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Thanks for all the birthday greetings!
Internet is slow now as we are at sea now - and we are very busy getting ready for cablework. So my apologies if I can't reply individually to all messages right now. -
Brest in spring is nice... Back on board ship now. A bit more of Brest and and a lot less of the ship would be good!
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Awesome!
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. You can get a free upgrade to the Full Members group, simply by updating your profile, posting a few comments or uploading some art or photography in the Gallery. As a spam control measure, New Members have some restrictions with regards to posting and things like messaging, use of the free Classifieds module, Downloads, etc...
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Axe Grinder (work in progress)
smb commented on BigEd's gallery image in Members Albums - Index Page
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Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire
smb commented on smb's blog entry in Vic Rolfe's Art, Photography and Travel Blog - (formerly smb's Blog)
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Good luck with the contest! I like this!
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. You can get a free upgrade to the Full Members group, simply by updating your profile, posting a few comments or uploading some art or photography in the Gallery. As a spam control measure, New Members have some restrictions with regards to posting and things like messaging, use of the free Classifieds module, Downloads, etc...
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Although Rembrandts are generally classed as soft pastels - I'd put them at the very hard end of "soft." However, when you look at the extremely high standard of Jennifer Blenkinsopp's work, you can tell that they obviously work for her! Personally, I much prefer Schmingke and Senellier soft pastels. These are in a different class of softness - a bit like comparing glass with butter!!! I can't find either Schmingke of Senellier pastels in the Philippines, so I buy them every chance I get when I am abroad. Otherwise, I order these very soft pastels online, if I really have to...
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Great tip!
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I tend to use hard pastels or pastel pencils for sketching-in the outlines of basic shapes and the overall layout of the painting, and then fill-in with subsequent layers of soft pastels
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How to draw Selma Bouvier from the Simpsons Nice work - and a great video!
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There are a lot of really useful books on learning to draw, that you can buy conveniently online at Amazon.com
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A great book for learning how to draw: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
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Drawing "white space" - ( the space around an object, rather than the object itself) - is a great way of overcoming the tendency of your subconscious to influance your drawing with its own preconceptions of how it thinks something should look - rather than what it actually looks like...
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(Original reply dated 29th May 2012) - Today, I managed to get started on a new pastel painting. (Apart from finishing-off another one that I started last year sometime, this is my first art of 2012!!) Having just about run out of excuses, to put-off starting something new; I attached a blank sheet of paper to my board. I then sat there and just stared at it, refusing to leave my studio until a scene came into my mind and pastel had been applied to paper. In the absence of a scene that I could visualize and wanted to paint, I was fully planning to just start applying sweeping lines and colours to the paper and give abstract art a try! Happily, though, a fairly simple scene did occur to me and I am glad to say that I subsequently spent a couple of quite satisfying hours actually painting again! Here's the result of my little burst of enthusiasm: This my ideal view from an imaginary kitchen window in my ideal imaginary country cottage: This was the first ever painting that I created entirely from my own imagination, without any form of reference to photographs, actual scenes or other artworks. Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think. All comments and criticism, good or bad, will be very gratefully accepted. (There is no such thing as bad criticism in my book!)
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If you are serious about selling your art, check out this link from one of the ArtWanted.com sister websites. This is a totally free course on marketing your art and it is delivered via email, over a period of 8 weeks: http://www.artistmarketingtips.com/ Highly recommended!
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As a Full Member of ArtFreaks.com, you can also upload high resolution image files of your work in the Downloads module - and then charge an amount, (which you set,) for every time someone downloads a copy of your file. The person who has downloaded your file can then use the file for making a high quality print of your art. The link to the Downloads module is in the main navigation bar at the head of (almost) every page in the site. (Depending on your screen resolution, it might be under the "More" tab.) ArtFreaks.com takes 10% of whatever you decide to charge, every time payment is made for downloading one of your files. (This simply helps to offset some of our running costs...) It costs absolutely nothing, other than a bit of your time, to give this new feature of ArtFreaks.com a try. Tip: Upload a small, low-resolution and preferably water-marked screenshot with each high resolution file upload, so that people can see what they are getting. At the time of writing, you can upload image files of up to 30Mb in the Downloads module.
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Thanks for your interest in ArtFreaks.com Here's another site that you could try: Take a look at ArtWanted.com. They have a free entry-level membership if you just want to try-out the site and if you like them, you can always go for a paid membership package that would allow you to sell high quality prints of your work on line. (AW handle getting your prints made, shipping, billing etc. so it's really no hassle...)
Internet is slow now as we are at sea now - and we are very busy getting ready for cablework. So my apologies if I can't reply individually to all messages right now.
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