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I did my first painting. I have no idea what I'm doing. I watched Bob ross all morning, splurged at michaels and then mucked around. I really enjoy this. Oil on a 5 or so inch canvas.  I painted warhammer figures with acrylic before. This is uh, very different. (I feel like lots of people start by painting this lion, it's from a 2 step guide I found) Harvey Mantaco fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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dog nougat posted:That's really good for your first try at oils. Very helpful! Dumb question but if I don't want to waste rags, is there a trick to cleaning them? I think if I threw them into the wash my wife would have right and reason to murder me. I'm only asking because being oil based a soak in a bucket seems like it wouldn't work well.
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Apr 25, 2021 17:55
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dog nougat posted:In the sink under cold water. Just a dab of dish soap in the palm of your hand works well. There are also brush cleaning soaps as well. In general try to avoid soaking your bushes standing up, it can soften the glue and bend the bristles. I'm sorry if I wasn't explicit, I meant rags - but sounds like regular soap in a bucket should be fine.
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Apr 25, 2021 18:56
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I got covid fat and have a lot of old clothes I can cut up. It was meant to be.
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Apr 25, 2021 20:38
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silicone thrills posted:Bonus of using a scraping block. This is about 6 months worth of scrapings and it's like just a cool abstract now. It looks like goku
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Apr 26, 2021 00:35
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Beautiful art and on-demand ocd generating machine.
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Jun 17, 2021 13:37
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Zoben posted:Thanks all I love how you make such complexity out of simplicity with clearly defined borders. The way you view your art in progress while you're building something like this up is really interesting to contemplate. Harvey Mantaco fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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Dec 13, 2021 03:37
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I absolutely cannot find Waldo but it's still awesome
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Mar 20, 2022 23:19
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Claeaus posted:Charcoal is fun but portraits are hard. I gave up getting the likeness pretty quickly and the reference just became a general reference but pretty happy with it anyway. That beard looks like it took a lot of control to get right, it's very impressive.
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Apr 3, 2022 13:57
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Oil painting number 2! Got some new colors and wanted to use everything
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Apr 11, 2022 03:08
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silicone thrills posted:Its pretty wild how long it can take for burn out from work to wear off and feel creative again. Felt real good tho. That do be how it be. I work in a career where people can die if I gently caress up and it absolutely kills my creativity when it's stressful. Bad few days at work turns me into an exhausted uncreative wreck well into the next week, when the next big stresser hits.
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May 6, 2022 12:48
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I'm just starting to branch out from minis to trad art and it's very intimidating. There's a comfortable shield of excusing your perceived imposter syndrome under "they're just toys who cares." With oil I feel like there's a higher bar. The safety net is gone, somewhat.
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Oct 28, 2022 04:48
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It's So. drat. Good though.
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Feb 9, 2023 01:24
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I painted another oil painting but it's quite glossy and hard to photograph because of that... is there a trick to it? I have pretty diffused lighting but maybe I need some specific camera settings...or do people matte varnish their stuff usually?
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Oct 23, 2023 03:51
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silicone thrills posted:Most artists I know and myself varnish oil paint with gloss and yeah its just misery to photograph. Some people wait till exact right time of day to take em outside and photograph, some people set up elaborate diffused lighting. When I was in art school we had folks from the photography department who would photograph for the other mediums a lot. Thanks for the help, I'll have to play around with my setup and lights. In the meanwhile, enjoy a bunch of detail obscuring glare, featuring a bird. 
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Oct 23, 2023 13:32
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Empty Sandwich posted:a friend had a really clever setup where he basically made a floor and ceiling out of a long run of white butcher paper, which diffused the overhead lighting. Brilliant. Yes. Thank you!
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Oct 23, 2023 15:57
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Starting new paintings and doing the first half of it: yes, winning, in my lane and thriving Finishing paintings: help I'm being poisoned, bad feelings, I'm stuck in the ditch without AA
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Oct 27, 2023 15:01
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Painted another bird. I swear his wings don't look so much like they have wing abs irl I don't understand photos
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Nov 4, 2023 18:19
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Mustang posted:A couple great looking birds! Love Silicone Thrill's crow, and Harvey is yours some kind of kingfisher? Looks great! And sorry I'm not sure, just a bird I found online. I checked the filename and it said "bird" which was very helpful.
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Nov 5, 2023 23:59
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Mustang posted:Don't really like how this one turned out but it's my first ever portrait. Reference painting had lots of shadows and it was tough to emulate. I'm doing my first portrait right now as well and art isn't a race but if it was I'd be having a seizure at the starting line watching you disappear over the horizon.
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