Paintings

[zetreque]

what about making thick paint so that it is raised off the paper where it is light. Use a gloss paint, and then the lighting just right will make it stand out?

[dandelion]

Nice idea.

[Watson]

I understand what you're thinking, but modelling with thicker paint is a whole other craft than painting, I think. And I have done it just to try, and in this case I think it would look clunky. The glow of the fire works still needs to be a distance effect. Relief from the paint would bring it close up. Not that this couldn't be an interesting piece. Gumby was done, more modeling than painting. That was then. Not sure what I was thinking. There is the show on utube if you wanted to see it again after all these years. What was the big deal? It's pretty lamb by today's standards.

[TheVat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasto

Agree, impasto might not work well for fireworks. What you might need is a dark background with a "haze" effect, so that individual dots of pyrotechnics can illuminate the haze around them to varying degrees. Might be easier to do digitally, or with airbrush techniques.

[Watson]

Yes I was thinking of the smokey haze to reflect the color off, and layered into the haze.

[dandelion]

These look a bit like fireworks to me-

A vimeo about Photographer, Martin Klimas' sound translated into sculptures-



Also Martin Klimas, cover-
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Gp-Fb2uoL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
or http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Fresh-paint-by-Martin-Klimas-1.jpg

Also, Mark Mawson, underwater photography-
http://i1.dripimg.com/t/980000/6344/72/972776_500_8a9652.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJJU62juvuA

[Watson]

Some recent paintings. Painted on raw wood. It was the bottom of dresser drawers for the last hundred, or so years. Interesting how the wood absorbs the loose paint. It is many, if not a dozen layers of paint. It gives a more interesting effect than just a single layer of a solid color would have given.

[Clory]

This is some grade A stuff.

[TheVat]

Where is Watson, these days?

[Dave_Oblad]

Hi Biv,

Yes, I miss him too. I suspect his absence must be due to severe Illness or Death, as he was such a regular here and so well liked. I hope I'm wrong.

Best wishes,
Dave :^)

[Watson]

sniffly siff, coff coff, please send money in lue of flowers. Please don't change my status yet. But I do feel like a just showed up at my own service. Thanks for the concern, but it is lack of internet that is my most problematic ailment over the past few months. Even this is a temporary visit to check in on things, etc.

[Dave_Oblad]

Yea!!!!

Never been so happy to be wrong. Come back soon! Ya hear?

Bestest Regards,
Dave :^)

[Watson]

I suppose that blows the whole flower proposition?

[Dave_Oblad]

he,he,he...

There's that sense of humor we all love!

Let us know when you are actually dead.. and I'll send flowers.

Regards,
Dave :^)

[Watson]

When you stub your toe in the dark, because the furniture has been moved around, send money then, in lieu of flowers. If I get the money, then it wasn't me.

Signing off now.

[TheVat]

He lives!

(On vacation this week, also Net challenged, also just checking in)

[vivian maxine]

I suppose that blows the whole flower proposition?

Especially in late November. Welcome back. Good to hear from you.

[zetreque]

Catching up on my APOD and this picture reminded me of your art, Watson.


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151005.html

[Dave_Oblad]

Hi zetreque,

Is that real?

I see the Cheshire Cat, so where is Alice?

Regards,
Dave :^)

[Watson]

Hi Biv,

Yes, I miss him too. I suspect his absence must be due to severe Illness or Death, as he was such a regular here and so well liked. I hope I'm wrong.

Best wishes,
Dave :^)

Yes now would be a good time to invest in his paintings. They are available from 'Polar Bear Art Gallery' which just opened this spring. Each painting is certified authentic and the artist agrees, in writing to die, at some point, which may contribute to an increase in value, making this an excellent investment.

And thanks Dave. You were not wrong, just premature.

[TheVat]

Are you still painting?

[Watson]

Absolutely. More so now than in the past several years.

[TheVat]

That's good to hear. Probably helps that you are not frittering your time away at SPCF. Or perhaps it's the sense of imminent doom that the new U.S. president can engender, especially in a neighboring country. Who was it, Samuel Johnson or somebody, who said something about the knowledge one is about to die can focus the mind admirably? I should get back to my science fiction novel that I keep thinking I will write.

[Watson]

I painted this when the cub was still in quarantine at the zoo, having just arrived with his brother, orphaned in the wild near Churchill Manitoba. I just heard on the news he passed away earlier today.
https://www.facebook.com/don.watson.art ... 4546528501

[zetreque]

How old was it? I just looked it up and apparently they live 15-30 years

[Watson]

About 2 years old, and yes they could live 30+ but with the state of the planet, likely shorter in the wild, maybe for all of us. It was actually yesterday he passed, and the zoo should have more news tomorrow about cause. He was showing signs on Friday and,......
So it was something fairly quick.


I just had a really sick thought, but it couldn't be.

[BioWizard]

I painted this when the cub was still in quarantine at the zoo, having just arrived with his brother, orphaned in the wild near Churchill Manitoba. I just heard on the news he passed away earlier today.
https://www.facebook.com/don.watson.art ... 4546528501

Very nice Watson! I would suggest working a little bit more on the shading to give his body and hind limbs more 3dimensional depth. But otherwise it looks great.

[BioWizard]

I really like the landscape and the texture of the bear's fur. What's your medium?

[Watson]

It is acrylic paint, but on an old wood bottom of a dresser drawer. The dark feature in the background is in the wood itself, likely some deep bark. The texture you see, is in the wood from the original saw cut. The clear side of the panel got varnished, so the underside of the drawer was raw wood and better for painting. It was the reaction with the raw wood that the wet paint(as in watery) was sucked in to the wood. The texture of the fur is a lot to do with the many many layers of translucent paint.

Sorry, I missed the first comment, and yes agreed. A painting is never really done, until someone takes it way from me.

[BioWizard]

I really like your creativity and how you interact your medium with your canvas. Yes acrylic makes sense for a piece of untreated wood.

I used to do this kind of thing back when science/work didn't take up all of my time. I hope to return to it some day. In the mean time, I'll enjoy seeing your and others' work. Please keep posting.