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Medium: Acrylic paint on Butcher's Paper. Painted when small.
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posted by Anonymous at 1:30 PM
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Art Party in the Comments
Medium: Acrylic paint on Butcher's Paper. Painted when small.
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Details included on right.
posted by Anonymous at 1:30 PM
68 Comments:
Always knew what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be ... even when small. Even the green hair hahahaha!
That's so cute - you with a paint brush. So, you have green hair now?
Luv the strawberry dress you were wearing back then, Anonymous! And green hair could mean growth, freshness, and life. In other words, vibrancy !
Thank goodness you dicided not to be a politician, we have enough of them clogging our lives already.
Unless of course, you were a GOOD politician. Then it'd be ok...
Paint, baby, paint !
:-)
Hahahaaa, not at the moment Janey, but green was my first colour choice when began hair colouring :)
I made a stawberry dress just like that years later! Who said I was never a politician Steve - and a good one - hehehee. Still painted ...
Love the way you think! What I admire most about your work is the fact that you express yourself w/ various forms of art and always remain true to yourself as an artist! You had style and technique even when you were small!
this is so sweet!
You have just given the biggest compliment someone could give me Wilnara! Especially when the subject was so small :)
Didn't think about forthcoming 'sweet' and 'cute' comments before posting ... will have to be big and keep a big smile on face for a week. Thanks ValGalArt :)
Ha! What a great take on the theme! Obviously a self portrait. The bow in your hair is very daring. Almost as daring as the green hair and strawberry dress.
AH....GREEN is my favourite colour, but you knew that anyway. You have to love the butcher's paper as medium, many an (small) Aussie kid has used this as gateway to artistic creativity. Having said that I intend picking up a swag (can I say shitload in true Aussie style?) of Japanese betting coupons to utilise for financial and artistic purposes. Keep you posted on this, and will your piece be showing when I get back to Canberra next week?....arghhh my flight's being called.
Detlef
http://www.detlefjumpertz.com
Obviously Andrea! Hahaha, glad you like my daring taste :)
Naturally Detlef! I am amazed how non-yellow my Dad kept my old Butcher's paper artworks! You can say anything you like! Have positive results whilst in Tokyo!! Yes my piece is showing from 1st to 24th of December. Tootalooooo.
Not cute - prodigious! That painting within the painting would give Howard Hodgkin a run for his money :)
Do you still dance whilst painting?
lol
E
obviously your family used a quality butcher, who, in turn used quality butchers paper.
:)
thanks for coming by my blog.
funny how both the anonymouses are females from australia.
you have a great variety of styles here all really well done.
love scott
You're lucky to have artwork from your youth. I don't think I have anything before 13-14
You are SO generous Elaine; hope further commenters use the prodigious description instead of cute! How did you know this small child grew to be a classical dancer and artist :)
Teehee, Dad just knew a good way of archival storage by having a Darkroom Scott! You are either talking about your Anonymous who knows Belle or mine who is a Hellcat };-}
Anthony Woodward - Unfortunately only have youth artwork until age 6. Between then and late 20s, all was lost in a fire! Wish I had artwork from teens :)
i guess you love wearing those big red ribbons on your hair when you were small.
your painting was full of nice colors and i think you have started experimenting on how to blend them in her left arm and right lower arm and using a butcher paper was a way of your wanting to be heard. i thought you should have been a lawyer, too.
that's so cute! great that those drawings are still there... :)
Oh dear, oh dear I've been looking and looking to see the butcher and had convinced myself that your earliest intentions were to be one... now I've read the comments and realise I really had that one wrong.
Anyway this is what I saw whilst misdirected:
You are trying to chop something up but it has landed on your head and you are quite distressed - you have the choice of chopping it off or leaving it - you've left it so long that your hair has gone mouldy. Now you've decided its time to sort it out and you've approached the chopping table (on trestles). Your big knife is ready. Will there be any hair left when you've finished?
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Thank goodness I was wrong!
:-)
Remember being annoyed about the left arm blending (dress colour mixed unintentionally). The right lower arm is unquestionably a paint brush and its size tells of its importance :) Who said I was never a lawyer Isay - and a good one - hehehee. Still painted ...
I was not cute Vfm4! I was creative };-}
Hahahahaaa, guess you have also always been creative Caroline! This is the best description I have read on all of my IFs so far!!!
For non Australians - Butcher's Paper is what the butcher wraps meat in and all small Aussie kids do their first art on it :)
Splendid artwork, great colours and strokes... you indeed are prodigious!
Dear Anonymous butcher - I'm honoured.
Anonymous I agree with what Wilnara said.
This is too much.
I love the fact that back then you painted you painting.
and your love of those colors have not changed.
Bless you Dad for saving this bit of treasure
Visit again Constanthing!! And again and again and again :)
Dear Caroline creative - I'm honoured. Pssst think you were thinking of Hellcat };-}
Thanks Toni Kelly :) Dad is the greatest!
:D wish i had stuff i've done when i was small...nice take on the topic...and thank you for dropping by and leaving me a comment :)
Please don't tell Hellcat! She might be a butcher but I'm not sure I want her to know I saw that part of her...
wow,
I enjoyed to revise this site, Anonymous
very good works
What should I say after all of the above... Nice? YEP Nice! And we have this Butcher's Paper here in Canada too. Except that it is kind of dark salmon colour... Not very nice to draw on.... :o)
Wonderful. And thanks for including the details of the painting. Great brush strokes. You may have been small, but you were developing a good eye.
Hellooooooooo Caroline. Interesting comment };-}
Thanks for you dropping by Ratlion!
Caroline - Oh Dear.
Thank you Frank, thanks for looking!!
Dark salmon butcher's paper Merlinprincesse? We have a thin type that yellows and a thick expensive type that is a bright glossy white. The above was the thin type but it was taken good care of over the years. Salmon would look good using tints of colours :)
Aha Twisselman! My Dad is a photographer and I studied black and white photographs and negatives from a very early age. You have a good eye!
Hellcat - oh oh.
Gear
Yes the little lump is a full belly ; )
He needs to eat the right things. He choked on his legs at tea time.
anon
we yanks had butcher paper until about the 1970s when plastic wrap came on the scene... MAYbe telling you this owns up to my age so shhhhhh i like the blue eyes and blue nose very clear blue and neat to remind us of our art when we were small! also i like the small bits of art to inspect, you clever artist you!
-blarney
Modroom – gear or character of blog is what you want it to be. Glad your lump is a full belly although difficult to get stuffed when choking on legs!
Blarney/Patty - Do Yanks not have paper over the plastic so dogs and cats can only smell and vegetarians are spared a horrific sight? Those splodges on floor are deliberate footprints and her left hand has paint on it - worked it out after seeing the rest is 'clear' without lots of brown :) Thanks!
a treasure indeed! even as a youngster, you knew that beauty is in the details...fabulous bow in your hair!
thanks for visiting my blog again...very vibrant colours and good brush strokes...I hope the digital palette link in my post would be useful to eveybody!
Thankyou anonymous for bringing up childhood... somehow it seems to have shifted something for me.
Hellcat, I've posted a mouse for you!
Aha! Clearly you wanted to be an artist, but your parents wanted you to be a debutante; hence the book balanced on your head! No? Okay...you were as flamboyant as a child as you are now...a huge bow in your green hair and a wild polk-dot dress. And look at the strong, but controlled strokes...a budding artictic grenius, for sure! What fun that you shared this with us. I think we should all try to dig up our childhood art and have a "Then and Now Sunday" or something:> This is a great submission!
My bow IS absolutely fab The Crafty-Girl™ - thanks :)
You're right, your link will come in handy Aynaku - thanks for dropping by :)
Hope it isn't that creative matter in your head that has shifted Caroline :) Shhhhh, Hellcat has seen your message!
Haha, you are right my artist parents didn't want me to be an artist like their artist parents didn't - Carla! But Dad knew or he wouldn't have kept my artwork, and Mum worked in a library so she needed someone to balance all the books ;) We don't have debutantes or I didn't know about them, but I was a classical ballerina and already an artistic genius. Hheheheee. Thanks Carla!
Gosh you are a pure bred artist back to at least your grandparents? You handle it well!
such bold, yet confident brushstrokes! even then you had a great eye for color. wonderful!
You think so Caroline ... mmmm you did see my last week's 'close to insanity' as an operation ... hahahaha - lobotomy perhaps? Maybe I should hide that genetic information ... It's interesting I view blog owners as created characters; we grow to know a 'character' through their chosen portion of what they show. If you only knew the 'whole' of my characters Mwhahahaaaaa. That should have been said by Hellcat :)
Thankyou Angelique - thanks for visiting also :)
Of course we are created characters (we have to edit at least), but as you told me early on in our acquaintance all art is a self-portrait. I've been working with that ever since.
Hi Anon!
This is great. Really great. I know I have many artworks from way back when... in my parent's attic. Maybe somday I might look through them again.
And, as I see it, it kind of references back to 'free' - the littlest artists start out with no limits... other than the edges of the paper - and sometimes not even that!
Quick note: seeing this, and reading the comments reminded me of a conversation I distinctly remember from daycare; I was probably 4 or 5. I was chatting with some friends, one of whom brought in a page from a coloring book (colored in beautifully by an older relative, but I didn't know that until later). My first comment was something like "Wow, that's so good! How did you color inside all the lines like that!"
I amuse myself remembering this, that I could be have been that self aware - and so eager for control already! ;)
In general, I’m not sure I was ever very small (born two feet tall) or that free! :)
*Oh, in the States we use (or used) mostly newsprint paper in early art classes, which seems like it might be a thinner version of butcher’s paper.
Caroline - All art is a self portrait and life is an art form. Have lived by these words and they work for me :)
Hi M.B! It was a nice surprise when Dad gave me a folder a few years ago. I agree about your comments re eager for 'control' and believe it is society that begins such a horror - some take it on more readily than others :) You have hit the paper spot on; my small artwork was done on the thin butcher's paper which is actually newsprint paper - it has been whitened more in the digital process but kept very well in a Darkroom. Thanks for your notes!!
What a prodigy and how prescient!
Ah, poster paint. There's nothing quite like it. I like how the "A" for "Anonymous" was foretold in the painting!
Fantastic spin on the topic! What I really love is that this is a kind of existentialist self-portrait of the artist creating. Bonus points for the green hair and assured Whiteleyesque brushwork!
You flatter me Scribblesk! But very true :)
I still remember the smell of the same poster paint Tony LaRocca, and love it! You already knew I'm psychic :)
Thankyou Ian T! I was ahead of my time :) Thanks for the bonus points for the green hair and I assure you my mind was a lot clearer than Whitley's - or clear in regards to not having any help with clarity :)
Love this painting a lot!!
what an early artist!
It seems you had very clear ideas about your future. Great sense of colors . I love this early painting and the details: colors used to their best effect.
ROFLMAO @ "even my green hair"! :D
Heeeheeeeee! Love it!
Thankyou Alina Chau, Carla, The Mysterious Poodle!
Mick, get off the floor - it isn't THAT funny :)
Paula, you are right when eight I had a list of all the things I wanted to do before I was old (30) and did them all (just).
sorry, i didn't steal yr identity,i just leave msg form non-user identity~ r u just kidding to me? haha
yr pic is full of happiness, i like this painting:)
You are always surprising me!! So much fun! What's next, what's next?
Hello Karden, no I'm not kidding but laughing because it means anyone who says they have a non-user identity on live journal will get this blog as their link! Although might not laugh because many 'anonymous' commentors are anonymous for a bad reason. Thanks for liking my painting :)
Too much pressure IDahl - which I love! BTW I put your small recipe on son's desk and after I denied being the one to put it there he asked how it could appear like magic. Well ... one eyebrow was then raised. We are buying a thimble tomorrow and already have a magic wand :)
Good idea using art done while small! I wish I had some of mine too. Although I do recall my artwork from ages 4-5, particularly making pumpkin and tree etc. shaped books with construction paper covers and newsprint pages. Oh, and that icky cold, gluey feel after finger painting for too long!
This is great, simple and direct. I got your idea!
Too bad you already have a magic wand, I was going to offer to send you one of mine:(
Thanks for the update on son's reaction!! He's so lucky to have you as his mom!
Is he as delightfully brilliat as his mom?
Hhahaa - thanks for reminding me of that cold icky finger paint Claire Louise Milne! Your 4-5 artwork must have been important to you :)
Thank you Tiffy!!!
We have LOTS of magic wands LDahl .. they keep multiplying, might be a spell at work :) Of course my two sons are brilliant! The son you are referring to took the recipe to his grandparent's today for cooking but forgot the walnut shell (temporary lapse of brilliance) but did choose a black forest cake to take along for morning tea that had cherries on top (one was mysteriously missing - delightful?). You would be pleased to know the recipe is now in a special jewellery box on a high shelf owned by my niece who when old enough to read and reach the shelf, will find a small torn piece of paper with tiny writing giving instructions on how to make the world's smallest cherry pie! Son is still going to make the pie at home when walnuts are in the shops within the next few weeks for Christmas!
Obviously art is an inherent talent for you... Green hair?? hehe!
What a colourful surprise! Is that a bow on your head?
Hehee Sara ... green hair WAS exquisite taste! No chlorine involved.
Thank you String! Shhhhhhhhhhh I probably thought all little girls grew big bows then; I prefer Caroline's description of it being a chunk of meat when being a butcher - much nicer.
ohh can't say this is not cute and sweet.. first thought it was finger painting.. and lol @ the green hair.. you too?? so when did you have it? lol.. i used coolaid juice to make mine green, red, blue (a decade ago) tssk..
hehe just like mine...
Always thought meaning to 'cute' was ugly but interesting Atomicvelvetsigh! Lets just say it was more than a decade ago I had the green hair, so can't remember exactly how it was done ... but have tried everything :)
You are right Irvine - think you are younger than me! :)
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