From Our Easels

[boatbuilder]

Latest post of the previous page:

I'll have the pear please, SheilaO - as long as it's sufficiently ripe so it's not too hard.

[SheilaO]

Oh very ripe and juicy

[frankiesays]

There are certainly some talented people on here. Speaking of which, has anybody heard from Suffolk Boy recently, he's not been on for a while? Hope he's OK.

[boatbuilder]

Suffolkboy has been on the forum fairly recently frankiesays, but hasn't posted anything.

[funkychick]

A pencil take on sea life stuff

[funkychick]

This one is not a particularly nice ubject matter but it was an experiment using a stick out the garden dipped in ink

[Mel]

...but it was an experiment using a stick out the garden dipped in ink

A super sketch Funkychick, especially as you were using a stick from the garden dipped in ink!!

[boatbuilder]

A couple of interesting pictures, FC. Well done - I particularly like the fish.

[SheilaO]

Funky chick, lovely pencil sketch of the sea life collection, nice composition, and I love the drawing of the fish, it just shows, you don't have to have expensive equipment to make an interesting, picture.

[SheilaO]

Three Bedouin Women (saw these on a trip to Tangier) painted in goache

[funkychick]

Nice SheilaO

[funkychick]

Must be something about three and ethnic women LOL

[boatbuilder]

A subsequent discussion that ensued about the image orientation in the above post has been split into a new topic here:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1589

[Dave]

Looking back at all the new paintings and drawings I'm green with envy. Some of the site's newest members, like Eddyo and SheilaO in this forum, are certainly a welcome addition to all the forums. Not forgetting some of the established members, such as kerch, Suffolkboy and funkychick, of course.

[SheilaO]

Looking back at all the new paintings and drawings I'm green with envy. Some of the site's newest members, like Eddyo and SheilaO in this forum, are certainly a welcome addition to all the forums. Not forgetting some of the established members, such as kerch, Suffolkboy and funkychick, of course.

Please, please, never envy, our art, this is what we are interested in, and consequently practise, and (loosely) study. We are not particularly interested in fishing, gardening, carpentry, or a thousand other things...but we appreciate the skill in being able to do these things well. Painting a reasonable picture is no mystery, like anything else, it's practise, like anything else, you practise what you enjoy, or what you need to do to make a living, some of the really skillful artists, like Gainsborough, Hockney, Reniore, Constable or Micheal Angelo, (who was a true genius, and possibly was an Autistic Savant) spend most of their waking lives Painting, and studying Form. So if you really wanted to paint, if you can spend the time you could probably be much better than us.

[funkychick]

Well I like gardening LOL