Yawn!

Artwork without individual character. If I feel I have seen it before, I will yawn.

Turkey.

What getz you out of bed?

When someone yawns, I yawn.

When someone waxes on and on about their art process.

When people waste their time trying to decide what is art and who is an artist.

Good one Marlene! :-)

When people feed the trolls. Especially when they know what the game is.

No reference to you Drew! There were a couple of troll threads yesterday that folks kept on responding to.

Troll chow?

Trolls don't bother me since some interesting conversations occur. Throw pillows make me yawn.

Throw pillows are an annoyance, as far as I'm concerned personally. I would throw them out the window. Buy a comfortable chair or couch in the first place, and you won't need the extra fiddle factor. Need a splash of color? There are plenty of other ways to do that, including buying a nice print.

But throw pillows don't make me yawn. But maybe you could smother me with one, and they would make me stop breathing? (And ranting? Too much caffeine today?)

When 'artists' on here try to justify selling artwork that is in the public domain.

Big, big YAWN!!!!

Prayer chain requests, people asking for only 'constructive' critiques, 'my best friend' pictures which are usually a horse, dog or a cat snapshot.

I've turned into a grumpy old man as I have got older... clearly.

Mick.. my two best friends are puppies. WAY cooler than most humans Wanna see my snaps?

LOL

Isabella, I don't disagree that animals can be WAY cooler than most humans... and nicer, and not opinionated, like some of us BUT, no thanks you can keep your snaps LOL.

No...we do not need to see anymore snap shot "art" of puppies, horses, or kitties--we've seen them millions of times and their cuteness never says anything more about being "cute." Save them for your personal scrap book. To this list of ho-hum subjects that have reached nauseating exhaustion I add images of Elvis, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, and Nelson Mandela, most of which are little more than clever re-renderings of magazine cut-outs or posters. Now that we have read my say, let's yawn, since I am one of those people who "waste their time trying to decide what is art and who is an artist."

SAT vocabulary word droppers.

Highly critical people I think would be mine. Same ole same ole same ole zzZzZzzzzz.

People that go on and on about art / photography / creativity like they are experts and above everyone else. When you look at their work, you just feel like you want to laugh out loud.

... or people claiming they are a professional and are award winning. then stating they came 3rd (not 1st) in their local art competition.

Kenneth...glad you are still trying..how's that working out for you?

It neither works out nor fails....it's mere talk.

Pictures from out west, especially Antelope Canyon, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and anything with red rock. Rocky seashores, sunsets, horses doing nothing, cute puppies, rainbow colored sea turtles, old barns and red buses. Digital abstracts with no identifiable subject.

Who is a real artist and how can people sell prints of art when the artists are dead.

Dead artist may or may not be the best artist but they do make the best still lives!

Gradford and Ronald--Good stuff! Lol.

Flowers, there's far too many! Probably 1000 flower images, OR MORE, were uploaded by the time I typed this. Please stop posting flower images, that is all. ;)

OK, John.

Last one. I promise....

But, is it art? Who cares.

People who post unnecessarily long replies (usually a rant) that starts to sound like this after reading the first two sentences...

Lorem IPSUM dolor sit amet, per ea doming mentitum, ius at soluta delectus, no nihil fastidii mei. Ius te invenire facilisis, eam ei simul ocurreret, eu fabulas sententiae pro. Adolescens expetendis neglegentur vis ne. Nibh facilisi antiopam id eos!!!

Nec ei legere volutpat sadipscing. Ex munere graece est, et augue aliquando vim, aperiam copiosae lobortis sea ex. Lorem exerci placerat ea per. Clita audiam suavitate eu ius, eos enim torquatos voluptatibus id, vero epicurei maluisset ei usu. Vidit omittantur nam cu. Cu sint iusto volutpat sea.

Prompta voluptua et has, ex mea dicat persius, illud sapientem dissentiet his ex. Augue ocurreret sit cu, dicunt everti cu vis, et cum sanctus maiorum posidonium. Dicat iudicabit at sed. Cu sint placerat usu. Te vis sumo elitr, id vim mutat eruditi liberavisse, ne mea unum errem quodsi.

Furthermore...
Vix at everti antiopam, no veniam eripuit ocurreret mei. Vis at malorum reformidans, purto ignota electram ius id. Te sea tollit doctus inermis. Cu numquam delicata honestatis est. Dolor invenire in mei, sea aperiam reprimique instructior at, his cu quod cetero delicata.

Maps, fan art, patent office art, car ads, reworked masters, soft focus, no focus and out of focus, santa hats, snow covered anything, birds flying away, snowy owls, cardinals in winter, sitting ducks, palm trees, lonely trees, man trees, mandalas, Buddhas, desiderata

Discussions about DPI, camera brands, how to photograph art, questions about trademarks, copyrights and why it is hopeless to try and sell prints and announcements that our art can be stolen off the page.
Pinterest, twittter, FB
Did I miss anyone?

LOL, Julia! I get the feeling people aren't typing those at all, but are just using voice recognition software.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

John makes a good point, to which I add: More Flowers? This is the question I raise again with cynicism when I see the endless calls for “artists” to submit work of the floral genre for a contest, as if something new will come of it. And I cringe when I think that somewhere, somehow a winner will be declared. My senses can stand the pain no longer.

Guess my flowers are ho humm. .....
Oh well, me think my birdies and butter-flies must be quite boring too....

Nothing wrong with images of flowers, its nature, its free to look at in your backyard and there are some fantastic drawings, paintings, photos on here.

I would rather have flowers on here, than copies of old masters that are free to use in the public domain.

Heinz Edelmann styled works

Three or four beers...



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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

What makes me yawn? People that use an abundance of words to say very little.

I find pandiculation very beneficial, especially first thing in the morning :-)


[That must have caused a few yawns :-) ]

Richard Reeve
reevephotos.com

Apathy makes me yawn, Often brought on by the self-proclaimed morality spokesperson.

Readings redundant art forum threads make for a good bedtime nightcap. No alcohol necessary.

"That man can fit the most words into the smallest thought"- Lincoln

Too many words seem to make most visual artist yawn, as many artists deny that the use of words is itself an artform.

Arma virum que canos Troya qui primus ab oris. Jjibber jabber, jabber, lah, lah, lah lah lah, the whole universe was in a hot dense state. O' come all ye faithful. I know, it makes no sense after the first sentence, but that's okay, because that is as far as you probably read anyway.

Us visual artists don't do words, 'cuz we are word biggots .... nurtured in part by postmodern deconstructionist ideology that falsely presumed to deconstruct an absolutized sense of words that never existed to begin with, but, hey, it was a good excuse to create an art movement. Up up up!, too many words now, here he goes, ... time to gear up that yawning reflex at this point.

What makes me yawn is "Post favorite pic of the person above" and such in a DISCUSSION forum.

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/floral-throw-pillows.html

Dear Kenneth,
above you have a double whammy YAWN of the FAA variety..................it is a Pillows Group featuring, yes !!!!!!!!!!.......FLORALS.........!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can your yawn be more enjoyable? LOL..............

With kindest regards, and apologies, Vivian.

People that pump themselves up by pretending to be experts.

Dave Gordon
http://dgportfolio.net

Amazing we all stay wake long enough to type.

@Dave Gordon, yes, I was thinking along those lines about 'experts', who at every possible opportunity, pronounce their double/triple degrees as qualification to speak as experts.............and who always,always rush to inform about their 'qualifications'....as if LIFE isn't qualification enough, when one is gifted with fabulous talent,imagination,inability to ignore the calling..........and then,high degree of 'finish' in their work..................just ask me......lol.......

but.........here is someone who never turns up in forum, but whose work is world-class, imo, with sales to prove it,...WOW ...

@Vivian, amazing talent - thanks for posting :)

Sleeping pills.

"Amazing we all stay wake long enough to type."
LMAO!........

Staying up past 10pm. Yep, I'm an old geezer. Or to be PC-a Senior Citizen.

That begs the question; If you're living in this country and you're not a citizen of it, are you still a Senior Citizen?

So,.. if you are an expert at nothing, does this mean that nothing you say is expert advice?

After your head stops spinning on that one, have a good yawn.

The plethora of sour grape comments about other artists on this site. ;)

John I like posting flowers they sell



My wife's choice in TV programs put me to sleep, she like those reality shows.

The flower bashing getz a big giant YAWN!

.so who's graping? Lol....he who grapes most, grapes last? HOHOHOHO. YAWN

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Sour grapes make great wine, no?

... or should I say "whine"? (^__^)

HOHOHOHO !

Or, Last of the Summer Whinge?......HOHOHOHO

When the blood in my brain is too hot and needs to be cooled down, I yawn in order to introduce cooler blood from my lungs and extremities to my brain, thus acting like a radiator and thereby cooling my brain surfaces.

Well, at least that's what WebMD (www.webmd.com/ ) says. I imagine the below painting is what my brain looks like when it's too hot.:)))

Bill, If thatz your brain, looks cool to me :-)

Drew

4 Minutes Ago

Bill, If thatz your brain, looks cool to me :-)


Thankz Drew.

The biggest "YAWN" must be induced by (forgive the gender bias term for the lack of a more descriptive word/words) the rantz of the forum's prima donnas. Every group has them and their self-proclaimed moral compass not only can bring on a giant YAWN, it can often be followed with slight nausea.

Fun thread, but my yawn?

Most photographers are not any good. Yet there is no end to the photos being added.
I bet if we took the fine art and the photos, allowing for what 10% of photographers to be
reclassified as fine artists, FAA would in the fine art category only have 20% of its image inventory left.

We could consider throwing out 80% of the "art" and saving ourselves from threads like this.

If only people would stick to what they know, what they can be creative with, and what
matters.

Yawning!!

Dave

As soon as we start insulting other members that's when we close threads.