Hobbies and Passions in the Mid Atlantic forum: What are your hobbies?
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| Sounds great ... looking forward to pictures of that one. I'm taking a portraiture class - OMG. You spend years trying to get proportions correct, work on your details, and you get a teacher who wants you to be loose, loose LOOSE!. Grrr.    Teacher liked #3 the best, I prefer #1~! Sorry if this a repeat for you - I posted this on the 'Artists' forum, too - begging for Sharon's advice! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Looks great. I've always wished I could draw. I have no talent for that at all |
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 I prefer #1 too I can't draw to save my life  My husband draws well and my older so is even better. How long have you been drawing? It happens in a flash, but the memory of it last forever. It can not be borrowed or stolen, and it is of no earthly good until it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, leave him one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give... |
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| Since I was a kid, but with years of nothing in between. Always kind of lacked the confidence to go and get some training but decided it was worth pursuing. And now - it feels like I'm going backwards. I'm sure there's a good reason for him insisting on this "looseness" - more creative, more flow. It's funny - it definitely seems to have run in our family. I don't know anything prior to my grandmother, but she painted oils, her sister worked and taught ceramics, other played music. I draw, at least one of my cousins is *very* good, and now my niece is doing computer graphic art. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Sheryl, That is great that you're taking this class. Maybe the teacher likes #3 better because it seems to have more motion in it. Who knows? I can't draw anything. Years ago, I used to sculpt. That is very interesting about art running in families. It certainly seems to among the famous artists. Where are you taking this class, at a school or with a private instructor? |
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| It is funny the way genes carry on. My fraternal grandfather was a gardener, my dad dabbled but never had the time, my brother loves it, but sister and other brother can't be bothered. Glad I got that gene. My son is actually better than his dad, now doing tattoos and is fabulous at it. My niece is studying to be an art teacher. Seems my MIL can draw but we never knew it until recently, she is 75. It happens in a flash, but the memory of it last forever. It can not be borrowed or stolen, and it is of no earthly good until it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, leave him one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give... |
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| LOL - & I thought *I* was a late bloomer! This is a class given by another member of the local art society - probably one of the top artists there, but I don't know how much he has taught before. Sculpting would really blow me away - completely backwards from what I'm used to, cutting in instead of filling out.... In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Well, not all of my "sculpting" was cutting. I did a far amount of clay modeling too as portraiture. So that's going at it from both directions. The one was certainly less intimidating than the other. |
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sheryl  woodthrush-- did you say beading? I am so tempted to add beading or embroidwey to some of the many plain Jane t shirts and basic knit tops of mine. Embroidwey--what Elmer Fudd deos with needle and deco threads I really should tke typing lessons befoire I get any worse. stormy gotta get you with my sister she's become fairly dedicated to improving her knitting skills. "If you bring joy and enthusiasm to everything you do, people will think you're crazy" W. Haelfeli, New Yorker cartoon |
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| Sal, I haven't knit anything in about 7 or 8 years. Haven't had the time. Maybe in the dead of winter, I'll try something simple to work back into it. |
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| Yes, you should dwefinitely twy bweading embroidwey I'm beading around the cabochon now. Shoot, but now I've seen a pic of one made with fringing and I just may have to add that. |
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| Pam, Do you use a pattern for these, or create your own designs, or a bit of both? |
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| I have bought patterns and I haven't used any of them yet - lol I do get ideas from magazines and sites and then make my own style of something. Then I have a program on the computer that you can make your own charts with, or take a photo and it will change the photo to a beading chart. I have a yahoo group for beading also and I post a lot of my charts there for free. When I first started doing beads on the loom, I was surprised at how few patterns were available, so when I got the program, I made mine for free. |
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| That's great Pam! You're doing a wonderful job. Do you wear most of what you make, or give it away as gifts? Do you sell any? |
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| I wear some, give some, put the others in a bag in the drawer - lol. I haven't tried to sell any. It's a hobby. I have a fortune in beads - you never know what size or color you'll need. |
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| I know just what you mean Pam! |
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I used to have all kinds of hobbies - alas all I seem to have time for is some photography, gardening and of course, the all time consuming critters...I do want to get back into knitting again this winter, and I have promised to embroider a framed NY JETS logo for hubby for his office - now there is a hobby and a half...I told him to get a hobby 15 years ago - and he did! He has a green and white office, filled with Jets collectibles! There are so many things I'd like to get back into doing, but, time and life in general has a nasty habit of getting in the way  \"Those who love cookies love life!\" Otis Spunkmeyer |
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| I have always had some sort of craft hobby since I was little. |
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| It does. I think my hobby this fall is going to be having a series of yard sales. Out with the junk!! |
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| We started taking a lot of things to the Salvation Army. We used to freecycle a lot but more and more people say they want something and don't come for it. |
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