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
https://i.imgur.com/kqP5CtD.jpg
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yUwBfz0.jpg
― z_tbd, Thursday, 11 May 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GycAnWq.jpg
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 May 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MoEOqTY.gif
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 May 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
wauw that's a hella cool animation
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 15 May 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link
thank you! it was kind of an old school gif in the sense that i had to drastically reduce the size and quality (the "lossiness" when saving a GIF) in order to get it down to a manageable file size
― z_tbd, Monday, 15 May 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
I’m intrigued with the woman staring as black and white curves shapes. I can’t tell if that’s just reusing an old canvas or trying to already work out the shading on her torso?
I’ve been trying to pick up painting as a post-sobriety hobbie but as I’m starting from scratch, it is not getting me very far. I try to do at least 30 minutes a day, or barring that, 30 minutes of watching others on YouTube because I have no idea what I’m doing.
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 08:49 (one year ago) link
it's really nice of you to take the time notice that, especially since the early versions of are hard to see in the animation! you're right, i was painting over an old canvas. i've been painting over a lot of my first paintings recently, which were all acrylic. it's fine to use oil on top of acrylics, but acrylics on oil doesn't work.
this was the old one, from a few years ago:
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link