Art Thread

[Teasel]

Ok, so this is a way I got a bit of the therapeutic benefit of art in, despite a deficit of spoons. Was recently thinking that even just putting colour on paper would prolly give me some pleasure. And I swatched my tin of Derwent drawing pencils. Yeh, it was a little bit therapeutic, I think just looking at colours prolly is a therapeutic thing for me, and these are nice calm colours. Make me think of English countryside. Think Derwent is British company, not sure.

And just saw this video which is sorta saying a similar thing.

She takes a sprig of flowers from her garden, and with watercolour paints, swatches 9 colours that she can see in the plant. They are really pretty it has to be said.

I don't have the flowers or enough spoons to do that. But just spent a few minutes in an art app with photographs I took myself. Picking 9 colours I could see in them.

They are not pretty like this lady's swatches, but I got something out of it, so that's good enough.


Also, I bought this book, it's full of colour palettes, got it second hand.not sure exactly how I'll use it. Could be even just looking in it will be nice enough. We'll see.

Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art and Style: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art & Style https://amzn.eu/d/4Mn4uym

 

[Lost in the Woods]

I have always wondered if it is possible to imagine a color that doesn’t exist. If so, how would you go about it?

 

[spinningmytires]

I have always wondered if it is possible to imagine a color that doesn’t exist. If so, how would you go about it?

Interesting question. During my childhood, it seemed so disappointing to me that there weren’t more colors than there were. I think that colors are actually only variations in wave lengths, but then, I’m not a scientist. When I visualize colors within my mind they will circle around much like the colors arranged on the color-wheel. When trying to imagine another color beyond this color-wheel all that I can visualize will be either a pure white or pure black. Beyond this there is nothing. To envision any imaginary color within my mind this seems to demand my memory of having once experienced that color's sensations.

Whatever I imagine seems to be only a reconstruction of something I had once actually experiences from my past. This might be color but then, I also must wonder about the strange creature I once saw crossing a field along with my grey aliens and grey-mantis sighting if only imagined. Were these imaginary reconstructions of something I had once actually processed into my memory.

 

[Lost in the Woods]

I don’t know if it is doable or not. It is one of those things I think about on long bicycle rides. You caught on to being limited by experience, but could a person break through that. If so, it would be pure original thought. But how to turn off the experience limitation? That is the hard part.

 

[spinningmytires]

Ok, so this is a way I got a bit of the therapeutic benefit of art in, despite a deficit of spoons. Was recently thinking that even just putting colour on paper would prolly give me some pleasure. And I swatched my tin of Derwent drawing pencils. Yeh, it was a little bit therapeutic, I think just looking at colours prolly is a therapeutic thing for me, and these are nice calm colours. Make me think of English countryside. Think Derwent is British company, not sure.

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And just saw this video which is sorta saying a similar thing.

She takes a sprig of flowers from her garden, and with watercolour paints, swatches 9 colours that she can see in the plant. They are really pretty it has to be said.

I don't have the flowers or enough spoons to do that. But just spent a few minutes in an art app with photographs I took myself. Picking 9 colours I could see in them.

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They are not pretty like this lady's swatches, but I got something out of it, so that's good enough.


Also, I bought this book, it's full of colour palettes, got it second hand.not sure exactly how I'll use it. Could be even just looking in it will be nice enough. We'll see.

Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art and Style: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art & Style https://amzn.eu/d/4Mn4uym

I like how this artist relates her nine color swatches to the others and to the actual flower itself. The making of traditional color charts is painfully boring. ere she is documenting the flower’s local hues observed in light yet, the shadow colors are equally important. Often only two shadow colors are ever needed, one for the warm gray shadows and one for the cooler gray shadow. Artists like Monet had intensely exaggerated the shadow colors. If the shadows appeared cool they would often paint them as blue, if the shadows appeared warmer they’d add a bit of red or orange into the shadow.

Though I must have well over 200 art books, I haven’t read this one. There’s no color formula that consistently works thus, keeping it simple and well organized with a limited color palette seems to be the best approach.

All that I’ve created lately was the little quick pencil sketch I did last week. I was trying to draw the effects of ‘checkering’ or the ‘light against dark’ patterns seen on a vase. The figure was an after-thought. I’ll post it soon.

 

[spinningmytires]

I don’t know if it is doable or not. It is one of those things I think about on long bicycle rides. You caught on to being limited by experience, but could a person break through that. If so, it would be pure original thought. But how to turn off the experience limitation? That is the hard partI.

I think some people have attempted to break through this limited experience barrier using drugs. However, I would prefer having a more organized brain. :)

 

[Lost in the Woods]

I’m guilty of that, a lot of that in my misspent youth.

 

[spinningmytires]

This sketch I drew several days ago. When I visualize objects in my mind like this, they rarely have any shadows and perhaps, because I won’t be seeing these imaginary objects as having any genuine light source projected onto them. My visualizations will often appear as if defused within a dream-like fog. When I draw intuitively from my imagination, I have to consciously make an effort to add in the shadows however, I can’t do this shading until I have recognized what it is that I’m drawing.

 

[Teasel]

Lovely sketch @spinningmytires

the shadow colors are equally important.

Agreed! I immediately thought that on watching her do this. She chooses colours of a similar tone which looks nice and pretty but she misses out the darkest greens repeatedly.

Though I must have well over 200 art books, I haven’t read this one.

I wouldn't call it an art book, not really anything to read, it's just pages and pages of colour combos

 

[Rose White]

Idk if it’s just art or art therapy

 

[Teasel]

Quick play with a Pentel art brush pen. Holding it at the end so as to not be so controlled.

I had spent a bit of time finding out about etegami, Japanese art postcards. They hold a brush at the tip with 2 fingers, and use Sumi ink and gansai tambi watercolours. The marks are delicious, thick and thin and not precise. Really beautiful. And it's done on a particular kind of washi paper, already forgotten the name of it, but it's different to our watercolour paper in that the watercolours spread much more. I'd love to have a go sometime, but spoons and things.

Anyway I got a Pentel art brush after watching this man draw with one, and very much liking the marks it makes.

My quick sketch isn't so proficient as his, but I enjoyed doing it muchly. All the more so for lack of spoons and things.

 

[Rose White]

“I’m sorry, leave me alone”