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Stuart, my first name is Jason by the way.

I find writing in the first person tone hard too because you find that describing yourself is hard, especially since you have AS and social difficulties sometimes.

I'm glad you know how to use the five senses also.

I don't have a favorite artist, I like a lot! You name it: )[/quote]


I noticed you didin't list any artists from the last ten years. At college I'm given a shake of the head for not taking enough interest in the modern era. It may be that I find the deep past a lot safer. Jules Cheret really fills a poster doesn't he - he must have really liked Toulouse Lautrec.

When I went to start the degree I promised myself I wouldn't be hanging chickens from the ceiling. I've tried to look at unusual artists working today. A man named Glenn Brown (born 1966) is quite peculiar. His paintings make you feel like.... like (like that face - if I've punched in the right face).

> You're right, first person is tough and for the same reason. I can't use "I" because I'm not really sure if I'll come across as believable. Fortunately my characters are all on the spectrum (not sure I would know how to invent a non-A.S. character). There was a point when my main character had to answer a knock at the door. It took me ages to get my main character and his first visitor to talk to each other - I kept writing a bit of speech and then deleting it (it took me four weeks). This was because I hadn't a clue what people say to each other. After pages of pages of all kinds of attempts I finally found something. The visitor says to my main charcater: "It's me," and walks in.

Mostly they don't talk to each other. (I know it may seem that I'm writing the world's dullest book ) but in fact I spend a lot of time having the characters remember years gone by and I just tell the reader what happened, what they thought and felt. Writing is good on rainy nights. In fact there's a lot of weather in the story.

Yes, that's just us, Stuart.

That book sounds nice, and I'm sure it's very interesting

about artists:

Yeah, didn't mention newer artists, just went a few weeks ago to an art expo of modern art, it was very very cool, it's a shame that they didn't let people take pictures, my fave one was a piece by Douglas Gordon, it was a video about an elephant inside a museum, a living elephant...

another one I liked a lot was by Ari Saal, he was "DJing", playing music while the city he was in was being !bombarded! you could see the explosions in the distance, quite a shock.

Oh last thing. quick fact: Cheret started before Lautrec (Cheret was born about 30 years before Lautrec, me just did a homework about him).

> I think I saw photos of the elephant in a journal or somewhere. Douglas Gordon is interesting isn't he. I get the impression that he's tackling the modern identity crisis with stuff like "tattoo" and another one called "List of names (random)". An elephant in a museum There's that old phrase: "An elephant never forgets"....wonder if that's why he put a living elephant amongst the past; a kind of humour on the surface of what he does.

I've often thought that if I ever managed to produce something caught a headline then I wouldn't be able to go into the party-scene like a lot of these big names do. Having said that there are a lot of really quiet rising artists. I'm just about to have a look at a very quiet and subtle one. A Japanese female artist named Ryoko Aoki.

I'm just about to have a look at a very quiet and subtle one. A Japanese female artist named Ryoko Aoki.[/quote]

Oh - my spelling's bad. = Ryoko Aoki.

I just saw some works by Glenn Brown, very interesting

Didn't fully understood this, english is not my native language, what I understood is that you won't know how to act if you become somewhat famous?

Don't worry man, these people expect artists to be eccentric


Hang chickens!

Hang chickens!

Haaaang chickeeEEEEEns!


I just did a horse mask (almost lifesize), and made it part of a "dirty sex" costume, condoms and hand-cuffs included


Not closely related to art, but I'm trying to learn electronics, sewing/cross stitch, and computer graphics and you?

I'm kinda new to WP, I signed up a long time ago and they never came back

Didn't fully understood this, english is not my native language, what I understood is that you won't know how to act if you become somewhat famous?

> Sorry about my confusing babble. What I meant to say was that if an artist becomes famous they are required to promote their work. Their agents often want them to be seen in public and have their work shown in the papers a lot.

If I was a famous artist (unlikely) I would probably say something really foolish to the newspapers (like talking about chickens :0).

As for the chickens... It was something Warhol said about just wanting to be famous and live a life amongst famous people. When he finally became as famous as the stars in his giant prints, he told people he didn't need to do any more artwork because his art was just a ticket to a famous life. He said: "Look below the surface of my art, there you will find nothing."

Your horse mask sounds really dramatic Electronic and computer graphics sounds like a real head-full of complicated things I've a very poor short-term memory - so the specialist told me and that's what makes drawing a good option for me.)

I'm studying a fine art degree here in the uk, but I save up and pay for one module at a time. (I've about four years to go). They're very spectrum-friendly at college, they let me choose my favourite rooms to work in.

Hi user1005272,

You've done really well. I was a bit confused when I first joined WP (about a week or so ago) and I wasn't sure what to do. (I'm still a bit confused (But then I do have a memory problem )

The little bit I do know is that the screen before this one is has some boxes called "sticky questions about you". I forgot to fill in one of these. (Huh...) The sticky questions are just questions about what you're interested in, what music you listen to and stuff.

Oh, I think that on a list on the first main page there's something there called your account. (It's nothing to with banks or anything ). There's a button there called Edit Profile. I think that's where you can change your forum name (I think).

Well done again and Welcome.

no man, I have to say thank you, because I learned something new in english



I remember that I read in a magazine not too long ago that an artist got expelled from his own exposition!! He went to the opening, but was dressed so poorly, in rags, that security asked him to leave! And he left. Fortunately one of the people in charge of the expo saw him and stopped him from leaving! True story.




Thanks! the horse was a success, our classroom made a little expo at school, we showed work from that semester, posters, masks, etc., and the horse was a success, well, the pile of condoms around the horse were a success, all of them "dissapeared"

I'd like to learn simple electronics, nothing complicated, just enough to make lights flicker, things like that.




Do you have a gallery online? There's a post in the Art sub-forum called "show us your artwork", so, show us your artwork man!

Do you have a gallery online? There's a post in the Art sub-forum called "show us your artwork", so, show us your artwork man![/quote]

The image-files are too big for the gallery/album here.

I'm a member of a small group of artists and photographers called eat-art (some have disabilities and others don't). A local government voluntary groups project is preparing a site but we've been waiting months for it to open Eventually it should be a small web-exhibition.

We have a small temporary site but I've only a piece of assemblage on it, called Patience/modesty. The site was donated by a web-designer who wanted to help us.

The site won't hold a full series of drawings or the whole group's work so we're sort of leaving the site hanging in cyberspace.

The little site's address is: www.eat-art.co.uk

The little site's address is: www.eat-art.co.uk[/quote]

No - that's wrong - it's:

www.eat-art.org.uk