Art and Artistic Talent

[Jedi_Master]

Are you an artist?

If yes, what is your favorite medium (visual arts, musical arts, performance art, etc)?

If not, what art do you enjoy the most, and what type of art do you wish you could produce?

Is there anyone in your family/close circle of friends that is an artist? If so, what is their medium of choice?

Thanks for the answers!

I am not an artist, but I enjoy music and visual art. One of my wife and I's favorite pastimes is going to art museums, particularly modern art.

If I could be anything, I would enjoy being a classical musician or a piano player for a jazz trio.

None of my blood relations is an artist - although my older brother is a very good sketch artist when he decides to try.

My wife's family is full of artists - all visual arts - and my children seem to have inherited her love of art.

 

[Timewalker]

Are you an artist?

If yes, what is your favorite medium (visual arts, musical arts, performance art, etc)?

If not, what art do you enjoy the most, and what type of art do you wish you could produce?

Is there anyone in your family/close circle of friends that is an artist? If so, what is their medium of choice?

Thanks for the answers!

I am not an artist, but I enjoy music and visual art. One of my wife and I's favorite pastimes is going to art museums, particularly modern art.

If I could be anything, I would enjoy being a classical musician or a piano player for a jazz trio.

None of my blood relations is an artist - although my older brother is a very good sketch artist when he decides to try.

My wife's family is full of artists - all visual arts - and my children seem to have inherited her love of art.

At this point I think I can, without vanity, call myself an artist. I play the organ, and have done some composing. I'm also a needlepoint artist, having created many original patterns and sold professionally.

But the most fun parts of these are when I can combine them with science fiction... filking and making 3-D needlepoint costume accessories, for example.

I wish I were better at drawing. I've enjoyed drawing ever since I could hold a pencil, but have always been challenged when it comes to perspective and making things and people look natural. I can do a pretty good imitation of Snoopy and Woodstock, though. One ambition is to get into Zentangle (a form of fancy doodling).

My grandmother was an artist. Honestly, her landscapes are as good as, or better, than a lot of what I've seen in museums. A few months ago I got an unexpected treat when unpacking some stuff of hers that had been in storage for many years: three paintings of hers that I'd never seen. One of them was based on an old photo of my grandfather when he was in the cavalry, nearly 100 years ago. So this was a really unexpected and wonderful find.

My grandmother was also good at sewing, and loved making dolls and doll clothes. I used to get jealous when she'd make medieval-style clothes for the Barbies that were far better than my SCA costumes.

My dad was an amazing artist when it came to wood and carving. He could design and build just about anything, from a shelf, set of cupboards, or a table to a humongous rug-hooking frame (that thing is big enough to use for quilting, if I knew how to quilt). And he was good at little things, too - he made me a wood carving of my first cat.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Thanks TimeWalker... it would lovely to see some pictures of the costumes you have made.

I have always had a desire to learn how to make small scale metal sculptures. When I have my old-man workshop I am going to devote a space to metal working.

 

[B.J.]

I wouldn't call myself an artist, but I do have some artistic talent. I've played percussion since 1987, currently playing with a community concert band. And as those in the art forum have seen (and in my signature), I do create some drawings and designs, mostly fan art type of stuff. My medium of choice varies between pencil & paper and raster and/or vector software.

And it does actually tie into my job as a structural and systems design engineer. Many of the design solutions I come up with for various aerospace vehicles require a more artistic approach than just a by-the-numbers approach. You sometimes have to get a bit creative when designing support structure or tying different systems components together.

 

[cooleddie74]

I've drawn and sketched my entire life in addition to writing short stories and creating my own Trek fanfic and the occasional poem over the years. I've sold some artwork and had a few other pieces published. My primary talent is in black-and-white pen and pencil drawings and I suppose the short stories would be the next-most important and personally rewarding of my artistic skills.

I've posted some of my drawings in other Trek BBS threads over the years but I may have to repost them and take images of others at some point. One of my favorite pieces of work that I've created is a drawing of my late dad that I made just a few years after he passed away and it was one that my mom loved.

 

[scotpens]

My job title is "graphic artist," but I would never presume to call myself a real "artist." I'm more of a glorified typesetter.

I suppose I have an eye for what looks good on a printed page in terms of composition, typography, visual balance and color. But technically, I can't draw. I've never been able to draw human figures, animals, trees -- basically anything that's alive.

Now, my dad's third wife Ingrid, on the other hand, is a very talented artist in both commercial illustration and fine art. She can crank out a Renoir, a Picasso or a Gauguin in no time flat! The signatures still need a bit of work, though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I have a degree in art. My preferred mediums are chalk, pencil and charcoal. I've also worked in pen and ink, acrylics and watercolor. I do bit of writing and have published a book, "Midnight In Never Land".

Oh and I'm a serial photoshopper as any perusal of the caption contest threads will show.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

While I make no claims about my abilities, I would consider myself to be an artist ... my two primary outlets are writing and photography. I've already written one book, am finishing a second, and have, literally, thousands of photos. And while I would love to, someday, make a living from my creative efforts I am, at this point, secure and confident enough in my abilities to get genuine joy out of the process ... even if it never leads to anything more than personal satisfaction.

 

[Melakon]

I've never called myself an artist because I've never done anything professionally to be worthy of the term. But lifelong interests have been acting, music, and drawing. I wasn't any good at painting. I can read music and play keyboard instruments. I also wrote and did voice work in local radio commercials during college, which may be the closest to being professional, because there was a token single payment if it made it to air upon client approval. Acting and drawing combined when I got a 3d modeling and animation program 15 years ago, which I like to think of as a movie studio in a box.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I was raised on art, know a reasonable amount about about it and appreciate practically all of it often especially art not readily seen to be "real" art.

But I don't art nothing myself

 

[RJDiogenes]

My primary talent is writing, mostly short fiction and poetry. I've published two volumes of each. The only significant non-fiction I've written are the essays on heroism I've done for the University of Richmond (see link in sig), one of which was published in their second book.

Art is a secondary talent, which I never really developed as much as my writing, but I've done some cartooning. In the past I've worked with pencil and pen on paper, but lately I've taken to scanning elements of the art and compositing them in Photoshop. I've also done some 3D art, but not for a while. I also do photography. There's a link to my gallery in my sig.

Oh, I also have a weekly web comic (again, link in sig), but it's not exactly known for its artwork.

In the future, I hope to experiment with video productions, once I upgrade my computer system.

 

[Admiral2]

Are you an artist?

I like to think of myself as one, but I leave it up to my audience to make the final judgment.

If yes, what is your favorite medium (visual arts, musical arts, performance art, etc)?

This is more a question about chosen discipline. "Medium" is about the tools being used.

My discipline is mainly Comic Book-style art. For this my tools are pencils (sketch and colored), pens and watercolor markers.

what art do you enjoy the most, and what type of art do you wish you could produce?

Professional comic book art. I'd love to reproduce anything as good as Adam Hughes best works.

Is there anyone in your family/close circle of friends that is an artist? If so, what is their medium of choice?

My niece. She uses pencils and watercolor paints.

 

[Pondwater]

I'm more of a hand crafter than artist. I used to be big into painting, sketching and drawing....however, I haven't done anything in a while. I have a half finished painting of snowfall on Staten Island from 2009, another canvas with a Lily sketched on it from 2011. Nothing finished to share as my creativity goes into sewing and such.

 

[Amaris]

I am a vocal artist, specializing in singing, as well as music composition.

 

[cooleddie74]

^
Having listened to and thoroughly enjoying the talents involved in creating your YouTube song about TEH BABA I agree. You have some great and very entertaining musical chops.

 

[Amaris]

Thank you!
I just wish I could have backed it up before Youtube decided to kill my account and everything on it.

 

[cooleddie74]

You and me both. I still hum that song from time to time. It's true, you know.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I just wish I could have backed it up before Youtube decided to kill my account and everything on it.

What th--?

 

[Melakon]

Nothing finished to share as my creativity goes into sewing and such.

That counts as art too though. In the married days, we had a sewing room for a while and bought a new Singer. I didn't understand it at all, I can't even sew a button on right by hand.

 

[biotech]

I have been dabbling in acrylic paintings this year.