Have you ever tried doing a painting or drawing ?

[protectionist]

Painting is a great hobby. It's relaxing (as long as you don't push it too hard) and after the painting (or drawing) is done, you have something to enjoy seeing on your wall, and be proud of. Maybe in the beginning, it might take some practice. Trial & error gets you to higher levels, and you can progress each time.

It's not really too expensive a hobby. The only thing a little expensive is an easel, but even that you can get for about $30 (Tabletop), and some even come with an attached storage drawer. I would recommend getting acrylic paints which are easier to work with than watercolors or pastels, and acrylics dry faster than oils too.

I've been painting for 75 years. Started when I was 4, and never left it. It's great for retired people especially, who have the time to devote to it.
As for what to paint, you could take photos with your cell phone, print the pictures, and use them as models. Just paint THINGS though, and not abstracts, which are really paintings of nothing.

 

[Invisibleflash]

Yes, nice past time. Sadly, I'm no good at art.

For those that can't do art, if you got some land, take up growing fruit trees. Another nice past time for people.

 

[deannalw]

We've talent here and there in my family. My sister was the painter before she died. She did beautiful work. Mom and I made dolls as an artistic outlet. I stopped making them when she died, but I started collecting them.

I have enough for a museum!

 

[protectionist]

I painted this earlier this year. It's called Mr Tambourine Man - The Diamond Sky.
Comes from the Bob Dylan song "Mr Tambourine Man" in the 4th verse >>

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
Let me forget about today until tomorrow"

All hand painted. No AI, digital, or photography.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

75 years! Have you had any professional training? I have a show opening this very night as a matter of fact at the Catwalk Gallery at the Riverside Hotel.

 

[protectionist]

75 years! Have you had any professional training? I have a show opening this very night as a matter of fact at the Catwalk Gallery at the Riverside Hotel. View attachment 1253841

You have an online gallery ? Let's see your stuff.

Yes I studied at the Art Students League, Bronx Community College, Lehman College, and CCNY of the City University of New York.

I have galleries in
1. fineartamerica.com/profiles/bertemanuel
2. artpal.com/cats2475
3. World Wide Art Market
4. CloudFolios
.....and am a 9 Time First Prize Winner in Fine Art America contests.

Art is easier than a lot of people think. Most people I've met say they could never do paintings like mine. Then you look at their signature, and it's quite elaborate, quite artistic design. I know if they put in the time and moderate effort, they could come a nice gallery.
Because of my 75 paintings (which I still have left) and 5 musical instruments I play, they call me a "genius".
I tell them the same as what Thomas Edison used to say >> "Genius is 10% Inspiration...90% Perspiration."

 

[protectionist]

The Cloisters in April..by Bert Emanuel

St. Petersburg Pier - Early Morning Shadows..
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[Gary Seven]

Sure, from time to time..I enjoy music much more though. I have a studio and used to play in a number of bands before I get married and had kids. Id like to get back to it, actually....but only people who are fairly well established and sober.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You have an online gallery ? Let's see your stuff.

No. The Catwalk Gallery is one of the art galleries at the Riverside Hotel in Boise. I don't have an on-line gallery. My son keeps wanting me to develop one but I frankly don't have the time to maintain it. I usually just exhibit at either formal exhibitions or at the galleries in Idaho. He wants me to sell my work through an on line gallery but I simply have no interest in packaging, shipping and fielding scammers.

 

[jacksonlamb]

This I sadly admit I am lousy at: painting, sketching, doodling. Beyond me.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I am working on a piece very very similar to your Happiness Tree. It's for an upcoming show specifically for metallics! I will show it to you when it's done.

 

[protectionist]

No. The Catwalk Gallery is one of the art galleries at the Riverside Hotel in Boise. I don't have an on-line gallery. My son keeps wanting me to develop one but I frankly don't have the time to maintain it. I usually just exhibit at either formal exhibitions or at the galleries in Idaho. He wants me to sell my work through an on line gallery but I simply have no interest in packaging, shipping and fielding scammers.

I hear ya.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I hear ya.

When the gallery sells a painting, they take the money, taxes, their commission, if it needs shipping they charge it and send it. I just get a check and a 1099 at the end of the year. It works out fine for me.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I suck at drawing and painting, but I do it anyway. I like attempting to do watercolors. As for abstracts, I like doing them, myself; I'm a big fan of Kandinsky's attempts at painting 'music'.

Category:Watercolor paintings by Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons

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I like painting abstracts because I also do some black and white photography, and if I want 'realism' I just take pictures and manipulate them.

One of the reasons artists went to 'modern' art and abstracts around the end of the 19th and early 20th Century was they feared the evolution of photography was going to put them out of business at the turn of the century, except for very exclusive portrait artists catering to the wealthy, like John Singer Sargeant, so they needed new styles and impressionist values to keep making a living as painters, or thought they did. Even then artists like Man Ray came up with techniques that did both, causing even more anxieties. His techniques of course were discovered by others and soon became common.

I appreciate the skills that go into painting and drawing people; it's not a skill I can do well at all. I can make some moderately decent wall paper, though.

 

[protectionist]

You have an online gallery ? Let's see your stuff.

Yes I studied at the Art Students League, Bronx Community College, Lehman College, and CCNY of the City University of New York.

I have galleries in
1. fineartamerica.com/profiles/bertemanuel
2. artpal.com/cats2475
3. World Wide Art Market
4. CloudFolios
.....and am a 9 Time First Prize Winner in Fine Art America contests.

Art is easier than a lot of people think. Most people I've met say they could never do paintings like mine. Then you look at their signature, and it's quite elaborate, quite artistic design. I know if they put in the time and moderate effort, they could come a nice gallery.
Because of my 75 paintings (which I still have left) and 5 musical instruments I play, they call me a "genius".
I tell them the same as what Thomas Edison used to say >> "Genius is 10% Inspiration...90% Perspiration."

Ignore # 3 (World Wide Market - a mistake), Sorry.

 

[protectionist]

When the gallery sells a painting, they take the money, taxes, their commission, if it needs shipping they charge it and send it. I just get a check and a 1099 at the end of the year. It works out fine for me.

Fine if we can get our stuff IN the gallery.

 

[protectionist]

I suck at drawing and painting, but I do it anyway. I like attempting to do watercolors. As for abstracts, I like doing them, myself; I'm a big fan of Kandinsky's attempts at painting 'music'.

Category:Watercolor paintings by Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

I like painting abstracts because I also do some black and white photography, and if I want 'realism' I just take pictures and manipulate them.

One of the reasons artists went to 'modern' art and abstracts around the end of the 19th and early 20th Century was they feared the evolution of photography was going to put them out of business at the turn of the century, except for very exclusive portrait artists catering to the wealthy, like John Singer Sargeant, so they needed new styles and impressionist values to keep making a living as painters, or thought they did. Even then artists like Man Ray came up with techniques that did both, causing even more anxieties. His techniques of course were discovered by others and soon became common.

I appreciate the skills that go into painting and drawing people; it's not a skill I can do well at all. I can make some moderately decent wall paper, though.

I paint peoples' bodies & clothes OK, but I do struggle some with faces. In the painting, "Happy Guitarist", I started it as a painting of the all-time great guitarist & dancer Chuck Berry, and gave up on that after about 10 days & decided to just have it be a painting of some guy playing a guitar on stage. I'm OK with how it turned out.

Happy Guitarist...by Bert Emanuel

fineartamerica.com/profiles/bertemanuel

 

[protectionist]

I suck at drawing and painting, but I do it anyway. I like attempting to do watercolors. As for abstracts, I like doing them, myself; I'm a big fan of Kandinsky's attempts at painting 'music'.

Category:Watercolor paintings by Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

I like painting abstracts because I also do some black and white photography, and if I want 'realism' I just take pictures and manipulate them.

One of the reasons artists went to 'modern' art and abstracts around the end of the 19th and early 20th Century was they feared the evolution of photography was going to put them out of business at the turn of the century, except for very exclusive portrait artists catering to the wealthy, like John Singer Sargeant, so they needed new styles and impressionist values to keep making a living as painters, or thought they did. Even then artists like Man Ray came up with techniques that did both, causing even more anxieties. His techniques of course were discovered by others and soon became common.

I appreciate the skills that go into painting and drawing people; it's not a skill I can do well at all. I can make some moderately decent wall paper, though.

I have always considered abstract paintings to be paintings of nothing, masquerading as art, but these Kandinsky's painting are kind of interesting in a positive way.
I just hope they didn't sell for millions of $$$, like the ridiculous Jackson Pollock things.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I paint peoples' bodies & clothes OK, but I do struggle some with faces. In the painting, "Happy Guitarist", I started it as a painting of the all-time great guitarist & dancer Chuck Berry, and gave up on that after about 10 days & decided to just have it be a painting of some guy playing a guitar on stage. I'm OK with how it turned out.

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Happy Guitarist...by Bert Emanuel

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Have you tried learning the Loomis Head? I do not like portraiture but I can do Loomis.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Ignore # 3 (World Wide Market - a mistake), Sorry.

I have only studied from artists personally as a private student. I am in in the Initial Point Gallery, River's Edge Gallery, Art Source Gallery, Idaho Art Gallery and exhibit through shows with the Idaho Historical Society, Idaho Commission on the Arts, and various Civic Center exhibitions. Next week I will be concluding a solo show at Washington Federal Bank. I have a box full of ribbons and even a Trophy from The Torrance Orchestra as a featured artist in their 2018 Calendar