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About Me Deviant Member trip-upFemale/New Zealand Recent Activity
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havnt uploaded any work for a while, been painting lots though! am doing a series of oil paintings for my year long honours project, i am excited and feaked out at the same time! painting takes so long, i've been working on 5 for 6 weeks already and not one is finished.

and paint is so expensive...
  • Mood: Not Impressed
  • Listening to: Blacklisted
  • Reading: the monkey wrench gang
  • Watching: miami ink
  • Playing: sims 2
  • Eating: nothing
  • Drinking: chai tea

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  • Current Residence: Hamilton new zealand
  • Interests: vegan, edge, tattoos, hardcore punk, music in general
  • Favourite movie: trainspotting, taxi driver, snatch
  • Favourite band or musician: strangers, Justin Townes Earle, Modern Life is War
  • Favourite genre of music: punk, hardcore, folk
  • Favourite artist: Sean Cheetham, Shawn Barber, Mucha
  • Favourite poet or writer: george orwell, albert camus and a lot of others...
  • Favourite photographer: Larry Burrows, glen e friedman, bill henson, larry clarke
  • Favourite style of art: low brow, graffittii, stencils, tattoo, photo realisim, portraiture
  • Operating System: windows xp but i'd prefer a mac...
  • MP3 player of choice: I Pod nano at the momment
  • Favourite cartoon character: wallace and Grommit
  • Tools of the Trade: pen, pencil, sometimes ink or paint and something flat enough to draw on

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:iconnfc-art:
Hay Stacey Its Nina I just got anew account.
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:iconsarahwildflower:
Hey, been looking through your art work and you have a really strong style that I like. If you ever have any free time on your hands in the next few weeks, I would love for you to join me in a project I’m currently working on with the theme of the exquisite corpse [link] . a link to explain what that is haha. But I would love to get a few random artists to work on a figure drawing (head, body and legs), much like the ones you have, in any media you choose and of anything you wish as long as it has those features :) I will then cut these images up (digital copies) to create an Exquisite corpse like image.

Let me know if your interested and ill give you more details if you wish :)

Sarah x
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~frankierosex Feb 15, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
GREAT art ♥

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:iconunknowncontrast:
hey :)
love your style and i was wondering if you could tell me how you go about your style ?
i have just recently started painting more and would love to be able to do some work at the standard you are ?

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if only i could paint what was in my head, then i would be over the moon
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:icontrip-up:
Heya, the most important thing ive found is to make sure you have good paint and brushes, they dont have to be top of the range but your going to struggle heaps if your materials dont do what they are supposed to.

Its important to find a scale that works well for you, i found that if i worked too big it was hard to make stuff look right and if i worked too small i couldnt put in the details i wanted to.

aside from that its just a matter of experimenting and working in thin layers. start off rough and refine with each layer, dont try and make it perfect from the first layer

I start off with the midtones of say the skin, then add the layers of browns/ reds/ blues to make the shadows building them up gradually to the right darkness then i add the highlights. its the highlights that makes the image stand out.

also its really important to have a good reference photo, make sure it has a good range of tones, its hard to paint something if the image is too light or dark.

I hope that helps some!
and cheers for the compliment =)
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:iconunknowncontrast:
:d thanks, i will try apply your tips :D

cheers :D

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if only i could paint what was in my head, then i would be over the moon
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Mood: Wow! ~Nannerland Nov 30, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Wicked gallery.. Love it

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:icondancingflame24:
intense gallery. bruno told me about you, wow! i love your ballpoint pen sketches, friggin' epic.

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~StPeteArtisan Aug 20, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you so much have a great up coming weekend! J.Michael

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