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those are fandertastic! love love love the lighting
well it's all about the light, but these are so well done
actually, I am currently on a mission to learn how to do those Renaissance type portraits...I really admire them
bought a bunch of lessons from Creative Live at big savings so I can apply myself...you never stop learning..part of what I like
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i have an art degree, and in the course of earning it i collected a group of contacts & friends. i've had much better luck by remaining friends on facebook with people who would up working in museums, becoming professional artists in one way or another, teaching, or just kept on loving art, than i ever did by browsing one conglomerate website or another.
my advice is, if you have friends who make art, who love art, who teach art, then keep in touch. they'll curate for you -- and you curate for them, too. no art is created or appreciated in isolation; there is no isolation. we all live together in this earth, and even if we separate ourselves as much as we can, we're never alone: God is always present. you see a sunset by yourself? nope: God is there, the Artist Himself, showing you.
for example the link above - i found it through friendship with a musician who's friends with a photographer who's friends with someone else. a chain of acquaintances that brought me to befriend a sculpture professor in France, who shared the link originally. a woman there is no way in the world i ever would have met without link after link of acquaintance. would i have ever found that by browsing instagram? pfft. nope.
in whatever niche, make friends; keep them & appreciate them. thank God for them. they embiggen your world
just saying it because, hey, i devoted 6 years of university to art. i know artists are reclusive. i also know, isolating yourself can cause you to miss out. we're here not for ourselves, but for each other: learn to love mercy, learn to forgive, and God will reward you
my advice is, if you have friends who make art, who love art, who teach art, then keep in touch. they'll curate for you -- and you curate for them, too. no art is created or appreciated in isolation; there is no isolation. we all live together in this earth, and even if we separate ourselves as much as we can, we're never alone: God is always present. you see a sunset by yourself? nope: God is there, the Artist Himself, showing you.
for example the link above - i found it through friendship with a musician who's friends with a photographer who's friends with someone else. a chain of acquaintances that brought me to befriend a sculpture professor in France, who shared the link originally. a woman there is no way in the world i ever would have met without link after link of acquaintance. would i have ever found that by browsing instagram? pfft. nope.
in whatever niche, make friends; keep them & appreciate them. thank God for them. they embiggen your world
just saying it because, hey, i devoted 6 years of university to art. i know artists are reclusive. i also know, isolating yourself can cause you to miss out. we're here not for ourselves, but for each other: learn to love mercy, learn to forgive, and God will reward you
do you know much about the symbolism in them? there's actually typically a narrative built out of what's included in the painting, built out of a vocabulary of icons. at least, that's what the people whose job it is to write essays about paintings say lol! maybe it really is just an homage to a nice breakfast, after all
actually, I am currently on a mission to learn how to do those Renaissance type portraits...I really admire them
do you know much about the symbolism in them? there's actually typically a narrative built out of what's included in the painting, built out of a vocabulary of icons. at least, that's what the people whose job it is to write essays about paintings say lol! maybe it really is just an homage to a nice breakfast, after all
goodness! someone who could afford a painting like these certainly could afford a basket of flowers or fruit!
a patron who commissioned something like these things was pretty much always very wealthy and very well educated!
here's an article giving a bit of an introduction to symbolism in still-lifes; i'm no kind of expert in it i just know enough to know that it's definitely present, especially in religious art but also in such 'mundane' things as paintings of flowers & fruit & ewers. all these things had meaning as symbols and weren't just random objects; people would pay the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars to have them made, and artiss would spend the better part of a year sometimes completing them.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180318-secret-symbols-in-still-life-painting
i'll try to dig into the intrawebz and find something more substantially educational.. i'm sure if you poke around enough on the subject you'll learn quite a lot
a patron who commissioned something like these things was pretty much always very wealthy and very well educated!
here's an article giving a bit of an introduction to symbolism in still-lifes; i'm no kind of expert in it i just know enough to know that it's definitely present, especially in religious art but also in such 'mundane' things as paintings of flowers & fruit & ewers. all these things had meaning as symbols and weren't just random objects; people would pay the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars to have them made, and artiss would spend the better part of a year sometimes completing them.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180318-secret-symbols-in-still-life-painting
i'll try to dig into the intrawebz and find something more substantially educational.. i'm sure if you poke around enough on the subject you'll learn quite a lot
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i have an art degree, and in the course of earning it i collected a group of contacts & friends. i've had much better luck by remaining friends on facebook with people who would up working in museums, becoming professional artists in one way or another, teaching, or just kept on loving art, than i ever did by browsing one conglomerate website or another.
my advice is, if you have friends who make art, who love art, who teach art, then keep in touch. they'll curate for you -- and you curate for them, too. no art is created or appreciated in isolation; there is no isolation. we all live together in this earth, and even if we separate ourselves as much as we can, we're never alone: God is always present. you see a sunset by yourself? nope: God is there, the Artist Himself, showing you.
for example the link above - i found it through friendship with a musician who's friends with a photographer who's friends with someone else. a chain of acquaintances that brought me to befriend a sculpture professor in France, who shared the link originally. a woman there is no way in the world i ever would have met without link after link of acquaintance. would i have ever found that by browsing instagram? pfft. nope.
in whatever niche, make friends; keep them & appreciate them. thank God for them. they embiggen your world
just saying it because, hey, i devoted 6 years of university to art. i know artists are reclusive. i also know, isolating yourself can cause you to miss out. we're here not for ourselves, but for each other: learn to love mercy, learn to forgive, and God will reward you
my advice is, if you have friends who make art, who love art, who teach art, then keep in touch. they'll curate for you -- and you curate for them, too. no art is created or appreciated in isolation; there is no isolation. we all live together in this earth, and even if we separate ourselves as much as we can, we're never alone: God is always present. you see a sunset by yourself? nope: God is there, the Artist Himself, showing you.
for example the link above - i found it through friendship with a musician who's friends with a photographer who's friends with someone else. a chain of acquaintances that brought me to befriend a sculpture professor in France, who shared the link originally. a woman there is no way in the world i ever would have met without link after link of acquaintance. would i have ever found that by browsing instagram? pfft. nope.
in whatever niche, make friends; keep them & appreciate them. thank God for them. they embiggen your world
just saying it because, hey, i devoted 6 years of university to art. i know artists are reclusive. i also know, isolating yourself can cause you to miss out. we're here not for ourselves, but for each other: learn to love mercy, learn to forgive, and God will reward you
I actually sell my work...both photography and paintings...also work in clayboard...also do photoshoots. I gave up on social media a long time ago as far as anything serious goes...and I'm not isolated...but it isn't hard to be alone haha
I have created all my life and am happiest when doing so.
I am not sure I would know where to begin though if I wasn't 'consulting' God along the way
I'm not sure what you are saying about browsing other sites? I find no harm in it but I am not sure how you are viewing it
what I don't like, is the attitude of those who view art as status...usually not the artist
my background is both Fine Art and Commercial and I find they really compliment each other
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i meant, i've found one in 300 images worth looking at by browsing deviant art etc. i've found 1 in 10 looking at what people whose aesthetics i admire share. it was more directed to Paisley, whose in university now -- to encourage her to keep in touch with the other people she befriends there, because down the road, she'll be glad she did, and it'll be worth more to her than access to the work of a thousand total strangers, in my experience. i'm grateful for the people that have found their way into my life
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well it seems you are trained in representative drawing...spent hours and hours and hours doing it and it's a good thing...training your eyes and your sense of light/balance/comp
I actually seldom crop my photos cause I set them up before I take the shot...whereas I find those who began with photography are (sorry) crop happy...I crop sometimes but not a whole lot
there is still a very good market for art...plus people choose to cross over into composite photos...something I really like myself...or adding elements ... creating, really, art from photos that is no longer what they saw but what they want to represent or feel when they create it.
really I see it as endless opportunities to create and imagine...while fun, also requiring dedication and pursuing what you want to express
someone once mentioned 'the best artists are those who can keep their behinds in the chair the longest' haha
as it is, I particularly like detail so that is not the biggest problem
I actually seldom crop my photos cause I set them up before I take the shot...whereas I find those who began with photography are (sorry) crop happy...I crop sometimes but not a whole lot
there is still a very good market for art...plus people choose to cross over into composite photos...something I really like myself...or adding elements ... creating, really, art from photos that is no longer what they saw but what they want to represent or feel when they create it.
really I see it as endless opportunities to create and imagine...while fun, also requiring dedication and pursuing what you want to express
someone once mentioned 'the best artists are those who can keep their behinds in the chair the longest' haha
as it is, I particularly like detail so that is not the biggest problem
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i meant, i've found one in 300 images worth looking at by browsing deviant art etc. i've found 1 in 10 looking at what people whose aesthetics i admire share. it was more directed to Paisley, whose in university now -- to encourage her to keep in touch with the other people she befriends there, because down the road, she'll be glad she did, and it'll be worth more to her than access to the work of a thousand total strangers, in my experience. i'm grateful for the people that have found their way into my life
oh. ok. well again, I first ended up at Deviant looking for brushes for Photoshop and will basically still have the same reason to go there
ok...understand better now
best times are usually spent with those of like mind. it's like you are free to be yourself...finally
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do you know much about the symbolism in them? there's actually typically a narrative built out of what's included in the painting, built out of a vocabulary of icons. at least, that's what the people whose job it is to write essays about paintings say lol! maybe it really is just an homage to a nice breakfast, after all
like when your lit prof expects you to find 17 different meanings in a book that is best read and taken as is
I don't tend to see all kinds of hidden meanings in things....you start looking under rocks haha
Based on this pic, I'm more of a geek. I like coffee, sneakers, the piano, t-shirts, and dogs.
Here are what I enjoy...
Video games: Animal Crossing (New Leaf, Pocket Camp, & New Horizons), The Sims
Fantasy: I watched the whole of The Vampire Diaries
Anime: Mirmo, Clannad, Powerpuff Girls Z
Novels: I read the whole of A Series of Unfortunate Events
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