Who else is into painting fine art?

[Amy Stone]

Just wondering if anyone else out there enjoys painting and if you are interested in chatting about painting and mediums! Attached are a couple of my pieces and a little about my art. Share yours and tell what you enjoy painting and if you are a professional or hobbyist and anything else!

I do art as a hobby and side gig for a few extra bucks (although most of that money is reinvested into art supplies!) I currently do landscapes and realistic animal portraits and I did a couple people portraits. I work with oils, chalk pastels, and occasionally watercolor (although I am not very good at watercolor). My main medium is pastels. I am trying to learn oil and am getting better at using a paintbrush. I tend to choke up on the brush like I do my pencils. I am actually not very good at drawing and tend to create an outline of my subject with main details located then I color it in like a giant coloring book. The "coloring" is what I am good at. So I always work from photographs. I tried plein air but I find I get information overload because I see every...single...detail. I need the photograph to box me in and allow me to focus. I love all art styles, especially impressionistic...but my brain doesn't see images like that. I can only see in hyper detail. I am trying to cut back on detail a bit with my landscapes, but not animal portraits as most clients love the hyperrealism.

What about you?

 

[Wolfsage]

I'd say your very good. Always liked landscape art myself. The best ones to me is paintings of a road or dirt path leading away into a forest or grassland and continuing beyond them. Where the horizon and sky meet. With the clouds floating above. A powerful work those are.
I'm a novice in art skill. Only working when the mood seizes me. But, I do enjoy looking at great paintings.

 

[Gift2humanity]

Just wondering if anyone else out there enjoys painting and if you are interested in chatting about painting and mediums! Attached are a couple of my pieces and a little about my art. Share yours and tell what you enjoy painting and if you are a professional or hobbyist and anything else!

I do art as a hobby and side gig for a few extra bucks (although most of that money is reinvested into art supplies!) I currently do landscapes and realistic animal portraits and I did a couple people portraits. I work with oils, chalk pastels, and occasionally watercolor (although I am not very good at watercolor). My main medium is pastels. I am trying to learn oil and am getting better at using a paintbrush. I tend to choke up on the brush like I do my pencils. I am actually not very good at drawing and tend to create an outline of my subject with main details located then I color it in like a giant coloring book. The "coloring" is what I am good at. So I always work from photographs. I tried plein air but I find I get information overload because I see every...single...detail. I need the photograph to box me in and allow me to focus. I love all art styles, especially impressionistic...but my brain doesn't see images like that. I can only see in hyper detail. I am trying to cut back on detail a bit with my landscapes, but not animal portraits as most clients love the hyperrealism.

What about you?!
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They're excellent.
I haven't painted for a long time.
I love it, I love mixing colours, painting shiny things, should get back into it really. It's just the thought of buying all the media, I love them all for different reasons.
There are some of mine kicking around on here somewhere.

 

[Amy Stone]

@Wolfsage You should post some of your art!

It's just the thought of buying all the media, I love them all for different reasons.

HAHA yes that is the part I love most! I love trying new art supplies. I really wish I could afford something like SketchBox to test out all kinds of new art supplies. It's like candy...I want to try all the flavors

 

[Gift2humanity]

I'm going to be starting an art class.

 

[Amy Stone]

@Gift2humanity You will have to share your work

 

[Wolfsage]

@Wolfsage You should post some of your art!

I will if the mood seizes me.


HAHA yes that is the part I love most! I love trying new art supplies. I really wish I could afford something like SketchBox to test out all kinds of new art supplies. It's like candy...I want to try all the flavors

 

[Sherlock77]

@Amy Stone My tool for the visual arts is my camera, more documentary in approach, not my job, but some people tell me I'm okay... There is a link to my Instagram in my signature

 

[Monachopia]

Your art is really well done. Do you trace your images before you paint them or do you draw them from the photo by eye?

I'm happy to talk to a fellow artist about styles and art mediums though! I do know the method you're referencing, I have seen YouTube videos of people painting in oils - filling in areas as if it was a colouring book. It does look interesting and definitely lends itself to easily blendable mediums, but my brain doesn't work that way. I need to see the whole image, so I work from a loose overall base shape adding colour depth and sharpening details as I go along. Though like you, I can't seem to do impressionist styles, no matter how much I admire them! I need details and to make it look as realistic as I can!

I'm sure you've seen some of my other threads here, I mainly use graphite, but I do paint and have used oils, acrylics and gouache (but hate watercolour).
Below I've included my acrylic painting of my sibling's cat, which was combined from a number of references and done with acrylics. I made up some of the jellyfish once I got the initial one or two painted. They were pretty fun!

 

[JoanaWB]

your paintings are amazing! I like to draw too, it's my fav hobby, I like to draw digitally the most, but last week I did a painting of some Tasmanian devils! (they are my favorite animal )