What was your best artistic moment? I once did a yellow "wash" on the walls

[applegrove]

of my apartment. I took a course and new how to do it. You extend the drying time of water based paint by mixing it with scrumble, mix a little peach in with it here, and little rose in with it there....very slow going. It was gorgeous. (we were told in class that for an authentic mediterranean wash you could take a hammer to a plaster wall to make cracks, but I didn't do that here.. not my walls). I drove by that apartment 12 years later and I could see some yellow - they had not painted over it I think - obviously I'm not the only one who liked it.

[darkstar3]

1. I wrote a very long poem, in meter and rhyme.

It's been about 12 years. I think darkspouse is now the only one who knows where it is.

[csziggy]

2. This needlepoint picture

[applegrove]

3. Beautiful!

[csziggy]

4. THANK YOU! n/t

[nuxvomica]

16. Very nice

At first glance, I thought it was just pleasant but the more I look at it, the more intriguing it is. That's the sign of any good graphic art -- the eye never tires of it. :thumbsup:

[Aristus]

5. I played Mozart in a local college production of "Amadeus" about 16 years ago.

The director was a real bastard. After he cast me in the role, he essentially told me to my face that he cast me because he couldn't find anyone else for the part.

There's a scene in the play (but not the movie) where Mozart speaks extensively in both French and Italian. At the first table-read during rehearsals, the director said he would bring a dialect coach in to help me with the languages and accents.

When that scene came up in the table-read, I rattled off the lines in flawlessly accented French and Italian. The director just about shit!

My wife, who had a small role in the play (we were dating at the time) still remembers that incident fondly, pointing out that he only cast me "because he couldn't get anybody else! - Yeah, right!"

That was fun... B-)

[applegrove]

6. Good for you. I had the same experience with an econometrics professor who thought I was a dunce.

When I walked out of the exam 1.5 hours into it he laughed at me because he thought I had given up. I got an 87%. So I know how great that feels.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. This self-portrait I did.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

8. I don't have an artistic bone in my body, luckily my son has that covered

with his art, my youngest daughter with her writing and my oldest daughter with her music :)

[Aristus]

14. With your body, you don't need to be artistic...

;-) :P :hide:

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I think everyone -- EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US -- has artistic bones in his/her body.

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I also think that MOST people don't find the specific medium for which they
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I think that comes from criticism/doubt from others -- and, sadly... more
often from within -- from our own self-doubts. "I'm just not artistic."
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MiddleFingerMomDad, on retirement, started experimenting with artistic
methods of expression. He found two that he was AMAZING at -- one was the
carving and staining/painting of saguaro spines into walking sticks. These
are BIG here in Arizona, but I've never seen any that came close to the
beauty of my dad's work.
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He also started gluing layers of styrofoam together, then carving and
painting that. I had (lost it when I lost a storage space) a rendition of
a detailed Pueblo village on a mountainside (he had fashioned tiny little
ladders and cooking tripods and kettles out of tiny indigenous materials).
It was incredible. I also lost a gigantic Phoenix -- so many colors of fire
in this creation.
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Hell, don't listen to me. Listen to that smart guy, Albert Einstein.
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[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. The cartoony drawings I used to make as props in my language classes

The students seemed to remember things better if they could associate them with striking or amusing pictures.

In fact, they'd occasionally prompt classmates for forgotten words by reminding them of the pictures I had used in practicing the words.

Unfortunately, I threw out 11 years worth of pictures when I left teaching.

[alphafemale]

11. I splatter painted my sons dresser.

So Pollack.

At 5 he loved it.

At 15...meh...not so much....

lol.

At 25 he might of loved it again but I think he may have burned it.

[sakabatou]

12. OK

Made a collage of Dizzy Gillespie. Painted a mural of this in my back bedroom (it's currently painted over):

[Tom Kitten]

13. my garage sale setup, maybe?

I spent three weeks building displays for my stuff that I wanted to sell and then setting it up... I got many comments on how it looked like a store, even a museum! In two days last July I made enough to cover a month's rent plus utilities! Then three weeks ago I had another one and did almost as well. I'm currently working on a third, maybe the middle of the month!
I say this only because I made lots of money, I mean I've had a couple of art exhibits (long while ago though) and only sold one work, it happened to be to my Dad, and it still hangs in his living room! So maybe that was more successful? Who knows, all I know is I'm broke all the time...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. My picture of kali durga stomping on Ken Lay and the Enron E.

The Houston Women's Caucus for Art was invited to create art for an Indian art seminar at the Museum of Fine arts.
There was a guy giving lectures on Hindu temples and it was like being back in art history in college. it was fun.

Six people made art on the theme of Hindu/Houston. Hinduism interacting with Houston.

So I painted a young Barbie-like Kali Durga (in a blue business suit, NOT with blue skin) riding her tiger and stomping on Ken Lay and the Enron E. The silver building rose up behind her. She had the skull necklace and earrings and six arms. The three left arms had the dagger, the bell and shiva's trident. The right arms had a mirror, for vanity, a red stapler (homage to Office Space) and a calculator that said "Ch.11". she also had the wild hair that indicates a wrathful deity. I had to do research in two or three books to look up all this symbolism.

Everybody laughed when they projected the picture of it.

Another lady made a mirror with mosaic around it that said "You must be the change you wish to see in the world".
which is a Gandhi quote.

Another person did a set of interlocking triangles like a star of david with a ball in 3 corners, representing quarks, with the beginning of the Rig Veda Creation Hymn in the corner.

I've also been a musician for many years but that would take far longer to tell.

I intend to do more updated versions of Hindu Gods.

[polly7]

17. I made trunks and large keepsake boxes out of old cardboard and

brown paper bags. Layers and layers glued together, stained with wood-stain and lacquered. I scrounged for old piano hinges and antique clasps, cut some tin from my Dad's scrap pile for corner-guards, antiqued and glued om stickers and photographs I'd printed off, lined them with velvet from an old coat and, voila ......... cheap Christmas gifts that looked really good.


The trunks turned out better. I ripped up another old leather coat and braided strips for the handles. Total cost for everything was probably about 30 dollars for two trunks and 5 keepsake boxes like the one above.

[applegrove]

18. Gorgeous!

[polly7]

21. Thank you! They were pretty easy and a good way to use up all that

scrap cardboard.

[Ptah]

19. When I was much younger, I did some blacksmithing.

[applegrove]

20. Impressive!

[Bennyboy]

22. Every year I learn some new art thing

This year it is sculpture. And I am getting good at it. Year before was hand drums. the year before that was poi swinging......vibes, harmonica, juggling, hula hooping,

I am also in the process of making some new hats....