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getting started
Can I talk about my art in this forum? If not, feel free to move this post where it belongs.
As you know I had a long, hard battle to get my art supplies back. Now I've had them back for weeks and i'm having a hard time getting started.
First I spent a lot of time trying to find a particular photo I once tried to paint as a teenager. I borrowed my sisters "100 years of National Geographic" CD-ROM set and searched through every single photo they ever pritnted up to 1980. When I couldn't find it, I searched a lot of decades one or two more times! Finally I came to the sad conclusion that I won't find it.
So I chose another picture. Next I discovered (or rediscovered) that I don't really like sketching. It's kind of helpful to be able to sketch the picture onto the canvas in the right proportions, but I'm really rusty at that.
So I decided to draw a grid on the photo and a faint grid several times larger on the canvas. But I couldnt find a ruler or an art eraser so I waited till I had a chance to go buy them. lol!
Delays delays delays...its like I'm afraid to start!
I think its because I only have a few canvases, I don't want to screw up. I'm so rusty! Now I have the ruler and I'm planning to start work on Wednesday because I have to drive someone to Toronto tomorrow.
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9/8/2008, 3:16 pm
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starzlookdown
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Re: getting started
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I just squeeze out many colors and start. I sometimes do not know where it is going when I start I just go.
That sounds great Dy! That's the way Alex and Geddy come up with the music. Just start and see where the explorations take them. maybe I should try that instead of trying to paint from a photograph
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9/8/2008, 5:53 pm
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I'll try that method for the second one. Now I've found a pic I really love and I'm transferring it to a canvas. Wish me beginners luck!
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9/11/2008, 5:19 pm
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