Calling Artists and Art Lovers

[Katy Lied]

I've had some time on my hands the last few days, and used some of it to finish this sketch from a picture of friendwho died of cancer this fall. this was a picture that was on his funeral program. thecows weren't in the picture, and I wish I could have done better on the calf.

You sketching left handed?

[tooblue]

I've had some time on my hands the last few days, and used some of it to finish this sketch from a picture of friendwho died of cancer this fall. this was a picture that was on his funeral program. thecows weren't in the picture, and I wish I could have done better on the calf.

Again, well done.

[cowboy]

I've had some time on my hands the last few days, and used some of it to finish this sketch from a picture of friendwho died of cancer this fall. this was a picture that was on his funeral program. thecows weren't in the picture, and I wish I could have done better on the calf.

[Commando]

Any of you guys ever hear of "The Gnarled Branch" dude? He goes to thrift stores and buys cheap paintings/prints and then "redirects" them by putting some additions on the paintings. He has an FB page, Instagram, Etsy, etc.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/TheGnarledBranch/items
https://www.instagram.com/thegnarledbranch/
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/the+g...ordion=product

It is kitsch and cheesy as hell, but I love it. Seriously considering buying a copy of the Matt Foley print.

A few examples:

Ha- I like it. Reminds me of being in HS; I was in a Studio Art class and I modified one of my previous 'fantasy' assignments- which was an acrylic rendering of Hell- caverns, fiery expanse, billowing clouds of brimstone-- the whole 9. Anyway, I took a prom photo of my buddy-- he was in a very obnoxious, lovey dovey relationship with some girl from another high school-- and used the prom photo as a model to paint them together in the foreground. He was extremely pissed and tried to destroy it (but I somehow caught him in the act trying to throw it out the window at an off-hour time). I still laugh thinking about that.

[tooblue]

I've yet to try any washes. I'll confess that most of my drawing is done in Church, as that's the only free time I have in significant blocks, so I need to wait for a less busy time of the year. This is my latest, a sketch of a photo I posted a while back of my horse, taken from ground level where I was sitting to take a lunch break. It's my first real attempt at capturing landscape and trees. I'm learning to appreciate white space in pen and ink drawing.

Your strongest drawing I've seen yet. Really strong composition, proportion and scale.

[cowboy]

Strong drawing Cowboy ... have you tried some simple washes?

I've yet to try any washes. I'll confess that most of my drawing is done in Church, as that's the only free time I have in significant blocks, so I need to wait for a less busy time of the year. This is my latest, a sketch of a photo I posted a while back of my horse, taken from ground level where I was sitting to take a lunch break. It's my first real attempt at capturing landscape and trees. I'm learning to appreciate white space in pen and ink drawing.

[tooblue]

Strong drawing Cowboy ... have you tried some simple washes?

[Katy Lied]

very nice

[cowboy]

Cowboy: I like that you are drawing on the blue tinted paper; have you thought of trying to add a water colour wash to your drawing before inking. For example, you could choose one colour to work with, then do you ink drawing over the top of the washes. Here's an artist, whose aesthetic reminds me a little of your work:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ith-abdul-ahad

I don't know why I didn't see this earlier. I'll try it.

Here is a sketch I've worked on since seeing the Marine Corps mounted color guard at the Cody Stampede on the 4th of July. The faces look a little cartoonish but I struggled to make such fine lines with the pen I was using.

[tooblue]

Cowboy: I like that you are drawing on the blue tinted paper; have you thought of trying to add a water colour wash to your drawing before inking. For example, you could choose one colour to work with, then do you ink drawing over the top of the washes. Here's an artist, whose aesthetic reminds me a little of your work:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ith-abdul-ahad

[tooblue]

Sketch from a picture of my daughter riding next to me the other day.

very nice.

[cowboy]

Sketch from a picture of my daughter riding next to me the other day.

[falafel]

Coulda been worse. Orchids.

Hahaha

[tooblue]

On my mission, I was transferred to a new area just as an elderly woman was being baptized. I did the last two discussions. She had a large mural of the silhouette of a mountain range in front of a red-orange sky. I liked it as it reminded me of the sunsets in Arizona.

I complimented her on the painting and she thanked me and said it was new. When we came back, I realized something was a little strange about one of the peaks. It had a unique outcropping at the very top that didn't seem normal for a mountain. "That looks like a breast and nipple," I thought. I looked to the left and right of the nippled peak in horror as I realized I'd heaped praise upon a nude woman's silhouette, realizing in a moment of shocking clarity that she said it was a "nude" and not new.

In my home growing up, we had a large painting hanging in our front foyer of two woman standing side by side, one of which was partially nude showing a breast through a sheer robe. It was painted in an impressionistic style by the adult step son of my aunt (my mother's sister). My mom kept peacock feathers and dried, feathery tall grasses in a large copper vase near it. When her visiting teachers came to visit, they would say: "we are coming over, you know where to position the feathers!"

[Katy Lied]

Coulda been worse. Orchids.