Art and Humor

[stlukesguild]

 

[stlukesguild]

 

[Artyczar]

Ha!

 

[Artyczar]

 

[Claude J Greengrass]

 

[stlukesguild]

I can totally relate to the dog one. My little one will stand on top of me looking down at me early in the morning when he wants out.

 

[snoball]

 

[WFMartin]

Thank you so much for those paintings, and humor! Have I ever thanked you for inviting me to join this site? Well, I'm thanking you NOW! Wet Canvas does appear to be crumbling, indeed, and I frequent it less, and less as time goes on.

 

[Claude J Greengrass]

 

[brianvds]

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Or "Me, at 4 a.m., trying to sleep while my cat has other plans."

 

[Artyczar]

 

[snoball]

Boy that is pretty accurate!

 

[Artyczar]

 

[WFMartin]

Gosh, I don't believe I have EVER pitched a piece of my art in my life. Some pieces go over better with judges than others, for sure, but I treat every piece of art as though it will hang in a place of prominence some day. My attitude is based upon a specific "discipline" I adopted, when I first began painting, and it has seemed to have paid off throughout the years. That discipline has prevented me from "pitching" any piece of art that I didn't feel was "working out", while I was working on it. If I hadn't set that discipline in place, I would NEVER have created any piece of art that I have created, perfectionist that I tend to be. Well.......I'm sorry, but I just never throw away ANY of my art. Oh, I have GIVEN some away, and offered a couple to charity auctions, but I have never thrown any piece of my art away, or put it aside while it was in progress.

 

[Roni]

Some of these are plain priceless.
How was it possible we've been here all the weeks without missing this thread?

 

[Artyczar]

Gosh, I don't believe I have EVER pitched a piece of my art in my life. Some pieces go over better with judges than others, for sure, but I treat every piece of art as though it will hang in a place of prominence some day. My attitude is based upon a specific "discipline" I adopted, when I first began painting, and it has seemed to have paid off throughout the years. That discipline has prevented me from "pitching" any piece of art that I didn't feel was "working out", while I was working on it. If I hadn't set that discipline in place, I would NEVER have created any piece of art that I have created, perfectionist that I tend to be. Well.......I'm sorry, but I just never throw away ANY of my art. Oh, I have GIVEN some away, and offered a couple to charity auctions, but I have never thrown any piece of my art away, or put it aside while it was in progress.

Well, you may be a rarity, and it's also just a funny comic, meant to be exaggerated.

I can relate to thinking what I'm going it good, then hating it the next day. I've destroyed a few, but not that many. And I've painted over a handful. I haven't used a blowtorch, but if I had access to one...

 

[Artyczar]

 

[stlukesguild]

I saw that one before. I was thinking of using it, but I'm glad I didn't. Yours is a better resolution.

As for scrapping Art... I learned a lot about working in a very methodical and disciplined manner from the time I spent on the collages. Prior to that, I would often reach the "ugly stage" in a painting, and end up scrapping it. Out of the whole of my mixed-media pastel/acrylic figure paintings... and there are over 45 of them measuring 80" x 45"... I think I only scrapped one... and this wasn't intentional. There are probably about 5 that I don't like (although I thought they were OK at the time) I reworked this one for example:

The result was an improvement IMO. Interestingly enough, this painting that I reworked I had to rework again as this is the painting my studio partner vandalized.

After reworking the above painting, I decided to do the same to an even earlier work. Unfortunately, I absolutely ruined it. I still have pictures of the original painting and I don't know why I was so gung-ho to rework it. I never even photographed the reworked stage... I just tore the thing up and trashed it.

 

[stlukesguild]

 

[stlukesguild]