need some art tips...

format_quote Originally Posted by Italianguy

My wife paints black and white paintings. She did one of the sky, It is amazing! It totaly look like it could be real. I ust asked her ow she made it look 3d. She said it's all in the shading and angle of content...i'm no artist so maybe you may know what that means

It is very difficult to achieve 3D effects in black and white. I've always had to "cheat" and use a drafting technique called isometric drawing (also called perspectives). But you have to be cautious in drawing your guide lines and keep them barely visible so you can either draw over them or easily erase them with a gum eraser.

Any good mechanical drafting text book will give the basics of doing isometrics and it is easy to learn. but you want to find an old book as the new ones concentrate on CAD

http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-Perspective

format_quote Originally Posted by Italianguy

Yeah she said something like that. (i can't understand what she is saying?, some of the things she is saying she can't say in English, and i am not fluent in Tamil)

She also said she makes some clouds look small, and gradually tapers them up? It's cool because she did one in color, and if you stand back and them walk towards it, it looks as if the clouds move! ....I can only draw stick figures

A neat object to draw in isometric is a three pronged proit impossible to build but can be drawn. Used to be one of the first isometric drawings a young draftsman did, has become an optical illusion classic.

format_quote Originally Posted by Italianguy

Oh wow, my wife is all excited! she just looked at that and said she saw a very similar (if not thatone) drawing in India.

She wants to know if you are Indian....i know, i know...but shes sitting right next to me. And i told her i thought you were Indian(Native American) but she doesn't understand that concept? I tried to tell her Christopher Columbus, got lost looking for India and crash landed here....he was so embaressed he decided to call the natives Indians....so his crew would't know they got lost

the drawing will be found in nearly all old dafting textbooks (pre 1960) it will also be found in most collections of optical illusions.

My wife is the Native American (Cheyenne) the Cheyenne are a sister tribe of the Sioux and like the Lakotah and Oglala Sioux their native language is Lakotah but we essentially live on the Standing Rock Lakotah reservation. This entire area which includes parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska is now called the "Republic of Lakotah" by the Lakotah and we are doing our best to become recognized internationally as a sovereign nation with no ties to the USA. At the moment most people think we are joking and we are not taken very seriously, but most of us are very serious about it and some of the Oglala on Pine Ridge are getting very fanatical.

getting back to art most native American tribes have a history of art. There were no written languages, but nearly all tribes left messages with pictograms that became widely recognized. the basic art work was very abstract as the Native Americans believed it was not permissible to make a realistic image of any living things. but the images were necessary for communication.

Typical rock paintings that would have been recognized and read by nearly all Native Americans.

i need advice on what sort of painting to draw for a shed/garage. i dont want to it to be a picture/scenery, but more like just colors on a piece of canvas. im not good with mixing colors, or adding detail to say flowers or something...so just something simple but at the same time "uplifting."

Try painting a car just about to win a grandprix ? or just a checkered flag being waved ?

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