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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Backpains on December 28, 2005, 04:37:36 pm
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Ok I think I remember someone earlier asking for some pictures of my paintings. I've decided to share one only because the others are NOT as worthy as this painting I am sharing with you all. I painted our yellow lab Remington for my husband for Christmas (trying to get back to the basics of the holidays) and I could not believe how good this turned out!!! So.....without further ado.....Ladies and Gentlemen......Remington!
go to this site then....http://profiles.yahoo.com/lady_eowyn28
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Backpains...I'm not getting any picture!
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Backpains that looks great
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@#$% that's good!!
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@#$% that's good!!
Thank you Cappy..can you believe I've only been painting for about 3 months?!?! I was just as surprised as everyone else. Hubby told me i underestimated my skills!
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How did you start? Have you been taking lessons? My husband and I took lesssons years ago at Michael's. Everyone always thought I had the talent until my husband started...he is much better than I am.
We really got into it, paints, brushes, etc. Everything we did we gave away. Haven't done anything in years.
Hopefully, it's therapeutic for you and helps take your mind off your pain.
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Yes cappy it helps take my mind off the pain a bit. I started just as sketching with pencil and a sketch pad hubby thought I showed raw talent and gave me a starter painting kit for our anniversary and I just took it from there. I am learning fast but still can't do water or rocks in the water yet but...I think with time I'll get it going good!
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Backpains, You are really talented and your dog is beautiful! Art is wonderful therapy, keep up the good work!
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If you've learned just from a starter kit, you do indeed have talent. Keep up the good work.
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I've often marveled at people with artistic ability; I have ZERO. My wife scratches her head at my inability because she's seen me take a picture of something fairly intricate and draw it almost to scale but take it away and give me nothing but a blank canvas and my mind to work from and this is about as much as I can come up with:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:VXO_NReWzhoJ:nations.planetjitsu.com/stickman
I can calculate statistics in my head to 2 decimal places in a snap without a calculator but I can't draw a tree without someone having to rotate the paper to try to figure out what the heck it is. I think all our brains are wired differently.
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Spatech...I'm kind of the same way. I'm pretty artistic, I create jewelry. I can draw pretty well as long as I have a picture to copy but without I'm not nearly as good.
We pretty amazing creatures, I'd say.
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I'm very impressed with your talent.
I am not creative at all. I have no fashion sense, no art ability, no interior design, can't even design a garden, pretty much good for nothing... well almost. ;D
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I'm sure brook you have a talent...it's somewhere inside everyone...like spatech you can do Complicated math which give me anything but add and subtract and I'm in full panic mode! Cappy you need to pick up a paintbrush again...as my hubby told me when I was ready to give up after my first attempt at a tree....it takes time to get good, Pacisso didn't get good overnight he practiced and practiced to get as good as he was. It is something I enjoy and am very pleased with the Remi protrait...in fact sooooo impressed I am now doing a portrait of the other two labs also next up my chocolate lab Jazz. Pictures coming as soon as I'm done with her!
Thank you all for the kind words!
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HAAA!!! I'm not sure I'd even know where to start it's been so long. My husband bought me a keyboard about 6 months ago and I need to figure it out. I play the piano but a keyboard is a different thing! It's been sitting in the den and it's collecting dust!
Backpains, you are really good so we'll be expecting pictures as you finish each painting. Thanks for sharing.
Brooke...I'm sure you are the BEST at that "almost". ;D
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I'm sure I have talent, I'm just waiting to find what it is in. Right now I'm content with thinking it is just being a good mom.
Cappy, I wish I could say I'm the best at that, but I would highly doubt it with my limited experience.
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Cappy, I wish I could say I'm the best at that, but I would highly doubt it with my limited experience.
Whatever it is, just keep practicing until you're a pro. Maybe they have one of those workshop groups for it where people get together and practice their craft together.
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Whatever it is, just keep practicing until you're a pro. Maybe they have one of those workshop groups for it where people get together and practice their craft together.
LMAO!!! Uh... ok. :)
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I think being a mom and being content with that says a lot about you as a woman. It's the most important job you'll ever have.
Whatever it is, just keep practicing until you're a pro. Maybe they have one of those workshop groups for it where people get together and practice their craft together
LMAO too!!
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Shes beautiful. This is amazing since you have only been painting for 3 months.
I am crafty but I have never painted. I think I am going to take a one stroke painting class by Donna Dewberry to start.
Great Job, she looks like my mollie, my mollie died almost 3 years ago, I miss her every day. Yellow Labradors are the most incredible in fact all labradors are fantastic.
I am a lablover
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Oh Backpains, you do have talent. I have dabbled in painting, I've really been feeling a strong urge to pick up a brush once again (which I feel is going to happen soon)! I have to have a basic pattern to work off of, but it is nice for a hobby!!!
Keep at it! Practice is the way to make it perfect!!!
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Lablover, Donna Dewberry has video tape instructions and brushes and books that you can start with. I have them all.....because I am the queen of half-done-crafts.
I want to do all of these wonderful artistic things and I accumulate all of the supplies and....they end up lost in my basement. I find that when I get stressed I need to make something, paint something (but nothing like Backpains can do)...or if I get really stressed out..build something or rearrange the whole house. Creativity and artistic expression help diffuse a lot of stress. I think it is the sense of accomplishment that you feel after you do something that others can appreciate.
I have a lab (mix) too! :D Oh and Brooke, the Mom thing....now that is the most rewarding thing you can do because you are pouring all of your creativity into juggling, satisfying and balancing your family...I am sure you have many talents that you don't give yourself credit for!