Art, Painting, Drawing - Share Yours

[Kas_Can_Fly]

Oh thank you very much. :)

 

[CraftyCath]

I'm very impressed with all the good art being shown.

Wax Art

 

[Deleted member 10686]

This isn't finished yet.... It's very important to me... When I was kept in his attic I found a very old Italian tapestry of rams roaming the alps... I hung it up in there and i dissociated and escaped into the tapestry so often. I've never found another one like it and I'm honestly upset because I want it, it holds a part of myself, but I will probably never find a duplicate. So.....
This painting is in no
Way a duplicate....
But it's a ram lol.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I took a class at the local library yesterday. It was two hours long and showed us the basics of something called 'zentangle'. I signed up for the class short notice and hoped it turned out okay.

Zentangle turned out to be interesting. I can't draw and since that was advertised in the class "No need to have the ability to draw" I enrolled. You separate the tiles into sections and then draw patterns. These are not actually finished and by the 2nd one ( the one on the right) I was getting drained and tired so I wasn't as careful or creative. They are small paper tiles and in the back ground is papers they gave us and a little bag for the supplies they gave us for the class. Everything was supplied and we got to take some extra tiles, a special pen and pencils home.

The whole art is very portable. I could fix the basics in my purse easy.

 

[cavy]

Kas your work is amazing, I would love to be able to create emotional art but am stuck in how to achieve it. If anyone has any ideas on how to achieve this I would love to know.

Ayesha I have never heard of this, it looks interesting & I like the fact that it is portable too. Am unable to draw due to how I am feeling at the moment, this can last for a while then I get totally absorbed when able to pick up a pencil again. Now I am very interested in this if it enables me to create when in a unproductive frame of mind.

I am not sure whether to post my art on here because if I do someone may recognise it and know who I am. I work with graphite, pastel to name but a few. Is there any way I can share that will be private so only we can see it? Sorry if this is a technical question and shouldn't be posted on here am still learning the ropes.

 

[Kas_Can_Fly]

Cavy, maybe start out with abstract styles, my first abstract (red and blue)was a trial and error and when it was finished I preferred it upside down (as shown). Mess around on a small canvas with cheap, paint, if you don't like it you can always paint over it (The abstract above is over another painting, in a few places there is green and gold from underneath peaking through). The best thing is you can't really go wrong, with the first one I was afraid to add more paint and each time was sure I had ruined it, but in the end it turned out just great. This was also my first painting on canvas and first use of acrylic paint. I found after a while though that I loved using palette knives as it could build more texture.

I find that when I'm bad, I can't draw or paint - even my stick men look awkward and uneven, I haven't got the spare energy or soul to put anything into artwork. If you don't want to do abstract - although I recommend them because they can be emotionally freeing. For more realistic artwork it's a combination of practice and ideas, don't feel that using lots of different reference pictures is cheating, or being inspired by someone else's ideas is stealing - examples for me would be trying poured watercolours (zebra), epic doodling (looks like the zentangle Ayesha posted), or the reference stock photos used on the above charcoal. My favourite tool is a 4B pencil (Horse) or biro and cheap paper printer paper, even some of my water colours have been done on printer paper (cherry tree). It doesn't have to be expensive, just do it, but don't feel you have to if you don't feel up to it and don't feel miserable if you can't on one day (or for me, months at a time). But have fun (zebra 2) and practice often (Charcoal couple/Coke Can)

Be impulsive, use colours that seem wrong (gun/staffy and above crying girl) - it usually looks good - though often I'm to scared for this one myself. I'm far better at giving advice than following it :S

For emotional art it can hurt to do it, but can be relieving, I personally find it uncomfortable to experience so much feeling all at once and so intensely and often make them in somewhat of a trance, but I usually feel relieved afterwards. You do seem to have to either plan the emotion to relieve or let your hand do what it needs.

Good luck. :)

 

[cavy]

Kas thankyou for your advice. I do fine art, am going to be brave and upload a few. If someone I know realises who I am well after thinking about it this morning I haven't got anything to be ashamed of (ptsd), I have to keep telling myself I was not to blame about what happened to me. If anything I wouldn't be who I am now if I hadn't been through trauma - creative.

My therapist suggested we do art therapy but I havn't been able to let go - will play around with abstract & see what happens.

I have a touch of OCD which you will see in my art, very detailed.

Well here goes ..... :nailbiting:

 

[Kas_Can_Fly]

Wow!! And you asked for my advice?!! Those are incredible!

 

[cavy]

Thank you, because I am so used to working like this I have a real problem with letting go. I will try abstract & see how I get on.

When I did art before I started therapy I looked at it & it was as if someone else had done it. I knew it must have been me because I'd signed it!!

 

[Barberian]

Taken in 2008, out the truck, drivers side window on I-95 in Nv on my way to Las Vegas when I was still a truck driver. Cropped the foreground which was blurry because I was driving.

Copyright as per previous agreement with Anthony. Free use for [DLMURL]http://www.myptsd.com[/DLMURL]

 

[Barberian]

Taken the same day, the same way. I couldn't crop out the foreground as well without making the photo very top heavy, so the foreground is blurry. This is one pic I wish I could have stopped to take. Being a truckdriver came first because that paid the bills, and there was rarely a good spot to pull over an 18 wheeler in areas where the scenery was good.

Copyright as per previous agreement with Anthony. Free use for [DLMURL]http://www.myptsd.com[/DLMURL]

 

[cavy]

Amazing scenery & a beautiful photo.