Time for an art thread - Here's mine

[MrScorpio]

Grim Reaper on an F-4 Phantom


Detail


Caught at a Dead End


Detail

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Those are really good. You're very talented!

:thumbsup:

[MrScorpio]

2. Thank You

Drawing is my first love

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. That's awesome. I have absolutely no skill.

I can draw a mean stick figure, does that count as art? :silly:

[MrScorpio]

4. Of course it does

Just do it with verve!

[Shine]

5. Very cool.

did you know that astrologically Scorpio rules the 8th house of death and transformation? It's true. Your artwork reflects that perfectly. Veddy interesting....

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

7. Those are themes that appeal to me

And thanks for noticing

[Shine]

11. You're welcome. I'm a good noticer.

and I'm not surprised those themes would appeal to you.
:)

[devilgrrl]

6. they work.

Very nice!

[MrScorpio]

9. Thanks!

I appreciate the admiration

[devilgrrl]

12. Your welcome! Keep it up!

:-)

[SeattleGirl]

8. Great stuff, MrS

I especially like the 3rd one (no surprise there, huh?)

[MrScorpio]

10. Thanks!

I'm glad that you like it too!

[amerikat]

13. That's some really creepy shit.

Grim reaper drives an F-4 while dropping bombs. Got any Edward Hopper?

[ghostsofgiants]

14. The phrase "fuckin' badass" comes to mind, haha.

My most recent work:



According to a friend of mine, "It looks like Radiohead sounds," haha.

[MrScorpio]

24. I can dig that badass sound!

Most haunting

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Thanks!

Haunting is good.

Your stuff reminds me of Heavy Metal. Very badass indeed.

[MrScorpio]

31. I grew up on the stuff

Comics too

[swag]

89. I haven't heard hardly any Radiohead,

but that image you made is quite fine.

[ghostsofgiants]

90. Thanks.

But are you serious? Radiohead is damn good.

[sakabatou]

15. Mine: soft pastel

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28102293/

[MrScorpio]

25. Nice!

Any more?

[sakabatou]

96. No... that's the only soft pastel I have

Though I have a mural I made based on this on my wall:

[ZombieNixon]

16. Mine...

I made this a few days ago, but it just about captures my feelings about now...

Go figure, it was inspired by a Hubble image of a supermassive black hole drawing in a nearby star.

This was inspired by what I saw when flying into land at Minneapolis when the entire area was covered with low lying fog.

[MrScorpio]

27. Now that's freaky

I like it

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. Thanks for sharing your art! Love it! Here's mine...not quite as intense

as you though! :thumbsup:

Oil pastels

Abstract Tears




Laughing Through My Nose




Just a Little Tongue, Baby!

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Your style is cute. I like.

:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

22. Why thank you so much, primate!

Never have a plan. It always starts out as random lines of color. :loveya:

[MrScorpio]

29. Tres chic

very sexy

[Whoa_Nelly]

40. You know, MrScorpio...

I love it when you talk to me like that ;)

...and thanks!

[jpgray]

18. I'm obligated to post some portraits at the end of this week

But at least I'm not obligated to make them any good.

[ZombieNixon]

19. Hey, is it too late to be added to your list?

There's a pic here which is ripe for parody as the thread explains. I could do with a laugh.

[jpgray]

20. Why not?

Being a known incompetent means never having to say you're sorry.

[MrScorpio]

30. Try us!

Let us see

[lies and propaganda]

23. 'Caught' is amazing!

B&W art is so appealing to me; its gorgeous and very interesting.

[Robeson]

28. You've captured American military policy perfectly!

[cleofus1]

32. great work mr scorpio!

here are my last drawings...both quick sharpie portraits...

[cleofus1]

33. and this one

my vain attempt at capturing the beauty that is SOteric

[Heidi]

34. I love it, MrS! Here are two examples

of my art.


Fortune,2005
30 x 30 cm
Mixed media (collage, oil paint, sand, graphite on prepared wood)
Private collection, Solothurn, Switzerland


Austin,2004
30 x 30 cm
Oil on prepared linen-finish paper
Private collection, USA

[SeattleGirl]

35. Two of my faves, my gf!

But my all time fav is the Goddess one. I love that one the most!

[Heidi]

37. Thanks, dah-link SG!

Sorry to be so hit-and-miss in the Lounge today. Call Me Wesley has caught my cold and I multi-tasking: cleaning so that everything's fresh and germ-free, and starting a pot of chicken soup (with potatoes, corn, carrots, green beans, onion and homegrown bay leaf, parsley and oregano.) What else should I put in it? (No tomatoes. CMW is anti-tomato about soup.)

[SeattleGirl]

39. Garlic and ginger root

They do wonders at helping clear the sinuses and making one feel better! Hugs to Wesley, and love to you, my friend.

[Heidi]

42. Thank you!!!

I happen to have both! Garlic and ginger root, it is! :thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

48. I promise, it really will help

Huggies to the dear, sick Wesley. And to you -- keep yourself well, my friend! :loveya:

[leftofthedial]

93. celery

[MrScorpio]

36. I love the variety in your choices

It shows off your skill

[Heidi]

41. Thank you, dah-ling.

I push myself a lot as an artist than I ever pushed myself as a journalist. :thumbsup:

[Whoa_Nelly]

47. You are so very talented, Heidi

Austin reminds me of a painting by Friedrich A. von Kaulbach.

Are you familier with his works?

The Artist's Daughter
(Her name is Hedda)

F.A. v. Kaulbach 1902




And a little closer pic:

[Sugar Smack]

74. You amaze me.

You seriously amaze me, gf.

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

[Heidi]

76. It's a craft, Sugah.

Don't be amazed. The primary, driving forces are interest and commitment to learning (including being criticized and ramping up my self-discipline.) I believe _anyone_ can paint well, given the interest and commitment to learning.

You amaze me, too, in more ways than you know, warrior woman. :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

38. Okay, do these count as art?

They are flower arrangements I've done.

One: flowers for a wedding cake for a friend of mine.


Two: flower arrangement I made for my Thanksgiving table.


Another view:


I guess art doesn't always take the form of paintings.

[Heidi]

43. Of course, that's art!

Beautiful, SG! :hug: :loveya:

One of my girlfriends in the US claims her three children as her "art," and I absolutely agree!

[SeattleGirl]

44. Thank you , darlin'!!!

I have more pics of flowers I've done, but I'll have to scan them. I'll do that at a later date.

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[MrScorpio]

45. That is beautiful art

No doubt about it

[SeattleGirl]

46. Thank you, MrS

That means so much to me! :loveya:

[cleofus1]

49. and of course the one i'm working on right now

this is how it started

this is how it looked a couple of days ago


i've worked on it a bit more but haven't scanned it yet

[cleofus1]

50. and this one done with a mouse on a computer

cga


and this

[Heidi]

54. You're motor skills are much better than mine.

I can hardly even deal with the Wacom tablet that Call Me Wesley recently got. Good job, cleofus! :thumbsup: :pals:

[cleofus1]

56. thanks sweetie

i certainly aspire to acquire some of your brushwork skills...you are one of the best here!

[Heidi]

59. I have some kind of neurological disconnect

when working with a mouse and/or stylus. So I just give up. I rarely even draw with a pencil; normally, it's just brush to canvas, and _anybody_ can do that. I think painting is a craft just like any other craft. (But I thank you for your kind words.) :hug:

[cleofus1]

51. my first attempt at DU portraiture

[cleofus1]

52. and finally some doodle studies of cartoon characters

[cleofus1]

53. ahh heck i think i killed this thread

cool....
here's some more then

[Heidi]

55. I love your Post-It portraits.

I don't know why, but the style reminds me a lot of R. Crumb's work (and he's one of my favorites). :yourock:

[cleofus1]

58. i grew up reading his comic books...before he was famous...

that and gilbert shelton...

[jane_pippin]

57. Wow! Cool Drawings Mr. S! Here are a couple of mine:

Are yours part of a full story or are they stand-alone drawings?

These are my aborted attempts at making stuff:

Here's Jeff. He's from a comic I never finished and have no time to work on now:



Here are some homes in Jeff's neighborhood:



Here's Jodi. She's from some other comic I have no time to work on now:



Edit: I hope you can see them. Sometimes I can't get stuff I worked on in illustrator to show up on PCs. I'm sure I could learn how to fix it, but again, I have no time for anything. (Thanks, jobs.) :(

[Heidi]

60. Very cool, jane_pippin!

The first two aren't showing up, but I lovelovelove Jodi! Are you an illustrator or commercial artist? Do you do your own lettering? I'm :wow:

[jane_pippin]

65. Thank you. I'm not a professional anything. I just draw to relax.

I wish I could figure out how to get the first two to work. I don't know why that happens, (but if I did I might be able to apply for design jobs.) :D

And yeah, it's my own lettering. Jodi is just a drawing done with a decent pen and then I added color in photoshop.

The other two that don't show up were done in Adobe Illustrator only, but then stuck into photoshop for some tweaking and saving. (Which is apparently pointless since nobody can see 'em.) :)

And Heidi, I love, love! your paintings. They're so rich and soft. Looking at them is calming and I love that there's so much to take in while still being uncomplicated.

[Heidi]

69. You need to be doing this professionally.

And I can't believe you do your own lettering. :wow_

I'd love to see more of your work. I'll send you a PM later with my email address, if you're interested in sharing. :hug:

[jane_pippin]

70. I'd love to be able to do that

but I don't think I know enough about the technical aspects of it yet to be taken seriously if I applied for a job. I still need to learn more about the Adobe programs--I just play around with them until I figure out a way to make things look like I want them to, but I'm sure there's an easier way to go about it than the way I wind up doing it. And I don't know about color--like when to work in CMYK and why, when to work in RGB, how to make sure it looks essentially the same on macs, pc's, and paper--all that stuff.

What I need is about 4 months off from work to just sit down with some books and go through them until I've learned what I need to learn.

I got your PM--I'll take you up on that, thank you! I'll send something out either tonight after work or tomorrow afternoon. Thank you so much for your support--it means a lot to me. :hug:

[Heidi]

71. I have some information that might be helpful to you.

(In my pre-artist life, I was a newspaper editor for a long time, so I know a little bit about process color. ;) ) I'll send you a PM this weekend, gf. :hug:

[jane_pippin]

63. Aw, dammit! They don't show up on the PCs. Oh well.

Get thee to a mac if you're that interested.

[cleofus1]

64. hey that sucks

but the one that does show kicks ass

[jane_pippin]

67. Thanks. Your portraits are very, very cool!

All of your work is. Do you just draw them for fun or are they part of a larger project? (Not that fun and project making can't go together.)

[cleofus1]

68. all the portraits were done at work

doodling on post its...so they were a "fun project"

[MrScorpio]

79. These aren't my original characters - They're from STARSTRUCK

There are based on ones created a while back by Elaine Lee and Michael W. Kaluta

[bigwillq]

61. WOW! Those are really good!

:bounce: :hi:

[MrScorpio]

81. Thanks Will!

n/t

[GalleryGod]

62. Old Story. But.......

Longgrain where art thou when needed ?

[Bridget Burke]

66. Fine stuff!

Let me guess--you did much of your early work in class. But not in art class!

I spend some time looking at "serious" art, but I'd rather check out a good Graphic Novel than another damned Schnabel.

[MrScorpio]

87. You are so right

and did a tonne of work at home too

[DS1]

72. Bondage chick fighting - check. 3 foot tall walking penis, also fighting

Check

Yup, the second one is definitely a Scorp Original ;-)

[Sugar Smack]

73. I LOVE the way you have with details, MrScorpio.

I have a few samples of my own work here:

[MrScorpio]

82. You are damn good, Shug

Love it!

[Sugar Smack]

85. Hey, my deepest thanks, babe!

I love it when we can all get together on threads like these.:pals:

[Tikki]

75. Some awesome art here from DUers...mine is not quite...

finished yet...








Tikki

[ghostsofgiants]

77. Kick

Come on, there have to be more artists around somewhere.

[Carni]

78. OK HERE'S MINE-- Please don't anyone rip on me too hard

Be kind please I just recently started painting again (and it shows)

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[MrScorpio]

80. I love it

I love the dichotomy between the bleu sadness of the woman and cat

[Carni]

83. Thanks

I'm fooling around with all kinds of different styles and I have no real idea what I am doing! lol

[djeseru]

84. I like the F-4.

Great details! Thank you for sharing these.


Oh, and here's and early collage of mine...a collage from college. I've been thinking of doing an updated version.

[GOPisEvil]

86. I like that! It reminds me of my favorite XM station.

I've been listening to channel 44, which is songs from our youth. That collage is very evocative of that time period.

Or, in other words, me likey.

[swag]

88. Two 1" x 2" canvases

enlarged here, obviously.

[Heidi]

91. Where do you find canvases that small?

The smallest gallery-wrap canvas I can find here is 10 x 10 cm (about 4" x 4"). I love that you paint all the way around, too. That's how I work, because it gives the buy the option of framing or just hanging. :thumbsup:

[swag]

92. This crazy framing shop on Foster Road in SE Portland sometimes has those

tiny canvases. Next time I'm down there, I will see if they have any in and will grab some for you.

Don't hesitate to remind me. Could be a fun field trip.

[mdmc]

94. Bi-valve-uni-bomber

[ScreamingMeemie]

95. I got nothing...

But I enjoyed looking at everyone else's. What talented DUers we have! :hi:

[wovenpaint]

97. These are wonderful to see-such talent on DU!!

I'll add a new one of mine to keep this thread kicked....



titled "Chambourd Royale"

[SeattleGirl]

99. And you're one of the best!

And I have one of your pieces to prove it! :hi:

[swag]

98. A portrait of Nixon announcing his resignation the following day.