Visual Arts - July 2007

i don't want to have to order them over the internet... does anyone know of an office or art store that carries them? they're the colored pencils that are erasable... i've never used them, someone just recommended them to me.

2007-07-30 15:38:20 · 4 answers · asked by dynamic_disaster 2 in Drawing & Illustration

2007-07-30 12:35:26 · 4 answers · asked by Taurean 1 in Drawing & Illustration

It would really help me to describe Georgia O'Keeffe's art. Thanks.

2007-07-30 08:22:14 · 8 answers · asked by Charlie Romeo 1 in Painting

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k14/Bill_H/paolo/pn-nameNEW144.jpg

2007-07-30 05:40:27 · 4 answers · asked by Simba 2 in Other - Visual Arts

I've just moved into a new place. My mum's an artist and i was thinking about getting her to do a painting of one of the tintin covers - which do you think is the best and why?

2007-07-30 02:52:59 · 2 answers · asked by oz_cruickshank 2 in Drawing & Illustration

Isn't aperture the factor that affects the depth-of-field? (Wide apertures give narrower depth-of-field while narrower apertures give wider depth-of-field)

Telephoto lenses tend to have narrower apertures.

Wide/fast apertures are more common in normal lenses.

So, why do photographers say that telephoto lenses make it easier to blur the background more in portraits?

2007-07-30 01:45:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

no ones really gotten the right answer

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2007-07-29 23:41:01 · 13 answers · asked by Msjenniee 3 in Drawing & Illustration

debate on Man is PRE-DESTINED vs. Man is FREE

2007-07-29 22:58:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

I'm going to paint on canvas for the first time. How do I know the canvas is of good quality and should I treat it with something before I begin painting? Thanks

2007-07-29 22:33:15 · 3 answers · asked by Questioner 1 in Painting

It's at artdaily.org
I hope you love it like I did.

2007-07-29 21:25:22 · 3 answers · asked by Jeanne B 7 in Other - Visual Arts

I need a website that can teach me how to draw realistic things like human faces. I really need to learn how to draw it because I promised someone to draw her face. It can be charcoal or pencil drawing. Pls. help me. I really need to know how. Thanks in advance and God bless.

2007-07-29 20:01:31 · 8 answers · asked by denkiteki_shujou9 1 in Drawing & Illustration

My friend is an established artist in Europe. He needs someone to represent him in the U.S. How should I help him if I've never been in art business?

2007-07-29 18:42:01 · 1 answers · asked by Art Wind 1 in Painting

I bought a figurine at a garage sale. It is a man holding an owl. I would love to know what it is and means.

2007-07-29 18:07:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sculpture

2007-07-29 17:15:50 · 6 answers · asked by Spencer 3 in Drawing & Illustration

2007-07-29 16:08:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

Is anyone familiar with Aperture Magazine? I just received an "invitation" in the mail, but it's over $10 per issue, so I'd appreciate any comments.

Thanks.

2007-07-29 16:04:29 · 4 answers · asked by Picture Taker 7 in Photography

2007-07-29 11:25:31 · 6 answers · asked by cheryl _g 1 in Photography

i've heard that infra red light starts at about 800nm and also that certain other types of light emitted from bulbs, eg sodium, mercury etc only emit light upoto certasin freqencies. i think tungsten emits lights into the range of infa red (730nm +) but what does it stop at. Im trying to find a infra red pass filter to put in front of a camera to take a photo of a car number plate with its head lights on using an infrared lamp and an infra red filter on the camera. the idea is the filter will block the headlight glare but dont know what frequency filter is required? any help?

2007-07-29 10:56:56 · 1 answers · asked by fast eddie 4 in Photography

I have a storage container full of art supplies and paintings. For ten years I painted, was paid for artist-in-residencies, had shows in New York City, sold several paintings a year.

But about ten years ago I started doing computer art and only do sketchbooks to keep track of ideas.

I think if I had a workspace I might get back to painting.

So how do I know when to just donate all the good supplies to a school and toss all the work except a couple of paintings and a portfolio of work I've traded over the years (Kenny Scharf, Tom Otterness, etc.)?

How do you get inspired?

2007-07-29 10:39:45 · 6 answers · asked by Eve 3 in Painting

looking over the images i see some of them have color issues and others have dust issues. i pushed them through photoshop quickly, so saying that you need not comment on some of the quality issues. im only trying to save your typing fingers.

ive been meaning to post these for a while...today its done and im looking for advice or comments.
http://jsburnphotography.blogspot.com/

2007-07-29 10:20:49 · 2 answers · asked by Eden 4 in Photography

2007-07-29 09:55:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

when I am not formally trained, have no prior public exhibitions or professional artistic accomplishments to list? I keep reading about putting an artist's resume together, but I can't seem to fathom how I would could cobble one together without the aformentioned categories. I am trying to submit my art to a formal show for the first time, and I am needing the resume to accompany the images of my work. It's a classic Catch-22 -- needing the resume to get the experience, but needing the experience to build the resume! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this, particularly from experience as an "Outsider Art"ist?
Thanks in advance!

2007-07-29 09:29:39 · 3 answers · asked by faith b 1 in Other - Visual Arts

2007-07-29 09:06:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

2007-07-29 08:50:20 · 7 answers · asked by name d 1 in Photography

2007-07-29 08:41:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

The term "creative" means to create, to create there have to be original because if not it would fall into the copying instead of creating.
So if you analyze all art genres you'll see that abstract is the only who does not copy, surrealism, realism,cartooning, copy from reality things so the creativity percent is not 100%.
When you paint, draw something abstract you're using your creativity 100%,
What do you think of this? is it true?

2007-07-29 05:24:37 · 2 answers · asked by Cranberrydude 3 in Other - Visual Arts

I've scoured the net looking for information on a tile picture made by Maw & Co, Highgate Tile works, Stoke on Trent
The picture is made of two majolica tiles which combine to depict 5 birds in various positions on a branch. I've also tried ebay without success...anyone out there know what this picture is called or where I could find one?

2007-07-29 04:49:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Visual Arts

2007-07-29 02:54:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

2007-07-29 01:58:41 · 1 answers · asked by keeka b 1 in Photography

I use kodakgallery , but they don't have have a facility to print out the whole picture.

2007-07-28 23:57:01 · 3 answers · asked by hellboysapien 3 in Photography