xp Étant Donnés often startles Duchamp skeptics too.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 6 February 2023 07:41 (one year ago) link
first oil painting in forever (a few months)
https://i.imgur.com/cIyTM7r.jpg
i'd really like to try a figure painting (of a person) in oil, using some of what i've learned recently, but it's tough because i'd have to do it from a photo
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
it felt satisfying to finish this one though, because i painted on top of an extremely bad figure painting i did last year at this time. i hope to keep improving, but it felt good to literally paint over something that was disappointing!
i'm not sure i've seen that before, thanks! and also, i'm not sure i've seen a composition that is blocked in that way before, so completely black with the bricks...it really does make you feel like you're peeking out of a dwelling dug into the side of a hill, hobbit style
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
baller painting, that
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
thank you! i've gotten some good feedback on this one and it was heartening because i was afraid that it was in an uncanny valley between realism and abstraction. not that it resembles any of his work, but i recently picked up a big book of matisse paintings (the '92 moma retrospective book) and was really enjoying all of interiors which featured paintings within paintings. The Red Studio is better known, but i really like The Pink Studio as well
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
uncanny valley between realism and abstraction
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
haha, thanks! glad it strikes the right balance for you. there's also the balance between what is more or less 'finished" and what is quickly sketched. i guess those two things map are highly related to realism and abstraction, except that every once in a while a very sketchy flick of the brush creates something that reads as more realistic, while another part that comes off as an abstraction of what should be there takes a bunch of work and color adjusting. it is very confusing and, for me, easy to land in a weird space! haha. ok, time for bed lol
― Karl Malone, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:28 (one year ago) link
love those colors on the wall to the right, around the lamp
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 11 February 2023 04:43 (one year ago) link
i learned how to do monotypes this weekend! probably a familiar term to most people reading this, but to me it was new. in short, it just means taking a painting that is still wet and pressing it against a dampened piece of paper to transfer the painting. "mono" in this case refers to it only being possible to make one unique print - as you can imagine, after smooshing two pieces of paper together, the original painting is altered and so it wouldn't look the same if you made a second monotype out of it. (if you do make additional monotypes, those are called "ghost prints".) it's also one-of-a-kind/unique in that the transfer of the paint or ink from one surface to another with this method is inherently unpredictable, since it depends on the thickness of the paint, how wet the original painting surface is, how damp the target surface, how you press the two surfaces together, stuff like that.
i wish i would have taken more photos of my original paintings, because after you make a monotype the original is forever altered. but here is one that worked out ok:
https://i.imgur.com/xeutK1u.jpg
and here's what the monotype looked like:
https://i.imgur.com/K8GqRKD.jpg
there was also another version (i didn't take a photo of the original) that produced a very uneven transfer, and i ended up liking that result the best of all:
https://i.imgur.com/oITuC68.png
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
er oops, the second image was supposed to be this
https://i.imgur.com/g4epoqk.jpg
most confusing post ever, sorry. all of this was with gouache on a fiberglass plate. lemme know if you're reading this and have tried other materials (like ink) or other methods!
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 19:39 (one year ago) link
interesting!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 February 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
fun, quick, and a bit experimental too! I’m going to pick up a couple pieces of fiberglass next time I’m at the art store so I can make some at home. I like the dada aspect of having to destroy the original as part of the process
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/67rT0BP.jpg
― z_tbd, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:14 (one year ago) link
added the figure in later on copying this https://www.famsf.org/artworks/seated-girl-ii-bather
did not mean to make baseball reference
― z_tbd, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MwLJyvv.jpg
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 03:59 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DaKoX4j.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZA0YgD4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nBcprIs.jpg
― z_tbd, Sunday, 5 March 2023 02:58 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ToaBaLJ.jpg
― z_tbd, Friday, 10 March 2023 01:44 (one year ago) link
changed the face for the millionth time
https://i.imgur.com/bV18W1K.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 10 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yxiSRYu.jpg
i have been trying and failing to "zoom in" more on figures rather than always getting the whole body. i accidentally did it with this one this morning, but only because the legs and feet and the bottom half in general were all so terrible that it immensely improved the composition as a whole to tear it off completely. what was left was "zoomed in".
*logrolls to finish line*
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Saturday, 11 March 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
not sure I understand the zoom process but that is a great frame
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 12 March 2023 07:11 (one year ago) link
oops, sorry corrs, didn't see that! by "zooming" i guess i just mean is that when you're painting from life you have to choose what's going to fit into the canvas. from the same perspective, you could paint an entire person from head to toe, with space all around them, or you could choose to paint only their torso and shoulders (or their face, or whatever).
i started with some charcoal today. the oil pastels are quick and fun but i feel like they are hard to mix so you just end up with the product palette instead of your own.
https://i.imgur.com/25hx4EK.png
these were meant to be dancers but i may have accidentally made a dunker! dancer slams it home. i like what charcoal does but the physical sensation of putting it on is very similar to chalk on a chalkboard.
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 19 March 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vPDgGJH.png
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 19 March 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pEFTDzP.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SbKjSrG.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
wauw, great sunset vibes
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 27 March 2023 07:35 (one year ago) link
thank you corrs! i wasn't thinking about it at the time but i have been looking at a lot of David Park paintings, maybe that is kind of filtering through
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 27 March 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/D6tMv8X.jpg
in tribute to my friend's new puppy walter
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 2 April 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2jLzp10.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 3 April 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
damn boy you are getting skilled as fuk
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Thursday, 6 April 2023 05:04 (one year ago) link
<3 aw, thank you cat. i'll show you something funny though. i reworked it a bit
https://i.imgur.com/1QT1s7c.jpg
and then realized how badly i had fucked up the arms of the chair. so i'm going to rework it again upsidedownsmileyface
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 6 April 2023 05:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qK3RXY6.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 05:32 (one year ago) link
i feel like i can undermine it all with the word pizza!
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
did someone order a deepdish pepperoni with cheese .jpg
kept going and glad i did
https://i.imgur.com/lQ1P9ci.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 13 April 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
yep yep yep
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zlRoZod.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 23 April 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
still more to go on this one but it's looking better than the version that's been in my living room the last few months
https://i.imgur.com/CQo0HU2.jpg
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 24 April 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
Is there a (preferably free) app I can download to my android phone or windows computer that would allow me to string together a bunch of still images into a longer animation? I want to create an animated music video.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link
i don't know one, but i bet there is! not sure about one that would be suitable for minutes of animation though - even at only 10 fps that's still 600 images per minute. animation is a giant pain in the ass
― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
i recommend painting
i was looking through this thread looking for a specific image (non-moving) and ran across this one
http://78.media.tumblr.com/0b8606a058a6303f684b9b30d4892399/tumblr_p1shk2We5J1qdmmiqo2_500.gif
that one's gross but i still like it
― z_tbd, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
here's what i was looking for (my first painting)
― z_tbd, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w4XnHkH.jpg
very cool!!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 5 May 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
I love that painting a lot!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 6 May 2023 05:54 (one year ago) link
Wish I still had it! I don’t remember ever seeing it again after that day, it must have been lost or tossed in the trash
― z_tbd, Saturday, 6 May 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/639hgYr.jpg
― z_tbd, Saturday, 6 May 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FZzJrs3.jpg
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
The color/composition on that one is outstanding.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
thank you! i have some oil pastels with some nice colors, it always feels like the heavy lifting has already been done when using them
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link