Penang through the paintbrush .

[nigelandjan]

[Phuketrichard]

i love them, the simplicity is very very appealing!!! 2 Thumbs up.
Wish i could paint

[nigelandjan]

Richard thankyou for those kind words .

Funny thing is you have mentioned a point Marmite touched on yesterday.

Whenever you approach a subject to paint a lot of people ( me included ) find it equally difficult as to what to leave out , as to put in so to speak.

You say you wish you could paint ? Well in Thailand you can buy some very inexpensive water colour paper nice and cheap , small A5 sizecwill do you nicely and a really cheap set of watercolour tube paint plus a couple of brushes .

Take a look at any of your excellent photos , through very near closed eyes , just open your eyes , paint away!

You might well be suprised , if you do please post it into either here or the artwork thread , more the merrier.

[nigelandjan]

Btw , sorry I have failed today on my 3 , my disabled sil has fallen over twice hurt her back and I am on standby to pick her up from the doctors .

However I plan to do a nice acrylic amongst other things tommorow , so we,ll see what turns up.

[ossierob]

Well done Nigel they are interesting and you definitely have some talent for it
...I cant paint or sketch for shit either

[Dillinger]

I like it when Nige says you can pick up some nice cheap watercolours, brushes, acrylics , oils, acrylic and an anvil in Thailand and maybe you might surprise yourself and be the new Van Gogh, instead of the spastic with banana fingers you were at school

[nigelandjan]

Well you never know mate .

I well remember being given huge sheets of sugar paper to paint on plus a huge horrible bristle brush a pot of water and powder paint.

We was told to paint the whole sheet of paper dont leave any white paper showing , it was with dire results.

I remember seeing some brilliant artwork from one of the Krays , he discovered he could paint whilst inside , and I reckon with a bit of encouragement others might suprise themseles.

Painting is a great hobby , no matter the result , its theraputic , your no bother to other people , it whiles away the hours , especially out here in village boredomville , where I see the same foreigners as I cycle round midday onwards sitting drinking everyday through the sheer boredom of it .

Happy painting , looking forward to what turns up today.

[blue]

Nice quick art Nigel
your work is getting better as the days pass,
reminds me of the stuff at Urban Sketchers website
like this lady who recently visited Georgetown too

Urban Sketchers: Sketching in Penang

it's an interesting website, maybe was recommended at TD before ,
there's even entries from Bangkok

Urban Sketchers: Search results for bangkok

[Loy Toy]

As always I commend and appreciate your talent Nigel.

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou kindly Blue for your words of encouragement .

Thankyou even more for that fantastic link , unfortunately bbecause of the crap signal I have here I cant view all the pics , but when I get home I,m gonna try and join that group.

[kingwilly]

Do you sketch it in pencil first? I've tried, but mine look horrible.

[Mr Lick]

I mistakenly thought the title thread was 'Peeing through the paintbrush' so a visit to the opticians I believe may be in order.

Great work as usual Nigel. It may not be too complimentary to call you the Rolf Harris of the northern hemisphere at this particular moment in time but I hope you know what I mean.

Can't green you atm sadly

[Phuketrichard]

Richard thankyou for those kind words .

Funny thing is you have mentioned a point Marmite touched on yesterday.

Whenever you approach a subject to paint a lot of people ( me included ) find it equally difficult as to what to leave out , as to put in so to speak.

You say you wish you could paint ? Well in Thailand you can buy some very inexpensive water colour paper nice and cheap , small A5 sizecwill do you nicely and a really cheap set of watercolour tube paint plus a couple of brushes .

Take a look at any of your excellent photos , through very near closed eyes , just open your eyes , paint away!

You might well be suprised , if you do please post it into either here or the artwork thread , more the merrier.

I have a hard time drawing a simple house!!! Back at the sf Art institue i had to take a drawing class, the teacher gave me a C ONLY becuase she knew i was a photography major :-)

[nigelandjan]

Yes Willy , but only very lightly about a blunt 2B will do the job nicely ,, no details for me only the main frame guide , everything else goes in live , you cannot repair watercolour mistakes , so it keeps it exciting , and bloody frustrating !

[nigelandjan]

Thankyou kindly LT will try to get more done as soon as.


Willy I dont know if this is any help mate , I actually pencilled this one in with an HB as the ghost is using my 2B at the moment















And then
















You cant really notice too much , but anyway these are just quickies

[nigelandjan]

Btw , can you see the tiny image above on the back of my camera I,m using as reference

[kingwilly]

Yep. You've got an artist's eye for seeing that and then reducing to simplicity that masks the depth of the vision. Looking at your pic I can hear the call to prayer, the busy shoppers, feel the oppressive tropical heat and smell garlic and chillies cooking amonst a general hubbub of background noises....

yet the photo is very ordinary.

[SiLeakHunt]

I've done a few abstracts in oil and other stuff, if I can work out how to upload them as photo's I might inflict them on you.

Cheers

[bankao dreamer]

I love that last painting pal, keep em coming

[nigelandjan]

Ok thanks SLK would love you efforts in the Post your artwork here thread please.

Easiest way mate is Photobucket account and simply click em in .

I for one would love to see any of your work , as no matter what , we can all learn from others viewpoints .

[Bobcock]

Why didn't a you paint the cars in!

[nigelandjan]

Can do Bob , but this is just quick sketch time , full paintings take time and planning.

Tbh I have no problem painting figures , cars , vehicles etc as in my painting thread , but this is really about the buildings of the area , just as quick as I can .

I have managed 3 today , mabe tommorow I will spend a bit of time on a vehicle / figure painting , trouble is it wont be in watercolour as I have no masking fluid so it will be in acrylic or pastel.

Will try my best

[Bobcock]

it was a joke.... far far better without cars

[nigelandjan]

Ok mate , sorry missunderstood , tbh I hate the bloody things in paintings.

Anyway hope a cycle meets with your approval

[kingwilly]

Ok mate , sorry missunderstood , tbh I hate the bloody things in paintings.

Anyway hope a cycle meets with your approval

That looks like brick work, but it's just the texture of the paper, is it not?