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Artwyrd In reply to ranicat15 [2017-12-29 10:17:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for your kind comments.  I generally don't colour my line drawings, though I do seem to be doing more of that at the moment.  I'm not sure I really 'get' the whole steampunk thing though. I do like cogs and gears, things mechanical and like to play with such elements in my drawings from time to time.  My style of mixed media tends to be a lot of collage, often of papers/elements I've created myself or found, along with colour and texture.  Sometimes, I include a drawing that I've done specifically for the mixed media work.  I hope that answers your questions.

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ranicat15 In reply to Artwyrd [2018-01-02 01:39:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your reply. I too have enjoyed the industrial side of steampunk but not the clothes and life. I prefer the age of the Industrial Revolution in pottery and broken machines, plus many other reasons. The collage world is richer for you and I in it....Good there is someone else out there who mixes their media and shows that digital art isn't the only art

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Artwyrd In reply to ranicat15 [2018-01-02 10:50:12 +0000 UTC]

I love rusty textures, the patterns/shapes/lines that come from machinery, and I have a particular fondness for steam engines - locomotives and standing engines - that has fascinated me since I was rather young.

I haven't done much collage of late, other projects have taken my attention away for a while. 

No, digital art isn't the only art, though I am learning a lot more about it and find I can do things with it that I can't with traditional media.  It has a whole different skill set and has it's own pleasures and frustrations, just as mixed media or line-art have too!

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ranicat15 In reply to Artwyrd [2018-01-03 04:33:26 +0000 UTC]

Trains we have a lot of and a museum not far away with great old steam trains........love them. I personally enjoy the engines that ran the winding wheels in mines here. Its all gone now but the restoration of engines is a big thing. We have a mining museum 3 miles away and its superb. Ive got lots of photos of the stuff left behind and the winding towers etc. 
As for rust.........whats not to like.

I agree about digital.......I'm learning slowly seeing as my camera is digital now. 
I think its hard not to stretch yourself too thinly with too many areas of art to work with. 
Thank you for your comments.......I thought there was no one out there

M

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Artwyrd In reply to ranicat15 [2018-01-03 09:21:09 +0000 UTC]

There are people out here!  I do try to reply to messages, but don't have time to thank everyone for all the likes of my art.

I live in the South Wales Valleys, so mines aplenty here.  I used to volunteer at a heritage railway and have been lucky to have had a chance to drive a steam train, as well as a couple of diesel locomotives.  Great fun! I used to visit a lot of heritage railways and enjoyed that very much, with sketchbook and camera in hand.  I'm not a photographer, but I'd take photos for reference for me.

It can be hard not to spread thin, but by trying out new things it adds more tools to my arty 'vocabulary' when I need them, though I find I do settle down into things that I like doing and using.

Digital art is a kind of godsend for me in many ways, and it's certainly not a shortcut to art, not unless you want it to be.  I tend to use it a lot like traditional media, which is why it may be taking me so long to do!  But it opens up the door to other ways of working.  Yesterday I spent some time playing around with repeating, seamless patterns and that was a lot of fun and fascinating, but something I'd not be able to do or get my head around if I had to do it on paper.

I was a science teacher until a couple of years ago when I left teaching due to having two big mental 'breakdowns' in just under three years.  I was lucky to be working for publishers designing adult colouring books and that allowed me to make the change.  Digital art is helping me in this work, though I still sketch out my ideas on paper and then finish the drawings off digitally.  I'm still working on finding a pen 'brush' in the software that will give a less perfect line width and smoothness so it looks a little more hand-drawn, which it essentially is.

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ranicat15 In reply to Artwyrd [2018-01-03 19:03:35 +0000 UTC]

I was senior nurse and I empathise with your breakdowns.....it is not weakness it is the world and its stresses on you that create a breakdown. To have two means you were not healed the first time. Its a long path. I know I retired early because I could afford to but it was due to burnout and couldn't cope any longer with the new age nurses. I was old school and things had to be clean, strict, rigid, by the book etc. I couldn't stand the fact that junior nurses called me Mandy. I was Mandy to friends and family  not staff. 
Now I live caring for Andy my hubbie who has a degenerative epilepsy from a bike head injury. It keeps us entertained........I mean that with fun and no malice.

Thank you for sharing your personal info with me. It is often helpful to tell someone you don't know. 

Living in SW Wales must be amazing......its so big and open.........Brecon Beacons ive been to a few times and its superb. I think it must be so exciting driving a steam engine. It was every boys dream when I was little.......there used to be a US programme called Casey Jones about a steam train and its driver and coal man. 
I get carried away with digital editing and hours fly past..... !

Mandy

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Artwyrd In reply to nerrinb [2013-08-09 08:09:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for your kind words and feedback

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Artwyrd In reply to cybelemoon [2013-03-10 13:18:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Pam

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Artwyrd In reply to ZIM402 [2013-03-10 13:19:34 +0000 UTC]

They're not millimetre perfect! I think I'm just a fussy artist ... I did pencil out the design first, that helps.

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Artwyrd In reply to CristianoTeofili [2013-03-10 13:20:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Cristiano

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