[DAT]

Fulltimehuman.......that wood cut look is super cool.
how did you make those?

[fulltimehuman]

I'm a guy and those are little linoleum cutting tools, little awls, and that one is a block of super soft rubber actually! art supply places will have either that soft rubber which is super easy to carve but it also tends to crumble. There are linoleum panels and then they mount those as well which are always easier, for a price. Then you can go the wood route. But seriously online you can go to amazon or some such place and get the rubber blocks and some tools for 20 bucks or so.

And I would always love to see some color anywhere! DAT will channel the part of DAT that Jackson Pollock channeled when he did Jackson Pollack....or something like that right?
I often use written words on my art. Some say that reminds them of Jean Micheal Basquiat or something.Go figure. I hear so many old bands etc. in new music its a big cycle of creative output. Or ripping off straight up whichever way ya want to call it!

[quote=DAT;6622483]i really like the scale of that in progress sculpture bean. I do enjoy seeing pictures of work in progresss very very much. Its the evolution of a piece of art that really intrests me the most. The most difficult point for me in the end of the piece where I have some serious mental battles about when its really finished.

Thanks.I worrk on this scale mostly so i pick it up a turn it around while im working.I tink i pick up the stone a put put it down about 30 times during a session .I can really feel it in body after.
The process is called direct carving .Very engaged and tactile.

One of the hardest things in paintings is knowing when to stop.
An overworked painting is common-painters usualy get around it by working on a number of canvasses at the same time,BUT not at the same time.
I get obsessed,i cant stop,abit here,abit off here.sometimes its better spend a while just LOOKING at the image.

Try priming the canvas with grey paint.painting a white canvas is difficult.
Grey instantly gives depth-of-field.more body.

Try it.

[DAT]

yeah I started another small painting while trying to finish that other one.
That really does help a lot. Also having my garden in the studio and working on the plants as well shifts my mind away and allows me a fresh perspective again when I turn back around look at the work.
lol, my studio reeks, im not using any filters. its smells sooo lemony! had to place another scrog screen down . The buds are so heavy they were flopping over . This really helped to get more light onto the entire large colas and also to the smaller buds hidden beneath them.

Nice.You are good with colour.

And plants.....!

[DAT]

Thanks for the kind words bean. How are things going for u. ?I'm having fun decorating for halloween and I started a new drawing.

[mr. gt]

wow DAT I want that first pictre. the weed flag!

[DAT]

Sure u can have it!