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Aristus
(66,530 posts)Quixote1818
(29,025 posts)Quixote1818
(29,025 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Demonaut
(8,938 posts)Nay
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(52,503 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)TygrBright
(20,780 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Guess Ill have to tell the wife I have been with for 32 years we need to cut back!
roamer65
(36,748 posts)MLAA
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MLAA
(17,375 posts)Silver1
(721 posts)I'm an artist ...
Coming from an artist means a lot. A couple years ago I started taking oil painting lessons and am enjoying it immensely. What kind of art do you do?
Silver1
(721 posts)Haha. I've done some illustration in gouache, then watercolor. I moved to painting in oil, and studied portrait painting for a while. I really enjoyed it, but eventually moved to abstract painting. Now I'm torn between oils and acrylics, but still doing abstract work. It's really fun. Difficult ... but all creative work is.
What about you? What kind of work do you do?
I started taking oil painting lessons a couple of years ago after retiring and Im enjoying it immensely. I have come to realize I have about 25% talent and 75% stickedtoitness! I just keep reworking paintings until they get better! I have tried a couple people portraits but they were only so-so. after going to the National Portrait Gallery I got super motivated. Not too long ago when my sisters beloved dog passed I painted his portrait and she loved it. After that I started painting all my friendscats. I seem to do better with animals than people. I would send you a couple pics but havent mastered how to do that in DU direct messaging or posting. I would like to start taking commissions at some point for pet portraits but I am so slow (and require regular critiques from my teacher) that the portraits will cost far more than I could sell them for 😬
Funny you mentioned you moved to abstract painting as that is all I collected for many, many years. I have since added some still lifes but I still love abstracts best. Frankenthaler and Sam Francis are two of my favorites.
greyl
(22,990 posts)Igel
(35,390 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Or maybe we should? But
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The republican incel crowd is devoted to their russian porn rations.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,929 posts)Well that explains my love life.
Darn.
IcyPeas
(21,955 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,191 posts)but do people now really have so much less sex than we did in the 70s? I was kind of a nerdy asshole back then and I still managed to have a decent sex life.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I always thought it was the small hand thumbs up emoji...I stand corrected.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)I can't count the number of times I've told younger people that I don't speak emoji
(I get a few of the basics - smile, wink, pile of shit, etc, but not all the variations... especially when you can't hover over one to get the meaning on your phone)
hunter
(38,353 posts)... until they started talking?
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Or "more" is not much greater than "less".
DavidDvorkin
(19,510 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)If I were to guess, I'd say this correlation is because emoji users slant younger than the general population.
ETA: Similarly, grade school students with larger feet are better readers. That's because 6th graders are better readers than first graders and have larger feet. Correlation is not causation.
PJMcK
(22,074 posts)Never needed them and don't particularly like them.
Besides, just look at the size of my hands! Everything is fine, believe me.
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)mshasta
(2,108 posts)Only 3 thats all I get
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I always appreciate a good emoji, but when texting with a friend or chatting on FB, I prefer words instead of pictures of peaches and aubergines.