My works of art...

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=710&pictureid=6202
"Pain Removed"

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=710&pictureid=6204
"Even My Reflection"

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=710&pictureid=6201
"My Plan"

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=710&pictureid=6203
"My Moon"

More to come...

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Nice! Ive never managed to learn how to paint but i wont give up. Annyway i really liked the thired and the second one.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Nice! Ive never managed to learn how to paint but i wont give up. Annyway i really liked the thired and the second one.

Oh my media is actually Sharpie for all of them. I want to buy paint when I have the money to spend on it. But for now I work with what I got.

Third and second? Ah, you like my self portraits (though the first is also a self potrait.)

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Oh my media is actually Sharpie for all of them. I want to buy paint when I have the money to spend on it. But for now I work with what I got.

Third and second? Ah, you like my self portraits (though the first is also a self potrait.)

Haha sorry my bad. Yeah i liked those 2 because they had some strong way of expressing something.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Haha sorry my bad. Yeah i liked those 2 because they had some strong way of expressing something.

Don't be sorry.
I appreciate your feedback! :)

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Thanks for sharing these. They're very moving. They remind me of some of Frida Kahlo's stuff.

I understand what you were/are going though. Not to sound trite but I do hope things are better and you are finding some congruency.

Like nuclear weaponry, it fits under the category of "don't try this at home, kids". I know people who've had it done in Thailand and they seem happy w/it. Is Cuba an option?

I don't mean to be intrusive.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Thanks for sharing these. They're very moving. They remind me of some of Frida Kahlo's stuff.

I understand what you were/are going though. Not to sound trite but I do hope things are better and you are finding some congruency.

Like nuclear weaponry, it fits under the category of "don't try this at home, kids". I know people who've had it done in Thailand and they seem happy w/it. Is Cuba an option?

I don't mean to be intrusive.
If I could I'd go to Cuba and renounce my US citizenship. Then I'd have my transition covered. Also, I don't feel like you're being intrusive.

Thank you for comparing my work to that of Frida Kahlo. I very much admire her.:) I suspect Frida Kahlo may have (less openly) had some gender incongruence. I have a book on her that has excerpts from her sketch book where she depicted herself with a beard in a couple drawings.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=710&pictureid=6207
"Raining Dreams"
(I know the photo came out sideways)

[eclipse]

I wish you all the luck and courage you need.

They`re beautiful.
The first three put me into a stream of consciouness concerning sex and gender, bodies, identity for nearly half an hour now. I think that`s a very good thing, better as in terms of "i like" or "i dislike" is it when art does not let you go for a while.

In terms of liking, my favorite would be the moon picture though. I and the moon have quite a special kind of relationship. ^^

Do you want a technical critique? If find that hard, if a piece of art conveys strong personal feelings, and have sometimes problems with that myself, so I thought I´d ask.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I wish you all the luck and courage you need.

They`re beautiful.
The first three put me into a stream of consciouness concerning sex and gender, bodies, identity for nearly half an hour now. I think that`s a very good thing, better as in terms of "i like" or "i dislike" is it when art does not let you go for a while.

In terms of liking, my favorite would be the moon picture though. I and the moon have quite a special kind of relationship. ^^

Do you want a technical critique? If find that hard, if a piece of art conveys strong personal feelings, and have sometimes problems with that myself, so I thought I´d ask.

Thank you very much!

There is a specific wording that I put on to "My Moon" it goes:
"Five in the afternoon has come and gone, and now I have my moon"

Please do give your technical critique.

[StoneFrog]

I do like the 2nd and 3rd, very nice. Very intresting the colour choice you did for the first two, looks like a setting sun, dunno if that's what you were going for but its good.

If you want a low cost media to use try pastels(oil,soft,hard all good but oils are cheaper make sure its at least student or artists grade, or its too waxy to use), i use oil pastels a lot and its something i just love. Its very hard to use at first but because not many people put in the time to use them once you get good its very rewarding. Then if you choose to ever use oils paints; oil pastels and oil paints work very well together since you can mix and blend them easily cuz they both oil based.

I would like to see more :thumbup1:

[The Red Next Door]

Cool Job sister.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Cool Job sister.

Thank you very much.

[eclipse]

Ok then. ^^
This has to be subjective of course, but I am trying hard to make it good.
I am not used to sharppie - pens, so I dont exactly know what can be done and what not. I have used no name pens and copics so far, it`s hard to compare.

I also don`t know for sure what kind of style( realism/surrealism) you intended, so I might criticize things you did exactly in this way out of intention, sorry then.
Also I found out that I am to much used to paint tot certain classic roles, as a graphic student, that has been funneled into my head somehow. It can be good to break those, and as a final rule, there are no final rules in painting. ^^


Pain removed
I like the background seperated into stripes. If you`d made this clearer you could get a distinct tyle out of that. Lighting of the upper part of the central character is good, but the legs as well as the hand above are two-dimensional, why?
I think to have a downward diagonal in the composition was a goid choice for the topic.
Interesting that one hand is missing, I am still thinking about what this could mean. The other hands seem to be out or proportion a litte. Obviously you don`t strive for naturalistic proportions but even if you don`t it might be a good choice to extrapolate from them. Hands are quite easy to practice, you can allways paint your left one.

For the very thin, skeletal figure I had to think of Egon Schiele, do you know him?

Is it intented that the upper body resembles the downward triangle? It might work better for dynamics if you don`t put lines in the picture (the shoulders) parallel with the pictures border.

The blue patch of the sleeve of the upper hand becomes a fixation point becaue of cold-warmth contrat (blue in a picture consisting entirely out of warm colors), its similar with the fire for stronger colors but that`s including itself better. Because blue is nowhere else in the picture it ticks out very much. It`s the question if you want that.

Even My Reflection
Again I like the background, to be specific the smooth transition of colors you accomplished there. I think that can be hard with pens. The lighting here is strange. It seems as if the light is coming out of the shadow which is quite impossible, and the figure in the mirror is lighted differently. The cupboard which includes the mirror is not lighted and has no shadow. It also seems to levitate a little though to not ending on the line between floor (which is very black, you could try to accomplish this line with lighting of the walls) and wall and the perspective lines on the side not being parallel.

You have the cold - warmth contrast thing there again with the shadow, but not o aggressive. Subtle colored shadows (complimentary, opposed to lighting) are a very good idea, most people do not find that out on their own. Here it`s the only blue again though, so it sticks out a little.

The composition chosen is very central. You have wide open spaces besides the key elements and that makes them kinda lost, but not in a way that clearly gets the mesage of "being lot" across. Don`t be afraid to use all the space you got there.

My Plan
In terms of lighting, this is quite strong. Composition is quite dominated by the black square in the background, it also melts with the head of the figure a little which i also dark. You used a white conture against this, but it might have been possible too, to light the square in a way that opens more space for the figure. Melting of figures and background can be a quite interesting thing, if used properly though. Did you chose that the figure stays inside the square and does not go over its upper border?
The pillars in the background have no shadows, why?
I like the dynamic position she/you take/s very much. The blood blocks the dynamic a little in forming a nearly horizontal line, though. The static composition too.

My moon
THe striped background is perfect here. What`s strange is, that it is most dark around the moon, normally moons got a sublte corona of light around them.
Here it`s the red, lighted building that sticks out and becomes the focus of the picture. It does not mirror in the water. Why? The lighting is most beautiful here, the reflection of the moonlight on the water, the metal of the handrail, dark woods. Everything fits there. Composition is good too (no central composition, nearly golden ratio) but could be clearer. You have tendencies that contradict each other (handrail as downwards diagonal, sky as upwars diagonal) which is very exciting in a picture. The hand on the handrail is a little lost in the middle though.
I would have found a second(third) light source intereting, in the light coming from the room in which the peron with the hand stands. Then you could also have made the lake on this side a little darker, perhaps even integrate another refelction of the person on the balcony, but that`s hard to do with pencil I think.

Raining dreams
I like this picture very much from its topic. Especially that their hair seems to be melting together. The composition i somehow dominated by the blue line on the right, which is seperated from the figures. Perhaps it would have been mpre exciting when they overlapped. So seems to use a lot of strokes for one conture. Try to do it with less or even one, and care for making it thicker when there is shadow or it need to stick out. The proportions are not fitting, but I don`t know to what extend that is intended.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Thank you for your insight. When I do my art, what I do is I stop thinking I just work off instinct and flow with it. So I don't really consciously do anything I don't contemplate, I feel, I let it out.

[leftace53]

Those are amazing. Its always nice to see paintings with human figures portrayed in a less realistic format. My favourite one is definitely "My Plan". "Even My Reflection" coming in a close second. :thumbup1:

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Those are amazing. Its always nice to see paintings with human figures portrayed in a less realistic format. My favourite one is definitely "My Plan". "Even My Reflection" coming in a close second. :thumbup1:

Thank you! I appreciate that a lot!