8 Years Ago

Post Your Art For September - No Photos, No Paintings, Sculptures, Or Any Of That ...

Actually, you can post anything.

Frankly, I find the limitations on these threads both insulting and aggravating. My art is neither photographs (although it may start with that) or oil/pastel/acrylic paints - nor is it purely digital. Mine is a mix of many different things. So I don't fit into your tiny little boxes. The "contests" have gotten ridiculous with restrictions ("photography but no digital changes") - huh? That is impossible with a digital camera if you shoot in RAW. And then the insult of "traditional art - no photography or digital!" OK, what is traditional anyway. Cubism? Impressionism? Dali? Escher?

Give me a break. How about if you restrictionists just allow anything that is art - and art is defined by the artist?

Please discuss (that way it is an image thread with discussions).

My most recent examples:

Using photography and digital media, Photoshop, plugins, a WACOM Cintiq and pen tools.

A single photo duplicated over and over to create the symmetrical pattern. Then digital tools as well as some other images interspersed to create a complex and interesting abstract.

One photo, cropped (the power plug) and everything else created using Photoshop, plugins, and my pen tools.

Almost "straight" photography, this is an example of how an image can be developed digitally for a nice effect and yet still look like a photo.

This is a street photography shot treated multiple ways to create a piece to fit in with my current "Uniquely Asheville" Collection. This style is proving popular and sells well at a local gallery.

None of these fits in a box and yet each is art, is it not?

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Wingsdomain Art and Photography

8 Years Ago

Theres Always Time For A Good Churchill !! A stogie adds to your quality of life and helps keep most people away from you, giving you a nice healthy time away from the rigors of life and the demands of society, an hour at a time! -W

Lutz Baar

8 Years Ago

Frankly John, if your thread stays open it will be filled with images nobody will ever look at. People will dump their images and never return to look at others.

John Haldane

8 Years Ago

huh? I will return. I'm sure others will, too.

The box of stogies looks a little like a box of Crayolas. Very cool! :)

Wendy J St Christopher

8 Years Ago

I'm with you, John.

Groups don't bug me so much, as there are so very many of those it's easy to find the right place(s) for my work.

The contests and forum threads are more problematic --

Post your work - no photos; minimal sharpening allowed!

Post your work -- photos only, no saturation allowed!

Post your work -- paintings only, no digital!

Post your work -- digital only, created on the night of a waning moon!

Post your work -- extreme dadaism featuring shades of grey preferred!

Post your work -- accompanying theorem or dissertation required!

I rarely bother with these anymore, instead choosing to spend that time offsite (which I should have been doing all along.)

Shawn Dall

8 Years Ago

I as usual will play the devils advocate here.

By definition a forum exists to discuss different things - it exists FOR limitations. This is like saying that facebook shouldn't have every groups because everyone is the same.

At the end of the day you all are just combinations of opinions trying to blanket your perception onto everyone else.

Those other threads exist because everyone thinks differently. To some art is painting, and not photography. To others art is anything - smearing rain on the hood of a car is art to them, or defecating into a diaper and then stapling it to a canvas and mounting it on a wall. Who are we to judge what is and isn't art? Well we are artists, and thus we are all allowed our perception, if we remember at the end of the day that that is all it is, is our own unique perception from our own perspectives.

I get that all these threads insult you - but frankly, you're just as likely to insult others by attempting to limit their free will of "focused" perception with an all encompassing one than their posts are going to offend you.

Sometimes you have to get out of your own head, and get into others to see how they think. I find older people especially have trouble with this as they are set in their ways and have developed a sense of "entitlement" because they are older. Not to say younger people can't, but they do it for different reasons - they're just young and inexperienced.

---Shawn Dall
ShawnDall.com

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