Artistic Passions

[Marquis]

LOL, mystifying. Perhaps this then? Sorry, but it's only a preliminary sketch.

Catalina

Yum.

 

[Netzach]

Wow, thanks everyone, I just popped in here after a bit. Being complimented so nicely and by some people SO talented sure made me feel good.

I only started the beading after my Crohn's diagnosis this December. I have a background in art/painting/sculpture but never really did craft till now. Beading is the ideal thing for someone in my situation, Killishandra you are SO right that there's something very restorative and zen about the repetition in certain crafts.

Chronic illness sure can give you a lot of time to do something you suddenly never had before. It really does keep me a sane person and I work on it pretty much daily. Started keeping a totally vanilla livejournal for posting bead pics, I don't know if dropping a link would be considered spammage or not.

serijules, holy crap, can you ever draw. The rendering is gorgeous, but they are also very animated and alive images. And the photography is every bit as amazing -- I especially love the dog ones and I'm not a dog pic person usually. It's the rest of the world's loss that you aren't more commercially inclined.

 

[Killishandra]

Wow, thanks everyone, I just popped in here after a bit. Being complimented so nicely and by some people SO talented sure made me feel good.

I only started the beading after my Crohn's diagnosis this December. I have a background in art/painting/sculpture but never really did craft till now. Beading is the ideal thing for someone in my situation, Killishandra you are SO right that there's something very restorative and zen about the repetition in certain crafts.

Chronic illness sure can give you a lot of time to do something you suddenly never had before. It really does keep me a sane person and I work on it pretty much daily. Started keeping a totally vanilla livejournal for posting bead pics, I don't know if dropping a link would be considered spammage or not.

serijules, holy crap, can you ever draw. The rendering is gorgeous, but they are also very animated and alive images. And the photography is every bit as amazing -- I especially love the dog ones and I'm not a dog pic person usually. It's the rest of the world's loss that you aren't more commercially inclined.

I don't think a link to a livejournal would be considered spamming, when placed in the context of this thread... I'd definitely go to see the pics if you posted the link.

Also, I didn't know your illness is Crohn's disease... My youngest brother (almost 16, in a few days) was diagnosed with it about a decade ago. My biological mom had bouts with intestinal cancer, winding up with an ileostomy right after my birth (and, amazingly, BEFORE the birth of my brother! Don't ask me how she managed his birth, the doctors said a second pregnancy would be impossible.) It's of some opinions that his Crohn's is related to her digestive cancers, and I grew up helping to take care of both of them, probably similar to how your M is taking care of you.

Anyway, it is an unfortunate illness, and I wish you the best with your treatments and recovery.

 

[serijules]

Wow, thanks everyone, I just popped in here after a bit. Being complimented so nicely and by some people SO talented sure made me feel good.

I only started the beading after my Crohn's diagnosis this December. I have a background in art/painting/sculpture but never really did craft till now. Beading is the ideal thing for someone in my situation, Killishandra you are SO right that there's something very restorative and zen about the repetition in certain crafts.

Chronic illness sure can give you a lot of time to do something you suddenly never had before. It really does keep me a sane person and I work on it pretty much daily. Started keeping a totally vanilla livejournal for posting bead pics, I don't know if dropping a link would be considered spammage or not.

serijules, holy crap, can you ever draw. The rendering is gorgeous, but they are also very animated and alive images. And the photography is every bit as amazing -- I especially love the dog ones and I'm not a dog pic person usually. It's the rest of the world's loss that you aren't more commercially inclined.

Thank you for the compliments

I have been wanting to get into beading for years and years now, but I am not very pattern-inclined...I get frustrated with myself and end up messing up my designs when a pattern is involved, and spend too much time worrying about not messing up rather than enjoying. But I still intend to keep at it and learn to bead and crochet better (right now I can only make scarves lol). But I LOVE the results of beading and crochet so I'm determined to get over my phobia of patterns (lol) and messing up and just keep learning. I would love to see your LJ with your work, no doubt it would be inspiring.

 

[Netzach]

Thank you Killishandra, yep that's my not so mystery ailment.

I'm lucky in comparison to a lot of people, and I'm sorry to hear about your brother. As bad as this is for someone who's 31, when I hear about pediatric CD it makes me really feel horrible that any kid should have it.

I'm not as lucky as I'd like to be in other respects -- I don't seem to be getting into a remission from meds, just stabilizing in mid-flare. You know you are sick when surgery sounds really good.

It's a humbling learning experience and it gave me beading. There's the silver lining.

Should be posts coming up again soon. I throw a pic up as I make things.

serijules -- I can't crochet or knit worth anything. I don't use patterns either, trying to graph things and follow the graph makes me insane. I'm trying to force myself to do that though because I actually want to make some items that have imagery having to do with my illness -- like an amulet bag that has an image of a small intestine on it. Odd and creepy, I know, but I think it could be interesting. I hate graphs though, or trying to count things out from flat to 3-D.

 

[serijules]

serijules -- I can't crochet or knit worth anything. I don't use patterns either, trying to graph things and follow the graph makes me insane. I'm trying to force myself to do that though because I actually want to make some items that have imagery having to do with my illness -- like an amulet bag that has an image of a small intestine on it. Odd and creepy, I know, but I think it could be interesting. I hate graphs though, or trying to count things out from flat to 3-D.

Hmm, I guess I assumed that in beadwork unless you do solid colours you would have to follow a pattern to some extent? Even simple "patterns" of "ok first the small bead and then the larger one" or something drives me nuts, I get all worked up thinking I'll fuck it up. I'm so anal sometimes, heh.

 

[serijules]

my beads/Crohn's vanilla normalcy mostly blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/beadblog

Should be posts coming up again soon. I throw a pic up as I make things.

I *really* like these, they are gorgeous! I really really want to learn...how did you learn, any books or websites or anything you can recommend? I'm such a sucker for crystal and glass beads or anything clear and sparkly, but the only type of beading I've ever done is beading tiny glass beads into the webs of the dreamcatchers I used to make. I've wanted to learn to do this since I was a kid and it's time I stop procrastinating. We don't have any good craft stores in my area though, just walmart :/

Thanks for sharing...I've bookmarked it and will definately check back.

 

[Netzach]

There are a bunch of books I like a lot, I'll throw links up to them sometime in the next couple of days. Beyond that I took a class at my local bead store, of which there are 80 bajillion in my locale.

I get what you mean about pattern, yeah. Either you get to groove on the repetition or it bores you. You might like free-form beading, which is what got me started, I don't have a good photo example of that at the moment, but it's much more sculptural and doesn't follow a pattern at all...

 

[catalina_francisco]

Any new works of art from our talented community?

Catalina

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Any new works of art from our talented community?

Catalina

Thanks for the invite, Catalina. Looks like a lot of people have the same idea. The folks here may also want to check out Literotica's Artists of Erotica.
If its all cool with you, I'm going to add the link for this thread to the list of art-related threads I've put together at the beginning of my thread? More the merrier.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Thanks for the invite, Catalina. Looks like a lot of people have the same idea. The folks here may also want to check out Literotica's Artists of Erotica.
If its all cool with you, I'm going to add the link for this thread to the list of art-related threads I've put together at the beginning of my thread? More the merrier.

Thought you might like it.

Catalina

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Thought you might like it.

Catalina

You know it.

 

[catalina_francisco]

You know it.

You might also like our Photography thread.

Catalina

 

[Halo_n_horns]

You might also like our Photography thread.

Catalina

Thank you kindly.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Has anyone this side of the pond been watching 'Star Portraits'? I am addicted and find I am learning so much as well. Is there an equivalent programme in Oz or the US? It is a programme (in the BBC case presented by Aussie Rolf Harris) where each week he selects 3 professional artists of very different styles to paint a celebrity. They do not have prior knowledge of who the celebrity will be, have a few hours group sitting with them, then 2 weeks to complete their work of art at which time they are unveiled for the celebrity who gets to choose one to keep and the other 2 are to be auctioned at the end of the programme. I adore it.

Catalina

 

[catalina_francisco]

Bump for anything new people may want to offer...

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Bump for anything new people may want to offer...

Ohhh yes Cat superb timing...... a huge canvas I have recently puchased has been primed and I will be starting a 'masterpiece' this afternoon (sketching stage no paint ) . Its a large tribute peice to the work of Seiu Ito . I am toying with the idea and will be soon experimenting first hand with the idea of incorporating actual rope into the piece. Should make a delightfully frustrating distraction ......smiles.

Grief in recent years has distracted me from one of my true loves and thats Art . Its time to put that behind me for some reason . Its going to take awhile and I know it will be frustrating as Hell for the next month or so. My brush skills deteriorate quickly. Last time I downed brushes I could paint the finest of controlled lines with little to no effort. These things take time to evolve again. The brain 'has it' still just need to reacquaint my hands. I am actually rather excited !!!

I'll share my progress here as I go along for those that may be interested

 

[catalina_francisco]

Ohhh yes Cat superb timing...... a huge canvas I have recently puchased has been primed and I will be starting a 'masterpiece' this afternoon (sketching stage no paint ) . Its a large tribute peice to the work of Seiu Ito . I am toying with the idea and will be soon experimenting first hand with the idea of incorporating actual rope into the piece. Should make a delightfully frustrating distraction ......smiles.

Grief in recent years has distracted me from one of my true loves and thats Art . Its time to put that behind me for some reason . Its going to take awhile and I know it will be frustrating as Hell for the next month or so. My brush skills deteriorate quickly. Last time I downed brushes I could paint the finest of controlled lines with little to no effort. These things take time to evolve again. The brain 'has it' still just need to reacquaint my hands. I am actually rather excited !!!

I'll share my progress here as I go along for those that may be interested

Cool, I was going to ask if you would be interested in sharing the work at various stages. I am still determined to paint in a more conventional method, but for now it eludes me in a way which I am satisfied with...I will keep at it though. Sounds like this return to art could be therapeutic for you a little at least.

Catalina

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Cool, I was going to ask if you would be interested in sharing the work at various stages. I am still determined to paint in a more conventional method, but for now it eludes me in a way which I am satisfied with...I will keep at it though. Sounds like this return to art could be therapeutic for you a little at least.

Catalina

Will it be okay if I go from therapeutic to complete wanton hedonist Miss Cat ..........

 

[SpectreT]

Not so sure I count as "new"

When I get them loaded into my Mac, resized, and "cleaned up" a little, I'll throw some of my photography up here. Similar theme to seri's stuff; I do B&W architecture photography, and color landscapes, unless I have the wrong type of film loaded when I spot something I want to photograph.

Probably be a day or two. Longer if I can't shrink the darn things enough to fit here.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Not so sure I count as "new"

When I get them loaded into my Mac, resized, and "cleaned up" a little, I'll throw some of my photography up here. Similar theme to seri's stuff; I do B&W architecture photography, and color landscapes, unless I have the wrong type of film loaded when I spot something I want to photograph.

Probably be a day or two. Longer if I can't shrink the darn things enough to fit here.

LOL, oh well, new to some and new to the thread, it is all good. I look forward to your photos. Also have you seen the Photography thread here, and The Visual Artist's Corner in Author's Hangout? There are indvidual threads in the VAC as well as a photography thread for anyne. You might like some of the stuff in there also.

Catalina

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Ohhh yes Cat superb timing...... a huge canvas I have recently puchased has been primed and I will be starting a 'masterpiece' this afternoon (sketching stage no paint ) . Its a large tribute peice to the work of Seiu Ito . I am toying with the idea and will be soon experimenting first hand with the idea of incorporating actual rope into the piece. Should make a delightfully frustrating distraction ......smiles.

Grief in recent years has distracted me from one of my true loves and thats Art . Its time to put that behind me for some reason . Its going to take awhile and I know it will be frustrating as Hell for the next month or so. My brush skills deteriorate quickly. Last time I downed brushes I could paint the finest of controlled lines with little to no effort. These things take time to evolve again. The brain 'has it' still just need to reacquaint my hands. I am actually rather excited !!!

I'll share my progress here as I go along for those that may be interested

I so want to see this! SHARE SHARE SHARE!

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

I so want to see this! SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Thanks Salvor.......I will share in stages as I said I would......its been a shaky start......feeling daunted though I can and will do it.....just waiting for the part where I forget where I am when I am 'working '

 

[catalina_francisco]

Thanks Salvor.......I will share in stages as I said I would......its been a shaky start......feeling daunted though I can and will do it.....just waiting for the part where I forget where I am when I am 'working '

I find whenever I am sketching for 75% of the sketch I am sure it is a mess. I try to resist the urge, but on more than one occasion I have thrown one in the bin and later realised it probably would have turned out well if I had worked through that phase of self doubt.

Catalina

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

I find whenever I am sketching for 75% of the sketch I am sure it is a mess. I try to resist the urge, but on more than one occasion I have thrown one in the bin and later realised it probably would have turned out well if I had worked through that phase of self doubt.

Catalina

Thanks Catalina it was kind of you to share that ...you know exactly where I am at with this for now......smiles