IsabellaLinton wrote:
I'm quite interested in art history and colour theory.
I am more into a particular range of artistic expression in history, namely involving synaesthesia ~ ranging from more ancient cave paintings to more modern movements involving Pointillism and Cubism, as I identify with seeing things as such. In respect of colour theory I get on most with Rudolph Steiner's approach.
IsabellaLinton wrote:
In terms of my own skill, I can't draw and I can't sculpt. I'm terrible at 3D and spatial sense. I'm OK with abstract painting but it isn't a style I particularly like, so I don't do it much. Somehow, I'm able to sketch with charcoal fairly well because it can be more casual, and I can blend.
It seems we are polar opposites as I did not get on with charcoal as it was too cumbersome and messy for me, and messy for my portfolio when I forgot to use fixative. When it came to charcoal drawing and oil painting ~ I found going for pencil crayons and acrylic paints instead was definitely my thing.
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I'm obsessed with adult colouring books (Check out the Wuthering Heights one on Amazon UK; it's incredibly beautiful).
I am really into the geometric colouring books myself ~ only I have not gotten any since I finished off my pencil crayon set and have yet to replace it, as the local art supplier closed some time back now ~ and the pencils crayons I like are specialist jobs.
I really liked a number of the ones in the WT colouring book ~ but not so much the human representations as they were just a little bit too cartoon-like for my tastes. I very much like the work of Alphonse Mucha in terms of representing people, and I especially like the naturalistic borders or framework designs common to the Art Nouveau or Art Deco style. I really like stained glass window colouring books too ~ but oh my whole life I really loath any colouring books having single images over two pages, what with the divide between them. An idea keeps coming up though of going to the local printers and copying and pasting the images together on really decent quality paper ~ which does have quite some appeal about it for me.
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I"m also obsessed with the smell of playdoh and the smell of fingerpaint (childhood)
I can really relate with liking the playdoh smell, and have known many people who like it too ~ plus the fingerpaint thing but I have never been able to relate with that one myself.
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Do you like gardening?
I used to in the practical sense as I used to do it for work, but now I am a vicarious gardener who shares an interest in others practical or historical gardening experiences ~ it's especially nice seeing newbie veg gardeners being all excited about their first crop.
Are you a gardening type?
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