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Wiley, It's clear being creative has
played a central role in your life. I think you'd be successful at almost anything you tried - but I still say your story telling and photography are skils you could take beyond Blogit.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 21, 2005 at 8:39 AM
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MayB, I admired Matisse too,
but for me Degas became the most influential. Even after I graduated from Art School and was doing large figurative expressionist work, I was still inspired by Degas.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 21, 2005 at 8:37 AM
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Ca88, a skilled parent can be intimidating.
But you seem to have excelled at parenting instead of painting.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 21, 2005 at 8:34 AM
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Cynthia
I love art and some days I think I'd like to just go out and buy some oils and just do it. All of that thinking got started when I received a paint by numbers set for Christmas when I was about 15 I think.
There where 3 paintings in that set, all with a Mexican or Spanish motiv, and I found it sooooo relaxing to do at that time because homelife was such an upsetting time back then.
Now I have a collection of artistic works, nothing famous but just things that caught my eye, or Joyce's.
I gues my most favourite picture of all is a large Bateman print of a wolf that the kids and Joyce gave me on my 60th. birthday which seems so long ago now.
Love you post my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 21, 2005 at 8:19 AM
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I like the work of Degas very much but I enjoy his pastels and this is the medium that I paint in. I also liked Matisse for his colors and the way that during his life he reduced his work from quite ordinary paintings to the single lines
posted by
Azur
on August 21, 2005 at 4:16 AM
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As a child I remember watching my mother work on her freelance drawings for greeting cards. For a short time I attempted to be an artist too, but was put off when my teachers assumed I would be good because my mother was. It is a strange feeling when you find an artist who's works you connect with, almost like finding a soulmate. For me it was Van Gogh.
posted by
Ca88andra
on August 20, 2005 at 6:35 PM
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