Who are the Artists here?

I used to do a lot of hand drawing, but I haven't done much of it lately...
The last time I started a project (a palm tree in pencil) I put it aside after a couple of times working on it and just never got to finish it.

That's too bad, because so far it looks pretty amazing... I really should scan some of my work and post here on a2k...

Maybe I will, when and if I ever get some free time, which I doubt I will.

I am still trying to do art for a living but it is slowly killing me the insecurity of it all. I tend to do printmaking, although I did do alot of illustration type work considering I sat a long time in front of a computer doing graphic design for money.

I don't know many sculptors myself, only a conceptual artist, originally a sculptor mind you (luis camnitzer) and my grandfather-in-law (Eugène Dodeigne). Sometimes I think that sculpture is a skill that not many master. Got any photos SCoates?

Eugène Dodeigne

Luis Camnitzer

There are quite a few here, SCoates, but I'll let them introduce themselves. It's a pity the Gallery is still not functional. You could see examples of A2Ker's work there.



(Hi, benconservato! Any plans to head home?)

It is a shame about the gallery...

(Hey msolga; I was just there in beautiful oz... not too thrilled about being back in the cold. It seems worse and it honestly isn't. It is getting warm in this part of the world so hopefully I can deal with the cold a bit longer).

Ah well, benconservato, suffering all this cold has got to be for a good reason ... like a beloved! But, thinking long-term ..... Home would be nice, yes? (Glad you enjoyed your visit, though! )

I consider myself one of the A2K artists (painter with acrylics and pastels, and drawer with charcoal). There is a gaggle of others; don't know why they do not sign up.

I did get a cold that's for sure! (coming back here: 2 weeks!)

I digress...

Those other artists are being quiet, too much work to do and not enough internet browsing time.

I'm a professional photographer.

Some consider that an art, some consider it a trade. I fall right in the middle by thinking of it as a craft.

So, if you're accepting craftsmen to your artist thread here I am.

I'm an oil painter. I mostly paint the human figure. Eventually, I'd really like to get into figural sculpture. This semester I'm rounding up my undergrad Studio Art degree and, unfortunately, am currently getting rejected from a bunch of grad schools (The count is six at this point.) I'm going to keep painting, and probably keep trying to get in to grad school.
My website, as always, is a work in progress . I changed designers b/c the old one didn't do anything for two years, but the new one is out of town so... I'll post and let y'all know when its up.

I did have a print up in the senior show and thats on the internet, so send me a PM if you want the link.

Well, I graduated with a degree in fashion illustration and specialized in a photorealistic style working mostly in soft pencils, charcoals and conte crayons. Some inks and watercolors. I've been a graphic designer for over twenty years, that's my trade (?), but as far as my art, the computer has pulled me away from the drawing table and I very rarely put pencil to paper nowadays.

I'd like to take a figure drawing class. Lately I've been kinda craving the feel of charcoal and newsprint again.

I am a painter and use oils and canvas primarily. I'm interested in a lot of kinds of art.

Well, I'm a potter, though I refer to myself as a clay artist. Many people call pottery and the like craft, and the controversy between art and craft has been discussed on another thread.

One wit settled the argument—in my opinion—by saying "If you piss on it, it's art; if you piss in it, it's craft." My work serves both functions, so I guess it's art and craft. Maybe I'm a crafty artist.

I work in bullshit. that's my medium. I'm considered quite accomplished.

And do you have a gallery for that?

You can piss on -and- in your art? Is this some kind of shrodengers pot?

<Hey, Portal, long time no see...>

You're posting to it.

Oh, whine, I knew that already. I thought it might be some
real estate space...

well, you could pick one, if you wanted to..

hi everyone, just joined, i'm making a bit of a living off my art, i just make flyers and posters for bands at the mo, a few tattoo designs and a coupla murals but not many, i'd love to do more. i'm trying to get some t-shirt designs done and start printing some massive posters, i work mostly with acrylics and oil pastel at the mo but i used to work a lot with inks and charcoal. i enjoy the so called 'lo-brow' artists, glenn barr, bill wray, coop, robert williams, gary basemann etc and also comic artists like jamie hewlett and vaughn bode. i'm making a graphic novel that i hope to publish myself too but that might be a pipe dream because it's silliness running riot at the moment. oh well, i do it for fun at the end of the day.