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  • 02-09-2005 7:27pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    just sat what kind of art/ craft your interested and what you'd like to learn more about.

    User: Snorlax

    Art interests: general painting, clay, Ms paint (click on my sig for sample;)) and graphic programs, costume design, card making, performing arts, pastels/ watercolours/ acrylics/ technical pens/ charcoal.

    have also worked as a voluntary illustrator with the Irish Wildlife Trust and got some of my technical sketches of wildlife skteches published.

    am currently interested in dynamic art/ helping with costume making at festivals.

    also did art for the leaving and nearly did it at third level but wound up doing occupational therapy in TCD (don; ask:)!)

    would like to learn more about practical crafts, eg things that can be used for everyday purposes, like handmade greeting cards/ bookmarks, and also traditional crafts and painting (especially love to learn to do scenery paintings of the west of ireland)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    User: Bond-007 well actually this is Mrs-Bond!

    I am a scrapper! Give me fantastic photos papers & glue & I am away! I have even scrapped onto a canvas to make my scrapping into wall art too :)

    DelboyLO.jpg
    RustyPrickleLO.jpg
    FirstIrishCropLO1.jpg
    CatchoftheDayLO.jpg
    NannyCanvas.jpg
    The last picture is my canvas which was painted first with accrylic paint & then embellished.

    I also make card, do some beading jewellery but scrapping is a way of life now days!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    im interested in physical art.
    natural beauty, and all that malarkey.

    title of the sticky is spelt wrong


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭pukey


    i've tried my hand at everything, but concentrate mostly on oils, watercolours, photoshop, pen and ink, and even 3d things in autocad, sketchup etc.
    actually just finished an oil, started an oil and am midway through another.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭Pyschopath666


    User ~ Pyschopath666

    At the moment I do alot of drawings, graphic designs and have begun to carve wax....

    Most of my work revolves around heavy metal/ gothic influences or fantasy (like LOTR etc...)

    I'm currently doing Art for the leaving and am concidering doing it at 3rd level.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I am a painter of the face! And sometimes might knot an auld beard or tache. :) That's my day job...

    Other than that I just doodle a lot. Do a lot of life drawing from my head. Use anything from acrylic, coloured pencils, chalk, pastels, pencil. Make interesting picture frames when I've the time. The odd bit of jewellery. Design dresses and hats.

    I get into weird moods and decide on doing something and then have to do it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭Tiriel


    I've kind of fallen out of my creative side.. and would really like to get back into it. It's been a few years since I painted or sketched.. which I would have dreamt impossible..

    Think I need a bit of order.. would love to join a class or something.. to really get back into it properly, as I don't have the motivation to sit down at home like I used to. The only thing I have been doing recently is working with beads and jewellery making..


  • Registered Users Posts: 286 ✭✭fizzy


    I sometimes mess about with a bit of knitting, but my main crafty hobby is cross stitch. I started earlier this year and have got quite into it. It's not as useful as knitting, but it's more about the making than the finished product for me - it's great for emptying my head :) great that boards have a craft board now too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭braceface


    Hi all, I'm pretty new here. I'm one of a dying breed of knitters. I started in school age 7 and took it back up a few years ago. I was really into baby things, mostly due to a baby boom among my friends. now i'm trying lots of new things-funky hats, dolls...


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    User: Fajitas!

    I'm studyin' art in NCAD at the moment, hoping to specialise in either Painting or Ceramics so thats paints and clay down,I have a great interest in photography, and love experimenting in different mediums. I love sketching too, charcoal would be my weapon of choice, otherwise, ink or pencils do the trick just as good. Got into digital imagery last year, but not as advanced in it as I'd like to be!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    Cork_girl wrote:
    I've kind of fallen out of my creative side.. and would really like to get back into it. It's been a few years since I painted or sketched.. which I would have dreamt impossible..

    Think I need a bit of order.. would love to join a class or something.. to really get back into it properly, as I don't have the motivation to sit down at home like I used to. The only thing I have been doing recently is working with beads and jewellery making..

    exactly the same as .... it so hard to get the motivation to start on something new.... I've gotten into Silver clay which is, well silver in a clay form... you fire it and bingo it's silver! it's a real expensive hobby though.... but i'd love to get into painting/sculpting anything again with the same enthusiasm again.... i'm getting worried i'll lose the talent if i don't pick it up again :(
    G (mrs Ste_05)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 48 Charis


    My favorite activities are scrapbooking and jewelry making. A friend introduced me to jewelry about 2 years ago and I would love to learn some more techniques. I also enjoy card making and usually make homemade cards for family.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 bonzo82


    I do a bit of everything, from sewing to jewellery making to painting to collage, I just like to try to be crafty/creative in every way I can. If I can think of a way to make something rather than buy it, I will. I have to point out this brilliant website which I spend far too much time on, www.craftster.org.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 Beckie


    Like Mrs Bond, I too am a scrapper! Can't get enough of it! Been crafty since I don't know when!!! Always covered from head to foot in glitter!! :)


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭artieanna


    hi all am a third year art and design student who loves using mixed media in my work and texture mmmmmm. Will never let go of the humble pencil though it a priceless tool.. have tried most crafts along the way and i keep exploring new ones got a great book on creative dough. am currently doing project work based on limiting colour, size, medium etc is interesting.. oh an recently started doing different types of wax painting (encaustic) really lovely to use.
    Thats me and thanks sooooo much for this brillllianttttt forum...
    like it..... I LOVE IT...look forward to posting msgs for ye all at some stage along the way
    Best Wishes
    artieanna


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Yeah I'm not really sure where my heart is at the moment. Workin on oil painting at the moment and think thats great!:) At the start of the year we worked with things like Photography, Trad Printing, Sculpture, Painting (Acr), Video and Image Processing and soon will be doing a 5week personal project after the first year trip to Amsterdam:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 SilverTongue


    Great job Bond-007 ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,876 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Good idea!!

    Already seen a couple of scrap-bookers and a lot of sculptors of various media and I'm standing up as the second face painter - not professionally though. I'm dong more non-paying bodypainting at the moment (see sig below!) Also into pastels and airbrishing and love colour. Oh, and photography.

    What would I like to learn?
    Would love to get into street art and grafitti, but without breaking the law. Maybe murals - that's be fun. Painting unusual things, as oppossedto painting pictures or creating pictures of things... Just about sums it up!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    I am interested in sculpture, painting, projection and stencil graffiti.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭GoldieBear


    Hi, i'm into pencil sketches and watercolours, i also enjoy stained glass art and i love knitting as its very theraputic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40 nudge


    Hi
    I am a graphic designer, studying fashion design at night in college. I make greeting cards to sell, build doll houses and basically do anything that I can cut, rip, sew, print, glue, paint, scan or nail down.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 molypiper


    i do sketching and watercolors...a great past time for me especially so during rainy seasons and typhoons won't allow you to go out!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭Kivun Sotilas


    Hi, I'm an artist from Australia (live in Swords now) I am into drawing with pastels. Mostly dark landscapes. I am also making my own book at the moment. The pictures are sort of like old woodcuts (but drawn with pen) medieval style drawings. I like photography and love webdesign and photoshop.


  • Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭corkimp


    username: corkimp
    I did art for my leaving and did a portfolio course in St Johns Central college in cork before being accepted into Crawford Art College. I did 2 years - failing the 2nd - me and y tutors having different opinions on my work. Want to go back again but got to get back up my confidence and a portfolio started again. I am mainly into sketching, pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, acrylics, watercolours (only in sketches), print, photography and a little bit of 3d work in metal and wood. I mainly do horses, people and fantasy creatures - dragons mainly with griffins and demons. when i find my stuff will photograph and show anyone who is interested


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 emmie


    heya..im actually a science student in nuim but i have a great passion for arts and crafts. I reformed the arts and crafts society in nui Maynooth with a few other friends and from that i learned lot of great new things such as dough craft,jewellery making,photography but my great interest at the moment is glass painting:)

    We are always looking for artists to teach us some sort of arts and crafts (ranging from Caricaturing to manga..pottery, fine art..you name it) so if you are interested send me a pm!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 aoifeme


    Installation and scuplture, but getting back into drawing now

    Oh and I knit!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 grockle


    mostly embroidery and cross stitch, but i do crafts for kids too so i do for them quite blew peter type stuff. lots of 'found objects'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,395 ✭✭✭Marksie


    i make candles.

    Been doing it for three years now and it is gradually turning into a business...

    goodbye civil service... damn your eyes :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 lenablue


    I worked with digital art for many moons but prefer getting my hands dirty! I paint and smear and blob acrylic paints and it's all I want to do. Ever. :) New to Lucan and would love to meet other arty type humans. my web addy is www.freewebs.com/staticmarcab if anyone is interested in having a look and my smears and blob. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    I do tapestry and some crochet and have started a course in mosaic design. I also take photographs. I used to draw with crayons but I don't do much of it lately.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭smallpaws


    I do watercolors, pen and ink and pencil drawings. YOu can google me at 'artresa' and see some of my older stuff. I can't do much of it nowadays as I am in nursing school (gotta pay the bills *sigh*) and that sucks up 99% of my time. But I love painting, it's why I exist. Once I am done training for my day job, nursing, I will be so happy to get back to having time to paint on my days/nights off!


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