(via Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri)

In the very short novel Sojourn penned by Amit Chaudhuri, the Bengali protagonist finds himself in the Berlin of 2005, where he assumes the role of a visiting professor at some university. There is no definite plot and the narration looks dreamy, offering an account of his encounters with various individuals in the city, especially Faqrul, a Bengali poet living in exile, and a European woman named Birgit. It is his second time in the city, but he feels like a stranger. He wanders the streets of Berlin, visiting its restaurants and museums, seemingly attempting to establish a connection with the city’s history and the city itself. There are no chapter divisions; the text appears as vignettes of the narrator’s day-to-day experiences in the city and his interactions and conversations with the people he encounters as he struggles to get a grip on it all. The narrative style, the overall structure, a pervasive sense of solitude, and the impressions it creates on you could sometimes remind you of Sartre‘s Nausea. The storytelling never hastens. It is often pensive and takes its time and moves at its own unhurried pace. Beneath the apparent tranquillity of events, there are subtle undercurrents of confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety. I couldn’t help but imagine how well this story would translate to the silver screen, as I have a penchant for films featuring a limited cast and expansive spaces. Even the pages and the print layout match it. There are empty spaces, and pages left empty after every ch... (Read full text on booksperience.org)

I hate my art style and don't know how to color

aww hey there <3 *hugs* I am sorry you feel that way.

For getting an art style you like you just have to keep drawing and do lots of experimenting with different mark making. I am actually an impressonist artist that's my style but I am trying to learn how to do manga, digital art, catoon etc I also am trying to learn how to draw the human figure and human faces I find it easier to draw animals.

Don''t beat yourself up like even if all you can draw is stick figures or something draw the hell outta those stick figures. Thats draw and have fun. You get better at drawing the more you do and most people start off with art they don't like.

Fun fact about me I actauly love "bad" art or art that looks like it's drawn by kids and art that is drawn by kids.

Also my fav type of art actaully isn't even art that is drawn really well I love conceptional art my fav art is "One and Three Chairs" by Joseph Kosuth because it gets you thinking about semantics,idenity and representation , I like art that makes you use your head cus im nerd. (=

Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884 & Walkers in Bois de Boulogne, 1886 by Vincent Van Gogh / "All Too Well" by Taylor Swift

What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity, or an oddity, or a disagreeable man, someone who neither has nor ever will have any place in society—in short something less than the least.

Well, granting that this is so, I should like to show by my work what the heart of such a nonentity, of such an insignificant man, conceals.

-Vincent Van Gogh, The letters of a post-impressionist.

A continuation of feelings

Study of a head: self-portrait                                                                            1916                                                                                                                    Grace Cossington Smith.

A quick doodle before bed... might get removed but whatev

Wanted to practice drawing bodies, and I find women’s bodies harder to draw 

My friend told me the drawing I did for him kinda looked like an oil painting and I said its because I colored it the way I do oil painting, so Imma try sticking to that for a bit

Cat Fight // Orcas In A Storm

Not sure what style these are but they give me impressionist vibes 🤔

so i dont want to call the arts and culture selfie matching thing some bullshit but uhhh

yesterday my skin was super fucked up from this new undereye cream i was trying out (it was all bloated and weird), and the app gave me these as my matches:

then today, when the bloating and blotchiness was gone, all it would give me was hoschedé’s “boy in flowers”

Lee Godie (American, 1908-1994). Tidle a Head Artist Lee Godie A French Impressonist, n.d. 

Pen and paint on canvas, 19 x 17 ¾ in. 

Intuit The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Week 6 - Elevator pitch

Elevator pitch proposing to do a food event for paintings in the auckland art gallery (or some other gallery space around auckland). Guests are comprised of paintings whose subjects I have wanted to interview and talk with. Each portrait will be interviewed and asked a set of questions prior to the event which will determine what will be served to the painting (thinking of keeping questions simple like, who, what, how, when, why, where) portraits chosen are mainly of the impressonist style era and/or early modernism. Surfaces, atmosphere, utensils, etc. still being determined.

I'd like the food presented to seem painted almost, not sure how to give that effect. I like how with oils and some thick icing you can see the paint on the canvas -- maybe some way to replicate that.

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I have been experimenting with watercolours prior to this pitch as I think they may now be what I do my final drawings in, as a technique which I do not have overmuch experience with, and have access to during lockdown. This painting/drawing is an experiment based off of an image by Josef Hoffman.

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Narrow to top eight?

Wanted to try some textured brushes I installed. Drew a simple drawing of the sea :)

Need some advice, please!

I'm a math teacher, but I've spent the past couple of years learning to paint. I mostly do oil, but dab in some watercolors, and drawing. I mostly just do it for myself and make some nice pieces to give to friends here and there.

I guess I'm wondering if it would ever be possible to be self-employed doing just this. As a teacher, I have good vacation time to work with, so I could always start it off in summers. I love teaching, too, so I wouldn't be talking about quitting my job and being an artist full time, but maybe that's a good plan for an earlier retirement.

I feel like the internet is a great tool to reach a customer, and since I'm going to keep on doing paintings, I may as well be able to get them outta here and into the possession of people who might like them!

Linked below is some of my work. Not selling anything from the collection linked, just giving an idea of the type of thing I do:

A bird I saw a photo of on reddit and copied

A wood duck from a photo.

Charcoal drawing of Obama on toned paper.

Monet-style water lillies I copied.

Painted my father-in-law's dog.

Hydrangeas, very impressonistic.

I sometimes copy a photograph as closely as I can. Here I did this with a picture of my brother and nephew fishing.Original Photo My Painting

I've done all kinds of other stuff too, botanical diagrams in watercolor, some gouache, occasional pastel drawings. I guess I'm really just looking for some advice, what has worked for some of you? Anything you wish someone told you before you started on a similar journey yourself?

And I am 100% happy with as much feedback/critique/comments on the pieces themselves, too. Bear in mind a lot of them are kinda "copying" in one form or another, either duplicating an existing painting or just copying from a photo. I'm not really able to create my own compositions, but I get the feeling that's a huge challenge.

Art by Michael Carson

Art by Michael Carson

Sensual, luxurious, and elongated portraits painted by artist Michael Carson. His works have a classic like inspired influence from the likes of iconic post-impressionist artists such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, making them timeless beautiful pieces. See some selected works below:   artsy.net/artist/michael-carson

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