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Interests => Hobbies => Topic started by: Wineslob on January 24, 2012, 11:02:26 AM
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I've been thinking about this for awhile. From "hanging around" musically inclined people I've noticed that nearly all have several artistic talents. A few examples from Big Brother: Lead guitarist Sam also plays piano quite well, he also paints and is fluent in 6 languages, if not more.
Peter, the bassist, also plays guitar and paints.
Dave the drummer plays keyboards, paints, and works in mixed media.
It all seems to revolve around music. I love music myself (listening) and have always wanted to play guitar, but found that I suck at it.
However, my talent is ceramics. I started in college with the standard beginner class doing pinch pots and coil pots. Hated it. Hated so much I pushed the instructor into letting me start throwing well before the rest of the class.
Once I started on the wheel...........................look out! I absolutely love working on the wheel and everything involved with it. From wedging the clay, to making glazes......love it.
A couple of my old pieces:
Decorative plates.
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k179/Apogeespeaker/IMG_0824.jpg)
A rice cooker (never used):
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k179/Apogeespeaker/IMG_0825.jpg)
I have another pot in the backyard I'll get posted.
If you have an artistic talent, post!
(donno if scrapbooking "counts" :tongue: )
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I've been a musician for 43 years, but I absolutely suck at drawing, sketching, or sculpting.
Holy shit! Ya think I've been spinnin' my wheels all these years?!?
(Don't answer that.)
:rotf:
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I don't know what I am good at. Internet?
I like to draw but quit pretty much when I took up drafting.
I guess my kids are my hobby. I loves them so much that I am always picking them up and giving kisses and hugs. :bawl: I miss them......
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The thread is about aRtistic abilities.
I think you're thinking it was spelled with a U.
:fuelfire:
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I can't do shit for music but I can build these from a lovely reed. I bet I could do custom cabinetry too if I tried. Is that art?
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/catsmtrods/rods/
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I can't do shit for music but I can build these from a lovely reed. I bet I could do custom cabinetry too if I tried. Is that art?
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/catsmtrods/rods/
I think it is. :cheersmate:
(4wt, BTW) O-)
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The thread is about aRtistic abilities.
I think you're thinking it was spelled with a U.
:fuelfire:
You calling me a tard? :panic:
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You calling me a tard? :panic:
Noo, no...
A savant...
An idiot savant, that is...
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Noo, no...
A savant...
An idiot savant, that is...
Inis sthmart assho
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(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k179/Apogeespeaker/IMG_0827.jpg)
Pot I did when I got better at proportion and glazing techniques.
It was a base of blue/white and then I used a blue/green (the colors change with glaze thickness) squirted on the pot with a rubber bulb while I held it sideways.
I'm hoping someday I'll get another kick wheel and start throwing again.
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I'm pretty decent with a camera, but that's about the extent of my artistic abilities.
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WS, awesome work! I would love to have that talent. Cats, wow. Just wow. If I bought one of those I would hang it on my wall and not let anyone touch it.
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I used to do a tremendous amount of drawing, but for the past twelve years or so it's been metalsmithing, mainly (On the artistic as opposed to utilitarian side) design, modeling, molding, pouring, and finishing lost wax castings. I keep the art and the politics in separate boxes, though, so I'd just as soon not post a link to it.
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I can't do shit for music but I can build these from a lovely reed. I bet I could do custom cabinetry too if I tried. Is that art?
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/catsmtrods/rods/
That is indeed art!
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My husband and son have never been musically inclined (well my husband can sing) and they are crazy artistic but both of my daughters, especially my youngest, are very musically inclined. My youngest is almost spooky the way she picks up a musical instrument. She could play songs on the piano long before she could read music or had taken a lesson. In fact, one of my moonbat friends was the first to notice it? She called me one day and said, "listen to this" as she held the phone out it was my daughter playing a song her daughter was learning. She said that my daughter only listened to the song a couple of times then started playing it. She is now playing the flute and has only been doing so since mid September and she is already amazing. My older daughter plays the cello and was excellent before we moved to CA and they didnt have an orchestra. Both of my girls are extremely artistic as I have shown you guys before.
Wineslob I love your work!
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Wineslob, What beautiful pottery!! Do you sell it??? I love drawing and taking pics, but that is about it..
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Thanks! No, I haven't sold anything in years. I'd like to start up again, but running a kiln................. :o
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Wineslob I love your work it is indeed beautiful. You should really keep at it. I just came home from a gallery showing and one of the top judged pieces was a bowl in the same style as your pieces, the artist had thrown horse hair on it during burning and it added a lot of depth and design as it burned away. (Damnit, why didn't I think of that?!)
I really want to get back into painting but never make "me" time. Oh well, I guess I will get back to it one day. It's funny that you mention music and artistically inclined fall hand in hand, I do agree some, but I can't get a single note to come out right. My daughter on the other hand blows me away on guitar, this is her first year and her teacher asks her to help teach the other students in class. But I do think artist feed off of music and the people that produce it, just as they feed off the art and artist around them for inspiration.
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Thanks! No, I haven't sold anything in years. I'd like to start up again, but running a kiln................. :o
I understand. But if you ever decide too, I'll be your first customer
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Thanks! No, I haven't sold anything in years. I'd like to start up again, but running a kiln................. :o
I had a run for a few years with Sculpty of all things. I started out making a little bear, on to turtles, what fun.
I graduated to the metal sculpture wire and branched out into the shelf girls that sit on the edge of the fire place mantels and book shelves, hang out on the side of a cheap picture frame.
I bought a spaghetti roller and now went into covering glass vases with the medium, baking and painting with the half sculpture of the ancient world. Are they called reliefs?????
What fun, relaxing and gave a hoot that it looked like an art project for a 3'rd grader. I tried to make Jewelry but found I enjoyed making bigger stuff, wall hangings and the little ceramics to hang off the sides of flower pots an baskets.
Simple, little to invest in, my oven cured the piece to rock hard, I could use the Dremel to sand or shape, remove unwanted pieces.
Been years since I got the bug to create something, retirement when I am home bound much different. In the past as I was away from home there were hours a day for me to roll ideas around in my head, today the piece would be sitting there in eye sight 24/7. I need a break from a project to see it at a new prospective.
Think I will start thinking about this again, keep me out of trouble.
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I had a run for a few years with Sculpty of all things. I started out making a little bear, on to turtles, what fun.
I graduated to the metal sculpture wire and branched out into the shelf girls that sit on the edge of the fire place mantels and book shelves, hang out on the side of a cheap picture frame.
I bought a spaghetti roller and now went into covering glass vases with the medium, baking and painting with the half sculpture of the ancient world. Are they called reliefs?????
What fun, relaxing and gave a hoot that it looked like an art project for a 3'rd grader. I tried to make Jewelry but found I enjoyed making bigger stuff, wall hangings and the little ceramics to hang off the sides of flower pots an baskets.
I would love to learn throw pottery. I would make flower pots....Besidres sewing, I would like to learn other things, so I will be busy if I retire...
Simple, little to invest in, my oven cured the piece to rock hard, I could use the Dremel to sand or shape, remove unwanted pieces.
Been years since I got the bug to create something, retirement when I am home bound much different. In the past as I was away from home there were hours a day for me to roll ideas around in my head, today the piece would be sitting there in eye sight 24/7. I need a break from a project to see it at a new prospective.
Think I will start thinking about this again, keep me out of trouble.
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started out making a little bear, on to turtles, what fun.
My first pinch/coil pot was a "snail" with a gaping maw full of teeth. I set it out (we put our green ware next to the kiln) to be bisque fired with a warning "I bite". :rofl:
TY for contributing everyone!
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I do think that these talents run together in some people. My youngest daughter has definite musical talent, joined the orchestra in school a year after her peers, but was one of the best players within a few months. She's now taking piano lessons, after her 2nd lesson, the instructor had me purchase an advanced-beginner book for her, and she's flying through that. When I took lessons, I spent a couple years playing either with one hand, or one note on either hand, my kid is in her 3rd month and playing songs with 3 or 4 notes at once.
She also draws, has a definite style all her own. And she has a "way" with animals. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of animal, they all just seem to trust and love her instantly.
I don't know if she'll learn different languages...her first try was Japanese, she can speak a lot of what she learned, but the alphabets were a little too much.
I also think these are hereditary traits, my mother had many of them, and there are a lot of athletic/musical/language/artistic talents in her family.
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I'm great at being an appreciative fan of talented people. Hey, somebody has to do it.
I really admire the artistic talents of others.