|
|
Post by Tommy Thompson on Feb 9, 2013 23:11:54 GMT -5
Chris, I'm practicing painting the same ship I hope to paint above your fireplace. This is a smaller version. I'm learning how to paint the sails...they're really difficult. I'm waiting for the paint to dry so I can paint more rigging (ropes)  |
|
|
|
Post by jb on Feb 10, 2013 11:16:58 GMT -5
I'm turning Democrat!!! It is not fair Tommy has all this talent! Only talent I got is BSing! ;-)
|
|
|
|
Post by nanichris on Feb 10, 2013 11:27:39 GMT -5
Looking good Tommy! The water is beautiful. One of these days you'll have to teach me how to paint water. Never could master that. Never had any depth to it when I did it. Looked like some sort of weird mirror.
|
|
|
|
Post by H Abiff on Feb 10, 2013 12:30:17 GMT -5
Amazing Tommy. I don't have words for such talent.
|
|
|
|
Post by jerrycsmith on Feb 10, 2013 12:56:07 GMT -5
Very nice for sure.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tommy Thompson on Feb 10, 2013 13:02:53 GMT -5
Looking good Tommy! The water is beautiful. One of these days you'll have to teach me how to paint water. Never could master that. Never had any depth to it when I did it. Looked like some sort of weird mirror. Chris, the sky took me about 3 hours to paint, the sails took three weeks and the water took about 2 hours. The water is very easy. At Christmas time we went to Georgia to visit our friends who used to live two doors down. We've sort of adopted the two kids Olivia and Calib...we've known them since birth. Olivia is now 6 years old and she wants to paint some times hours at a time. We bought her an acrylic paint set and I gave her some lessons in painting. We both painted a scene with mountains, a lake, and trees. I did one and she copied mine. Her painting was amazing and the water looked as good as mine or as she said better. It was difficult to convince her mother that I didn't touch her painting...she did it all herself. What's funny is that I can just imagine Olivia painting something like that in kindergarten with her teacher watching....it would freak the teacher out. LOL I'm not kidding, her painting was simply fantastic. She even used a pallet knife to build the mountains and then to add highlights to the lake. |
|
|
|
Post by nanichris on Feb 10, 2013 20:47:20 GMT -5
Good for Olivia. It's great to get kids interested in things when they are young and not afraid to fail.
When we lived in Germany, all sorts of people used to come around the army housing area selling a multitude of things. I even had a Gypsy lady try to trade a small rug for the shirt I had on. I used to use it when I cleaned because it was just a little TOO colorful for me. But she fell in love with it.
One of the people who came a calling was Heir Ricter. He was a nice old man who was a really good painter....self taught. I'd always invite him in for a cup of coffee even if I didn't buy anything that day. He had been a sailor in WWII. Said he was just a scared young kid at the time with no wish to die for Hitler's ambitions to rule the world. But he did learn to love the sea and sky. His paintings of same were amazing. He did one of the Atlantic ocean.....just water and sky. My ex got it in the divorce. I remember asking him if the Atlantic always looked like that in winter. He asked me how I knew it was winter. I replied that I could feel the cold water and the freeding wind. He told me that was the best compliment I could have given him. And yes, Madam in the winter the Atlantic is, pardon me, a BITCH!
After we had become friends, he'd buy art supplies on sale and ask me to keep them for him so that he could bring them home a little bit at a time to keep his wife from being angry with him. She thought he was wasting his time. But eventually, most people in the housing area had a " Heir Ricter". BTW, he did beautiful mountains too. It was a shame that the war stole his youth. With just a little bit of training I'm sure he could have become a famous artist.
Some day I'll relate the stories he told of survival after the end of the war. He was very grateful that it was the Americans who took over the area where he lived, and NOT the Russians. He said everyone was terrified of the Russians.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tommy Thompson on Feb 21, 2013 19:41:22 GMT -5
here's Olivia and her painting...she painted it completely by herself...  |
|
|
|
Post by jerrycsmith on Feb 21, 2013 21:06:02 GMT -5
Great work. I can see why you and Belinda are attached to this young lady.
|
|
|
|
Post by nanichris on Feb 22, 2013 7:45:27 GMT -5
Olivia is so cute, and she's definately got talent. Hope she keeps up her painting.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tommy Thompson on Feb 22, 2013 12:46:26 GMT -5
I actually created a little bit of a problem with Olivia. After I showed her how to paint this painting she tried to paint a ship the next day on her own after we left and it didn't turn out real well. She was upset that it didn't look "perfect". She put her paints down and didn't want to paint again for months. Belinda had her mother show her paintings from people like Picasso where paintings don't have to be "perfect".
On this trip over I showed her a couple of videos of artists painting that was pretty wild....and definitely not perfect. She really thought it was cool.
|
|
|
|
Post by nanichris on Feb 22, 2013 17:32:26 GMT -5
Just as no one perfects a sport's game the first time out, so no one perfects painting when she first starts. Sometimes it's fun just mixing up colors and seeing what happens. That's why young children enjoy finger painting so much. Color is GREAT fun!
|
|
|
|
Post by jerrycsmith on Feb 22, 2013 17:52:14 GMT -5
Just as no one perfects a sport's game the first time out, so no one perfects painting when she first starts. Sometimes it's fun just mixing up colors and seeing what happens. ! For a brief moment, I thought you were talking about sex. |
|
|
|
Post by nanichris on Feb 23, 2013 17:53:00 GMT -5
That too ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by jb on Mar 12, 2013 9:57:40 GMT -5
That little girl has more artistic talent in her baby finger than I do in my whole body!!!!  |
|
