Hobby Thread - Aug 10, 2024 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde in this little corner of the interweb. A spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of painting and animation for this week.

Do you paint or draw? Do you work in oils or watercolor? What subjects? Is painting a life-long hobby or something picked up later in life? How did you learn? Were you inspired by a style from another painter or did you chart your own course? Have you had spectacular failures that are funnier in retrospect? For the animators, did you learn to draw flip booklets as a start? Do you pay homage to the animators that did the legendary movies by hand? Have you moved to animation on computer?

Do you believe that every picture tells a story?

TRex has limited knowledge of this world and certainly has no skills (little arms are not good for painting or drawing). Looking for horde help to make this work. We're here to talk about those who paint and animate. As usual, keep this thread limited to hobbies. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Don't feed the trolls. Pants not required.

Top photo - TRex appreciates fine art. Starry Waffles painted by Matt Dawson qualifies. Nice story behind the painting.

We are fortunate to have artists among the horde. We begin with art from painter polynikes. He is a horde member in good standing and has been a regular participant on the hobby thread. He has often talked about paintings in progress or recently completed.

In a horde World Exclusive unveiling, the Hobby Thread is honored to present the Bodie Island Lighthouse. The oil painting is 16 x 20. This is his most recent painting - so fresh that it isn't even on his website yet! If we ask nicely, maybe he'll tell us more about it and his painting:

Looks great! Thank you!

Tankascribe is a hordemember in good standing and also an oil painter. How does an oil painting progress? Like this:

This particular painting started with a good photograph taken by my BIL of his granddaughter by their backyard greenhouse. Like all paintings, it passed through three stages (not including prep-work of priming the canvas and drawing the subject).

Stage 1: Block-in. Working the rough shapes, setting values, and covering up primer, all done with large brushes Stage 2: Refining. Finalizing the shapes, adjusting the values, and getting more accurate colors, done with smaller brushes Stage 3: Detailing. Putting in the smallest details, making last corrections of values, and tweaking any colors, done with a very small brush

Stage 1 took roughly 9 hours. Stage 2 took another 8 hours. Stage 3 took an additional 27 hours.

The painting was 16 x 20 inches in size and took 44 hours, total. It's quite normal for a painting to spend more time in Stage 3 than in the other two stages. Often much to the mystification of onlookers, who frequently think that the painting's done at the end of Stage 2.

Also, pretty much all of my paintings go through these three stages of Artist's Angst (tm) as well: Stage 1: I think this is going to turn out good! If only I don't screw it up. Stage 2: My G-d, this thing looks like crap! What was I thinking? Stage 3: I'm sick of working on this painting and I want it to be done! Just shoot me now.

Wow. Thank you!

Some of you know that Misanthropic Humanitarian (COB in good standing) is a painter. Casa TRex is fortunate to proudly display the piece below, generously contributed by MisHum to a MoMe raffle. In addition to the people, this kind of thing is another reason to get thee to a MoMe.

When amateur art becomes a viral meme: The woman who painted the man who painted the woman who painted the bird

This Bob Ross episode has the most views of all posted on the Bob Ross Youtube channel. Had to pick one, so we'll go with the wisdom of crowds for the selection:

Why it is nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting

Did you know that horde member BeckoningChasm tinkers with animation? You do now! Instead of pencils and ink, he tinkers with PhotoShop, Flash, Audacity, Audition and Vegas Pro. Sample below from his Youtube channel. Too much for TRex's small dinosaur brain to comprehend, but maybe he can explain more about his process and the inspiration behind his projects:

This is a fascinating look at principles of animation - how to manage shapes to show movement:

The Library of Congress has an interesting micro-site on the early origins of American animation - lot of short videos.

Antiques roadshow Disney animation finds:

Walt Disney Fantasia animation celluloid

Collection of animation drawings from a woman who worked at Disney as an inker and painter - adding lines and color to animation cels

1959 Sleeping Beauty cel

Stop-motion claymation is not painting or drawing, but is a first derivative and this is a fun video showing how it is done:

Did you miss last week's hobby thread with a textile artistry theme? The horde shared some great stories. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Horde challenge/request - if you or someone nearby is making your own Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch based on the link/pattern provided in last week's hobby thread, please send a photo for posting in a future hobby thread.

Follow-up from Wenda from last week's thread. Here's here post last week with the background story:

Thank you! TRex dreams are apparently different than Wenda dreams.

Another notable comment from last week:

Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

If painting and animation are not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts or suggestions to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Ace of Spaces is not responsible for damage caused by Holy Hand Grenades. Any resemblance between this hobby thread and official CDB art threads are coincidental and hereby disclaimed.

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