This is what happens to hungry, starving artists....it's a real shame. Did you know you can help feed a starving artist with a small donation of $2500 a week? With your donation, you'll help feed, shelter and enable an artist's free-spirited lifestyle of drinking, hookers and drug abuse. An artist just like this one: Travis, could continue their life of alienating others, spreading liberal propaganda and lounging around city parks. You'll get a picture of your artist and updates on his/her improvement via your generous donation. Help an artist now, before they eat all their supplies and die of lead poisoning.
I remember gnawing on pencils in school. It relaxed me when I was listening to insanely boring teachers try to institutionalize me and rant about things I could care less about. I eventually upgraded to Bic pens, they last much longer. :)
I had braces in high school, the real scrap metal kind... I could really gnaw the hell out of those pencils then, except it didn't seem to do anything for me. I always broke the lead off of mine repeatedly so I could get up and sharpen my pencil because I hated siting still. One time I sat on the teacher's desk and played with the stapler after I sharpened my pencil, and I accidentally stapled my fingers together and it bled and he made me go to the nurse's office. I really like this picture of a pencil.
...this drawing makes you hungry.
...your art supplies cost more than anything else you own.
...you use paint thinner as mouth wash.
...you always think "I'd rather be painting" at any given moment.
...you think your mixing knife makes a good spoon.
...you would buy a bottle of absinthe before you bought a bar of soap.
Yeah, there are little ones and big ones too. The big ones are better. There are multi-colored ones too but they're gross... aand they're fat free :) and delicioso.
Now what's Gesso?
Gesso is a long-time friend of a starving artist. It's kind of like primer... it's a white goopy stuff you can use to cover a surface before painting it... like masonite, if you can't afford canvases. Although I do know a well known artist who is rolling in the money who prefers to paint on it because he gets a completely smooth surface without the grain of a canvas.
Oh, yeah... I have always personally found that crayolas are much more satisfying to chew on. (Peel the paper off first :)
<---doesn't paint much....... ok, I will definitely remember that 'cause I can't stand the bumps, you can't get the detail right with all those bumps.....it's the frames I can't afford... do you know how many beautiful frames there are out there? they are so expensive! but hell, lascaux is so much easier
One day in the future all art will be holographic and if you ever bump into it you'll never have to worry about stabbing your shoulder on the corner of a frame. Just thought people should know. :)
Cotton canvas is much better than board canvas, not a whole lot of bumpiness if you're using oils. There's a technique to using Gesso, and if you don't know what you're doing it's all crackledy. Yes, I know how expensive they are, when I was painting a lot I could rarely afford to have mine framed. I have had to buy very few of them because my Mammy has tons of them... matter of fact, not too far away from that porch and chairs I painted (well, you have to walk through an old gate, across a field full of mesquite thorns and rattlesnakes, but we'll get you boots for that :) there's a building that used to be My Great Aunt Clemmie's beer joint, it houses a wonderful old huge piano that used to be in a much "classier" saloon (it's going to a museum when we can find some guys big enough to get it out of there), an antique stove, some funny old hats and shoes and gobs and oodles of frames. (oh, and lots of dust and spiders) I like to go in there and root around and sneeze.
I don't want everything to go to computers and be all clean and sterile... I want to get paint in my hair sometimes and get dusty and play dress up and look for old frames. (that was the point of all that rabbit-chasing up there)
leave the piano there for when I finally get the boots off and change my pants that I just shit after knowing I just walked where rattlesnake slither, I can crank out a good tune after we play dress up after drinking a 6 pack each :)
sounds like you can get some really cool pics in that building~
The piano is probably worth more than the whole ranch...:D. I'll take a picture of it next time I go. We have an old photo of it in the saloon somewhere, too. I think it was in Ranger. (It's a small town over the hill from there)
It'll have to be BYOB... Aunt Clemmie's been dead a long time and there ain't no more beer in the joint. :)Shooting rattlesnakes is fun, we'll get you a gun, too. If it's cool outside they're lazy and you can just step over them, though.
If the grass is really tall you have to kind of walk slowly and listen for the rustling and watch to see if it parts, and you usually have to walk right up on one before you can see it to shoot it. Okay, well, maybe we should just drive one of the tractors over there. HAH
drawn in 35 min
well I have swedish fish I eat when I get real bad, I'd never actually eat a pencil this way but I'd buy a few packs just to break 'em.
...this drawing makes you hungry.
...your art supplies cost more than anything else you own.
...you use paint thinner as mouth wash.
...you always think "I'd rather be painting" at any given moment.
...you think your mixing knife makes a good spoon.
...you would buy a bottle of absinthe before you bought a bar of soap.
wait... Lori, what's a swedish fish? A fish from sweden? I don't think I ever ate one of those.
Now what's Gesso?
Oh, yeah... I have always personally found that crayolas are much more satisfying to chew on. (Peel the paper off first :)
I don't want everything to go to computers and be all clean and sterile... I want to get paint in my hair sometimes and get dusty and play dress up and look for old frames. (that was the point of all that rabbit-chasing up there)
sounds like you can get some really cool pics in that building~
It'll have to be BYOB... Aunt Clemmie's been dead a long time and there ain't no more beer in the joint. :)Shooting rattlesnakes is fun, we'll get you a gun, too. If it's cool outside they're lazy and you can just step over them, though.