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« Reply #50 on: June 18, 2006, 21:42:33 » |
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Beautiful works, Astir! :tickle:
Heh, you reminded me of something that once happened to a friend of mine. She, too, is very keen on arts, and her favourite medium is acrylic paints. So once in her art class she was doing a picture of something that was mostly in green colours. Later on, when she was going home, she noticed that a young man was staring at her all the time in the bus. She made her proudest look (like "I don't care you're watching me, see, I turn away from your looks") and ignored him. At home she looked in the mirror and understood, why the guy was staring at her so much - obviously, she had scratched her nose and forehead during the art class, and half of her face was covered with bright green smudges... :approve:
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« Reply #51 on: June 19, 2006, 19:35:22 » |
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I love the magazine one Astir - I bet you had loads of fun doing that! I did a collage in November last year - used all sorts of stuff - material, old paintings, even autumn leaves. It was great fun, only took me about 20 minutes to do and I have to say, it's pretty damn good. It's now framed and on my wall. Some lovely stuff in this thread - keep them coming. A couple more from me... Sarah
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« Reply #51 on: June 19, 2006, 19:35:22 » |
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« Reply #52 on: June 19, 2006, 20:22:26 » |
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I Love Ants. 
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« Reply #53 on: June 19, 2006, 21:03:42 » |
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You do? I love slugs. However, I found one crawling out of my salad this weekend, and whilst I looked after him/her and put him out on the grass, I love slugs on my terms. Not in my dinner!! :puke: And yes, I had washed the lettuce beforehand... Sarah
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« Reply #54 on: June 19, 2006, 21:12:00 » |
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Oh, this reminds me of a peach I ate last summer. It was a wonderful peach. Juicy. Sweet. Mmmm..... After a bite or two I came to the thing that looks like nut inside peaches, plums, etc. (excuse me for this description, I don't know how it is called in English  ), and I bit it accidentally. It cracked open. Suddenly, an ant literally JUMPS out of it! And, man, it was HUGE!!! I had never been freaked out by an ant in such way.. HUGE, I tell you! :jawdrop:
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« Reply #54 on: June 19, 2006, 21:12:00 » |
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« Reply #55 on: June 19, 2006, 21:33:09 » |
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Yikes!!! (And the term you want is a stone.) How bizarre - an ant in the centre of a stone in the centre of a peach. Sarah
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« Reply #56 on: June 19, 2006, 21:39:48 » |
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Thanks for supporting my lexicon, Sarah! Man, that ant was bizarre... I'll probably draw it! 
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« Reply #57 on: June 19, 2006, 22:37:26 » |
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It happened when I was eating an ant, it tasted strange, juicier than normal and then I noticed she had unlaid eggs!!! j/k  But once when I was small I think I ate 'iça' at some friends of my family. It's toasted ants abdomen, goes with rice and sallad, don't know. If my memory serves me well it wasn't bad!
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« Reply #58 on: June 19, 2006, 22:48:45 » |
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Andrew... You eat ants?.... :gone:
How large exactly they are in Brazil?
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« Reply #59 on: June 20, 2006, 02:53:22 » |
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LoL, I don't, I was joking. The worker ants we usually see in houses are small, less than 1 cm I think, there are others even smaller, they say they appear when something's about to change, like a presage. The ones that some people eat are kinda large, more than 2 cms, they have big bums  It's actually kinda rare you find someone that actually eats them, I heard that in the northwest it's kinda part of the folklore.
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« Reply #60 on: June 20, 2006, 05:13:11 » |
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Oh, this reminds me of a peach I ate last summer. It was a wonderful peach. Juicy. Sweet. Mmmm..... After a bite or two I came to the thing that looks like nut inside peaches, plums, etc. (excuse me for this description, I don't know how it is called in English  ), and I bit it accidentally. It cracked open. Suddenly, an ant literally JUMPS out of it! And, man, it was HUGE!!! I had never been freaked out by an ant in such way.. HUGE, I tell you! :jawdrop: As huge as this guy? http://www.giecom.net/fuccillo/ad1-5-06.jpg(People in Upstate NY and certain parts of the US will get this) 
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« Reply #61 on: June 20, 2006, 09:40:17 » |
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I've seen people eating random stuff, that's why I asked! The ant that had occupied my peach was about 3cm long. Jen - yes, that huge, but much more appealing. 
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« Reply #62 on: June 22, 2006, 20:20:48 » |
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My scariest. It still scares me. Someone even bought it... 
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« Reply #63 on: June 22, 2006, 20:33:47 » |
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I always knew that bunnies were scary... Nobody ever believed me...
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« Reply #64 on: June 22, 2006, 20:54:27 » |
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I know...what with those antenna-like ears...O_o
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« Reply #65 on: June 22, 2006, 21:33:53 » |
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And those red eyes...
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« Reply #66 on: June 22, 2006, 21:57:30 » |
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That is cool Vilkate! I love the brick wall... my eye is drawn towards that instead of the scary little girl.. What medium did you use? I wish everyone would just say that, because I honestly can't tell online. Now, if I was looking at it in person, I could tell. 
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« Reply #67 on: June 22, 2006, 22:01:25 » |
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Umm, Nay, you mixed up a little - it's Astir's work! Oh, I wish I could paint like she can....
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« Reply #68 on: June 23, 2006, 03:16:34 » |
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Some fancy white colored pencil and I believe some chalk as well. On a black board.
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« Reply #69 on: July 02, 2006, 01:13:50 » |
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Oops.. didn't see this till now. Sorry bout the mix up.  Great drawing Astir.
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« Reply #70 on: July 02, 2006, 01:34:18 » |
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This is a painting i did in arcrylic for my Final piece in art 'college' for my first year. It's about 110cm by 50cm average. ( A small portion of the painting is cut from the image though, only the slight left side)
As you can see it's inspired by my passion for spiritual meanins in life - OBE and just other personal meanings and obviously sticking to the brief of my art project! Which was ''structures within structures'', I get my results in august.
I would appriciate it if you could leave a reply so i can see people's opinion on my work. Since you lot will probablly understand this piece more than anyone this means alot. ( I'm 17 by the way lol)
O and this painting was submitted out of my area to enter a competion to go to be exhibited in Newzeland (and a bunch of other prizes) just for some info.
Thanks, Darren!
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« Reply #71 on: July 02, 2006, 15:54:12 » |
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Thanks for doing that Darren! Astir commented: Hey Darren. Awesome painting! I've worked in acrylics but found they dried way too quickly for my taste. A medium that demands much patience. What a lovely piece! And Falsetigerlimbs commented: That is truly amazing. You are really talented. It's such a great concept.
I also made this topic a sticky, so it will stay up top and I don't have bumble through this moving of topic thing again. 
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« Reply #72 on: July 02, 2006, 16:02:13 » |
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A medium that demands much patience. You have to know exactly what you want to paint and where you want it to go, that's for sure. So, I would say a lot of thought goes into it before hand. With oils, that's the great thing, you can start out with half an idea, a whole idea, or no idea and you can change your mind over and over, while your painting, if you want. 
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« Reply #73 on: July 02, 2006, 18:40:19 » |
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I do this with acrylic, it's more versatile than you think! Also you can add other solutions to stop it drying as fast but i haven't used this.
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« Reply #74 on: July 03, 2006, 07:30:26 » |
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I've come to like watercolor over both acrylic and oil. Although I can do a lot more with oil...I hate the mess. It gets everywhere and sometimes it doesn't dry fast enough for me. Acrylic annoys me because I guess...I don't really know how to use it (I've only painted with it once).
People often mistake my watercolor paintings for acrylic though...
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