Forum : The Dark Realm

What are some of your favourite artists?

You can post pictures/official websites etc.

One of my favourite artists is Anne Sudworth...

http://www.annesudworth.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/annesudworth

A picture I own of her's is "Shadow" (you will have to visit her website to see).

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French artist's life now canvas for Australian millionaire

A MILLIONAIRE art buyer has made what must be the ultimate purchase - an artist's entire life until he dies.
French artist Christian Boltanski has agreed to have his every move filmed 24 hours a day in his Paris studio and streamed live to Tasmanian David Walsh's $70 million Museum of Old and New Art when it opens i...

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Thought this might be a handy thread.

So, there's a foggy film on the inside of the glass of my husband's scanner, and it's affecting the quality of the sketches he scans. It's an easy enough problem to fix, if we could just get inside.

(I have a guess as to what might be causing it: deterioration and thereby off-gassing of a plastic component under the glass, with bui...

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My dreams are a strange place (much like me) and I just wrote a short story based on a dream I had. For those of you who've never read my works before, here is an opportunity to sample the range and depth of my writing style.

I have a penchant for the Noir more so than for horror because after a while Horror tends to meld together.

This is one of those st...

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five and twenty years I could sit here in a dream
listening to the patters of the rain on my window pane
so many hours pass by as it beats out my lullaby

And in this reverie I see him standing there
no wars or wounds to show his years
smiling from the shades and singing to the rain

so softly I go into his arms for this night
and lull...

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I'm just curious as to what you all do and what tools work for you. Whether it's drawing, rendering, music, sewing.... whatever.

For me:

Mechanical Pencils
Staedtler Mars Plastic (eraser)
Zig Memory System's Millennium inking pens (01 and 05)
Sketch books with Heavyweight paper
Prismacolor colouring pencils
GIMP (it's like a free v...

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Not so much a poll, in fact not a poll at all, but a collection of opinions on what "art" is.

Does art exist to provoke a response whether negative or positive? Does it exist to put a picture to an escape from reality? Or is art just what you call something when you don't understand it? How do you feel about what is considered art and what do you think it's purpose is?