>>5606

I distinctly remember part of my GCSE or A level art assignments was to fill in a portfolio of work over the summer holidays. Naturally I left it all to the very last minute, so in the last couple of days before term started I was doing shite like just splashing paint randomly over photographs and drawing coloured circles over a blank page. No context, no thought whatsoever, just anything I could think of to fill the 40-odd pages I was meant to have done by the deadline.

I was both furiously pissed off while holding myself back from laughing when my teacher praised some of that shit higher than the stuff I had actually spent hours of time on. From then on I knew what art is really all about. If you can troll cunts with absolute bollocks and get away with it- That's the highest form of art.

I could go into a whole spiel about how art relates to the capitalist mode of production and all that but I'm sure you already know the kind of thing I'm getting at. And even then I hate it because such rationalisation retroactively justifies and elevates the bollocks, even when it was intentionally bollocks.

Did you hear about the artist in Sweden who just nicked a hundred grand out of an exhibit and called that his exhibit? Respect to that man, a true artist's artist. But it's tragic that that's where it's come to.

Soz but I've been drinking and replied to the wrong thread on asterisk, if a mod can delete the other post that'd be cool

>>5605

if only I'd known about this years ago

>>5607

>I was both furiously pissed off while holding myself back from laughing when my teacher praised some of that shit higher than the stuff I had actually spent hours of time on. From then on I knew what art is really all about. If you can troll cunts with absolute bollocks and get away with it- That's the highest form of art.

You say that but I've done the same thing with French homework.

I studied at the Russian academy in st Petersburg briefly. Well, just the prepatory school. It's gotten absolutely brutal to enter in recent years. But that's exactly what it sounds like you want. Nothing has changed there since the 19th century, they don't use artificial lighting when painting in the gloom of winter and they all kinds of other autism like wrapping paper while soggy around a "planchett" instead of using bulldog clips like civilized people. Go try the summer school to get a feel for it, its just a month in either June or July.

>>5608
Yeah, me too mate.

>>5607
It's called being cynical, or postmodernism. It leads to hatred and it spreads like fire; and like fire it can only destroy.

The Rolf Harris picture in the OP is back up for sale. They're asking £350 for it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114999137682

>>5600

This was not touched by Rolf Harris, it is just an authorised printed copy.

>>5601
He must have signed it very carefully if he never touched it.

>>5601

>This was not touched by Rolf Harris

For once.






I'll get my coat.

>>5600

Is that frame really worth £347.80?

As far as I can tell, the first one at least was produced for Fratelli Bonella which is a publisher of religious art based in Milan. They could also just be one of the thousands of people selling shitty prints.
I had quite a thorough look for it and all I've learned is that Catholics do not give a fuck about crediting their artists. Maybe it's idolatry.
In your shoes I'd just look for the highest resolution images I can on google (or take some better photos of the ones you have), blow them up in photoshop, apply some filters to make them look roughly like they were painted at that resolution then get them printed somewhere decent.

What's the budget for the project? The lads in Dafen Village will paint you a reproduction in oils for about £50.

https://www.dafenvillageonline.com/

>>5570
Seems like a waste if they'll do a reproduction of the Mona Lisa for the same price.

>>5571
I think the Mona Lisa is over hyped. Don't get me wrong it is fine, but a portrait of a woman with unnaturally smooth skin and body shape and flat hair has always seemed unremarkable to me outside of historical context, even compared to painters of a relatively similar period.

I'd much rather comission a copy of Vigo the Carpathian myself.

>>5572
Seems like a waste if they'll do a reproduction of the Vigo the Carpathian for the same price.

>>5562
That's actually a really nice monitor stand.

>>5555 >>5556

Neither of these but they're both class.

Well this is odd, I'm pretty sure I'm searching for the same video. Last I saw it was years ago, but was it called something all in caps? Like "META" something?

>>5558
Well thanks to you I just went searching again, and even though I spent hours on this the other night and turned up with nothing, I've just found the video I was looking for. Is this the one, OP?

https://vimeo.com/65545689

>>5559

Bloody well done. Thank you for you time!

Were you guys looking cos of this or did it crop up independently?

>>5560
Sorry both those posts were me. No I'd thought about it a few weeks ago and tried to find it, all I could remember was the "META" part, but I spent a good half an hour searching various sites and using different combinations of searches and turned up with nothing at all so I gave up. Then I see this and found it within 5 minutes. Universe is weird, but thank you as well.

>>5548
Looks very nice. I imagine a bit spendy though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

Ah, my deep dream submission finally processed.

But admittedly there's much better stuff.

>>3137

>>5209
A faint cold thrill rushes through my veins.

>>5486
What kind of graphics design?

I used to like logos and the sort, and I came across Aaron Draplin, I like his stuff, and it sort of motivated me to do the same.

>>5486
Pay someone else on fiverr or something and pass it off as your own work.

>>5489
Speaking of which, I was doing some diagrams on adobe illustrator, and I was too lazy making some basic shapes, so I found a library with thousands of stock .svg / .eps format shapes, you can download them for free but it says "you MUST credit the creator", ummm.... yeah, ok, sure thing.

You get the impulse to create art at unexpected times during the day. Follow that urge, then you store away that little nugget of creation into your palette. You can then recall these little nuggets when you need them. You won't ever have a 'complete' palette of what you think you need, but you don't need to have one; people enjoy the unique combination of artistic insight that your work will bring.

>>5486
I manage not to, in a fit of self-doubt, laziness and boredom. Sorry I could not help you lad.

>>5533
Thats quite a Rubiks Cube.

>>5533
Sneaked in a cheeky swastika.
those Asians eh?

>>5509
Thanks lad. I was thinking of building my own light table, but you can get them for a tenner off ebay anyway, so that's tempting. I will think about the macro lens but I already have a set of extension tubes and there seems to be a decent amount of resolution with my 50mm at f/8, and I suppose I could go even closer and stitch them together.

With regards to film developing, I don't really have access to a dark enough room.

>>5510

You need a darkroom for making prints, but you don't need one to develop film. All the developing happens inside an opaque plastic cylinder. To load the film into the developing cylinder, you use a changing bag - an opaque black cloth bag with two elasticated holes for your hands. There's a bit of a knack to it, but it's not nearly as difficult as you might imagine. A film changing bag costs about £15 and is handy for all sorts of other tasks.

>>5511
>A film changing bag costs about £15 and is handy for all sorts of other tasks.
Like a playground?

Max Spielmann have a student discount and do 120 if that's any use.

>>5505

Before I enlarged this image I thought it was a funny photoshop of a two legged cat sasquatch creature lumbering to the left.

>>5520

Here's the final photo in the series.

>>5517
Nice. How should we interpret this?

>>5522

Brexit.