usually spen
a long, long time deciding what to paint. Although I have had formal training
in the arts, I don't neccesarily think that that is any sort of an advantage.

Design is crucial to a successful painting and I often have to spend hours
staring at the canvas before I can"see" what it is that I am going to paint.
Sometimes I paint from photographs and often I combine different phot images
into one picture. When the image is filtered through my brain and onto the
canvas, I make it look "natural". It is always important to remember that it
is a painting that you are working on and not a photo.

If I were to give advice to someone learning to paint, I would tell them to
study the still life to learn how to "see" reality, the impressionists to
"see" color and the classic cubists to understand 2 dimensional design. Of
course there are many more aspects to art than these qualities but they are
a very good start.

When I am painting, I look for softness above all else. Some of my favorit
artists are the French Roccoco painters. Men like Francois Boucher and his
pretty little boys and girls, or Renoir and his plump pink nudes. There is
so much to admire in the history of art that as I am painting pictures, the
works of artists in the past always comes to mind. I use certain techniques
that different artists have developed in centuries past. For example, in order
to create soft warm light like Rembrandt did, I add red to the shadows and
yellow to the high lights

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