Thread for the Fine Arts of painting, sculpture, and other interesting mediums!

Thomas Kincade! Thomas Kincade! Thomas Kincade! The "Painter of Light!" I've been trying to remember his name for days, and finally I won the victory over premature senility and remembered! He is an example of an artist who does NOT hold common people in contempt, but wants his art to benefit the spirits of all who see it. Tiff, please DON'T say that you dislike him, because then my extremely high regard for you would make me feel torn in my loyalties.

And speaking of light in paintings, that calls up a happy memory of happier times with my first wife Mary. She used to watch one of the public-TV shows that let you follow a painting in progress, and she loved it the way one particular on-air painter would speak of "happy little sunshine."
 
Ohhh, Copperfox, Kincade's work looks absolutely gorgeous! :) I have seen it before, but could never recall its artist until you mentioned him. Another artist I recalled just now is John William Waterhouse. I particularly love his 'Ophelia'-works.

And the on-air painter... is that, by any chance, Bob Ross? I remember I used to love watching him paint because he made it so interesting through the things he said. :)
 
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Thomas Kincade! Thomas Kincade! Thomas Kincade! The "Painter of Light!" I've been trying to remember his name for days, and finally I won the victory over premature senility and remembered! He is an example of an artist who does NOT hold common people in contempt, but wants his art to benefit the spirits of all who see it. Tiff, please DON'T say that you dislike him, because then my extremely high regard for you would make me feel torn in my loyalties.

And speaking of light in paintings, that calls up a happy memory of happier times with my first wife Mary. She used to watch one of the public-TV shows that let you follow a painting in progress, and she loved it the way one particular on-air painter would speak of "happy little sunshine."
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It's the first time I've heard of him but I did look him up online and my eyes found his works to be quite pleasing :D.

Oh and Bob Ross was my therapist when I was teenager! I would watch his show everyday at 4pm after coming home from school. His voice was so soothing :cool:

R.I.P Bob Ross

There is this artist that always escapes me. I think he's 19th century and he drew this man standing on a cliff as the sea before him is moving violently from both of his sides. We only see the man from behind and he looks as if he's standing there as he contemplate what's before him. I haven't taken 19th Century art yet (will do this semester) and we didn't go over him in our survey class. I happened to stumble upon him while looking up pictures of other 19th century artists and saw his and saved it on my old laptop (yeah, the one that crashed *sigh*) So if anyone has an idea of who the artist is or the name of the painting I'm talking about feel free to let me know. I'll still be searching for it.

EDIT: Found it! :D

His name is Casper David Friedrich and the name of the painting is called "The wanderer above the sea of fog." Ok, so it wasn't a sea of water at all :p
 
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My Mary definitely watched Bob Ross, though I still couldn't say whether Mr. Ross was the one who used to say "happy little sunshine." Tiff, both pictures you linked were pleasing to see. Did you notice how Mr. Kincade's castle picture depicts a phenomenon which really does occur in nature, i.e. a sufficiently bright rainbow casting a reflection of itself?
 
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My Mary definitely watched Bob Ross, though I still couldn't say whether Mr. Ross was the one who used to say "happy little sunshine." Tiff, both pictures you linked were pleasing to see. Did you notice how Mr. Kincade's castle picture depicts a phenomenon which really does occur in nature, i.e. a sufficiently bright rainbow casting a reflection of itself?
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I noticed it as a double rainbow but I didn't know it was a rainbow casting its own reflection. I mean, is that what I've been calling double rainbows all my life? :eek:
 
Yes, the only double rainbows I've ever seen were cases of reflection; and here's how I know:

On a normal rainbow, the uppermost and outer stripe, the convex edge, will be red; the bottom or concave stripe will be purple. A _reflection_ rainbow, like any mirror image, will reverse the picture, putting the purple on top and the red on the bottom.
 
Solya, I love Waterhouse! At my house in Phoenix, where me mum lives now, I have a huge Waterhouse mermaid print, and she may be the most beautiful art I own -- although she is just a print, of course. She's gorgeous.

And Tiff, I love the watcher above the fog ... very soulful, yes?
 
Venturing much farther back into the history of TV promoting the learning of art: does anyone else here remember a very old show called "Learn To Draw," hosted by a cartoonist named Jon Gnagy (first G in last name silent)?
 
To bump this thread, I will go still farther back, to when I first was teaching myself to draw. No, those cave drawings in France were NOT my work--they were the work of my students!

I naturally began with stickmen. But I had a small child's confusion about orientation in space. My stickmen had round heads with what would later be called "smiley faces"....but I always drew these faces as facing directly out toward the viewer, even if the stickman was supposed to be doing something, e.g. climbing a ladder, which ought to have turned his face AWAY from the viewer.
 
You mean to say the paintings found in Lauscaux weren't done you? :eek:

This brings to mind that pebble historians seem to think is the earliest representation of the human form. It's a waterworn pebble from South Africa resembling a human face or skull dating back to 3,000,000 BCE (yeah, millions, I know :rolleyes:)
 
Tiff, if you had stayed away from this ART thread much longer, I would have begun calling you the Artful Dodger. Welcome back! (And while no mods are looking, let me add that I _still_ think you're gorgeous!) As for that pebble-face, it reminds me of Mister Bill on Saturday Night Live, back before Saturday Night Live became too obscene to watch.
 
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Tiff, if you had stayed away from this ART thread much longer, I would have begun calling you the Artful Dodger. Welcome back! (And while no mods are looking, let me add that I _still_ think you're gorgeous!) As for that pebble-face, it reminds me of Mister Bill on Saturday Night Live, back before Saturday Night Live became too obscene to watch.
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Hey, mods are always watching! (We think Tiff is gorgeous, too.)
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Whoa, that pebble looks like some juj-ju I have around my house -- actually it used to be a little plastic bear but for run over and now it looks about like that pebble. That's cool, though, somebody was making art so long ago. He should have made a crocodile though instead of a little face.
 
They often tried sculpting or painting crocodiles; but the model would always either swim away, or attempt to devour the artist.
 
In other news, my handsome, intelligent, manly, adventurous Christian wood-sculptor buddy Salem (sorry, girls, he's already engaged) will be out here in my home state in a few weeks, to take part in a big outdoor sculpture exhibition at Estes Park. Years ago, my Mary and I visited there; it's a spectacular place, the setting for many public events. I'm still working on Salem to get him actually to join this forum.
 
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In other news, my handsome, intelligent, manly, adventurous Christian wood-sculptor buddy Salem (sorry, girls, he's already engaged) will be out here in my home state in a few weeks, to take part in a big outdoor sculpture exhibition at Estes Park. Years ago, my Mary and I visited there; it's a spectacular place, the setting for many public events. I'm still working on Salem to get him actually to join this forum.
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Uncle Joe (can I call you that? :D), does Salem have his own studio or does he work from his home?

Speaking of the cave paintings, too bad the public is not allowed to go in them. Something in the atmosphere had caused researchers to become sick* and, unfortunately, the oxygen inside the caves were found to be toxic for the public.

Some of the paintings found in these caves include:

Unknown Animal painting found in Namibia. Done in charcoal, it dates around 23,000 BCE.

Human with feline head, ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE. This one was done in mammoth ivory.

Two Bison reliefs, done in clay, dates to around 15,000-10,000 BCE.

Spotted horses with hand imprints! This one dates to around 22,000 BCE. Seriously, the hand imprints are the best part. To think an actual human being left their imprint on a wall some 26,000 years ago!

I love how mankind has always tried to express themselves in different mediums since the beginning.

*YES! I GOT IT!...I think...
 
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The bison were particularly impressive, Tiff. And of course you can Unclify me; I've already got Gentle Voice as a forum-niece and Bruiser as a spiritual granddaughter, so expand my virtual family. I do seem to get high-quality forum-relatives. Concerning Salem, I don't think he owns a studio.
 
Copperfox recommended I post this drawing of Legolas I did like 5 years ago here...so here it is!!! Hope you guys like it! :D

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You know I liked it, or I wouldn't have urged you to bring it to Professor Tiff's classroom. One of my own hardest challenges in drawing faces is showing them tilted upward as you show Legolas here, because then there's the problem of giving perspective where the underside of the chin goes back to the throat. You have done it JUST right!
 
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You know I liked it, or I wouldn't have urged you to bring it to Professor Tiff's classroom. One of my own hardest challenges in drawing faces is showing them tilted upward as you show Legolas here, because then there's the problem of giving perspective where the underside of the chin goes back to the throat. You have done it JUST right!
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wow, thank you! :D
 
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