What type of Music you listen to while painting, ...

I try to match the mood I"m trying to emulate in the painting, and I listen to cd's with that mood from start to finish. It helps keep coherent feeling.

I have done a lot to Nine Inch Nails' "Fragile" cd's. Also, Amelie' sountrack, and the essential royal tennenbaums and rushmore sountracks.

This CD is my ' creative' music.
It is wonderful.

I have recently repainted the interior of my home. Rather than hanging the old prints I had before I would like to hang some oil paintings.

This is something I have been putting off. I certainly cannot afford to buy from an art gallery. I am hoping to find paintings that are appropriate for my modest living room but not expensive. I visualize locating them under the dust in some junk shop but so far I have not been very lucky.

I am now considering a local community college as a source. Perhaps oils painted by students. I actually place more value in the personal creativity than the quality of the painting providing the work is not too awful. Is this a good source do you believe or am I being to presumptuous?

the other day a friend gave me a painting of a French village that did not pass his wife's "cut" for redecorating their home. I was a bit reluctant to accept it at first but now that it has been hanging in the hallway it is growing on me! The more I see it the more I enjoy it. Quite unlike the prints I have had before that I soon got bored with and ignored until it was time to paint and I had to remove them.

Jack, look up Lightwizard and Ossobuco here on Able2KNow. They have lots of experience in this matter. I would suggest you look around in your town (with help of newspapers) to buy direct from local artists.

Great. Rayvatrap's back. Havn't seen you in the art threads since last October.
When I'm painting with inspiration/enthusiasm there's no need for music. I usually have some classical music sounding on my CD player or NPR radio station, but I will not hear it if I've got a rush going. I used to think of using music to establish "mood", but--I don't know why--I don't do that anymore. I think that we generally perform best when doing "one-thing-at-a-time." This is what I think, not what I always do.

Hey JLnobody, thank you for your PM, I try to reply but I'm restricted for lack of activity. I have being really busy trying to get some work done for the shows I'm taking part of this year, plus my computer exploded and I was without a pc for a while.

But I'm happy to be back Thanks again! :wink:

I use music - not that hear what's playing at the time but from time to time I come out of my own world and like to hear something other than silence, also, I tend to paint at the rhythm of the music even though I don't hear it - just for the rush .

Jack - like JL said, you might want to check around your area for local artists or collective shows - large collective shows - I don't know where you are located but if you are ever in NYC for the spring or summer, there are a few large collective shows from BWAC.org - check it out, you might see my work as well.

Thanks JL Nobody and Rayvatrap.

what kind of a price range are you looking for?

what area are you in?

community college student work is okay, college is usually better. You can usually buy people's stuff while they're in (undergraduate) college for under $500.

I listen to whatever I'm feeling that day. Some days are made for Sinatra. Other days go better with Prince.

Ever think about prison art? Paintings done by prisoners. They're usually not too expensive and sometimes, pretty good. Of course, the idea of buying a painting done by a murderer is not very appealing for most but I doubt you'll ever know who the artist is or what crime was committed.

And then, some people would get a kick out of that.

eoe - That's an idea, where can you take a look at their work, now you have awaken my curiosity!

I hear you, I like Sade, Cesaria Evora (I think that's how you spell it), Andrea Bocelli, Air Supply.... I can just keep going on!

Jack - I did a search and got this - hope it works for you
http://www.prisonart.org/