What kind of empath are you?

You Scored as Artist You are an Artist Empath, one who creates their own reality and infuses the realities of others with your energy & emotions. You are poetic and sensitive. You turn your feelings into creations and share them with the world. Everything you touch turns to song and is freed by the color of your eyes. Your spirit dances with the winds and paints delight in the evening sky. (from the "Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Empaths/) Artist 75% Judge 70% Precog 65% Healer 65% Traveler 55% Fallen Angel 50% Universal 45% Shaman 45%

Four Lines Again

It took me all day to get these two sketches. Now, if I could learn to apply the same meticulous effort, the attention to detail to each and every stroke in my other work, I'd be a damn good painter.

Coming up, a horse, a cat, and a dog in four line format. Also on the list is a man, a baby, a flower, probably some other animals, and I am open for suggestions. :-)

Four Lines

I was browsing some art sites and happened across some Picasso and Matisse. I was impressed at how spare they could be, capturing the essence of a thing with just a few simple strokes of a pen. Soooo, I thought I'd try it myself.

Here are the rules:

Four simple lines
No shading, no color, no variation in width of the stroke.
Each line drawn in one long in one long continuous freehand stroke.
Each work to consist of four perfect strokes; mess up the fourth one, you start over.
No erasers, do-overs, no digital cleanup allowed.

It's a lot harder than it seems. You have to capture what the object feels like, not its appearance.

I went through a lot of paper, maybe a hundred attempts to get one acceptable sketch. Of course, I've not yet gotten a perfect one. :-)

Blake

Blake is simply the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in print, film, or in person, bar absolutely none. The most compelling argument for human cloning to ever draw breath.

Goddess

Goddess

Abstract

Just playing with color - worked for Rothko

SheepSkull

SheepSkull

Orchid

Orchid

Phantom

Phantom

Kelli

A Bourbon St. dancer

Kelvin

Kelvin

Ginger

Ginger

Corinthian

Early Greek Helm

Fluffy

Fluffy is a very young pussycat

Bleu

A Texas Musician

Cat

Mel

Wildflowers

Texas Wildflowers

Pumpkin

Gauntlet

Defend New Orleans

Draco

Draco

Veronica

St. Anthony

A church in the Midwest

Sargeant

Self-Portrait, from a very old photo

Helm

Mehitabel

Mehitabel - archy knows she's a Nawlins lady.