Pandemonium's paintings
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I dig textures! The first one of the second post is the one I like best, I like the how the textures work in the off-white area.. Do you use acrylic mixed with medium or acrylic only?
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Thank you! I only used acrylic. I don't even know what medium is. My knowledge on art supplies/materials is slim to none lol. I just like being creative
Cat on Mars
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Medium is the common name for raw acrylic. It works as foundation, coating and an be mixed with acrylic paint for impasto. You can find it glossy and matte, if you like to work with textures you should give it a try! I have to try it too, I bought a big canister years ago 
I guess I enjoy impasto with oils more... the obvious downside is that oil paint is messier.
It works as foundation, coating and an be mixed with acrylic paint for impasto. You can find it glossy and matte, if you like to work with textures you should give it a try! I have to try it too, I bought a big canister years ago I guess I enjoy impasto with oils more... the obvious downside is that oil paint is messier.
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Thanks! I like Jackson Pollock's style of painting, but I wanted to make mine easier to tell what the hell the painting is lol.
I wouldn't do those kind of paintings for myself, but I wouldn't say no if it was for someone
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Impasto is just a fancy Italian name for a scoop of paint, it lterally means dough. 
If you're worried about wasting paint, oils are actually less wasteful than acrylics. You can mix them with turpentine and lineseed oil and boy, a spoonfull goes a long way! Besides, even on a palette a spoonful of paint lasts wet for days (more if you save it in a plastic container). But as you might have realized by now, it's messy and smelly and not for the faint of heart.
You know, your stuff remind me more of Paul Signac's paintings. It has a certain Pointillist vibe. Now you've said Pollock, did you know that his painting career was launched by the critic Clement Greenberg and backed by the US's Goverment to fight communism?
I painted with acrylic a lot, but I don't like how thick acrylic looks on canvas or wood (I like how oil paint shines under natural sunlight, it's beautiful). In fact, now you mention it, all the paintings under the dogs were painted using acrylic! Uni professors were baffled lol, they thought they were oil paintings and even had to ask because my acrylic paintings mimick oil real well, apparently.
If you're worried about wasting paint, oils are actually less wasteful than acrylics. You can mix them with turpentine and lineseed oil and boy, a spoonfull goes a long way! Besides, even on a palette a spoonful of paint lasts wet for days (more if you save it in a plastic container). But as you might have realized by now, it's messy and smelly and not for the faint of heart.
You know, your stuff remind me more of Paul Signac's paintings. It has a certain Pointillist vibe. Now you've said Pollock, did you know that his painting career was launched by the critic Clement Greenberg and backed by the US's Goverment to fight communism?
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Yeah, acrylic does look really thick. Oil definitely looks better.
That's really cool you were able to get your acrylic paintings to look like oil! Did you use a specific mixture to get em to look that way?
I might have to try doing a couple oil paintings with your suggestion. It seems like Gauche is the same way (a little has the potential to go a long way). I would definitely need a garage though. It's why I haven't gone all in on my bookbinding and stained glass projects yet lol.
I've never heard of Paul Signac! I didn't know that about Pollock either haha. I just saw the style a few years ago, and wanted to try my own interpretation of it I'm gonna have to look into that though
That's really cool you were able to get your acrylic paintings to look like oil! Did you use a specific mixture to get em to look that way?
I might have to try doing a couple oil paintings with your suggestion. It seems like Gauche is the same way (a little has the potential to go a long way). I would definitely need a garage though. It's why I haven't gone all in on my bookbinding and stained glass projects yet lol.
I've never heard of Paul Signac! I didn't know that about Pollock either haha. I just saw the style a few years ago, and wanted to try my own interpretation of it
I'm gonna have to look into that though
Cat on Mars
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I use distilled water. My boyfriend used it for miniature painting and recommended it to me because water tap is bad for acrylic paint due to all the minerals, and distilled water breaks water's superficial tension.
What does this mean?
Pollock's history is one of the wackiest I've learnt about painters, it's up right here with "Raphael died of too many sex" in my personal list.
There are whole books dedicated to the insane fact that the CIA backed American abstract painters. You see, Americans really liked kitsch (think Rockwell) and the US Goverment was concerned that American citizens could be lured into communism by URSS' compulsory Socialist Realism (murals and public art displays were only made in realistic styles, very much like American kitsch, and anything like Constructivism was outright banned).
So Greenberg, being an asshole, crafted the whole "American abstraction" scene which laid ground to post-modernist nonsense and Pop-art later. Being an asshole (this can't be stressed enough times) he roped a young painter named Jackson Pollock, who liked to paint Americana style things, into dripping paint from the ceiling to a roll of paper placed on the floor.
Pollock hated it, and his assholeish behaviour was a testament to that feeling (but that's another story for other day).
Their inevitable fall out was legendary. Pollock, a depressed individual and consumated alcoholic by then, turned to what he wanted to do (his latest paintings are quite similar to Neo-figurativism and I really like them, that's the real Pollock without any Greenberg influence). Sadly, when he was starting to get some recognition out of Greenberg's sphere of influence, he died in a car crash. He was drunk.
Now, remember I said it was a wacky story, I didn't say it had a happy ending. Art world is wacky.
What does this mean?
It means you have a very light coating that you can use like a more liquid Gouache or a more thicker watercolor; it's something in between. If applied when wet, it can be manipulated even with your fingers (I love painting with my fingers, there's something soothing about it 
) and you can smudge it with paper or cloth. Note: you need to apply paint and smudge really fast and this technique is almost impossible to use in the summer heat. Also, you need to use gesso as primer before.
) and you can smudge it with paper or cloth. Note: you need to apply paint and smudge really fast and this technique is almost impossible to use in the summer heat. Also, you need to use gesso as primer before.Oh, there's too many French dudes in art, I only know about it beause I had to learn about them
Pollock's history is one of the wackiest I've learnt about painters, it's up right here with "Raphael died of too many sex" in my personal list.
There are whole books dedicated to the insane fact that the CIA backed American abstract painters. You see, Americans really liked kitsch (think Rockwell) and the US Goverment was concerned that American citizens could be lured into communism by URSS' compulsory Socialist Realism (murals and public art displays were only made in realistic styles, very much like American kitsch, and anything like Constructivism was outright banned).
So Greenberg, being an asshole, crafted the whole "American abstraction" scene which laid ground to post-modernist nonsense and Pop-art later. Being an asshole (this can't be stressed enough times) he roped a young painter named Jackson Pollock, who liked to paint Americana style things, into dripping paint from the ceiling to a roll of paper placed on the floor.
Pollock hated it, and his assholeish behaviour was a testament to that feeling (but that's another story for other day).
Their inevitable fall out was legendary. Pollock, a depressed individual and consumated alcoholic by then, turned to what he wanted to do (his latest paintings are quite similar to Neo-figurativism and I really like them, that's the real Pollock without any Greenberg influence). Sadly, when he was starting to get some recognition out of Greenberg's sphere of influence, he died in a car crash. He was drunk.
Now, remember I said it was a wacky story, I didn't say it had a happy ending. Art world is wacky.
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LNK
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I use distilled water. My boyfriend used it for miniature painting and recommended it to me because water tap is bad for acrylic paint due to all the minerals, and distilled water breaks water's superficial tension.
What does this mean?
It means you have a very light coating that you can use like a more liquid Gouache or a more thicker watercolor; it's something in between. If applied when wet, it can be manipulated even with your fingers (I love painting with my fingers, there's something soothing about it
Oh, there's too many French dudes in art, I only know about it beause I had to learn about them
Pollock's history is one of the wackiest I've learnt about painters, it's up right here with "Raphael died of too many sex" in my personal list.
There are whole books dedicated to the insane fact that the CIA backed American abstract painters. You see, Americans really liked kitsch (think Rockwell) and the US Goverment was concerned that American citizens could be lured into communism by URSS' compulsory Socialist Realism (murals and public art displays were only made in realistic styles, very much like American kitsch, and anything like Constructivism was outright banned).
So Greenberg, being an asshole, crafted the whole "American abstraction" scene which laid ground to post-modernist nonsense and Pop-art later. Being an asshole (this can't be stressed enough times) he roped a young painter named Jackson Pollock, who liked to paint Americana style things, into dripping paint from the ceiling to a roll of paper placed on the floor.
Pollock hated it, and his assholeish behaviour was a testament to that feeling (but that's another story for other day).
Their inevitable fall out was legendary. Pollock, a depressed individual and consumated alcoholic by then, turned to what he wanted to do (his latest paintings are quite similar to Neo-figurativism and I really like them, that's the real Pollock without any Greenberg influence). Sadly, when he was starting to get some recognition out of Greenberg's sphere of influence, he died in a car crash. He was drunk.
Now, remember I said it was a wacky story, I didn't say it had a happy ending. Art world is wacky.
I never would've thought tap water and distilled water would be different to mix with. It does make sense though. I'm sure using well water would be even worse lol.
Lol I hated art class in high school! I could probably only name 2 or 3 artists, and even then it'd only be the popular ones.
That is a pretty crazy story. Especially hearing about the CIA being involved. It makes me more interested in reading about it.
The common denominator between artists and musicians seems like it's alcohol/drugs lol.
Cat on Mars
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It's acrylic on canvas, right? How big is each canvas?
Next time try to cover the sides with paint too, the white unconvered areas disrupt lecture and composition.
Primary colors work well on black backgrounds, it looks pretty balanced. I can't talk about texture because the photo is a bit blurry.
Next time try to cover the sides with paint too, the white unconvered areas disrupt lecture and composition.
Primary colors work well on black backgrounds, it looks pretty balanced. I can't talk about texture because the photo is a bit blurry.
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It's acrylic on canvas, right? How big is each canvas?
Next time try to cover the sides with paint too, the white unconvered areas disrupt lecture and composition.
Primary colors work well on black backgrounds, it looks pretty balanced. I can't talk about texture because the photo is a bit blurry.
Yes, acrylic
also gold leaf for all the yellow flowers and swirl on Meteor.I see what you mean about the white. They are 18x24.
I need to work on my picture taking of the paintings. I even bought a nice camera too haha.
Cat on Mars
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I usually paint the canvas' sides, I think it helps to stablish and unify the background. You'd still could paint them if you want anyway, it's not a big deal.
Ah, so that's what it was! I noticed there was some metallic shine in some areas on the surface but I wasn't sure it was paint or other material. Nice! I haven't tried adding gold leaf to anything, I'm afraid I'll make a mess lol.Yes, acrylic
Taking good photos of paintings is harder than anyone would think, it's a skill by itself. I had a good camera when I took the photos posted on my art thread and still they didn't turn out as I wanted.
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If I end up selling them, I'll definitely add more paint on the edges. If not, I'll just frame them haha.
As long as you have a steady hand, its very easy haha. Wasn't a mess at all
Yours definitely turned out better than mine do haha
