Oil vs water color

: Now Les...

: JS Sargent, Winslow Homer, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper hardly fall into that first category. Granted, there are a lot of "Tea and Crumpet Society" practitioners also here in the US, probably because of WC's perceived "ease of handling" (ha!) over messy, smelly oils, but you cant blame the medium for that. (and hey, more power to anyone picking up a brush-pencil-pen and going at it). I'll agree that oil is considered by the masses to be a more "serious" medium, but they've been known to be wrong before. WC can be as much a forceful medium as it can be a delicate one.

: One of the most vital steps in developing into a serious artist is to disregard all preconceptions and expectations for medium, working methods and subject matter. I dont think there's any great work of art in history where someone didnt shriek to the creator "Why in the world are you (using)(painting)(doing) THAT? Thats not how its done!"

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Jeff G.,

Thanks, I posted here two days ago before all of the above went down and it didn't go through....could've been me---i was also saying that not only did MEDIUM mean diddly squat as far as seriousness goes( ok well barring elephant dung and urine--those guys are just serious about not being taken seriously) but also to include examples(Homer, Wyeth) of strong watercolors.

Also that there's nothing wrong about supplying someone with an album cover image, making a living, and producing good art ALL AT THE SAME TIME just as folks like Frank Frazetta and Charles White III did.

Then the fall of the rebel angels up there so i just stayed away for a bit> just got done clicking on all of them just to change the color of the post title so i could at a glance see anything of VALUE that MIGHT pop up. Do you have a site or anything, Jeff G.?

-bri

 
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