My current painting is a self portrait, the first ive ever done, it was so so soooo daunting at first so i started a test run on a varnished plywood board but got into it and now it has become the main one. im trying to paint with knives, and not the kitchen ones !
i really quite enjoy it, the way they create a barrier or a line you cannot cross when it comes to trying to create to much detail, it kind of liberates me because i feel i dont have to get bogged down in getting things perfectly accurate or detailed because its near impossible with a knife.

ive started the head using a variety of blues (no reason except that i had some blue paint left over on my palette) and as i have red hair i will use orange colours for my hair, of course this presents a happy accident as bob ross might say as they are complementory colours.... ! so far so good, if i can work out how to post a picture ill take pics as i go along...
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Hey Earl - hope this helps...looking forward to seeing your work

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Yes looking forward to seeing it.I am working on something that I don't do often a really traditional Landscape.

Hi there, but my images arent on a website, they are jpegs on my desktop PC. so they dont have a 'copy image location' it only has copy & paste etc... ive copyied my jpeg image but then after iver pressed the IMG button i dont get an option to paste.. lol. can you tell im new? lol

I'm working on several paintings at the moment--a large one of a tiger just missing his next meal "The Great Escape", a head shot of two African Painted Dogs "Double Trouble", a head shot of two horses, one with his mouth open and the other looking browbeaten "The Nag", one of a Fossa coming out of a log, as yet unnamed, and a large one of a herd of Addax, also as yet unnamed. This seems like a lot, but I work on all of them at the same time, so I don't get too much tunnel vision on any one painting. It's worked really well for me, as sometimes I can get several done in a fairly short space of time...
for example, if you check out my website http://www.natswildlifeart.co.uk the most recent paintings, "I Didn't Want Your Leaves, Anyway", "I Wanna Talk To You", "The Prey Is In Sight", "Leaving The Den-Pallas Cat", and "Coming Around The Mountain", I did in 7 days! I'm not trying to set records or anything, it's entirely my own thing...I paint up to 15 hours a day, and am constantly changing from one painting to the next.
Spencer, not sure what to say, as I haven't posted any pics on the forum...

wow, im so jealous ! i take it you can make a living from painting then ! your so lucky, or just talented eh ! lol. i work in I.T which i swear makes my brain melt and ooze away, but i just paint and draw when i get home, im thinking of joining a drwaing class to make friends with peoplr who like to draw and paint and maybe meet a lovely girl who shares my interests.....i wish i knew how to post pics , ill ask the moderators.. thanks for your reply natalie, Earl.

Not a painting, as I don't paint, but my latest (i.e just begun and in the planning stages) is a sequence of inkworks called 'Berlin by Night' which will depict various aspects of the seamy side of life on Berlin's Behrenstrasse during the 1920s and 1930s during the decadent days of the Weimar Republic. Probably will end up being too graphic for general viewing on TAW, unless bisexual/transvestite/lesbian/S & M sex goes down well these days...

Well, you did ask!

Keep on truckin'

Have you checked out the Saatchi Gallery (Your Gallery)? no holds barred there!!! They have a pretty scary forum too, entertaining to read but I don't think I'd dare post!
Elise

thanks Earl!! I wish I could make a living at it!! I'm working toward it, but it's a long, long slog!! What it does mean is that I have a lot of choice of what I want to take when I go to exhibitions...and if I can talk a gallery into letting me have a show, I have enough to do a one-person show! I also do paintings for donation to worthy causes--Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre is a personal favorite of mine, and I'm donating to the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in California, in exchange for using two of their photos!

This is a Pallas Cat, "Leaving The Den-Pallas Cat", that I'm donating to Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre, and this one,

I'm donating to the Exotic Feline Breeding Centre.

By the way, I posted these photos using http://photobucket.com, it's a free membership!

Hi Chazwood,
you say you work in ink? is that with pen? what do you work on?

hi guys and gals, does anyone know if some galleries will let you exhibit work but with no view to selling it? you see i dont want to sell any of my work but think it would be nice to let people see it and give me feed back.

hi elise, i just tried to register there and it wouldnt let me ! ill try again latter, where you from? i never studied art so i would feel slightly small if talking to people who use big words and the like regarding paintings. is that forum like that?

Hi,

Thanks for your interest!

Yes, I use 0.2 - 0.5 Pilots and Rotrings these days. At school I actually enjoyed using dip pens and ink though. Normally I work on thick cartridge paper, though I drew a few comic book covers on canvas board once. Didn't like that much. Too lumpy. Looking for the ideal pen/paper combination that doesn't make the ink bleed/feather when scanned at hi-res (that search could take a while...)

Wish I could use a brush properly however, as I'd love to tackle the Japanese brush ink style. Though an old technique, it looks very modern to Western eyes and would actually suit a lot of my ideas.

I have now, thanks for that! Looks like it could be a laugh.

Shame they only let you upload such a small selection of works though. The agony of choice

just finished Double Trouble last night...the nose looks a little off on the one of the right, but that's an optical illusion caused by his forehead marking...