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| Artist: Gisela WC! name~Gisela
Title: 'Open 24 Hours' Size: 24'' X 30''. Medium: acrylics on canvas Year: As for how I feel about WetCanvas...I could take pages and pages...LOL! I've been at WC since almost the beginning and I've had a wonderful time growing along with the site. Lots of terrific people, lots of fun and the vast amount of knowledge that is freely shared is an awesome thing! Gis |
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| Artist: Anne-Claire Tavares WC! name~ Studio224
Title: Sneakers Size: 5.5" x 6.2" Medium: Watercolor Year: I don't remember how I found WetCanvas... When I think back it seems like WC! was always there... I do remember though that when I found it, it gave me the courage to start painting and drawing again. I had been drawing on my computer for some time, I used a software that simulated chinese painting (sumi-e). It was fun but... something was missing: the feel of the paper, the smell of ink, so I decided to go for it. And since, where I live (in Portugal), I couldn't find chinese ink and the proper brushes, I looked for something else with brushes and liquid paint, and I found watercolor! I was hooked... I bought a few brushes, hunted for paper, agonized over which colors to buy! Then I painted my first watercolor, from a photo I had taken some time before. It was the "View from a Dam" that I posted at WC! in February 2001. This first Watercolor is now framed, I am going to keep it as a landmark. After that, I painted a lot of watercolors, I don't know how many... and my love for watercolor is growing each day. If it wasn't for WC! I don't think I could have done so much because I am quite isolated here, "artistic wise" and I even had my one show this spring! I haven't forgotten my first love: chinese painting. I finally found everything (but paper!) to try to paint sumi-e, and I did some portraits and a lot of flowers. Meanwhile I have touched other techniques, always with the WC! backup and support: graphite drawing, gouache and pen and ink... I am thinking now pastel... acrylic.. and why not oil? Now that I feel a bit more confident about myself, I am beginning to think to take up art a bit more professionally. I have taken steps for that; I have just started a life drawing class for one year. I have been drawing everywhere I can (and when I find the time), for instance at hockey games... Why? Because my kids play hockey and I spend a long time waiting for them and watching the games so... why not use that opportunity to draw as well? Let me tell you a lovely story: a few days ago, I was drawing at one game, and I found myself suddenly surrounded by my son's team... And they were all going WOW!!! "Your mom draws so well" they were saying to my son. I had an idea... and asked if some of them wanted to try? A few said yes, and for 10 minutes, we were 5 or 6 all drawing the game (I ripped pages of my sketch book, lent them pencils...). It was fun! They were all kids of 8/9 years old... Suddenly I felt my art was touching other people, and maybe some of them will remember that moment with a smile, who knows? Another aspect of WC! very important for me and for others, is the "Community". Although we are all over the world, we are together doing things that we like, supporting each other, and sometimes even supporting each other in personal things or events. A grief, a problem, a joy, a child being born, all these can be shared at WC! I have had my share of that and I hope I have given some comfort also... I have taken part in some of the "Projects" and remember with a special fondness, the first "Postcard" exchange, a landmark in WC! history. I check WC! every day, it has become a part of my life. Thanks Scott for all the work that you have done! A final word, I had a hard time choosing an image to post here. Should I choose a watercolor? A chinese painting? Ink? Drawing? I choose this "Sneakers" because it sums up quite well the work that I have been doing for these past months in watercolor.....Anne-Claire (Studio224) |
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| Artist: Jo Evans WC! name~JustjoGA
Title: "The Old Gas Station." Size: 16 x 20 Medium: Watercolor on Strathmore Acquarius paper Year: 1985 My bio: I was brought into the WC! fold about six months ago. I was immediately enthralled with the variety and the extent of talent I found there. It truly is my "online home." I never realized I wanted to be an artist until I was 40 years old. Growing up in a small town, I never had exposure to art or art training or education ... other than crayons and coloring books as a child. Being very bored at work one day, I was doodling on scratch paper, drawing several small figures and scenes. A co-worker saw them, told me I should take art lessons, introduced me to the instructor, my first class was the next Saturday .... and I took Saturday classes from him for four years. Eventually, he told me I should take lessons from another instructor because I'd learned all he could teach me; I took one class from another man, didn't like his technique... and started painting on my own. If I have a "style" I don't recognize it, except that I prefer realism, both in my own and other people's art... The art came to me at a time when it became my therapy for severe clinical depression, and my love for it has only grown through the years.... Although my principal medium is watercolor, I also do some work in pen and ink, colored pencil and pastel. The painting I have chosen is "The Old Gas Station." It is my favorite of all my work because I am deeply interested in old houses, old buildings, and artifacts from the last 100 years... symbols of an era that is gone, and its reminders are also fast disappearing.. Those of us who preserve the past in our paintings will at least have these to show our grandchildren and future generations what life was like in the 1900's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wishing you sunshine and rainbows, Jo |
 | Artist: Einion Rees WC! name~Els
Title: Untitled Size: 64mm x 210mm Medium: Acrylic and casein on hardboard Year: 2002 One of the latest in a series of astronomical scenes I have painted for the last 15 years or so. I recently began doing small additions to the series as a handy way of comparing new paint purchases in a like-for-like manner. Besides, they're fun! This was my first use of my new Shiva casein colours,courtesy of Dick Blick. They work well with acrylics,although their completely flat finish makes value judgements a little tricky with adjacent acrylic passages. I'm looking forward to using them more extensively as they are very versatile. This detail pic is approximately lifesize on a monitor set at 1024 x 768. |
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| Artist: Ceu Wilkinson WC! name~ Ceu
Title: "As they dove in" Size: 8.5x11 Medium: Digital Year: 2001 "Ever since I joined Wetcanvas I have learned and enjoyed my work thru different eyes, views, aspects that I would never would have gotten from any place else Thank you so much, for all the input, comments, critiques and suggestions on my work." I did this one first with pastels, then changed it to digital to get more feeling. Thank you Ceu |
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