This makes me nervous - not many people know I paint! And most of these have only been shown to my wife and daughter only! Does this mean I'm a Debutante? My coming out!
Some of my watercolors.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70063.jpg)
Florida Tweety Birds
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/CIMG0095-1.jpg)
Roosterfish
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70041.jpg)
Pansy by a pansy - my softer side showing!
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70044.jpg)
One of my teacher's favorite exercise - pears.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70052-1.jpg)
Some mountain in West Texas in the Davis Mountains area if I remember correctly
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70049.jpg)
Some kind of dragon fly
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70036-1.jpg)
Tree rat - don't know if he was the one that ate my Bhuta's or not!
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70047.jpg)
Tiger Portrait from our Zoo
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70042.jpg)
Sailfish
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70050.jpg)
Eye of Grouper
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70031-1.jpg)
Sunfish eyeing a Mayfly for supper
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/card.jpg)
Got him!
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70048.jpg)
Speck after red shrimp fly!
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70053.jpg)
Flight of a Golden Eagle
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70062.jpg)
Anybody say Buffalo Mozzarella?
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l95/43something/Watercolors/_MD70054-1.jpg)
I'm not short, but I sure am cute - baby giraffe at game ranch near A&M.
Now I'm going to go hide for a while.
Caney
Geez Caney, that's awesome......I can't even stay in the line with a crayon.
Thanks for sharing that, Now I know you can cook, can write (all the LONNNNNNG post) and are an artist. A man of many talents.
Those paint by number or do ya just throw a glass of water at the canvas and it comes out? Just kidding, Caney....lookin' good, much better than I could do.
I'm gonna do an Arcs on this one...
CS
those are great. Wish I could draw half as goo and BTW, they are much much better than the Obama art.
HR
Wow ........ excellent! Particularly like the fishy ones but they are all great. Wish I had that sort of talent.
Caney,
They all look great. I have problems drawing a stick man.
Brad
Caney,
those are awesome. Definitely should be shared!
Deb
CS
Those are very nice paintings.
nepas
Those look great! I love the giraffe..
Bravo MIKE!!!! Very well done. You don't need to hide from any of them pictures. Well maybe the treerat but hey its better than anything I have painted which is nothing.
Very nice CS.
I don't have an "artsy" side, at least visually.
Before critiquing your art I should tell you that I am extremely well qualified to do so (by virtue of having once stayed in a Holiday Inn while my house was being painted).
On the basis of that life-defining experience, I feel comfortable in saying, "Good stuff, Caney!!"
Very nice Caney. I used to do oils some time ago but was never very talented. I won't show any, I promise.
Well done Caney, well done.
I like the mountain the best but they all are nice.
Aint nothing to be nervous about in my eyes.
I'm with Car54 I can barely draw a stick figure, those out great, very nice job. Thank you for sharing.
SIA
CS would you be willing to part with and sell the west texas mountins and the tiger paintings.
HR
I love them!! My favorites are Tweety Birds and Golden Eagle.
Very nice! Perhaps you should consider offering some of them to the Vice President for HIS office. ;D
Very nice Caney. That is true art in my eyes.
Very well done!
Joe.
WOW
I would almost kill to be able to draw/paint like that.
I have all these beautiful images in my mind but I can't share them because I am stupid on the art side. ;D
Keep going and I would suggest putting them online and sell some prints to make a little extra $$
Steven
Quote from: standles on October 29, 2009, 04:01:15 PMI would almost kill to be able to draw/paint like that.
Probably ain't gonna happen (at least it never did for me) but if you're "right-brained" (like most guys) and want to learn some basic drawing skills, there's a great book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." Check it out.
There's also a new version I haven't seen so can't comment on that.
Great paintings Caney!
I esp. love the grouper eye because it is real and abstract all at the same time :)
I enjoy painting in WC, too. It's fun because it's kind of a wild medium that you have to contain and it cleans up easier than oils. :D
Keep up the great work!
Carolyn
Caney,
Here are lyrics from a favorite Harry Chapin song. Your art is good and nothing to be ashamed of. This song seems fitting.
Mr. Tanner
by Harry Chapin
Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.
And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best.
But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes.
He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows.
His friends and neighbors praised the voice that poured out from his throat.
They said that he should use his gift instead of cleaning coats.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
His friends kept working on him to try music out full time.
A big debut and rave reviews, a great career to climb.
Finally they got to him, he would take the fling.
A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing.
And there were plane tickets, phone calls, money spent to rent the hall.
It took most of his savings but he gladly used them all.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
The evening came, he took the stage, his face set in a smile.
And in the half filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle.
But the concert was a blur to him, spatters of applause.
He did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws.
But the critics were concise, it only took four lines.
But no one could accuse them of being over kind.
(spoken) Mr. Martin Tanner, Baritone, of Dayton, Ohio made his
Town Hall debut last night. He came well prepared, but unfortunately
his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards.
His voice lacks the range of tonal color necessary to make it
consistently interesting.
(sung) Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order.
He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends.
Then he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again,
excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed.
He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes.
Music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
Brad
LOL I actually won that book in a radio contest once. I failed the book >:(
Quote from: Ka Honu on October 29, 2009, 04:35:48 PM
Quote from: standles on October 29, 2009, 04:01:15 PMI would almost kill to be able to draw/paint like that.
Probably ain't gonna happen (at least it never did for me) but if you're "right-brained" (like most guys) and want to learn some basic drawing skills, there's a great book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." Check it out.
There's also a new version I haven't seen so can't comment on that.