Whats Your Favorite Medium?

I'm fond of medium large. It doesn't really fit but still.

LOL, Joshua, I was going to say Patricia Arquette, but I didn't know if anyone would get it.

While mainly a photographer, I have gravitated toward colored pencil. I like that you can burnish and get results that look like painting. I used to be a traditional oil painter, but stopped when I was doing mega-overtime at the job. I do also like graphite and regular drawing pencils. Here's one of my pencil drawings:

I've always been partial to graphite.
It feels like carving into the paper.

Unfortunately for me, I love variety and I love to experiment. This hinders me from gaining too much expertise at any one thing. I draw better than I paint, so I paint more than I draw to get better at it. (How's that for discipline?). At least that's what I thought way back when I did a lot of drawing and painting. Within those two basic art medias, I experimented with ink drawing, graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, felt tip pens, chalk, oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink and watercolor, and tempera. At the same time I took up photography. When personal computers came along I dabbled in programming in basic, basica, and Visual Basic. I tried many of the freeware that came around for digital manipulation.

I've always been attracted to the unusual or out of the mainstream. Eventually, my interest in unusual art such as pictures within pictures, pictures with hidden objects, magic eye pictures, etc. lead me through the internet to 3D stereo. That's when I discovered, anyone can create 3D stereo with a camera. This was something I always thought needed special equipment or something. Once I found out I could do it on my own, I joined a few Yahoo internet groups dedicated to it in different formats and it was a fast way to learn about the subject. I had put down the camera, painting and drawing because I can't do all my hobbies and interests at the same time. Discovering I had the resources to do 3D stereo on my own got me back with the camera once again.

Although 3D stereo has been around almost as long as photography itself, the technology unfortunately has not evolved much until the last few years and still has a ways to go before universal acceptance by the mainstream public. There is a 3D stereo community "out there" however, to which the form is very much embraced, alive and well. I was hoping that FAA would be a place I could focus my 3D stereo enthusiasm, but again the "mainstream" roadblock is found to be the major deterrent. I have had some success with 3D sales on occasion (although I'm poor at marketing), so I've focused more on the mainstream of 2D prints here at FAA. I'm still poor at marketing but have improved my art over the course of the last few years.

Like many art forms or genre's, there are multiple 3D stereo formats. I focus primarily on the most common of these... 3D Stereo Anaglyphs (requiring Red/Cyan filtered 3D glasses for viewing depth), and 3D stereo Crossview (X-View is a side-by-side stereo pair). They are viewed like the "magic eye" type of image you've probably seen where you converge (cross) your eyes to view depth in the image. This format is more difficult to view than the anaglyph but if successful, it becomes easier each time and eventually second nature. The advantages for those that are successful viewing this format is that you don't 3D glasses, no inherent ghosting, and full color range. Disadvantages... harder to view, and smaller details.

I have galleries for each of my 3D stereo formats on FAA plus a few more for specified 3D stereo subjects...

3D Stereo Anaglyph Format:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/brian-wallace.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=73725

3D Stereo Crossview Format:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/brian-wallace.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=73730

I work in Gouache on board.

I am particularly fond of scratchboard. I do mostly mixed metal sculpture now but scratchboard will always be my first love.

Some great work here.

Gilca, I've been working on a pointy eared person myself (not got the face right yet) ;)



My favourite medium is graphite on hotpress paper. I mainly work in 2B and 2H and sometimes HB. Below is a more finished one.



I also love oils too. But don't have anything I'm willing to share right now ;)

Stevie :)

Personally, I like mine medium rare.

Photography is easiest for me, but I have enjoyed making stained glass "sculptures" based on semi-regular mathematical solids. I've also enjoyed photographic silk-screen, and drawing with drafting tools to make geometric patterns.

I'm about to fall asleep BUT I couldn't stop so heres the update

I love variety, I enjoy to experiment and create art!

I suppose my favorite medium is the one I've been pursuing for.40 years now....And I must say happily and rather successfully

How can you beat creating sculptures from personally scavenged natural matter?

Beginning every piece, out in the open air, recovering elements discarded by nature and dismissed by man.




My favorite medium, though, that I can't do is watercolor

Oh! how I envy those that have the guts to "attack" the white of a sheet of expensive Strathmore paper, with loaded brushstrokes of brilliant colored paint, knowing that there is no "Undo" button....And the discipline to know when to stop.

Oil on canvas

Favorite medium: Digital
Why: Very little set up time and no clean up required.

i work with pixels.

anything i can do on the screen.


colorizing old stuff


photographing old stuff


making old stuff.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Other people's oils.....and pixels.....

Nice drawing Gilca. I like charcoal also.

For me it's a toss up between pencil and watercolor.

For painting I prefer acrylics, IMO the most versatile and forgiving medium. For sketching and drawing I'll use pens, ink, graphite, watercolor, colored pencil. I really like the simplicity and durability of pen so it's probably my favorite for drawing/sketching, the downside is it's unforgiving.

First of all, Gilda, I LOVE the image you did!!!

My favorite medium is digital: 3D software, Photoshop and other painting/art software. I would love to get into painting on canvas again but I have a very rambunctious cat and I have a feeling he would end up being the artist as I like to paint sitting on the floor...

Watercolor was the first medium I learn and just stay with me , the more I do the more I love.

Alfred that is stunning! I'm so inspired by your work.

Pixels and vectors here. 3d, digital painting.

My choice and what I have used for years is oils on canvas but due to health problems, recently had to switch over to acrylics. It has been a big challenge but I am getting used to them. The first image is painted in oils and the second, in acrylics.

I work in a little bit of everything from oil to marker but right now I am in LOVE with colored pencil. Can't get enough!

Surprise! I like photography. I like working with it and I like viewing it. But I think I'd rather look at a bad painting or drawing than a bad photograph. Something to do with the effort put into the work.

To me, the transparent glow of Watercolor is like no other medium. I love watching the pigments mingle and create beautiful color mixes.

Here is my favorite medium...her prices are reasonable and she likes to joke around...

My favorite medium is soft pastel. I like the tactile nature working with them and it is somewhat less messy than painting with oils. I also occasionally do graphite or charcoal drawings.
This Carolina dog portrait is one of my newest pastels. And the gull is done in charcoal with white conte crayon.

First, thank u everyone for the compliments :)

so I made a boy to match the girl... I'm not to crazy abut it but ill share anyways

I don't remember when I started using oils. My parents were artists. I seem to alternate between oil and pastels these days but have nothing against acrylic, water colors, gouache, pixels or combinations of all. I haven't done any sculpture for some time. I'm sure it would excite me to do it again. I bring a camera with me everywhere but for taking notes, reference material for paintings only..

Gilca, I love it! Good job!

Awesome Girl and Boy, Gilca!

My heart belongs to digital -- which is the primary focus of my art. But I also enjoy working with glass and textiles.

My favorite Medium is Allison DuBois (played by Patricia Arquette)

I work in a lot of different mediums, but my favorite is whichever medium the using of which results in a completed painting that I like.
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But if I were stuck on a deserted island and could only use one art medium, I'd probably choose pastels (if I could also have my favorite pastel paper to use with them). I love pastels, except they're a pain in the neck to frame.

I work primarily in acrylic on canvas, I do a lot of small water color sketches in my traveling books.

Currently, Ink and Charcoal


and more recently watercolour

Shirley MacClaine?

You went out on a limb with that one Greg.

My favorite is latex on walls. I paint bricks, marble and bricks on walls and love to do it. It's not the most appropriate medium for FAA though.