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6th July 2008, 21:29
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Property in Turgutreis
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Calling All Artists!
Hi there, just wondering how many artists have we here? Do you paint in your spare time while at home and do you leave a supply of paint materials in Turkey for when you visit? I paint mostly in acrylics myself. I took quite a lot of photos recently while on holiday in West Kerry, Ireland. I also get inspired while in Turkey. I love to paint landscapes and also seascapes. My favourite are the autum scenes. I like to paint on 20" X 16" boards or even larger. Sometimes I use canvas.
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6th July 2008, 21:35
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Ceni
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Re: Calling All Artists!
Hi Sammi.
I do watercolours, same as you I like landscapes best. I have done some from photographs but usually just from " my minds eye".
I did a set of 4 of the Ghost Village a couple of years ago.
I've also, in the past done quite a few Pen & Ink and love doing flowers with pastels.
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6th July 2008, 22:27
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Re: Calling All Artists!
hi
where do you buy your paints from?
as a fellow artist based in uk and an apartment in Altinkum i was wondering how you cope in the heat isnt oil better?
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6th July 2008, 22:48
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Re: Calling All Artists!
Hi Ceni, doing a group of 4 is a good idea. Did you get them framed!
Hi Larry and Caron, I do my painting in Turkey when the weather is cooler. I buy my Windsor & Newton paints at home and bring out to Turkey. I bought brushes and a table easel in an art and framing shop in bodrum.
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6th July 2008, 22:56
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Ceni
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Re: Calling All Artists!
I've not had to buy any paints since I've been here as I bought a large supply of everything with me. I've not really seen any good quality artist materials around here anyway....I'm getting low on good brushes. The Turkish made ones I've seen in town and tried are quite frankly Carp!
As for paints and Pastel pencils or oil pastels...not found any yet down this neck of the woods.
I'm putting them on my list for friends to bring out and then theres always good old Ebay.
I don't use Oil's so can't tell you how they cope with the heat.
KKOB made me a lovely huge wooden Artist Box, everything is kept in there and under the marble stairs where it's nice and cool.
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6th July 2008, 23:03
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Ceni
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Re: Calling All Artists!
Yes I got them framed and they are on my wall.
My parents home in the UK is pratically an Art Gallery. My Mother coveted almost everything I painted unless it was a gift for someone lol.
Do you manage to keep your work for yourself? Give it as presents? I can now I live here lol.
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7th July 2008, 09:19
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Re: Calling All Artists!
yes I too paint for my living, but its not easy in GB with galleries taking 40%!!! I mostly use pastels and have not yet found them in the Bodrum area, though they are light weight so easy to take with me along with blocks of coloured paper. If I want to take single sheets of paper with me I roll them into a peice of platic pipe to keep them un-creased for the journey. The light is wonderful for painting in Turkey but I'm afraid personally I got a bit bored with painting the landscape because I find one bit of blue sea, rocky coastline and olive covered hillside to look pretty much the same as the next. I do paint huge single flowerheads sometimes and my nudes have sold well. I've always painted and got really spoilt in my younger years since my father was a ceramic artist and had his own gallery - no commision to pay and put any framing on the business account! Today we have our own framing workshop, but still can't get over the 40% commision so am going to do some art & craft fairs next summer and also thinking of having my own exhibition if I can get at least 50 paintings together.
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8th July 2008, 17:38
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Re: Calling All Artists!
I have always sketched but recently took up water colours. I bought some from Fethiye along with Goache.
Loving every minute of it.
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8th July 2008, 18:28
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Re: Calling All Artists!
I found lovley acrylics in, I think, Onduler in Bodrum. I was expecting bright lurid colours and was pleasently surprised at the soft muted colours more suited to enlgish landscape, in fact I bought some home and they move beautifully.
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8th July 2008, 19:20
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Re: Calling All Artists!
I hope you dont mind my contribution as its nothing to do with painting but linked in a way.
Since I was about 13 I have been fascinated with photography and I developed and printed my own photographs in our bathroom whilst at school and took photos of my schoolmates. I had a little Kodak brownie box camera at the time and got great enjoyment from it.
I have had a variety of SLR cameras all 35mm before the digital age and these ranged from a Pentax ME Super to a Canon T70 and I bought various secondhand lenses from a Tamron Zoom to a Macro for close ups.I would disappear some evenings and take pictures with a tripod of floodlit churches or early morning shots of leafy lanes etc.
When my business started I had no time for my hobby until recently but of course the digital age was upon us now. I gave all my old equipment away to our local college for use by one of the students and bought myself a Canon EOS 40D digital SLR camera after persuasion from Sue to continue my hobby.
The way shots can be composed and adjusted within the camera or on the computer via software is a revelation and it makes you feel like an artist although please dont think I am belittling your talents at all because we love looking at paintings and have several at home.
It has opened up a new world of being able to control what you produce in many ways as opposed to just a copy and you can create a mood by changing the saturation or hue filters on the camera software.
What Pldouglas says is quite right in that you can take scenes of landscapes ad infinitum and they can all look similar. It needs the scene taken looking between the uprights of a stile ,a clump of meadow grass or something which leads your eyes into the scene. Closeups of flora or anything to do with nature are fascinating and take you into a new world where you realise that a picture of a coastline or a view is only a small part of the worlds beauty.
On our Canon website was a picture of 5 or maybe 6 Greek or Turkish girls all with headscarfs taken from one end and the picture focused on one who was looking towards the camera with a huge smile!!! with the rest in soft focus and it was brilliant. The mood was there and you were drawn in.
I know we have our movie cameras and films but NOTHING beats the capture and mood of that moment in time which is the thing with painting as it is a piece of history that will last long after all the DVD,s and movies are gone.
I admire painters that can do that and it is a raw talent to be nourished and used.
I hope that through my hobby( reincarnated) I can get similar feelings to a painter and learn to enjoy what has always been a love of mine since a kid in Cornwall.
My wife Sue and I rarely pass an art gallery without a look and you can stare for ages at a picture and literally feel what the painter did when they composed it.I think emotion can come out of a still picture(painting/photo etc),a fleeting experience or music and its one of life,s great feelings.
Excuse the rabbiting but I felt it was worth a supportive comment to all painters as well as the link to my hobby in a roundabout way.
Last edited by Terry&Sue : 8th July 2008 at 19:23.
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