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Postby Johnny B » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:00 pm

Aye, just thought I'd see if anyone else drew/painted etc.

I used to draw and haven't for about 2 years but I thought I'd try and start again, starting with this 10min sketch...guess who!

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Artists out there show us some of yer work. If it's surf related even better!

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Postby kitesurfer » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:02 pm

Cool stuff.

KS
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Postby long_man » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:56 am

thats pretty decent, nice work :thumbs:

i love certain pieces of art, but ive got a real passion for photography :lol:
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Postby surfdaisy06 » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:52 pm

My Guess is Rob Machado?

That is a masterpiece, I have to admit. Uv got quite a talent :D
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Postby RJD » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:34 pm

I take the odd photo or two, my wife paints...
www.bigskyart.co.nz

She's done some surf paintings which are good (but not on the website)
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Postby Johnny B » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:56 am

surfdaisy06 wrote:My Guess is Rob Machado?


Indeedy! It's actually pretty pants, the proportions are all wrong, the hair is a bit of a give away though, huh?

Thanks for the compliment though! :D :oops:
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Postby Johnny B » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:58 am

RJD wrote:I take the odd photo or two, my wife paints...
www.bigskyart.co.nz


Now that's real art! Impressive stuff there!
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Postby JQ » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:57 pm

photography for me too... i guess its slightly easier... and less time consuming (than before anyway!!)

www.marcosjeannet.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

plug ahem ahem... :wink:
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Postby Sar » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:31 pm

Johnny B, that one hell of a sketch/drawing!! In my art classes at school my report books would always say....'Sara tries very hard' ie 'Sara is rubbish and wasnt made for this stuff but she does try', but I do tend to appreciate it....always the impressionist stuff that appeals to me.....never seem to get the picasso (sp?)type thing tbh.

love paintings of flowers, I dont know why but it seems to appeal to me.
Do not like 'modern art' like the disections of cows and a 'glastonbury tent' or the 'messy bed'...latter 2 were tracey emmin?? (sp) (dont think that's the proper names for the 'art work') but feck me....I could pull that shite!!
no no....definately paintings with real skill...not something that I or my little neices and nephews could do and pull off just because we're 'artists'.

This I have found recently
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2231769701

Not sure if the link will work, It's Julian Beever, kind of a street artist, its all about perspecitve....fantastic imo 8)
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Postby long_man » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:23 pm

RJD wrote:I take the odd photo or two, my wife paints...
www.bigskyart.co.nz

She's done some surf paintings which are good (but not on the website)


loving that work, your wife definately has a fair bit of talent, any samples of the photography :roll:

if you have, load them onto this thread;

https://surfing-waves.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9947 :D
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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:21 pm

ive been taking art classes for 6 or 7 years now, still not great but whatever. If i find some stuff that ive scanned in i'll post it up but i dont think i have any
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Postby DaveM666 » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:02 pm

only my second post on this wonderful forum, but I paint ion watercolour, lol

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and acrylic (not to well)

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Postby RJD » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:36 pm

long_man wrote:
RJD wrote:I take the odd photo or two, my wife paints...
www.bigskyart.co.nz

She's done some surf paintings which are good (but not on the website)


loving that work, your wife definately has a fair bit of talent, any samples of the photography :roll:

if you have, load them onto this thread;

https://surfing-waves.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9947 :D


I already have... well a few...
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Postby northswell » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:29 pm

Dave M666
Liking th e second one a lot.

Loads of original art work on ny walls and that is a quality pic.


Anyone a fan of Gilbert & George??
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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:57 pm

I like the way water colors look, but HATE doing them. It's such a pain, you never get truly saturated colors, you can't match real life, its so uncontrollable, its just a general pain in my opinion.

If you can do them, more power to you, but I can't and I don't like them. And I'm being forced to do one now. So yes, I am whining :lol:
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Postby DaveM666 » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:03 pm

:lol:

I prefer imppressionist sort of painting with watercolour, but if you layer the paints you can get decent colour opacity
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Postby DaveM666 » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:17 pm

got a new one I did, acrylic on canvas, the sky and water is painted using water colour style washes (just thinned acrylic) and the trees are painted using an impasto technique

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Postby isaluteyou » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:29 pm

loving those art pictures above.

Im going to cheat and put up some photoshop art up :lol: I suck at drawing so i cut corners by combining some of these wonderfull brushes i have at my disposal.

A little bit surreal / gothic but ah well.

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Postby Johnny B » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:51 pm

Some great stuff there! I especially like the second watercolour by Dave M666!

I've done a load of other stuff in the past week, so I might post it soon. Although, I must warn you, I never finish a drawing, so they're always half-done or unshaded, uninked etc etc (usually cos I only draw for 20mins or so at a time).
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Postby long_man » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:49 pm

isaluteyou wrote:loving those art pictures above.

Im going to cheat and put up some photoshop art up :lol: I suck at drawing so i cut corners by combining some of these wonderfull brushes i have at my disposal.

A little bit surreal / gothic but ah well.

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...if only i could use Photoshop that well, serious skill mate, sweet :thumbs:
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