I am Crazy…

[Quantum12]

I still don't see it as "angry".  Foreboding at best.  ;o)

I would love to create art with you.   Warning:   I REALLY love lime green.

  What I meant is it’s 5 feet x 3 I messed it up when it was almost done. I had to paint ver a lot of it lol. So it got anger for me!

[ANNEE]

AWESOME!

[Quantum12]

AWESOME!

Thank you Annee!

[DontTreadOnMe]

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This took a long time to paint…It made me go wild and mental 

Drifting and gliding over glass, glasses of water with hills…Water with friends…Friends for life…Friends who mate…Mate as invisible friends…

The water has rolling hills…Hills of love called rapids…As you mate you get sucked into bliss…Bliss from the other side…

The waves we generate in the world are ours to own…Generate only beauty!♥️

Wonderful painting.
Very relaxing, great colors.

[Quantum12]

That is a real nice painting.

I found out that if I watch four or five Bob Ross teaching videos, I can paint fairly good, but a month later the hypnotics wear off so I have to watch another couple videos.

I can paint houses well, paint cars half way decent, and can paint anything that doesn't require immagination without stirring my interest up. 

I painted murials on my mail box, driving down the road at thirty miles an hour they look pretty good, but nothing like this painting.  My problem is I like painting nature, and perfection in nature is actually not perfect at all, most trees are not pruned, many have broken branches.  I gave up at painting animals...Can't tell a mouse from a moose when I paint them, I can paint old barns in a field, but nothing actually good.  But if a car hits my mailbox, I can buy another mailbox and watch a couple of bob ross videos again. 

Tricky painting with urathane car paints and clear coating when done.  I bought out the paints and reducers and activators from a friend of mine who owned a body shop before he sold it for a hundred bucks.  There were a lot of paints, activators, and reducers...a pickup box full.  Many I gave away to friends to paint their cars and anything they wanted to paint, I still have enough to paint maybe a hundred mailboxes.  Mixing those things and doing the painting in ten minutes  to paint pictures takes more time than actually painting them...lots of tiny brushes to wash too.  My brother and I  used up three gallons of clear coat and two gallons of color on painting cars, so a hundred bucks wasn't expensive at all.  Had enough activators and reducers too.  There were enough primers alone that would cost over a hundred bucks, also lots of cleaning chemicals for bare metal and pre-cleaning before painting.  I did bring lots of half quarts and pints to the monthly collection site for hazardous waste, because some of the colors were not what I would use or the activators were expensive for them.

I also bought like ten

I bet you are a great painter. It’s had to draw animals. 

I have not watched his videos. I am going to so I can learn better. For me painting is seeing a vision in my head and forming a foundation first. I am not a great painter.  I try to express my vision and in the end after I argue with my self and the painting it comes out ok!

[argentus]

That is a real nice painting.

I found out that if I watch four or five Bob Ross teaching videos, I can paint fairly good, but a month later the hypnotics wear off so I have to watch another couple videos.

I can paint houses well, paint cars half way decent, and can paint anything that doesn't require immagination without stirring my interest up. 

I painted murials on my mail box, driving down the road at thirty miles an hour they look pretty good, but nothing like this painting.  My problem is I like painting nature, and perfection in nature is actually not perfect at all, most trees are not pruned, many have broken branches.  I gave up at painting animals...Can't tell a mouse from a moose when I paint them, I can paint old barns in a field, but nothing actually good.  But if a car hits my mailbox, I can buy another mailbox and watch a couple of bob ross videos again. 

Tricky painting with urathane car paints and clear coating when done.  I bought out the paints and reducers and activators from a friend of mine who owned a body shop before he sold it for a hundred bucks.  There were a lot of paints, activators, and reducers...a pickup box full.  Many I gave away to friends to paint their cars and anything they wanted to paint, I still have enough to paint maybe a hundred mailboxes.  Mixing those things and doing the painting in ten minutes  to paint pictures takes more time than actually painting them...lots of tiny brushes to wash too.  My brother and I  used up three gallons of clear coat and two gallons of color on painting cars, so a hundred bucks wasn't expensive at all.  Had enough activators and reducers too.  There were enough primers alone that would cost over a hundred bucks, also lots of cleaning chemicals for bare metal and pre-cleaning before painting.  I did bring lots of half quarts and pints to the monthly collection site for hazardous waste, because some of the colors were not what I would use or the activators were expensive for them.

I also bought like ten

I like watercolor, although it has been years.   I like that it is flowing, but also rigid in that what is done is done and you'll only muddy it up trying to fix it.  My Darlin's grandmother gave me a great tip about painting watercolor, and it might apply to your desire to paint nature.   She said, "sometimes it is useful to squint and blur your vision to remove the detail.   We always try to paint the detail, but the overall impression is what you see and feel when you paint nature.   Then, you can add little details later, if you are careful."   She also told me that the art of watercolor is to embrace simplicity.   "Leave lots of white.  You may think there isn't much white in nature, but those open spaces in your painting convey separation of the elements of your piece."    It took me a long time to figure out what she meant by that.   It is the best approximation that we can get in the watercolor medium two dimensional surface to replicate a three-dimensional scene.   Or something like that.   I'm not a good enough painter to give you advice, but her Grandmother certainly was.   I just read what you wrote and thought that advice might be inspiring.  

Also, you kind of inferred that you lack creativity.   I think you know better than that.   Most of us who read what you write do.

[rickymouse]

I bet you are a great painter. It’s had to draw animals. 

I have not watched his videos. I am going to so I can learn better. For me painting is seeing a vision in my head and forming a foundation first. I am not a great painter.  I try to express my vision and in the end after I argue with my self and the painting it comes out ok!

Bob Ross has the kind of voice that hypnotizes you and you want to pick up a brush and paint...even if you never painted before.  Like I mentioned, my nature paintings are ok at passing them at thirty miles per hour...but not really good if you stare at them.

Animals and humans are hard for me to paint, the painting in the OP is good, even the humans in it look good.  As far as painting trees, I like the old Charley brown christmas trees way better than the ones you get at the tree sales places that are perfect.  Branches not so thick allow you to fill in the gaps with decorations, they do not rest on the branch and needles below.  I love being out in the woods with all the perfect imperfection.  I don't like perfectly mowed lawns with all grass in them, I prefer some clover, dandilions, greater plantain, and even some bull thistle.  My yard is surrounded by ferns and trees, some of the white pines are a hundred twenty five feet tall, and all the trees on this hill are skinny and very tall.  I cut down an old maple tree about fifty feet high and with about a three inch diameter and counted the rings one day, there were forty some ring groups in it, forty some years old.  And all the trees here take many years to get that high.  Some on the driveway that were three feet tall are now forty feet tall, and at the base three inches in the thirty five years we have been here. 

Trees growing on high clay soils seem to grow skinnier and even those big pine trees that are a hundred twenty five feet and two adults cannot touch hands when trying to go around are over a hundred fifty years old.  Strangely most trees were logged out here a hundred years ago and they left some healthy trees to repopulate the area and there are quite a few that were left near my house.  The mine used the wood to make fuel for their refining of iron to fuel the kilns.  Our Oak Tree next to our house is really old too, and I cut down a birch tree that had died, real big tree, and counted the rings.  It was hollow for about ten inches inside, and we counted the remaining rings, and there were about a hundred thirty rings..or ring pairs.  one pair is one full year winter and summer.  Now that excludes the inner ten inches, so how many rings were in the hollow area that is now hollow.  Being the slow growth of the birch trees here too, I would guess conservatively there were another thirty to forty. 

I knocked out some of the rings to make tubes out of them, the tree diameter was about forty inches wide five feet up.  I never got to stain and varnish them to make a drum out of them.  The tree had been dead for many years but still standing.  I thought there was a little life in it because it had what looked like leaves on a branch up high so left it standing for ten years...it was not the tree I found, it was some kind of mistletoe when I dropped it,  It was pretty strange  to me to find out what it was after searching for it on the internet for many days...never knew what a mistletoe actually was before that.

I also found some squaw root on another rotted out stump and had to look that up after that, Never knew that existed.  It looked like little pineapples on that stump.  I also researched what the native Americans used it for..since it is called squaw root...another interesting use for it, but I am not sure how they used it for abortions...what hole did it go into...mouth or other.