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Divine DH, I love the last pic you've posted. I had a similar reaction to KG's and I thought I should commission you to do a piece once I get off this island and back to N. America. Gorgeous!

Raudi, that's very interesting. Can you tell us more about your thesis? The performance you're referring to, is that from the piece or ???

Thanks for sharing!:smt038

 

Thanks darlin! I'd totally sell it to you, too, if it weren't a gift I did for Nate. lol

It's called PhoenixFall.

I want to work more with this style...Nate gave me some bad ass oil pastels, and that was my gift in return for such pretty colours.

 

Commissions make my tummy happy XD

 

This is AMAZING

 

In the future, I'm seriously going to pay you to make a few paintings for me! I would TOTALLY showcase any of your artwork in my home!

 

Great minds think alike! lol

And, DH, I love the name "PhoenixFall." You are awesome, girl!

 

awww, you guys make me feel good. Thanks.

 

The rabbit hole is really deep... Here's the short version of the ten year old story. Me & 13 classmates spent 16 weeks on studying music and architecture combined together, plus a building program site layouts for the school of music evoled from studying different culture's music & musical forms. I had The Japanese Koto string instrument presentation followed by creating a washtub bass... record and preform this instrument in public.8) Next, a bunch of desk crits on material study & our presentation technque.

My final project, I produce:
-Helped build a wooden 20'x20' 1=200ft. scaled model of the proposed site.
-One washtub bass: (1) tub, (1) 6ft wooden rail, 8ft. of weed eater string,
(1) washer.
-Three building models
-Construction Drawings
-Recorded project by via notebook
-30ft. tall wing-back chair concept, working model
-Vibrating floors concept w/ drawings & model.

Spending 12 hours a week in class time with these people consumes allot out of you, but theres always a bottle of something in the fridge to catch a buzz on after class.

String reverberation & soundwaves inspired me to design this project. If you ever played a string instrument you know what you feel on what you're playing something. So the 30ft wingback chairs got their movement from wind currents from off the existing buildings and being that these chair are on the river banks, theres movement. The music school had two stages for live performances, the landscape served a function as well, like viewing (a professor said my landscapes likes a golf course,wtf). One of the balconies cantilever over 'the wall' for the sake of doing it so. After all of that, we had to photograph everything & my 16 week old notebook was to be given away. The class augured our notebook belong to us not the visiting professor from Germany.

Nobody in the whole class got an (grade A-) out of this studio. I got an (B+) for my trouble.:smt093. I learned allot from her class, we busted our ass for her.

Two years later pasted by... this project evolved into furniture design for me.:smt026

 

How much? I want to buy that from you when I get some monies! For serious. You take money orders? E-mail me.

 

Gah, I've been super neglecting my email lately. I still gotta respond to yours! >.<

And you'll have to fight Nate for that one. lol But don't worry...I plan on playing around with the oil pastels some more once midterms are over (this week! argh) and I might just make you a present

 

Just playing around with lighting and textures in 3dsMax with Mental Ray...I'm fascinated by MR, though my current 3dsMax teacher wants us to use scanline as a render engine instead. I say fuck that, gimme my photo realism! Scanline -is- much faster, though...but I can't get anything this pretty with scanline!

I didn't model this, though. I stole this from Nate's midterm for lighting/texture class. lol He's not finished, which is why there's no sink or anything. I just wanted to play around with the lighting and materials myself, since I don't have that class until next quarter, maybe later.

 

It's okay, just e-mail me at your convenience
I suppose I could let Nate have it, (if you can't make a copy? :smt115) heh. That's awesome. I can't wait to see what else you'll make. I love presents, it can be a little housewarming gift! I've been thinking though, about once I get a steady income/job, I want you to help me put some stuff on my walls because I love your stuff and what I've seen you can do! And I don't like you just eating ramen noodles! E-mail me your thoughts when you can. Or post 'em, whichever.

 

Actually, if I can get time to use the scanners at school, I could get hires versions of some of my work and you could buy really lovely prints through my deviant art account for just a few dollars. I get a fraction of the proceeds, but it's still something, and you could get some lovely glossies.

I'm too nice to be a business woman. I hate charging a lot for my work, especially when it's people I know. For a stranger I'd charge at least 75 bucks for that drawing, but that's only because before it can be sold it needs to be framed, which is going to cost me at least 15 dollars, and that's only if I matte it and frame it myself. It's only a bit bigger than a standard portrait, as well. Something around 11x9 or something like that. My bigger stuff I try to sell for more, though I always puss out and sell things for cheap out of sheer desperation. My last buyer got a helluva deal...2 paintings and a drawing for 80 bucks. But I was starving, and she had cash. lol

 

I don't mean to be a pain, but am I right in thinking you are passing these off as your drawings when they clearly have Mark Brooks signature on them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Brooks_(comics)

Unless you are in fact Mark Brooks which means ur a white man Right?

:|

 

dh...it would appear you have some interested buyers in your work...including myself...next time you have completed pieces please post them...i don't think you need to go find a pt job...i think you need to set aside time everyday as if you were going to work and start pushing some of your creativity on to the canvas...even if you found a pt job that paid $10.00 per hour...if your paintings can sell for $75.00 and your cost is just canvas/paint then it would be worth it for you to pay yourself instead...do you spend 6 hours on a painting? if not then you already gave yourself a raise...

i would love it if you didn't have to eat ramen noodles all through school

lippy:smt061

 

I've been trying to do that since I got here 2 years ago But I'd need enough buyers, every single month, to cover rent, which ain't gonna happen. Potential buyers and actual buyers are two different concepts. heh.

Not to mention I don't have any cash for supplies. Hell, I can't even buy supplies for class...haven't been able to for months. No supplies, no books, and I have to be out of this apartment by September 25th since the loans are no more.

 

I can't find your deviant art account again. I'll try again though, but I hope you can give me the url just incase. I just had a thought to go to deviantart.com and type in your name, heh. So I'm going to try that in a minute, I think I've done that before. Why would you only get a fraction of the proceeds? What makes a painting need framing? I kind of like the no frame, just canvas look. Or if I really wanted something framed, then I could probably try to frame it myself so you won't have to. I'm kind of picky anyway about frames. I want to pay however much you would charge someone/a stranger, plus S&H which I think goes without saying anyway. I don't want to let you puss out, because at the same time, I'd like to help you out, as well as get some paintings of yours. I do have to get a job first though. But there's something that could happen any day now (I'll tell you about it in e-mail for privacy reasons) where I really believe I'll be able to buy one very soon. But then after that I'll have to get a job before I can buy any more. K? K.

 

You're so sweet. <3 <3 <3

The one in question (PhoenixFall) isn't a painting exactly...it's a drawing, done with oil pastels (which are shaped like chalk, but oily and smooth like crayons, but...well, basically crayons for adults. lol)..you can do a -lot- of really cool things with them (the good ones, at least...and Nate gave me good ones!!!) like blending and stuff..and the ones I got you can even mix with water to essentially make them high end water colours and stuff. All the blending in that piece I did with my finger, though. No water yet...Cause it's on tracing paper, so it's very thin and fragile. That's why it's important for it to be framed. Sticking it on a wall by itself would possibly ruin it.

Framing is generally good for my stuff cause most of it is on various forms of paper. Canvases are so expensive, especially the big ones that I like to use. One day when I have some money to invest in my art I'm gonna get a staple gun, some wood frames, and a roll of canvas and just make my own...doing it oneself can take the cost of each canvas down a whoooole lot, and thankfully my teacher in high school taught me how to stretch canvas myself. I can even take the cost down even more by buying untreated canvas cloth and putting primer on it myself, but I think it'd cost at least like 100 bucks to get all the supplies (buying in bulk is so nice. lol)

I'm hoping to get this job situation lined out asap. Once I do, I can afford to at least buy a canvas here and there, some better paper, and some more paint...my good stuff is running low >.< and in art it really is important to use good supplies, cause it's much easier to produce fine work with better supplies. It's just like trying to produce photoshop quality work with a cheaper photo program. Just not gonna happen (I've tried. lol).

For you I'd like to do a bigger piece, though. I've not tried the oil pastels on my 18x24 large paper yet, though...it's not as smooth as the tracing paper (which is why I used it in the first place)...but there's another option. When I get a couple dollars I could buy some illustration board, which would give it not only smoothness, but also thickness so framing would become more optional.

http://disposableheroine.deviantart.com that's my gallery. I'm not really sure how much they pay for the prints, but my gallery isn't set up for many of them yet anyhow. You gotta submit hires images for that...mine is more of just a show gallery still. If I ever get more interest on there in prints I'll start uploading hires (there's an option for people to click to show that they want a print of a particular piece...I don't think I've gotten any so far) but if there's something of mine that you'd want a whole lot and be unable to pay a lot for I can easily upload a hires just for you so you can purchase a print through them.

You get more money from prints there if you buy a premium account, cause then you can set your own prices. With a free account like mine they only allow you to use their preset prices, which means you don't get as much since they're fairly cheap.

Lemme get through today (2 classes..ugh...9 hours at school!) and i'll do some research...and finally respond to your emails. lol I gotta finish this damn 3d work though...gotta get to school and print this ho out and mount it and everything for critiques tonight. And at some point write my fucking outline for human sexuality, so I guess I should do some basic research on my paper, too. lol

 

My list of favorites:

Quatro
lady
ooo shiny
Masochism
rage
A Kiss
You Tear Me Apart

Btw, your mom is gorgeous! And of course my favorite, PhoenixFall. I can't wait to see more like that one. You're amazingly talented, DH.

 

Ohhh!! Okay, yeah, I didn't know anything about canvases and frames and the cost of those and all that type of stuff so I'll just trust your expertise! I really really really really love the FallPhoenix one. The bright colors and smooth flowing lines and stuff :smt050. Bigger pieces are cool, a focal point in my livingroom!! Whatever you are comfy with and want to do, I'll be happy.
I did manage to find your deviantart account a while after I posted! It wasn't very easy LoL. I found it through someone else's or something. But I found it!! And bookmarked it!! Then I was looking at stuff and I somehow "lost" it and I was on something else, but I was able to just hit the back key a few times then I got back on your account again. That site is a little weird to navigate. Thanks for explaining the oil pastels. It makes me want to play with some oil pastels, heh. I'd probably make something that looks like a big pile of Easter Bunny vomit though, heh.
I really hope that your job situation works out in the best of ways for you so that your talent will flourish being able to use the best supplies you can get!! I'm so excited to see what you'll be able to do then. I'm sure it will be breathtaking as ever! And I have no idea what hires images are or what you're talking about, heh. So you're saying that by buying through the deviant gallery that you're going to get gypped because of their preset prices for you having a free account or something? If so, then I'd rather not do it through deviantart.com because I don't want you to get less than what your art is worth because you have a free account. How would you get more interest on there? What do you mean? Like, just as an example, would it be like if I made an account just to add you to my favorites and leave you comments? Is that what you mean? Nevermind, I just read "(there's an option for people to click to show that they want a print of a particular piece...I don't think I've gotten any so far)" sometimes it helps to continue reading, huh? Hehe. Yes! That's a bad habit I have but at least I have the mind to check back . Okay, so I have opened your deviantart account in another window and I'm lookin' and I don't see it/an option to do that. Hmmm, help! Maybe I have to have an account?
Take your time responding to my e-mails, as long as you read them and know what they say, it's all good. Don't forget to take a breather with all the stuff you're doing! :smt023