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[Kev]

Hello all apart from my Boat modeling my main interest is painting, I will have ago at painting anything but my main interest is the sea and boats.

A selection of my work can be viewed here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoJyyl7ZpBo Hope you enjoy..

[Martin (Admin)]

Please feel free to post some of your paintings here on Mayhem.
 With the funeral today some of us could do with a little cheering up.

[Kev]

[Kev]

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Fantastic. What a pleasure to watch the film in full screen.

The music was a perfect partner.     


Cheers

ken

[Norseman]

Very nice Kev, the ability to draw and paint escape me and so I marvel at it. What a pleasant post you made.

Dave

[vnkiwi]

Geeeeez, wish I could paint and draw like that.
Well done
cheers
vnkiwi

[Artistmike]

Geeeeez, wish I could paint and draw like that.

Unfortunately wishing seldom achieves skills like painting, it just takes a lot of hard work and even more practice. If you want it enough you can learn how by putting the time in, like most things in life. .... 

[vnkiwi]

Unfortunately, I have been a Design Draugthsman for many more years than I care to remember, and my sketching and drawing is now very structured, even when sketching freehand details.
Once I have retired, I will have the time to put in the practice, and yes my retirement will be more of a change in vocation, rather than a stop everything and stay at home.
So, we shall see in another year or two, to see how we go with watercolour and pen & ink sketching.
So yes your right re hard work, been doing it all my life, just mostly for others, nearly time for myself
cheers
vnkiwi
 

[Artistmike]

Unfortunately, I have been a Design Draugthsman for many more years than I care to remember, and my sketching and drawing is now very structured, even when sketching freehand details.

Funnily enough I started out as a cartographer so know just what you mean and I agree totally, draughtsman skills are a different ball-game to fine art, though many of the techniques transfer . 

The problem when trying to earn a living from fine art is that, as opposed to more structured careers, there isn't the same earning potential while you're learning.  Usually in careers like Draughtmanship there are schemes whereby you can earn as you learn, mine was in the army, but that really isn't so easy when doing fine art. Apprenticeships aren't there as they were in the past and the quality of some of our university courses really don't equip graduates to practice to a standard that will earn them money actually doing it.

'Art' as a hobby has different constraints to doing it as a profession, when it's your bread and butter you're still doing it mainly for others, like draughtmanship, or you don't eat and I rather like eating. The starving in a garret part of learning the trade isn't what it's cracked up to be. 

[vnkiwi]

    got that in one Artistmike.
vnkiwi

[Rottweiler]

some very nice pictures there,especially the Cornish ones,Smeatons Pier at St.Ives standing out.You have a great talent,please keep it up
Mick F

[Neil]

Geeeeez, wish I could paint and draw like that.
Well done
cheers
vnkiwi

I totally agree.......can't paint my models without making a hash of it...
wonderfull stuff.

[Kev]

 

The problem when trying to earn a living from fine art is that, as opposed to more structured careers, there isn't the same earning potential while you're learning.  Usually in careers like Draughtmanship there are schemes whereby you can earn as you learn, mine was in the army, but that really isn't so easy when doing fine art. Apprenticeships aren't there as they were in the past and the quality of some of our university courses really don't equip graduates to practice to a standard that will earn them money actually doing it.

'Art' as a hobby has different constraints to doing it as a profession, when it's your bread and butter you're still doing it mainly for others, like draughtmanship, or you don't eat and I rather like eating. The starving in a garret part of learning the trade isn't what it's cracked up to be. 

I have to agree with you about making a living from fine art ( if mine can be called that) , I have sold pictures at art shows and to family and friends and even managed to sell some prints on good old ebay, but if it wasn't for my day job as a teaching assistant in a special needs school i would never manage to live off what i get from the art.

Thanks everyone for your great comments

I only began painting in 1998 when someone brought me a set of water colours as a present, I had always drawn pictures but never tried painting before that, so I scetched a pic and began to paint it and to my amazement I found it came so easily, I have never attended any art school or college, I did go to an evening class on water colours but the tutor said I was wasting my money as I already had more skills than he could teach me.

I must just be lucky..

[Martin (Admin)]

 
 Ken... we now need a painting about model boats!   

[Netleyned]

Hi Kev
Darn fine pictures.
Curious of where the first one is supposed to
be.

Ned

[Kev]

Hi Kev
Darn fine pictures.
Curious of where the first one is supposed to
be.

Ned

Hi Ned, The first pic is Whitby, I took a photo while out on a pleasure cruise looking back towards the harbor entrance and the when at home in the warm drew the sketch of the landscape and added the boats..

kev

[Calypso]

Excellent work, kev.  Well done 

[Norseman]

I thought it might be Whitby bay? Always fancied a visit to Whitby.

I agree with Ken let's see a 'Portrait of the Artist at his Model' - touch of the Rembrant's if you please Kev. Also what do you think about Art produced on the iPad? David Hockney was on tv last week about a show http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162 I am not convinced but trying to remain open to the possibility.

Artist mike says "If you want it enough you can learn how by putting the time in, like most things in life. ....  " well I have put in 35 years with the wife and not mastered anything  <:

Dave
Edit just seen Kevs reply posted while I was typing

[Kev]

 Ken... we now need a painting about model boats!   

I'll see what I can knock up over the week end..

[Artistmike]

I have to agree with you about making a living from fine art ( if mine can be called that) , I have sold pictures at art shows and to family and friends and even managed to sell some prints on good old ebay, but if it wasn't for my day job as a teaching assistant in a special needs school i would never manage to live off what i get from the art.

That is precisely what I was saying... no professional artist makes a living from amateur art-shows, friends and family, or Ebay. The jump to earning a full-time living wage from it, week in, week out paying the mortgage and putting food on the table is a massive one, believe you me and I do know, it's what I chose to do for a living ..... I must have been raving mad ! 

[Kev]

Hi Dave, We use a lot of i pads at school and i have tried several art programs on them some are better than others but most can produce very good results, but I much prefer the enjoyment of starting with a blank canvas and using my ability to produce something that pleases me.

I am sure there will be a market for the computer produced art but it holds no interest to me.

[Norseman]

Caspar David Friedrich is underrated I think.
Mist 1807
The Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist 1818 (my favourite)
The Monk by the Sea 1810

Dave

[Kev]

This one?



Not an artist I have ever heard off before, but looks like he produced some very nice work..

[Artistmike]

Caspar David Friedrich is underrated I think.
Mist 1807
The Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist 1818 (my favourite)
The Monk by the Sea 1810
Dave

One of the great Romantics, Friedrich... I love his 'The Destroyed Hope' So many variations of "white"