Recent content by john

Wow great job. Your sketching skill is evident.

You did great here. I'd be tempted to add a little more shadow darks in the tree trunks, but I overwork my watercolors all the time so don't listen to me. And sometimes photos don't show what it's like in person. Really nice painting.

True. But da Vinci painted it simply as a commission. He was just performing a service and producing a piece of craft. Like a portrait photographer. He wasn't personally expressing anything or trying to evoke emotion or thought. He was essentially just copying what was in front of him like...

I still have about a 25%? left. The water is confusing me all with the reflections and colors. This is one where I could fiddle with it for a while.

Yes, amazing art all. I love the contrast between the look of Kim's and Ayin's paintings. But they both seem to have a common element of commenting on the human drama in a wonderfully eccentric way. Good stuff. Me, I'm cautiously emerging from a self-imposed painting exile. Staying with...

Beauty. Very well done.

Such a cute family pic. :) Great work again Ayin. Seems that child has some evil power. A real hell's angel. Or an agent of justice and revenge for things done later. The cigarettes bring some reality to it and a touch of "unhealthy" vibe. Makes it all the more disturbing. And great...

It's amazing nowadays. I have a streamer with a 2 gig internal SSD with over four hundred CDs in WAV format with lot's of extra room for more. Storage is now so cheap that MP3 isn't needed. But using any of the streaming services, and I've tried most of them, gives one so much that it almost...

Liking all the above. Let's stay in the water. :)

I asked Google AI because I still find this confusing..... what is the difference between art and craft? Key Differences: Purpose: Art is primarily focused on personal expression and evoking emotion or thought in the viewer. Craft, on the other hand, often emphasizes functionality and skill...

You have a point, but not colorful flowers. And not a subject. I mean just the foreground hot colored flowers. With landscapes it's a such a convention to have hot color flowers in the forward. I personally just find it to be too obvious. I've done it with some of my paintings. Not a huge...

Well the whole thing is rather confusing, but it seems like this summation from the Google AI is about right. Seems that unless one wants to print on unusual hard surfaces like wood, a regular high quality inkjet giclée type printer is probably the best choice for most artists. For one thing...

Saw this one in a NY Times article about a fraudulent art purchase. Someone pretended to be Lady Gaga so they could get a discount and then resell it at Christies for a quick buck based on the artist's rise in popularity. Apparently these kind of artists want the buyer to hold on to it for...

Sublimation printing is a digital printing process that uses heat, pressure, and time to transfer dye onto different materials. Here's the full process: You print a design onto special transfer paper using sublimation inks. Then, you place the printed paper onto a product and heat it with a heat...