I love to garden. Recently tore out a large lawn, planted drought-tolerant plants as well as trees/bushes and a hedge. Also love re-habbing home interiors. Best homes are the ones with good bones but awful wall colors, grungy floors, old appliances etc.

Margot said:

• I write books.
• I sew quilts and other things. (I once ordered some samples from a custom furniture place, and had my friends order sets. There were upwards of 70 3" squares in a set of swatches. I used them to sew together and recover my ottoman/footstool in the living room.)
• I've painted some paintings around the house.
• I cook and had a cooking show on YouTube for 2 years. I'm a kitchen nerd.
• I garden, grow vegetables most years.
• I'm learning makeup this year.
• I was a hairstylist in my 20s and 30s, specialized in color.
• I write music.
• I play piano and keyboards, played violin, cello, and harp in the past.
• I read a lot, usually have a fiction and non-fiction going at the same time.
• I've worked in Hollywood (Paramount, Disney) and was a stage manager and lighting designer in an off-off-Broadway-type theater in Los Angeles.

I would love to take a few pottery classes. I did ceramics in high school, but never sat at a wheel and make pottery.

YES! I'm into music and art. And in the process of trying to teach myself both these things as we speak!

Musican, graphic designer, photographer

domainator2010 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

alphastreet said:

Wow you’ve done a lot of exciting things!

I just like to do creative things. I'm not exactly winning awards for anything I've done. But it stimulates me to learn new things, and try new things. Sometimes it's just for the experience, sometimes it's to continue it further. I've always been more right-brained about things. Annoys the shit out of my family who tends to be logical and left-brained a lot of times. Keeps it interesting, that's for sure.

TrivialPursuit said:

TrivialPursuit said:

• I write books.
• I sew quilts and other things. (I once ordered some samples from a custom furniture place, and had my friends order sets. There were upwards of 70 3" squares in a set of swatches. I used them to sew together and recover my ottoman/footstool in the living room.)
• I've painted some paintings around the house.
• I cook and had a cooking show on YouTube for 2 years. I'm a kitchen nerd.
• I garden, grow vegetables most years.
• I'm learning makeup this year.
• I was a hairstylist in my 20s and 30s, specialized in color.
• I write music.
• I play piano and keyboards, played violin, cello, and harp in the past.
• I read a lot, usually have a fiction and non-fiction going at the same time.
• I've worked in Hollywood (Paramount, Disney) and was a stage manager and lighting designer in an off-off-Broadway-type theater in Los Angeles.

I would love to take a few pottery classes. I did ceramics in high school, but never sat at a wheel and make pottery.

Some of my best friends are stage managers.

Genesia said:

I play around with drawing/water color graphic arts

I have oil paints I'm ready to experiment with

alphastreet said:

domainator2010 said:

YES! I'm into music and art. And in the process of trying to teach myself both these things as we speak!

That’s awesome you’re giving it a chance! What have you made so far if anything?

Nothing yet (unfortunately ). Got some art books (1 on the way, actually), and hopefully WILL SOON sign up for music lessons - I'm actually not sure how much public transport is allowed yet, if I have to *GO* to my music teacher's place (don't really want to, over video-conference...)
Anyway, still some way to go.

domainator2010 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

alphastreet said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I play around with drawing/water color graphic arts

I have oil paints I'm ready to experiment with

Wow that sounds like fun! I’ve always wished I would be good at watercolours but it seems hard. I did own watercolour pencils at one point and experimented with it, but it’s a little out of my comfort zone cause I like to create abstract art with markers, gel pens and pencil crayons

I love the 'control' I have with pencil/pen ink/marker etc so my gemini nature needed to take on water color. So I took a few classes. Water color is about letting go of control, there were some cool excersizes we did to break us lol

I own a few artists book renditions of Paradise Lost. Some eclectic stuff. I decided to take a hand at doing my own version of the 'poem'

alphastreet said:

domainator2010 said:

Nothing yet (unfortunately ). Got some art books (1 on the way, actually), and hopefully WILL SOON sign up for music lessons - I'm actually not sure how much public transport is allowed yet, if I have to *GO* to my music teacher's place (don't really want to, over video-conference...)
Anyway, still some way to go.

Art book sounds exciting, prompts also help in art and writing. What instrument are you learning? I know piano

Keyboards

"Prompts" means?

Talking of art, you guys check out this guys' Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c...2e7jwkLvEA

Maybe some of you will have problems with the language, but even then - the basic gist of the DRAWING should come through!

Incredible, isn't it? (*I* saw the Chadwick Boseman one)!

domainator2010 said:

alphastreet said:

domainator2010 said:

Keyboards

"Prompts" means?

Like an idea or word presented to you that becomes the inspiration for what you create. I’m sure there’s websites or apps Went to an art store today and got some canvases to make abstract art. Wish I could sell it but have a hard time letting go of things I create sometimes if there’s just one copy [Edited 11/4/20 20:26pm]

Have you tried Digital? Most of the software you need is Free, you know.....and a pentablet is pretty cheap these days.....

domainator2010 said:

alphastreet said:

domainator2010 said:

Have you tried Digital? Most of the software you need is Free, you know.....and a pentablet is pretty cheap these days.....

Digital seems like too much work to be fun. I made an abstract piece the other day and shared on social media

Er - why would digital be more work than paper? BY itself? I don't follow you.

domainator2010 said:

alphastreet said:

domainator2010 said:

Er - why would digital be more work than paper? BY itself? I don't follow you.

I’m kind of old school I guess

I suggest you try it out. Though I might be biased (I'm a digital, specially art, guy! )

Here, check these:

www.gimp.org

www.krita.org