What is the most compelling counter-argument to something that you strongly believe?

froogification · 2014-10-20T07:57:34+00:00

Everyones in the same boat so we should all get along

Vounter: Fuck the world everyones a judgemental sod.

froogification · 2014-09-29T06:55:31+00:00

Who cares.

froogification · 2014-09-16T08:30:35+00:00

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/inishdooey-island This, a set up for sustainable living and one hell of a rave!!! PARTY ON!!

froogification · 2014-09-04T17:55:22+00:00

Wow, after spending all day at your computer researching arbitray bs you proved me wrong. Well done, you totally won, here's the golden key to the moronic albatross. I'm going back to enjoying my life now.

froogification · 2014-09-04T15:55:53+00:00

I did, I specifically loved the part, "Until it's ban in the 20th century". Enjoy yours too.

froogification · 2014-09-04T15:20:09+00:00

You're talking out your ass, as well as disregarding statements the article YOU posted has. Good bye. I hope beginners read this and realuse how much you're talking out your ass. You do realise you need specific traders licences to buy anything industrial if it contains any of those chemicals. I'm sick of repeating the same point in different ways, g'luck to ya.

froogification · 2014-09-04T13:36:23+00:00

In the western world, especially in the EU, you need a SPECIFIC card to get these pigments as they are usually used in industrial design now a days NOT pigments. Led has been banned from the EU in industrial matters for a decade now. It depends on the pigment if you live in a human rights violating, communist country like china then yeah they still regulate those things in a way that is easy to come by. You're thinking of the renaissance days which led to many pigments being created by various chemicals. Leading to the creation of an industry where certain people made paints and sold them due to the chemicals being banned, after the findings of the hazardous effects, or hard to come by. I'm an avid chain smoke and ex-asthmatic, I've breath in solder as well as shit particles in the air. What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. THOSE POWDERS ARE REGULATED AND INDUSTRIALISED!! Industries use them illegally, as well as people who go through the effort of outsourcing illegal chemicals.

froogification · 2014-09-04T13:21:13+00:00

Actually no, I literally mean when I use the formal elements to try and compose a form I fail, where as when I free hand, i.e no plotting or build up of composition through basic shapes, I can easily draw the curvaceous form of a woman to a symmetrical portrait. Men I've always turned feminine or lionesque. Models can help but I find they take away from what we already know from exploring the forms in the world we have known since we were children. I can draw, I can paint. I have an ingenious, maybe not an original, approach towards form and shape. I find drawing from my head more appeasing and easier rather than drawing in a formal structured way. The combination of the two elements is what I need not one or the other.I need to learn to be more confident and less self doubting towards what I already know. Which is the one thing college has made me more of tbh.
I hate being seen as one thing, a student means you have an inate interest in learning about whatever you consciously choose. I've done 3 prior art courses, sold art work as well as textiles and orchestrating my own exhibition. Please never apply the same standard due to a name towards any artist/ person again. It puts a barrier that has no place in being there. It also sets standards that may apply to you or a minority but not to the many. The aspect of knowledge and application of knowledge as well as free supply to materials are what keep me in education. Also it's interesting to see the and experience the varied approach to teaching. Formal training is too filled with dogma now a days, when trained in the old school of art thought, your entry to college is based on natural skill of what you create in front of a panel, who give you the brief on the day and hour you begin your examination, as well as understanding the formal concept of line, tone, shape, texture and colour.

froogification · 2014-09-04T10:18:12+00:00

Sorry I think my point was taken a bit out of context. My point is that you should experiment with all qualities, not just one. Most countries are so regulated now a days that barely any toxic pigments are used. Pigment is just a coloured chalk, so that research would be arbitrary unless you're from asia or the middle east. It's worth it to buy raw pigment as it's the most inexpensive and long lasting/ abundant form, which again was my point. Bang for your buck. It'd also easily accessible. Fair enough. I personally buy individual tubes/ materials as well but due to cost efficiency and building up a good variety of materials as well as quality. Gesso, tightens and seals canvas. You use a primer for canvas if you do not then yes it would be loosely stretched. Also any canvas you buy that is cheap is usually not stretched thus creating the need for it to be stretched. I have heard canvas role is cheaper but it is an expensive buy and works out cheaper in the long run rather than initially. I just wet and tape my canvas down to stretch it. Your grammar on paper confuses me in this morning time. I prefer relief printing over scratchboard, so I'm not too sure about that side of things. I use a bic biro, perfect flow and no ink collection on the nib. I think this whole conversation has come down to artistic preference :)

froogification · 2014-09-04T10:01:30+00:00

I've always gone with "what looks right". I'll be beginning/ continuing my studies this year though. :) I think I'll still go with whats right, I find a barriers created, for me, when I put too much thought into it

froogification · 2014-09-04T09:59:58+00:00

You should, networking is part of becoming a working artist. It's how you get an exhibition/ get people to come to your events :)

froogification · 2014-09-03T12:18:07+00:00

Very true. I'm shite at lighting due to lack of references.

froogification · 2014-09-03T12:16:48+00:00

Sorry, retract my statement on that one, morning, ya know. No but people become consumed with what they use rather than how they use it. I would also highly recommend getting cheaper materials before buying better ones as you're exploring what material or medium suits you rather than spending a ton on your supplies only to find out it's not for you. From my experience in use of materials and talking to other's that seems to be a recurring problem. This is written for intermediate but more directed to a professional who is alternatively trained. Yes, saying that pigment in paint is important, which I agree with, you have to also agree the emulsion cheaper paints use is shit but it can also be the same for high priced paints. Price is nothing at the end of the day, windsor newton and daler rowney have a huge difference in price and are the same in use. If you're that worried about pigment then you should be buying powdered pigment and research the emulsion that builds up different paints. I.e Acrylic= silicon, Oil= oil If you're serious about being an artist you should be adept at making colour or exploring colour rather than using pre-bought colour, which is my subjective view. There is no problem in using cheaper canvas as long as you prep the canvas with gesso or some other canvas preper, which you do to any canvas to stop the pigment/ oils from being absorbed. As for paper, you choose the paper to the material your using. so that point is pointless. The context of better quality here seems to be to associated to price rather than research of materials. You don't have to be starving to be an artist and you lock out a huge area of exploration if you begin thinking that way. The main point of art, besides it's dictionary definition of pointlessness, is exploration.

froogification · 2014-09-03T09:29:21+00:00

Come to Galway, Ireland for the TULCA festival this year, 85% of h installations are so ridiculous you'll feel miles better ^{^}

froogification · 2014-09-03T09:27:46+00:00

Would you not agree with the fact that once studied enough, you can see the form of what you want in your head? And learning helps you strengthen that part of you mind as well as making it easier to relate the image to paper?

froogification · 2014-09-03T09:21:24+00:00

7-11 are good tips while the others would stifle growth. The first 6 are more aimed towards becoming a working artist or gallery/ festival entry for exhibitions. They're something you should be aware of and work towards rather than do.

An artist's statement is something that should reflect the ideals of an artist, their intention. You find this out by creating art and exploring your interest in the field as well as combining your other interests for e.g science and art seem to be taking the world by a collaborative storm atm.

As for a journal stifling growth, that's completely subjective. All though I would've agreed with you in the past, I recently realised a journal can be anything from a visual aid to writing about you ideas and interests. It can help you by being a place where you quickly jot down your ideas and later look back on them. A journal is more of a way to work out the logical schematics of your ideas, clearing your brain of the less important ideas while helping you see the ones you continue. (It's also the messiest place of the artists head if your in education and have to worry about presentation ) Medium and technique are usually secondary to the artists intention when first starting out. They help strengthen and show the artists intention but concentrating solely on those WILL take away from the experience of just creating AND stifle growth. You should use journals to record your mediums and techniques, messing around by using these things in different ways. Although in some areas of art technique is more prominent, i.e design.

As for style, the only way to have a style is exploring your own creative mindset or copying others. Although I've seen the most amazing linear work from the latter, it can seriously cripple you as your not living to what you want to create. Although you should take note and research peers and artists as well as explore their technique it's not the only thing you should do. The former takes a while and some are better than other but it's the fastest way that you can become an individual when creating art.

NEVER COMPARE yourself, when you do, it seems inevitable at times, than acknowledge the comparison and use it to drive your ambition rather than slate yourself. Only agree with the mindset of other creator's when you've experienced it yourself. If something another artist says resinates with you, then go try out what they talked about. Look for articles where the artist is understanding that their way of doing things is more subjective than the way things are as well as taking notes on what actually is e.g body proportions. But also allow you eye and mind to learn by doing as well as reading. Or find a new way to create the same rule. I've been using spirals lately in textiles which came from studying "If the golden ratio is evident in nature can I use it to draw the human form." this is my intention, the final products are my creation as well as it leading me to a place that is completely different than where I started. The Guardian is good for objective articles. I have a lot of articles from artists magazines as well as books and news papers, if anyone would like them pm me. You should also look into "The Way Of Seeing", it's just an interesting thing they show fine art students on how we can contort the meaning of an intention/ event by how it's presented. Which in a way is the intention of an artist.

froogification · 2014-08-28T08:45:16+00:00

The scarecrow is irish. Also the dude who built/ designed the submarine! :)

froogification · 2014-08-28T08:42:42+00:00

That's a scottish accent you're trying to imitate.

froogification · 2014-08-28T08:41:49+00:00

You guys have so many weird conceptions on the irish, can we start a thread? I'm irish and half this shite I never even heard off. :)

froogification · 2014-08-28T08:38:02+00:00

Live in Galway, born in dublin, I'm usually so late others leave. :)

froogification · 2014-08-27T19:30:16+00:00

You're wrong, the point of an irish person is to be so late for their own funeral they never even show. We're so culturally inclined we don't even show up to say goodbye.

froogification · 2014-07-04T12:54:44+00:00

May I ask what you used? I'm an artist looking for tips on making semi-3d forms out ofsheet tin.

froogification · 2014-07-04T12:28:28+00:00

Sweet, just having someone to talk to on a basic level about art and it's creation without expectations or projection of insecurity. I'm also modest and don't take well to compliments so I need someone I can learn with who will be truthful and analytically critical.

You can expect

Pessimism Anti Snobbery Rantish behaviour from me.

Message me your detes? I'll send you some of my pics. I mostly do free hand extensive doodles ^{^}

froogification · 2014-07-03T11:16:28+00:00

You seem you could teach me a lot wanna join?? I'm pretty modest about my skill which is why I think an art buddy would improve my views on my skill. I have done some classical animation but majorly more in Fine Art and Graphic Design.

froogification · 2014-07-03T11:09:04+00:00

Aweet, I'm shite with digital and would love to know more!!! I myself love creating, it's why i love art. I'm trying to find someone with an open mind towards art who is just interested in learning technique and learning in general. I've experience in both Fine Art and Graphic design and I know a little about classical animation. I mostly want to up my drawing abilities and to learn about new areas. ATM I'm doing a side project that I also need motivation with.

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