dischart In reply to JazzSiyArt [2011-03-30 10:52:50 +0000 UTC]

thanks. good luck on devart

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dischart In reply to LittleMine [2011-01-15 12:28:45 +0000 UTC]

no problem. I like your stuff. It has a sculpteral quality to it....a three dimensionalism..an illusion of the physical. almost surreal....maybe dada-istic.

how's things in Poland these days?

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LittleMine In reply to dischart [2011-01-17 21:17:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank You, I am glad you liked my paintings.
I am polish, but I have been living in France since many years so I cannot really tell many things about Poland.
Thanks again,
Alex

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dischart In reply to LittleMine [2011-01-21 12:52:11 +0000 UTC]

I envy you living in France.
A place I always wanted to go but never got around to it.
It's a long walk from the U.S.

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dischart In reply to nadine-lee [2010-12-19 13:47:01 +0000 UTC]

good luck on that one.

I've been in persuit of that for some time now.

about 45 years.

still not 100% sure.

Art is like life: it's what you make it (no pun intended)and what IT makes you.

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dischart In reply to hotrats51 [2010-10-15 13:59:40 +0000 UTC]

yeah, it's been a busy summer, haven't had time for much of anything but work. haven't heard/seen much from you either. in fact as I was scrolling through things I noticed that I haven't seen much from a lot of my regulars. guess it's been a non-creative period for many.

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dischart In reply to ice-angel13 [2010-08-08 14:09:20 +0000 UTC]

no problem, it's a nice piece

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dischart In reply to Miss-Qt [2010-03-18 22:32:20 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you liked that.
It's actually Groucho Marx who said it. I just borrowed it.

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Miss-Qt In reply to dischart [2010-03-19 08:16:26 +0000 UTC]

Oke, nice to know! ^-^ x

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-01-29 23:11:51 +0000 UTC]

love Van the Man. He's been in my life ever since Brown Eyed Girl first hit the scene.
My suggestion is to just let it go and not worry. Move on to something else. I have a whole studio full of unfinished paintings. I reach a point with some of them where I just don't know where to go and I just leave them alone. Sometimes for years. I was just unpacking some today from a recent move and had an idea on how to finish some of them that I haven't touched for years. Others I do from beginning to end in one session, or within a short period of time. Some of my best paintings have been done in one session. Sometimes just a few hours.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-01-30 00:35:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I thought it was time for me to just start something else, but wanted your input...sure can't wait to get this one finished, though. The concept is neat, but I just haven't figured out how to best carry it out.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-01-30 14:49:22 +0000 UTC]

it'll come to ya. sometimes when you least expect it.
Maybe it's already done and you don't see it.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-01-30 15:39:16 +0000 UTC]

It can't be done! I can't stand any blank canvas!

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-01-31 09:57:11 +0000 UTC]

are you talking about an entire canvas blank?
or an area within the piece/canvas?

if it's the former I suggest you take some sketch paper and try to sketch out he possible solutions.

if it's a blank spot in a canvas, then consider it as a "white" spot, in fact you could just paint the area white. I listen to a lot of music and I've often heard it said that what makes the music is the "stops" or pauses. The moments of silence between notes, or movements, can be accents to the rest of the music and therefore become an important part of the music.

Maybe the blank spots are meant to be blank.....or white.
Are you using oil or acrylic?
One of the advantages of acrylic is that it can be easily painted over.
Go ahead and do something, and if you don't like it you can paint over it.
I hope you're not frustrating yourself be being obsessed with perfection.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-01-31 15:43:59 +0000 UTC]

Perfection is part of the annoying OCD that I'm trying to self-cure by painting and enjoying other creative endeavors. I always feel better about not being in total control when I'm letting the paint take the lead. Strange, I guess. But every other aspect of my life is totally controlled, so it's hard for me to let go of ALL of my hangups.

When things are empty or blank, I feel like something is being wasted. You know, like a coffee table without storage space...drives me nuts. The painting is half-finished, in my eyes, because all of the canvas isn't covered in paint.

Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to paint the remaining canvas white...it does look interesting as is.

I always use acrylic, because it dries quickly. There are too many kids in this house with curious hands for me to really get into oil, though I have used it once or twice.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-02-01 10:01:16 +0000 UTC]

Oil also collects dust as it dries. There are drying agents that you can use, but that usually involves fumes. The main reason I switched from Oils to Acrylics is because of the fumes and my studio was in-house and I had small children.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-02-01 13:06:39 +0000 UTC]

A studio...that sounds nice! I'm on the kitchen table, for now, on a tiny easel that only holds a few of my canvases. Haha. Maybe I'll get a big-girl easel soon.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-02-02 08:37:21 +0000 UTC]

at least you're painting. right now I'm living in a 14x14 room which is my living room, office, bedroom, den, and studio. In spite of that I'm getting a little art done. One of my most creative and productive periods was when I was living in a 6 x 12 space. I got so much painting done, or started, that I painted myself out of the space. I was surrounded by my artwork. I had just enough space on the floor to lay a futon pad to sleep on, other than an easy chair to sit in that was about it.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-02-02 13:27:19 +0000 UTC]

6 x 12? they let you paint in prison? my paintings are sitting on every surface of the house, it seems. my kiddos paint, too, and their work is displayed as prominently. we need more wall. perhaps we could start ceiling-mounting the artwork.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-02-03 15:11:03 +0000 UTC]

maybe you should just start painting on the walls and ceiling. Prison? I hope you're joking. Actually it never occurred to me that those were the same dimensions. Actually the room I was in was more like 8 x 14 because it had some closet space on one end and I could spread my arms full length and not touch wall to wall. and my arms outstretched are 6 feet. None-the-less it was a crowded spacce and I accomplished a lot in spite of it. Maybe it's time to add another room? As a rule I've always used the living room space as my studio, but being married with kids you can't really do that. Oh well, at least you're painting. and you're encouraging you kids to be creative. That's a good thing.

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Kanvesta In reply to dischart [2010-02-04 13:13:07 +0000 UTC]

Of course I was joking. Hence the addition of the little winky-eye dude. The first husband spent a great deal of time in prison, so I am too familiar with the dimensions. The dining room is my current studio, so I have to dodge Poptarts and baby oatmeal on a regular basis...keeps my on my toes, anyway. And the more the kiddos can actually SEE me being creative, the more they want to paint, too. Wish that practice worked so well with reading. Oh, well. I have a new painting. I have to get the images out of the depths of my husband's computer, though.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-02-04 13:31:58 +0000 UTC]

I think it's great you persist in spite of the activities of children. Many people tend to set aside the creative things because of them.
Maybe a little stray oatmeal or poptart in a piece would create a good effect.
Didn't even notice the winking face. Tend not to notice those things too much.Picasso had difficulty reading because he was dislexic. His father actually "cheated" on his exams for him to get into a certain art school.

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dischart In reply to dischart [2010-02-01 10:44:25 +0000 UTC]

oops. I pressed SEND when I didn't mean to.

I used to be a perfectionist until I realized that it gradually turned me into an imperfectionist.
The more concerned I became with perfection, the more aware I became of imperfections and the more obsessed I became with eliminating them. It seemed no matter how perfect I made something it could always be more-so, and all it was doing me was making me unhappy.

The consequence was that I was chronically unsatisfied, and unable to see any good in what I was doing or had done, because I only saw the flaws.
In reality very little is perfect. It is mostly an illusion man(kind) creates for itself in order
to make itself feel good.

I think the need to control things mostly comes from the fear of losing control. In the final end one has very little control over their lives, especially when other human beings are involved.

I've had many situations in my life where things were falling apart or seemed to be and I've learned that the best thing to do (in some cases anyway) is to just stand back and let things happen, stay out of harms way, and be ready to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Part of it too is learning to see the value in what is not there, or what you think is not there. Over the years, things have happened as I was painting that I considered accidents because they weren't what I wanted to do, but I've learned over the years, that sometimes those accidents can be made use of and can actually be a good part of a painting. Of course I'm a pretty abstract painter anyway, and the accidental is always part of the activity. I take a research scientist approach to painting.
An ongoing thought in mind is: let's see what happens if I do this.
Like Jackson Pollack said: it's a matter of controlling the acccident. Doing what you're doing with a certain amount of intent, but being aware of all that happens and being ready to see the value in whatever happens and going from there.
Again, too, some of these unfinished paintings remained so, because I decided that they "were" finished and the best thing for me to do was leave them alone and not risk doing something that might screw up what was already there.
It's easy to go too far sometimes and ruin what good has already been done. Knowing when to quit is a good control habit, and that's something I've always had a problem with.

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dischart In reply to dischart [2010-01-31 09:58:09 +0000 UTC]

maybe you could post the unfinished piece and I could look at it.
Or if you don't want to post it, then email me a jpeg.
I'll send you a note and give you my email address.

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dischart In reply to Kanvesta [2010-01-31 09:50:10 +0000 UTC]

I know what you mean. I've been that way all my life. If it purely up to me every space I've ever occupied would be covered with paint.
Every blank space is a blank canvas to me.

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dischart In reply to blau23 [2010-01-21 13:23:19 +0000 UTC]

looking forward to see-ing what you come up with.

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dischart In reply to doctorfaust23 [2010-01-20 12:36:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks. I've been off the scene for a while. dealing with the death of my father and the slumping economy. Wasn't up for much for a while. Interest slowly rekindling. Glad there's still people watching.

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dischart In reply to dyasith [2010-01-19 09:51:38 +0000 UTC]

No problem.
I'll be looking forward to your new work. Adding new artists to my watchlist to renew stimualtion.

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