Reaching Out to Fellow Painters

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   coreydposted 14 years ago

   I've been having some of my digital photographs enlarged, then printed on a photobase paper and mounted to gatorbaord with a protective satin laminate over the print. I then paint on top of the mounted photo using oil paint. It's great because the satin laminate, being so smooth, doesn't use up very much paint and is very easy to move the paint around. This has been a very fun technique! I've been getting my prints done at a place called www.bumblejax.com

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   yeahartposted 14 years ago

   You may find good oil painting information on: http://www.yeahart.com

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   Manna in the wildposted 14 years ago

   Head on over to www.spooks-art.com for a look. I specialise in graphite drawings.

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   Laura Thykesonposted 14 years ago

   I am an oil painter most of time but lately I have been working on collage and assemblage and love it. I love the freedom and stream of consciousness aspect of it. I also do abstracts at times for the same reason, but usually I do the more traditional art in oils.
   
   Laura T.

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   susanlangposted 14 years ago

   I really like water color painting myself, less mess and so easy to clean up afterwards.
   
   Watercolor techniques are fundamentally different from oil- or acrylic painting techniques, because you don't work with thick, hiding paint. You just sort of stain the paper. Watercolor paints are made with the finest pigments, and hardly any binder at all. Watercolor techniques are great if you are looking for some purity, lightness and serenity. Watercolor is great for painting immaterial colors, like those in the atmosphere.
   
   Here are some water color tips:
   
   Don't use white: let the paper shine through.
   Have tins with diluted paint standing ready, and use an extra strip of paper to try them out
   Start with stronger diluted paints. But, watercolor paint looks darker when it's still wet, later on you don't have to be afraid of dark paint.
   Buy thick paper (Saunders and Waterford is the best), and eventually stretch it
   Learn how the water flows, never leave your painting alone to dry.
   Keep a cotton cloth at hand to pick up unwanted flow, and big jars of cleaning water standing by.
   Give yourself some good watercolor brushes (marter or squirrelhair). For filling in bigger surfaces, take a broad and flat one.
   Be careful with previous layers when you paint - they partly wash out again, when you brush into them.
   A painting on it's back won't drip. And if you put it up, you can use the flow.
   
   Abstract watercoloring
   In painting abstract with watercolors, take advantage of the ethereal translucence of watercolor. This painting technique is great for making dreamy landscapes or making very fresh colors. You can make it as easy or complicated as you want. Here are to basic principles in watercolor techniques:
   
   If you paint watercolor on dry paper, you get sharp lines and edges
   when you paint on wet paper, the colors will flow out in ethereal waves
   
   
   And some more watercolor tips:
   
   When you put a drop of water in layer that isn't dry, you get a white "colliflower"
   For adding special texture effects, use salt. Salt grains will attract water, leaving a white spot with a crystal-like texture.
   when you want to keep shaped forms white, use masking fluid (remove it the same day)
   If you want to keep what you painted, let it dry before doing another layer, and don't brush into it.
   Mind that watercolor goes lighter when it dries. Don't be too afraid of strong colors.

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      torimariposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      You should make this into a hub.

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         susanlangposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I'll give that some thought, thanks

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   micadeoluposted 13 years ago

   Hi all,
   I love painting in oil because of its rich opportunity to enlarge ones imagination. I am looking for a unique and time enduring medium for a masterpiece I call "The visit of the druid."
   I hope you'll all love it.

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   artywriterposted 13 years ago

   I have been drawing on and off for most of my life and i'm now retired. However, have been using watercolour, oil, acrylic and pastel to experiment with recently, but I maily use watercolour pencils now.
   I also paint, engrave and etch on glass as well as being involved with other crafts.

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   YU_First 1posted 13 years ago

   You got us fired up.All we artists have been doing is use the brush.Your call was good. I at one point thought we were only a handful on hubpages but you managed to get them writing, wow !

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      torimariposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I know. I was surprised myself as when I originally searched art, personal art hubs were limited. My assumptions were wrong, and glad to see so many varieties of artists.

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   SomewayOuttaHereposted 13 years ago

   i paint (oils) from time to time.  I have to be inspired...so could put it down for a few years and then pick it up and then can't put the brush down for a while....and it goes from there.  i've been known to get pretty artistic with painting a room - it's great having such a large canvas - an entire wall to begin with and it grows from there and then omigod it's the whole room!  LOL!  love photography too....same pattern...i get into for a while, drop it for a while, and so on...

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    stoneyyposted 13 years ago

    I work mainly in acrylics and oils with more toward oils.  I've done some work in pen and ink, graphite, and charcoal.
    
    I've done some master works like;
    
    Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring in acrylics.
    
    Bierstadt's Shores of The Turquoise Sea in oils
    
    I'm working on a master work full size 20 x 30 inches
    in oil.  I won't indicate what it is at this point.
    
    This one is called 'Oil on Board' and its oils on canvas board probably 11 x 14.
    
    

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    Nolimits Nanaposted 13 years ago

    I paint with watercolours, and base a lot of my paintings on my garden flowers. I've also done some work with collages that combine layers of Japanese papers with watercolor and pen work or charcoal.
    I love watercolours because there are so many ways to work with it from wet-in-wet to dry brush, negative painting, using wax or resists, using tools other than brushes, and so on; as well as combinations of these techniques. Lots of fun, lots of challenge.

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    BRIAN SLATERposted 13 years ago

    hi, I have been painting water colours pretty much all my life- i like to paint buildings and town scenes, fields, cottages, still life.

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