Who does artwork, and in what media?

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
(SNIP)[/color] A drawing pad protected by a proper plastic bag, pencils, a hand pencil sharpener, and you could, even in your present circumstances, produce more original Parsons' landscapes. Some angel would need to give a little financial boost; art pads aren't cheap. (SNoP)[/color]

Appreciate the sentiment, had done some, but they were watercolors, and that freezes, that and I am used ot doing things in private and that is something that I simply do not have any more privacy, not on the computers, not in mylife otherthen whenI spend time out at the tent all by myself with the 'no running water' etc. etc.

Aside from that OIL is what I love doing, if you know anyhting about painting and you saw what I was doing, in watercolor, you would see that very clearly...so..I still await the responce of My government as they owe me a responce
...apparently Canada is (still) run by people who don't respond to their citizens, even when they are required to by law...what a lovely country...NOT!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
Appreciate the sentiment, had done some, but they were watercolors, and that freezes, that and I am used ot doing things in private and that is something that I simply do not have any more privacy, not on the computers, not in mylife otherthen whenI spend time out at the tent all by myself with the 'no running water' etc. etc.

Yes, I can appreciate the need for solitude in most artistic pursuits. I think most artists work best in privacy when it is possible.

Aside from that OIL is what I love doing, if you know anyhting about painting and you saw what I was doing, in watercolor, you would see that very clearly...

Oil is the monarch of media, I think. Unbelievable effects possible.

Still, it is expensive and space consuming to store. Some artists, most notably van Gogh, were able to achieve astonishingly colorful effects with the cheaper, easier medium of pencil, or pencil mixed with pen and ink, on common cardboard. I have a print of a van Gogh landscape in pencil and ink that astonishes me every time I look at it. It is equal to any of his paintings, I think.

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Watched a show on television, recently, that had a group of students learning Carpentry, Craftsmanship Carpentry, Most telling aspect, to me, was the instructor telling the students to act as if "time didn't matter"...let's go paint...

Use to do (would still, just that...) photography as well, 400 photos on just one of the western trips I had taken last century, (but my average would have been bout 100 per trip x 5 trips = lots of pictures!) and some really nice shots of rather esoteric sites on the (Canadian) face of the planet.

Used a Cannon AE one time, an Automatic so you could adjust the F stop, but not the shutter speed...had a Minolta after that one, liked that one too, started on a Zenith, Russian made, sort of simple, and a bit 'boxy', but great for a starter 35 mm SLR camera waaaaay back then...but no more of that...least not now...

Oh Yes I suppose I could be producing now, watercolors or something, but I need new glasses, need to get my eyes re-tested, as it has been some time since the last time and my distance vision has changed, don't want to generate eyestrain...yadda-yadda-yadda...( <-- Look! He's complaining, WOW, what's going to happen next??, "tune into this station same *** time, Same *** channel"