I must confess that I have been spending less time checking in on this website because it seems to be getting a little stale. Is it only me? Where are all of the pix of people's great finds, crazy questions, gold eames chairs, etc? Are we all just getting old/complacent/set in our ways?
Is anybody out there buying/doing anything exciting besides Whitespike and his imminent fatherhood? Gustaf, what have you been collecting/doing lately? Heath, you always had great stuff going on, where are you?
Could it be that all of our houses have reached the maturity level and no one is in the acquiring/redecorating mode?
I will liven it up a bit. Y'all know that Mr. Big was transferred to Switzerland so I find myself in this tiny European apartment with absolutely nothing to do except go to French class every day from 11 to 12 with a teacher who looks exactly like Nathan Lane in Birdcage, but that's another story entirely. The apartment is a temporary thing until July 1st and it came completely furnished. Except, not one piece of art. Not one. Just white walls everywhere. So, I have all this time on my hands and lots of white walls, so I decide that I will take up oil painting to fill up the walls. I have done two so far and here they are. Go ahead and laugh at will. BTW, the white cross on the red background is the Swiss flag, so try to be nice and not insult the Swiss when you finish your critique, (they have nothing to do with my un-talent!)
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🙂 cinique
Personally I...
🙂 cinique
Personally I would have gone for something earthier, as thats something the flat really lacks.
The canvasses now just accentuate the sterile character of the apartement. But maybe thats just your style.
You could also go for something sleek and cool but with a humane, 'naturalistic' accent in the way you use your brush.
That would soften the interior a bit...
Cool sculpture!
A...
Cool sculpture!
A suggestion:
Use a darkbrown for the preparation of your canvas, use it
as a primer.
When that undertone comes through the finish it will give the painting a more tactile and layered feeling.
Don't fill the lines neatly in but leave some space at edges to breathe. Paintings aren't just flat images, they're made with paint. You have to feel that matter, it has to be a play of its own. You could say you have on one hand the story as it is depicted, and then there's the story of the paint.
Sometimes (and preferably) they go hand in hand..
Why not work with metallics? The sculpture has a very nice copper-slightly oxidized surface..
Good luck!
(don't hold to tight to the forms of the sculpture, maybe you discover something even better, while painting it)
Your paintings would benefit...
Your paintings would benefit from simple, cheap framing, Riki, especially that first. And maybe put a few words in those funny comic balloons. That second one, I don't know? Sorry, to you and the Swiss.
Go down if you can to your local equivalent of Home Depot and sink a little money on some thin two inch birch or mahogany trim, cut appropriately, and tack it to your stretcher.
Regarding boring, underwire.
Regarding painting, try not to overthink Basquiat:
Pay for soup / Build a fort / Set that on fire
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