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I am 15-years-old and have only been painting seriously for about a year. I like using oil paints to make painted "copies" of photos. I get discouraged a lot when parts don't turn out the way I want, but I keep going and push through. And I've noticed that each painting is better than the one before it. Anybody else out there share my interest? And if so, do you have any tips for me? Thanks!!!

current painting in progress

Very nice Sarah..
I love ocean paintings...
I did one in rust, orange, yellow, red colors...
*I don't even remember where it is now that I think about it??*

*I used to paint alot when I was your age....
sighhhhhhhhh, haven't done it in years...
I drew alot too..*
but when the kids grow up and I'm lookin' for things to do, I will definately go back to it...

My sister~in~law was a great painter too, she
did beautiful paintings of people and wind in their hair.. ohhhhhhhh so pretty..
*she's passed away, but I remember alot of them
she did*

P/S My dad was too, but he was in commercial painting..

How long have you been doing it????

And do you make up the pictures in your mind/head and then draw, or do you have to look at a picture?

I have to look at a picture and then do it..
A friend could draw using his imagination and what awesome pictures they were.. I envied him to be able to do that...

Anyhow, thanks for sharing your picture...

Thanks Weezie! I've been seriously painting for nearly a year now. I have to look at a picture first before I paint, also. I thought that it was neat that my art teacher could paint looking at actual objects and incorporate a background setting into the picture with just his mind. It was SO cool!!!

Oh, Hey! I finished the painting that is in the photo above and entered it into the local "Arts and Science Expo". It won an honorable mention!!!

Hi Sarah

Great Painting, Good luck with the expo.
I also paint, mainly with acrylic on canvas.
I am partial to the surrealism art form.
Yet I never know what will appear on the canvas.

For the most part I enjoy painting when I have no plan.When I plan something it seems to not come out as easily.

Angie

I dont paint on canvas but I do paint little folk artsy-ish plaques. Also mini ones I make into magnets and pins onthin wood shapes.

Wrennie

How cool Anything that gets the creative juices flowing is so relaxing, like a vacation for free...just like gardening, poetry whatever your passion is, such a wonderful thing to take you away from it all, and see your results:-)Fun

Good day to you
Angie

I paint anything that doesn't move!!... here's one that I like.... I use patterns sometimes, but do my own at others...this one is from the Gran's Garden books.... [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0UgAE...erstool%20001.jpg?dc=4675546658832896855[/img]

Freedsoul

Very Cool, I like that...What othere mediums do you use?
Angie

Hi, I like what you are doing. I teach a photo and painting class, and we are currently doing something that you might like, because it marries photo and paint. It is so much fun!
We take colorful digital photos. There is an option to put a watercolor filter on the image or bump up the color with Photoshop, but it's not neccesary.
We then print out the image on a light weight watercolor paper or printmaking paper. With a soft brush an water,we bleed the colors to get the appearance of a painting. We even use sharpies to write verse on them, use actual watercolor on them, varnish them, the sky is the limit!
Painterly Photography! I mostly do my own paintings with acrylic, but admire oil users. I'm too messy to work with oil, but it's beautiful.

I'm too impatient!


Me, too!
My mom's bathtub wasn't moving and I painted it!

That is awesome Cindy!!!!

I dabble around with painting too, mostly acrylics.

FreedSoul, that is very, very pretty!

Thanks, Loz.
I took this picture when I was at my mom's the other day.
This is one of the first things I ever painted.
The saw is 5 feet long!

That's really cool.

Wanna see the saw Mark painted????

Let me go get the camera and head to the basement.

*tapping fingers here*

Cindy
That is cool

Thats great Cindy...i have painted things like that too..

Hey...where did Loz get to??

Where did Loz get to? And what is she doing with that camera??

This is a little shelf I did for Summer's room. Kinda whimsical...or something. I am trying to learn to draw/paint better...haven't done it in years! Anyway...
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That is great Tonya, she is always going to treasure that one!

That is soooooooooo cute,
I love it!!!

Tonya..anything from mom is A+

what a cute little shelf Tonya...good job

Ooops! I went and took the pic and forgot to post it!

Now I can't find it in my albums....shoot!

I love that shelf--it's so pretty!

I painted this years ago and sent it to Bill...I painted one for me too, but mine has since met it's demise from peeling from sun and heat.

looks good!!

I'm gonna go take another picture of Marks saw....he painted it and now it's just sitting in the basement.... :rolleyes:

Although he did paint a few huge ones and took them out to his dads and put them on the side of his shed.....

BRB