Hello darlings. I'd like your help, specifically in the form of looking at a painting and telling me if you recognize any parts of it from the city you live in, especially if that city is Boston. There's a fair amount of background in terms of what to look for, so please do bear with me. It's all relevant, I promise.
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posted by FAMOUS MONSTER
on May 14, 2013 -
183 answers
I went on a long, long break form my creative career cause I was feeling burnt out due to some failures and now I can't seem to get back into it, possibly because I no longer have a financial incentive to do so. How can I fix this? Warning: Long, super privileged person problems.
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posted by anonymous
on May 7, 2013 -
18 answers
Can someone tell me a term for this painting style?
Pig Painting Specifically the small appendages and rotund body shape. I'm looking for more paintings of pigs in this style if you know of any good ones. Thanks!
posted by meta87
on May 6, 2013 -
8 answers
I am searching for the name of a painter. I am going to describe one painting I clearly remember. I saw these paintings when I was a child.
The book of his works had the same theme of monkeys and skeletons involved in everyday activities.
In the painting I remember, a skeleton (it may have been a couple) is in a bed with white sheets and leaning over to put out the light on a nightstand. There is a monkey or baboon sitting on the room's window sill.
The images are realistic bordering on illustrations.
This is all I have. And this is why I came to metafilter.
Thank you for your help.
posted by M83
on Mar 16, 2013 -
7 answers
Have an oil painting, self portrait of my old man, there is an L shaped rip around 6x4in flap. What's the best way to repair it?
posted by daveo'h
on Mar 15, 2013 -
6 answers
I really like the painting that hangs over Steve Carrell's couch in "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World". (screenshot
here).
Does anyone know anything about it, or where I might find it?
posted by namewithoutwords
on Mar 9, 2013 -
6 answers
I just asked my art-school trained girlfriend to teach me to paint. My art history is probably better than average, but I'm sure I'm missing knowledge of 96% of the technique I'd like to know about. Help me fix this.
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posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear
on Mar 8, 2013 -
4 answers
Looking for some help making my narrow hallway a little prettier and more interesting. Bonus bookcase wood finishing/painting question inside!
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posted by amanda
on Feb 23, 2013 -
10 answers
Suggestions on spot cleaning marks off an acrylic on canvas painting? I recently bought a painting on eBay, not terribly expensive, not terribly valuable either, but it's nice and I like it very much. It needs to be cleaned up a bit.
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posted by Capt. Renault
on Feb 12, 2013 -
6 answers
Painting filter: can you help me track down a painting? I borrowed it from a local public library years ago (they have since stopped loaning out art, don't know why) and can't recall the title or artist.
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posted by crepeMyrtle
on Dec 13, 2012 -
5 answers
I will soon need cover art for a self-published book. I'd like to get something original rather than buying a stock photo. I am quite ignorant about the world of visual arts. Please teach me how to communicate what I want to an artist--and how to find one?
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posted by scaryblackdeath
on Nov 29, 2012 -
10 answers
Help me identify this painting hanging at Pike Brewing Company in Seattle.
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posted by pmed
on Nov 13, 2012 -
3 answers
Can I just paint over thick carpet glue? Other ideas for beautifying a rough-looking studio space welcome.
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posted by Ms. Toad
on Nov 7, 2012 -
14 answers
Maybe you know this art print? Years ago I lost a piece of art that I loved but didn't know anything about. It was a sketch of a dry-docked small (single-person? in the perspective it looked to be about a 12-foot craft) sailboat, sail down, in a field of waving shore grass, looking out towards the sea and the back of the boat. The surf was far away, maybe 100 yards or so, and the boat was positioned in the lower right-hand quadrant of the piece though not in the corner. The original medium was was pencil or charcoal on paper. When I see it I think "New England coast" and "loneliness". It was a yellowish-greenish-sepia tone, or perhaps that was just the paper it was litho'd on. I recall it was an official print numbered in pencil on the matting and framed in a low-profile chrome frame. Do you know the work? Can you speculate on the name of the artist? I'd really like to be able to attempt to get another copy.
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posted by carsonb
on Oct 9, 2012 -
8 answers
On a deadline: Help me find the name of an amazing, bizarre, crude, disgusting artist whose childish paintings of people in extreme situations surrounded by thought/speech balloons/bubbles I saw in a Lower East Side gallery around 2010-2011.
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posted by StopMakingSense
on Oct 8, 2012 -
4 answers
I'd like some guidance on learning how to paint, and learning how to take photographs.
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posted by sciurine
on Sep 23, 2012 -
19 answers
Developing cultural taste/becoming an expert at new hobbies... are there general principles? (snowflakes inside)
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posted by 3491again
on Aug 27, 2012 -
8 answers
Who painted this painting? I can't read the signature but want information about this artist? Rob Soba? My GoogleFu has failed me here. Photos of paining and close-up of signature
here.
posted by nancoix
on Aug 6, 2012 -
2 answers
Would it be weird if I painted three out of five upstairs rooms the same soft green color, if they were given different treatments?
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posted by A Terrible Llama
on Jul 25, 2012 -
32 answers
Looking for a lead on Removall 220 available for retail in the Twin Cities area, or recommendations of equivalent (brushable, eco-friendly) paint strippers.
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posted by longtime_lurker
on Jul 10, 2012 -
2 answers
Are there any no-hassle, cheap alternatives to watercolor paper? I want to practice a lot without spending a lot.
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posted by kristi
on Jul 10, 2012 -
16 answers
My friend wants me to try to recreate
this painting as a decoration for her wedding. The problem is that neither of us have any idea who the artist is/where the image came from. Can you help? Also, it would help me out immensely if I had access to a higher quality image to work from.
posted by corn_bread
on Jul 3, 2012 -
10 answers
I'm trying to identify an oil painting of two young girls that was (still is?) in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection.
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posted by quiet coyote
on Jun 30, 2012 -
2 answers
I'm looking for possible cheaper alternatives/ substitutes for
heavy acrylic gels for my paintings. The stuff I get at the art store is a little pricy for the amounts I like to use. I'm hoping there's some kind of (industrial?) paste out there that would act similarly. (basically, a thick medium that I can 'etch' then let dry)
posted by mrmarley
on Jun 13, 2012 -
4 answers
I need to paint my previously painted cement block porch while putting in the least money, time, and effort. What can be painted over a chipped paint job without it chipping again?
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posted by paperclip2000
on Jun 11, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm not an artist by any stretch, but I recently discovered that I kind of like painting with acrylics-- and I've badly needed a hobby for a while now. But I also need inspiration and so I'm looking for images that I can use as examples, but that I can make my own. For example, I really liked
this and so my very first (and so far only) painting was this (
1,
2). I'm liking very geometrical or line-based repeating patterns that are either brightly multi-colored or monochromatic designs, but even though I have rulers and compasses, I also have a very unsteady hand so the design has to be kind of forgiving. Can you help me find images or sites where I might be able to find an idea for my next one?
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posted by mireille
on May 18, 2012 -
18 answers
My wife and I bought a sketch and a watercolor, both of which have visible signatures, but that we cannot decipher. Images: Sketch
Img 1 &
2, Painting
Img 1 &
2. Does anybody recognize the artists or have any suggestions on how to ID the artists?
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posted by comradechu
on May 16, 2012 -
3 answers
Recently, Munch's "The Scream" sold for about $120 million. Somehow I had in my mind the idea that (a version of) "The Scream" was sold at auction a few years ago. Did I imagine this?
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posted by lewedswiver
on May 13, 2012 -
6 answers
Help me find black and white vintage photographs or old paintings that feature at least one person and at least one cat.
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posted by MaryDellamorte
on May 2, 2012 -
11 answers
I love the walls in
this photograph. Moroccan, textured, uneven. I'm moving into a new place soon. I don't know much about painting. What do I need to do to make my walls look like this?
posted by Jairus
on Apr 3, 2012 -
17 answers
