The Art thread

[Spoonsky]

Really just an excuse to post the website I've made for my photographs: http://leostillinger.format.com/

but... any of you else dabble in visuals arts kinda things? I personally consider some photos of mid-2000s Baz in nightclubs (now probably lost with the old forum) to be among the heights of fine art.

[Magic]

Photography isn't art you mook.

[Boydy]

What did you take those on?

[Pepe]

Photography isn't art you mook.

He's using a film camera mate.

[Spoonsky]

You might not have heard of them.

[Giggles]

You might not have heard of them.

Well obvs lol

[Samadini]

http://i.imgur.com/CmY3nZ0.gif

[Giggles]

http://i.imgur.com/CmY3nZ0.gif

At its best.

[Spikey M]

Art is fucking shit. Especially the 'modern' stuff. Make your bed and empty the ashtray you scruffy cunt.

[Shindig]

I like to look at nice shit. Sometimes art fulfills this. Not very often, though. Sculptures and statues have the added pull of scale. And then at that stage I'm more interested in massive engineering. Like fat Soviet Ekranoplans.

[Reg]

Cool photos, Spoon. :thbup:

I was into painting and art was my favourite subject at school (partly because the teacher was super chilled, was a P-Funk fan and let us listen to music). I never liked looking at art as much as doing it. The calming, consuming aspect of producing something was way better than going to a gallery or whatever.

[Lewis]

I did Art at GCSE, and I got a D because I refused to use anything other than pencils.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

My Mum asked a friend of hers who is an artist to paint her wardrobe a few years ago.

My reply was 'It's not finished is it? When is she going to clean all the splatter around the door? It's a right mess'. I was lolled at for 'not getting art'.

I also went to a gallery that said friend was having an exhibition at. 'It looks like a cross between a lemon and a banana that has been squashed' summed it all up nicely I feel.

[Lewis]

Oh. Right.

[SvN]

http://i.imgur.com/CmY3nZ0.gif

Literally just ordered pizza :cool:

[Lewis]

Remember that queer cearles who used to cry when you repped him with pizza pictures? What happened to him?

[Giggles]

More to the point in all this, how much of a fucking wanker is Spoon and how long will it be before his next 'thing'? Maybe it was his near death experience in London.

[Boydy]

He's been taking photos for ages.

[Giggles]

You might not have heard of them.

Boydy The words of an absolute cunt. Especially when it's only a snotty kid who knows fuck all about fuck all.

[Boydy]

I think it was a joke.

[Spoonsky]

And here I was thinking the British had a better sense of humor.

[Lewis]

He's Irish.

[Spoonsky]

And I'm American, apparently.

[Giggles]

And here I was thinking the British had a better sense of humor.

Maybe they do. But haha at the attempt, marvellous.

Don't turn into a smart arse little hun just because you spent a few days in a tartan skirt.

[Lewis]

It's a good question though. What will he move onto next? Probably smoking a pipe.

[Spoonsky]

No skirts, but I did buy a cracking scarf in Edinburgh, if that will add to your image of me.

If I move on from photography it will be because the price of film processing absolutely takes the piss, but I haven't give in yet. And I would go back to writing.

[Giggles]

No skirts, but I did buy a cracking scarf in Edinburgh, if that will add to your image of me.

GS would be proud. But an empty vessel can only be filled with the shit that's poured into it I suppose.

[Giggles]

It's a good question though. What will he move onto next? Probably smoking a pipe.

Would depend on how mainstream pipes have become.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's a good question though. What will he move onto next? Probably smoking a pipe.

Hookah probably, it's more hipster.

[Lewis]

Francis, mate. Get fat again. You miserable, carb-starved wank.

[Spoonsky]

Hookah probably, it's more hipster.

We passed a few hookah lounges in Montreal, so probably.

[Giggles]

Francis, mate. Get fat again. You miserable, carb-starved wank.

I'm already fat again, I have been for ages. Why?

[Pepe]

Lol at using film and then scanning the pictures. Just cut the middleman. Or go full wanker and keep the photos in their REAL form.

[mugbull]

These are all actually pretty solid photos. Half of it is probably just down to it being a quality camera, but still.

[Boydy]

GS would be proud. But an empty vessel can only be filled with the shit that's poured into it I suppose.

Why would GS be proud?

[Giggles]

Why would GS be proud?

He'd like all things Scottish being a big hun and all.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've always wanted to be able to draw. I wonder if you can learn, or just need natural talent.

[Spoonsky]

You could probably learn to draw very competently without any experience or talent. To hang in museums is something else though.

[phonics]

I've always wanted to be able to draw. I wonder if you can learn, or just need natural talent.

Anyone can learn to draw, it just takes a fucking age, patience and a willingness to get better.

[Spammer]

http://juliaodell.co.uk/

Local Leeds lass. Really like her stuff. Had a print and an original of hers in my old flat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Anyone can learn to draw, it just takes a fucking age, patience and a willingness to get better.

I'll make it this year's winter project. Already mastered the piano* and speak five languages* so I don't need anything else.

*possible exaggeration

[Shindig]

Is Korean one of the five?

[phonics]

My advice would be to find a visually interesting object (bowl of fruit or whatever) and just draw that for 30 minutes a day, every day, for a month. Keep them all and then see where you started and where you ended, you need that sense of improvement to keep going because the last thing you drew/made will always be crap (I've never finished a project and been happy with it a week after it's done, you always notice issues)

If you're still interested start moving onto more complex things like street corners/buildings to help you work on perspective, then move onto going to museums or just look online and drawing (not tracing) a work of art you're interested in and start to develop a style.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is Korean one of the five?

That is the sixth in progress. An nyeong hashimnikka. Kamsa hamnida.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My advice would be to find a visually interesting object (bowl of fruit or whatever) and just draw that for 30 minutes a day, every day, for a month. Keep them all and then see where you started and where you ended, you need that sense of improvement to keep going because the last thing you drew/made will always be crap (I've never finished a project and been happy with it a week after it's done, you always notice issues)

If you're still interested start moving onto more complex things like street corners/buildings to help you work on perspective, then move onto going to museums or just look online and drawing (not tracing) a work of art you're interested in and start to develop a style.

It's happening. See you in April with a vague idea of what shape actually is.

[Boydy]

My nan used to go to painting classes with the WI or the Guild or whatever old women's organisation it was and she actually ended up being pretty good. Not like a proper artist good but the sort of thing if you could paint it yourself you'd be pretty happy with.

Don't think she had any real artistic talent before either so it seems like you could probably get to a decent standard easily enough.