Can I paint?

[Longgrain]

You tell me...:7

[merwin]

1. I don't know, can you paint?

[Longgrain]

4. Have a looksee...

[merwin]

27. ooooooh, yes you CAN paint! That's beautiful.

[Longgrain]

31. Thank you...

:)

[complain jane]

2. What are you going to paint if I say yes?

[Longgrain]

5. My fireplace

In winter time...

[outraged2]

3. Yes

Get busy! :)

[Longgrain]

6. Thank outraged...

Next chance I get I'll be out there like a mutant Van Gogh in a snow blizzard!

Now let me ask you something...Can you take photos? ;-)

[outraged2]

7. ha ha

Not judging by the last couple of rolls I got back :)

[Longgrain]

8. The last couple of oils I did

weren't that great either...

I guess I should spend more time with a brush in my hand than a camera...:)

[outraged2]

21. Maybe

...maybe not. Hard to choose, no? You do both very well, I think you have to make time for both... somehow. I know time is always a problem, at least it is for me. I have a small charcoal portrait I have been trying to work on for months now. I can't ever get to it.... sigh

[Longgrain]

24. I fully sympathize with the "Time" issue...

Not only do I have unfinished paintings laying around...

But I still haven't finished my second novel...sigh :-(

[Little Wing]

9. Probably.

:hi:

[Longgrain]

10. Thanks Little Wing

and welcome to DU. :hi:

[Little Wing]

11. Oh! Someone responded to me!

Wow! Thanks! :hi:

[Longgrain]

14. Hi!

What's this? Member since Nov 23rd and only 13 posts?

What's holding you back?...or are you shy.:)

[Little Wing]

16. I guess I am a little, yeah.

But mostly I just feel like a speck on the butt of a flea around here. Everyone seems so much smarter, so much more popular, and I end up feeling like I'm talking into the void.

Silly maybe but there it is.

[Longgrain]

19. I'll tell you a story about a guy...

Who had only 100 posts...who felt that everyone was smarter and more popular than him...

He decided to join a group at DU to get to know a few people, but none of the groups interested him...

The rest is DU history...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2062143

[amerikat]

12. You have a good grasp on expressing

a three dimensional visual in two dimensions. Keep painting , please.

[Longgrain]

13. I am hoping too...

I got a bunch more posted in the Artists Group...

It's just paints are expensive$$$$.

[amerikat]

15. oil, acylics?

I bet Van Gogh and Monet had the same problem with affording painting materials.....and look at them now. So how much is that painting? I like it very much....is the subject Native american....strikes me that way.

[Longgrain]

17. Oil...

Interesting that you question the subject...

It's a still life, taken from life. The piece of poetry in the painting is one of my own, from the ceramics class I was forced to take...:)

[amerikat]

20. pottery thrown from a potters wheel?

Don't get me started....the potter's wheel was the only reason I even showed up for high school. what is the cloth in the background?

[Longgrain]

26. For me, the exact oppisite....

I went to a small Community College. Majored in Art. Ceramics was one of the requirements for graduation.

I never got the hang of the pottery wheel...

[amerikat]

28. ya just have to spend enought time with the wheel and

you'll never forget.

[Longgrain]

30. You mentioned the cloth in the background....

It's a knitted doolie...that can be seen here, under the clock...



Sorry for the rest of the stuff in the pick...

[amerikat]

18. i'll check out the artist group

Thanks for the tip. DU is so diverse.

[amerikat]

22. I like your oil paintings more than I like your cartoons

just a personal observation. I have never been a toon fan....cept for looneytoons, animaniacs, bugs bunny, elmer fud and those pesky wabbits, and beanie and cecil and the simpsons and southpark..you get my drift.

[Longgrain]

23. I agree...

Cartooning was never my expretise...

Yet I always thought there was a certain cartoonish quality to my paintings...

[amerikat]

25. if you could combine the impressionism with toons

you would have new art form. I don't see your paintings "toonish at all"

maybe a painting with your toons commenting on your paintings.

[Longgrain]

29. Have you seen a close up of my

Avatar image yet?

[DS1]

32. I see ink applied to canvas, if that's what you're asking

[Longgrain]

44. Oil paint, acrylic, pastels...

It's all I know...:shrug:

It's a wonder I'm so rich...

[RagingInMiami]

33. Yes, you can paint

now shut up and get painting and show us more work.

[Longgrain]

35. I might get some more up again soon...

As well as get back to painting again as soon as I find the time and the $$$

In case you missed it...here's few more of my creepy animal paintings...

Warning, don't look if you're of the squeamish varity...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=282x149#197

[sparky_in_ma]

36. delete-dupe

[sparky_in_ma]

37. Yes, you can sure paint.

Nice work!:hi:

[Longgrain]

50. Thank you from one Bay Stater to another...

And if no one's taken the time yet...

Welcome to DU :hi:

[JimmyJazz]

48. When are you going to give me a real price on the paintings I've

selected. :shrug:

[Longgrain]

49. Sorry I've forgotten....

But I haven't been around DU as much recently...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2441420

I'll get back to you tommorrow...or as soon as I can...:hi:

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. Most definitely

It looks like you were influenced by the impressionists (I see a little Van Gogh, a little Monet, a little Manet, and a little Gaugain). Good. I like them. Please don't get drunk and cut off your ear, though. ;-)

[Longgrain]

39. Thanks...

And you are straight on about the Impessionists...You could also add Cezanne to your list.

I haven't felt the need to chop my ear off YET...

But only she knows for sure...;)

[johnnie]

38. We all can paint

It's just that some of suck more than others. But I have already said I think your stuff kicks. Wanna sell some?

[Longgrain]

40. Of course I want to sell some...

But it is a very difficult field to break into...

[johnnie]

41. I've seen people here who want some

It's a place to start.

[Longgrain]

45. Thanks I'll keep working at it...

The people around here have good taste...;-)

[johnnie]

46. There is a "marketplace" forum here

Maybe you could post up some of your pieces and see if they sell. I have this feeling that a lot of people here support each other and will buy some of your paintings.
As I said..I would if I could.

[Longgrain]

47. Yeah... I noticed the Market Place forum...

and I have considered giving it a try...

Thanks for the heads-up...:thumbsup:

[da_chimperor]

42. Yes, and better than I can at that

it's not saying much, but I'm still impressed. :thumbsup:

[Longgrain]

43. Thank you da_chimperor...

Us artists need all the support we can get...:toast:

[PartyPooper]

51. Yes. So, I can paint, too. I just bought a "paint by numbers" set.

But, that's HOW I paint. I'm not good like you are. :-(

:D

:hi:

[Longgrain]

52. Don't feel bad PartyPooper

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play a musical instrument.

There are a lot of talents I wish I had, but don't:(

[Lorien]

53. Utter nonsense

art CAN be taught; anyone can paint, draw, sculpt; it's NOT a matter of talent; it's a matter of time, ambition, and learning how to see. I've taught artists for film studios, for colleges, and now I'm writing a book on the subject. Read Betty Edwards "drawing on the right side of the brain" for starters. You don't need talented hands, or perfect eyesight, or a dark, narcissistic personality to be a skilled artist. Desire, time,and instruction on how to see the world; colors, values, proportions, volumes.... it takes shedding preconceptions and the "symbol" thinking we've been taught since youth and seeing what's really there. Start with the Edwards book; you'll be amazed at the skills you'll uncover.