LFGSS Art Club.

Wow!

I love the way you cheat. ;-)

I would do the odd watercolour with pen and was wondering if anyone has had any decent results using an iPad with procreate or similar? or even a windows based app??

Just seen the cool procreate timelapse and pic above.. any good watercolour brushes / effects??

Having done some process screen printing (to a much, much more rudimentary level!), I can appreciate how difficult to produce that would have been! I love the way the paintings have come out. So was it something like CMYK + 5 spot colours? Does that include the gold, or was that done as a separate process?

I'm not very adventurous with brushes to be honest - with Photoshop or Procreate. I have a certain way I like to work which uses about 3 different brush styles. I've found procreate so much more 'realistic' to use in terms of pen feel and just the overall experience, but I also find the brushes slightly clunky compared to Photoshop. PS just gives you so much more control over the brush characteristics and you get the sense of a higher level of finesse perhaps?

There seem to be a lot of good watercolour brushes. I bought 2 different brush packs - although I actually tend to use default brushes (with very slight tweaks made to them) more often than not.

I've seen some really effective pen and ink / watercolour style illustrations done in procreate -have a play with one if you get the chance!

Here’s another one of my treehouse things

The Timelapse for this was about 80% me faffing around with shading the tree, then deleting it all and doing it how it ended up + the houses in about half an hour :-D

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This is a painting I did of my sister when I was 18 (a very long time ago!)

It's been at my parents for years. When we had some building work done I had this bit of wall sized so I could finally hang the picture.

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Holy shiiiit that's great. Not cheating at all. Great stuff

@AlexD love that. Id live there

@brokenbetty wow that's great. Looks good hung on that wall.

Having done some gilding and some screen printing, I'm awestruck by this.
Did it go right, first time around?

yeah, it was 3 layers of Screen Printing to build up the gold, 2 spot colours and the CMYK. plus some painting and a bit of glitter for effect.

Hard to show how mad it is in real life.

I want to sell them but it's difficult to get money for them without them being seen. Might have to put on my big boy trousers and go into a gallery and see if they will sell it for me.

Went right first time. I have done some samples of the techniques but not this piece before.

Did a cigar box a couple of weeks ago. Managed to make an edition of 3 without to much variation and a rough match box design to sample the coins.

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The gold is insane - that’s come out so well. It looks embossed.

I wish I had the time/space to screen print. I’ve got a DIY set up in my loft that I’ve not used for 10 years. I’m jealous of my younger self, who had access to screen, litho, etc printing facilities at uni and don’t take advantage of it!

That’s the new technique I have been developing. The chemicals used to acid etch are so horrible, this is a much more sustainable way of doing it.

I never got the chance to go to art school, did quantity surveying at uni then got made redundant in the 2006 crash. I did an apprenticeship type thing in my mid 20s printing T-shirts and I am just now trying to make my own “art” having spent the last 10 years printing other peoples.

You should get it down from the loft, especially with the procreate work you have been doing, easy and real fun to make screen prints from those.

I want to sell them but it's difficult to get money for them without them being seen. Might have to put on my big boy trousers and go into a gallery and see if they will sell it for me.

Are you creating the base drawings as well, or are you gilding on top of found images? I'm wondering whether there'd be a commission market for these, taking a customer's base image and embellishing it.

You said earlier you thought it was 'cheating' doing these composite pictures (I disagree, for the record!) - do you draw/paint, and have you done much printing using original images yet? You've certainly got the technical chops to make some pretty spectacular prints, I'd say.

It's time mainly for me. 2 young kids and a dog plus trying to cycle and skateboard as much as I can fit in, leaves me without the sort of time to be able to spend a day doing prints. That's what I love about using an iPad - its so immediate and I can be pretty opportunistic about it and get some drawing done wherever and whenever I find myself with a bit of time.

I'm currently looking longingly at one of the last screen prints I did, which is framed in my office :-/

Excuse the crazy angle - reflections!
It was based on The 39 Steps.

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Thanks for that, I must have a proper play with it.. I just lifted in on Sat night while we were watching a movie and was surprised how easy it was.. after my 11 year old gave me a tutorial.. LOL

They are collages of renaissance paintings. So open source but I am not painting them.

@AlexD I can draw but it is very much mechanical and technical style. The thought of painting people or landscapes like this is way out my skill set. I have printed my own lettering and my own photography stuff, My day to day is fine art printing for other full time artists and galleries.

Love the print! Really shows the joy of screen printing!

Wow, @brokenbetty , that 's great!

Took my oil pastels to try a colour combination (on small size paper) I had in mind.

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You use them both. Two per corner. They go in perpendicular, overlapping each other, not diagonally.

This is cheating as I didn’t paint them but some interesting oils I bought recently. I could study them all day

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Yum. Having a little scroll through this thread has me excited for being stuck indoors this autumn. Love the triptych @AlexD, and your imaginative miniature worlds.

I’ve had a long break from art, a mix of self-pressure and nice weather/bikes. Thanks all for the inspiration!

Was given an aluminium frame screen printing screen and some paint and a scraper recently. Needed a really good clean. I pushed some paint through as a test. This might be the best thing I ever produce.

Any recommendations for online sellers of photo emulsion, ink, paper etc?

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thanks for the kind words!

@moocher some nice textures there. Gah.... making me want to get my screen down even more!

For hobby stuff I would use:

https://www.pyramidscreenproducts.co.uk/

They have a good balance of good quality, small quantity and reasonable prices.