Art What is your favorite drawing?

[fresh_42]

Penrose, a great

Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?

 

[mcastillo356]

Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?

I meant he is, alive and kicking.
Love

 

[fresh_42]

I meant he is, alive and kicking.
Love

I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!

 

[mcastillo356]

I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/875
I think this link doesn't bring a clue. Moreover, my PC tells is not safe. I've seen University of Oxford logo, so there it goes. I knock on wood.

 

[sbrothy]

John William Waterhouse's "Cleopatra" is my favorite.

I'm sure the person who's receiving that look is about to loose his/her head... :)

 

[fresh_42]

John William Waterhouse's "Cleopatra" is my favorite.

I'm sure the person who's receiving that look is about to loose his/her head... :)

That gave me a phishing warning.

 

[sbrothy]

That gave me a phishing warning.

Sorry. I thought shortening the URL was smart. Let mejust correct that.

EDIT: Hope that did the trick. Though I can't correct the part you quoted of course.

 

[sbrothy]

I don't know what gold oil paint cost when he painted that but, even though it's a small canvas, he must've used quite a bit.

That anyone can paint with such realism impresses me.

You heard the one about the reign of the Medici which gave us 300 years of constant war and assasination but also produced Michelangelo, Raphael, yeah the entire Renaissance, while 500 years of democracy in Switzerland gave us the cuckoo-clock. That's humans for you. :P

 

[fresh_42]

I wouldn't bet that the cuckoo clocks are from Switzerland.

The origins of the cuckoo clock are obscure. As early as 1619, a clock with a cuckoo cry entered the collection of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony.

It is actually the Black Forest that is famous for them. The Swiss gave us ...

Spoiler: Caution: off-topic

I was looking for a typical swiss painting and searched for Rigi paintings but I have only found paintings from English (William Turner) or German painters (Ernst-Ferdinand Oehme, Eduard Walther). Strange.

 

[sbrothy]

I wouldn't bet that the cuckoo clocks are from Switzerland.

It is actually the Black Forest that is famous for them. The Swiss gave us ...

Spoiler: Caution: off-topic

Hah, yeah I guess I asked for that running around spreading apocryphal stories. Luckily it didn't auto-start and my volume is turned down. :)

BTW, there's a wiki page which kills all these myths I'm sure you've also heard. That daddy longlegs are really poisonous if they could just bite through our skin, or that sharks must constantly swim lest they die. I think that the north/west hemisphere Coriolis bath tub rotation thing is laid to rest somewhere on there too.

Still, I hear them repeated at least weekly.

EDIT: OK. I'm done being off-topic.

 

[fresh_42]

Hah, yeah I guess I asked for that running around spreading apocryphal stories. Luckily it didn't auto-start and my volume is turned down. :)

Don't mind. The Germanic tribes in the Black Forest and those in the German part of Switzerland are closely related.

 

[mcastillo356]

This is the other I love. Is Edward Hopper's wife; the painting is a private collection. What might be she thinking, is she happy (doesn't look sad), just enjoying first sun rays... The modern Gioconda

 

[Klystron]

This is the other I love. Is Edward Hopper's wife; the painting is a private collection. What might be she thinking, is she happy (doesn't look sad), just enjoying first sun rays... The modern Gioconda

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Once again Hopper anticipates current (artistic) trends: a middle-aged woman with full body tattoos in this case. Notice also the sun splashed rear wall has no adornments yet is a riot of pastel shades. Cool.

 

[zeliha]

Hi, Last year i made copy of this painting this is very hard to make. I like colors of this one, keeps calm.

 

[mcastillo356]

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Hi, Last year i made copy of this painting this is very hard to make. I like colors of this one, keeps calm.

Yes, paradoxically a stormy mind's artwork. All of his work is, IMO, a seek for peace, except for the last one, full of black crows, which I consider some kind of surrender.

 

[osilmag]

Nighthawks

 

[Klystron]

Nighthawks
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There are several reproductions, that I will not post here, of this excellent piece with the pensive couple and tense solitary customer replaced by contemporary celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean from the 1960s. "Imitation is a form of praise."

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, this is my favourite right now, since I just finished it.

This is my first foray into acrylics.

I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

 

[Klystron]

Well, this is my favourite right now, since I just finished it.

This is my first foray into acrylics.
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I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

Not bad for first foray. I particularly like the spectacles. Questions: Is your platform paper, canvas or panel? Did you prepare the surface with acrylic gesso? Thanks.

As you mention water color, I guess thick paper?

 

[mcastillo356]

This is my first foray into acrylics.

I once or twice tried this technique, and found it really tricky.

I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

Hard work, but nice result indeed.

 

[DaveC426913]

Not bad for first foray. I particularly like the spectacles. Questions: Is your platform paper, canvas or panel? Did you prepare the surface with acrylic gesso? Thanks.

As you mention water color, I guess thick paper?

It's on pre-stretched canvas.

It didn't even occur to me to use gesso.
That might be a fourth option for experimentation.
Transparent Watercolour
Opaque
Gesso
Pen and ink

 

[Klystron]

It's on pre-stretched canvas.

It didn't even occur to me to use gesso.
That might be a fourth option for experimentation.
Transparent Watercolour
Opaque
Gesso
Pen and ink

When you mentioned color mixing on canvas, I immediately thought of acrylic gesso. Artist quality gesso comes as clear, white and tinted. Since acrylics are water based, you can thin it or add other acrylic products that prolong drying time to allow some spectacular on canvas effects. I tend to be old fashioned but metallic and other acrylic additives look intriguing.

I worked mainly in acrylics on stretched canvas and medium density fiberboard (MDF), sometimes on paper. I always gesso canvas and MDF, often sanding with fine blocks the next day, applying another thin coat or coats (MDF can be uneven) then finishing with ultra-fine sandpaper. Takes overnight to dry here in the desert between coats but the surface and depth is worth the effort. Water based paints slide as if on oil.

I got as much enjoyment preparing surfaces as from actual painting. You can tint the final gesso coat, say with Prussian or other blue for 'sky', or underpaint with pigment and seal with clear acylic gesso. So many possibilities.

 

[DaveC426913]

When you mentioned color mixing on canvas, I immediately thought of acrylic gesso. Artist quality gesso comes as clear, white and tinted. Since acrylics are water based, you can thin it or add other acrylic products that prolong drying time to allow some spectacular on canvas effects.

Hey yeah! That's exactly what I'm looking for. I was lamenting that the first layers were dry when I wanted to modify them.

That's what happened to the crown of my head in the upper right. I had painted the entire face and head in the flesh tone, but - stepping back - I realized the right side of my crown was in the same hot colours as the face, so it was pushing forward. It looked like I had this giant egg head. I needed the whole right side to be in cool tones so it would recede.

But since it was dry, I had no options - I went over it with a wash.

As you can see, it did not work. It's muddy. It's the one area of the picture I regret.

I'm not sure if redoing the whole upper right forehead would have been an option. I'm not sure I could match the skin tones close enough. I decided the best thing to do was finish it, leave it be, and start a new one with what I've learned.