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Topic 1 of 55: introductions

Fri, Mar 21, 1997 (04:45) | Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Introduce yourself! Tell us about your interests and what draws you
to the art conference.
132 responses total. 

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 Response 1 of 132: Emma Hudson  (eustacia) * Fri, Mar 21, 1997 (10:39) * 1 lines
Hi all. I would like to start by thanking Terry for allowing us to gather here and discuss our passion, Harrison Fisher. I think that he is one of the greatest illustrators. I love are in general. My favorite is Ameican Impressionism. 

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 Response 2 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Mar 21, 1997 (19:11) * 1 lines
Welcome Emma, tell your folks to come on down.

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 Response 3 of 132: Jim D'Amico  (Fisherman) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (19:53) * 1 lines
Hi current and future users.Thanks Terry for giving us a common place to gather.I am also a big fan of Harrison Fisher.I am also a big fan of quite a few other Illustrators of the early 1900's.

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 Response 4 of 132: Susan  (eustacia) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (20:00) * 2 lines
Hi Jim. I am glad that you got my email. What other illustrators do you like to collect? Oh, about the Comsmo cover that I was going to color copy for you --- well because of copy right laws I will not be able to do it. Sorry. I took some magazines to have color copied for Carol and the guy there wouldn't do it for me.
What did you but from Naomi? I just got her list today and all the goos stuff was already gone.

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 Response 5 of 132: Susan  (eustacia) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (20:01) * 2 lines
Hi Jim. I am glad that you got my email. What other illustrators do you like to collect? Oh, about the Cosmo cover that I was going to color copy for you --- well because of copy right laws I will not be able to do it. Sorry. I took some magazines to have color copied for Carol and the guy there wouldn't do it for me.
What did you but from Naomi? I just got her list today and all the good stuff was already gone.

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 Response 6 of 132: Susan  (eustacia) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (20:06) * 1 lines
Sorry. I didn't mean to send that twice. I was trying to fix my spelling mistakes and I notice that I still typed some thing wrong. Oh well. Does Joanne have access to the internet? Why did you start collecting Fisher? I remember the day that I discover one of Fishers magazines (the cosmo cover of Sept 1925). I never knew that any thing so fantastic existed.

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 Response 7 of 132: Jim D'Amico  (Fisherman) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (21:00) * 1 lines
Hi Susan,That's okay about the Cosmo. cover.I wish I knew more about the copy right laws.I wonder if there is still one on items that old?I was fortunate enough to be one of the first ones to respond to Naomi's letter.Ipurchased all the WW1 era magazine covers,mother/baby covers,and a few romantic covers.Joanne has access,but just through work.The first item that attracted me to Fisher was 'The Greatest Moments" series.What are some of your fovorite images by him?

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 Response 8 of 132: Jim D'Amico  (Fisherman) * Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (21:07) * 1 lines
HI Susan, Me again .Let's move future conversations to the Harrison Fisher area.What do you think?

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 Response 9 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 24, 1997 (22:13) * 1 lines
Welcome Jim and Susan. Make yourselves at home!

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 Response 10 of 132: aubrey  (aubrey) * Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (15:16) * 2 lines
Howdy. I'm sorry to confess I haven't a clue who Harrison Fisher is, but I'll sure check out that topic. I like art (duh) and thought I might see what you folks had to say. Are you all fabulous artists? I'm a quiet, at-home artist myself (not for public consumption). My latest craze is colored pencils, and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a workbook or something for them...there are tons of books and classes for almost every other media but not these (occasionally a mention at the back of a charco
l sketch book). Please help! I'm having fun but need guidance!

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 Response 11 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (23:43) * 1 lines
Check out Nikolaides book on drawing for openers.

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 Response 12 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Jun 23, 1998 (17:23) * 2 lines
Hi, I'm Riette. I work as an artist in Switzerland, but come from Namibia. Will that make a respectable introduction, Paul?
Aubrey, if you're into colouring pencils, why not try any normal drawing course? They normally introduce colours after getting the dry stuff (proportion, balance, that sort of thing) over and done with. And then it becomes great fun and, because the lessons become more interesting altogether (what with all those colours to exite you), one's drawing improves rapidly over-all. 

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 Response 13 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Jun 23, 1998 (17:24) * 1 lines
Oh, Jesus, I've just responded over a year too late! 

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 Response 14 of 132: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jun 23, 1998 (17:24) * 3 lines
*smile*
that's okay Riette... better late than never!
And time is relative anyway... it's the year 2036 in some places!

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 Response 15 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jul  1, 1998 (22:43) * 3 lines
Not any more, I just reset the date. 



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 Response 16 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (05:37) * 1 lines
How very reassuring - I would have been 62!

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 Response 17 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (00:09) * 2 lines
hey guys! just wanted to drop in a say hello and you guys are in for a treat
with riette as your new hostess!

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 Response 18 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (01:22) * 1 lines
Thank you for the vote of confidence, Wolf!

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 Response 19 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (05:53) * 1 lines
Just set up riette with hostly powers here.

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 Response 20 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (08:58) * 1 lines
??

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 Response 21 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (09:00) * 1 lines
Oh, I see!! There's a Kill and retire button. Thank you, Terry. 

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 Response 22 of 132: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (09:04) * 2 lines
hihi...time to install a flashy conference header, Riette! 


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 Response 23 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (09:05) * 1 lines
or do whatever you see fit, Miss Hostess!

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 Response 24 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (12:24) * 1 lines
Patience, now! (need to wait till the kids are in bed before I can try an figure out what next . . . )

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 Response 25 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (17:12) * 1 lines
boy, do i understand that!

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 Response 26 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (17:27) * 1 lines
I seem to be the only computer bummer around here. 

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 Response 27 of 132: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (18:22) * 1 lines
you'll soon get used to it!

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 Response 28 of 132: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (00:12) * 1 lines
Uh, I didn't even know there was an art conference...

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 Response 29 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (01:25) * 1 lines
Don't worry, neither did I until VERY recently. It is very obscure, isn't it? But Mike has promised to help me fix that - as soon as I manage to figure out my scanner . . . 

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 Response 30 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (15:23) * 1 lines
wow, riette, did you create that picture? cool!

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 Response 31 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (15:51) * 11 lines
It contains the different facets of all of you in it.

The cat's head represents Stacey (she loves cats and is as alert)
The body is (suppose to be) that of a Wolf - represents your funny, frolicking
wolfie side.
The face in the middle represents Terry, who is the central figure of the spring.
The big eye represents Wer, for he never misses a thing.
The smile has something to do with Jim's funny, and sometimes mysterious responses.
The crazy colours represents Mike, as he is a very creative person with many
different, colourful shapes floating around in his head.
And the black and white background represents Autumn. She is always there, sometimes also in the background, but so essential with her fine sense of black and white, right or wrong - I have never seen her treat anyone unfairly here. 

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 Response 32 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (19:14) * 1 lines
how sweet of you!

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 Response 33 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (23:18) * 1 lines
How *very* cool!

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 Response 34 of 132: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Jul  8, 1998 (23:19) * 1 lines
(*trying to suppress a giggle*) Which part is Jim?

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 Response 35 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Thu, Jul  9, 1998 (00:55) * 3 lines
The mouth!!!

ha-ha!

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 Response 36 of 132: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Thu, Jul  9, 1998 (17:48) * 3 lines

WOW



*BEAM*

:-))

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 Response 37 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Thu, Jul  9, 1998 (17:52) * 4 lines
We're on at the same time!!
So where did you come up with these little faces, Mike?

:-))))))

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 Response 38 of 132: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Thu, Jul  9, 1998 (21:04) * 1 lines
ummm....just picked 'em up along the way, i guess

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 Response 39 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (01:21) * 1 lines
They're sweet. My favourite is the one that winks. 

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 Response 40 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (09:57) * 2 lines
for more smileys, Riette (they're also called emoticons...) try
http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.html

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 Response 41 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (10:52) * 1 lines
Thanks, muffin! I should be just about able to manage that.

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 Response 42 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (14:01) * 1 lines
typing with your toes yet?

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 Response 43 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (14:50) * 4 lines
ha!
NO!
The fingers on the broken arm type okay, AND I've got four left on the other, so
apart from the occasional pressing of keys with my tongue, I'm doing great!

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 Response 44 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (10:25) * 1 lines
For the first time in months I have completed a painting today which was utter, utter crap. I find that very disturbing, and pretty depressing. Even destroying it hasn't helped me feel better about it. What a pain.

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 Response 45 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (11:17) * 1 lines
we all have off days. just try again!

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 Response 46 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (20:36) * 3 lines
Yea, even Mark McGuire doesn't hit a home run every time he comes to the
plate.


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 Response 47 of 132: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Aug 16, 1998 (20:51) * 1 lines
Throw it on the bonfire and say the hell with it! Try again tomorrow.

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 Response 48 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (00:39) * 5 lines
I'm sure I will. Not very good at handling failure.

BUT MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES AWAIT US:

I have mailed a girl called, Susan, who came here twice just after the conference started. I have invited her back. Can you think of anyone else I could mail and invite?

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 Response 49 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (07:06) * 2 lines
You can check some conference userlists. You can groupmail them if you like.


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 Response 50 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (07:16) * 1 lines
Cool! Okay, I'll do that. 

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 Response 51 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (13:37) * 3 lines
You'll have to make up a letter and send it to me for remailing to the
ulist you specify (in other words, which conference ulist).


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 Response 52 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (00:45) * 1 lines
okay, I'll do that. And since you are more experienced, could you then check the letter, and add things that you think should be in there, please Terry?

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 Response 53 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (07:56) * 2 lines
Sure, cook it up and I'll do a taste test.


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 Response 54 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Aug 18, 1998 (09:32) * 1 lines
Hopefully I'll be better at cooking up letters than food...

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 Response 55 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:52) * 1 lines
Wow, girl, your conference looks awesome! Really awesome!

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 Response 56 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (01:14) * 1 lines
Thank you, deary! I've been horribly lazy though - I apologize. Just don't have the strenght to face art at the moment.

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 Response 57 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (07:13) * 1 lines
You'll be able to face it again at some point. 

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 Response 58 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (10:43) * 2 lines
riette, would you please tell me about the cd covers you're designing? i'd like
to find them in the stores when they're released. who's the musician?????

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 Response 59 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (01:24) * 2 lines
That's really nice of you, Wolf, but I'm afraid they're only going to be released here. That's how provincial I am. The musician in a composer called, David Hönigsberg. He is having his 25th anniversary celebration. For this he had a cd done of some of his most important works, and it's going to come out in a limited edition of 200, hugely over-priced at SFr. 300-, big ego trip and all that. Anyway, so he asked some artists in Switzerland design and paint small, practical cd-covers - so that each cd
ill have an original work or art as a cover. Yep, that's how low I've sunk.

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 Response 60 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (04:05) * 1 lines
Why don't you put the designs into your gallery topic to show everyone how low you've sunk?

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 Response 61 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (12:49) * 5 lines
riette, you're so silly. i think it's absolutely wonderful that you were selected!
and you never know, there are lots of scouts out there. thanks for telling me who it
is. if you don't want to or are not allowed to post the work here, that's ok. i
can try and look the guy up via the internet. do you get a royalty or anything
for each cd sold?

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 Response 62 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (21:29) * 1 lines
Really, are they available to the general public?

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 Response 63 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (02:59) * 4 lines
Only the general public who attend the celebrations! Another one of those artist things. He gives a big party for his friends - yet his 'friends' have to pay SFr. 300- to hear his music! Unbelievable.

Wolf, I'll post the cover pictures as soon as I've got the work out of the way - it really nothing spectacular; one can't do much on such a small surface. I just built little round boxes, the size of a cd, lined the inside with felt to protect the cd, and now I'm doing little paintings on top. Some are older designs like 'the embrace', and others are new designs, which I will later turn into larger paintings.
And yes, I get a small fee - not enough to make me any less pi$$ed off with myself...

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 Response 64 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:43) * 2 lines
Sometimes adversity, self imposed or external, makes you reach new
heights.

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 Response 65 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (10:31) * 1 lines
That sounds very wise to me.

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 Response 66 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (20:59) * 12 lines
well, it's a lot better than the "offer" you once had received, i'll tell you that!
i don't understand why you feel badly about your decision to do these covers. i
am in no way an artist in the way you are but i was completely floored at the
amount of enthusiasm received for the design of the emblem i have yet to post. in fact,
my big boss asked me if i wanted to design one for a higher group. i said, sure!
no pay, just the satisfaction of knowing that i get to use my creativity and apply
it somewhere.

about your cd's, i didn't realize you were making the cd box too. i thought the
covers were premade and all you did was the jackets inside the cd. i still think it will
be wonderful and is a wonderful thing to do. i seriously doubt the shin-dig is for
his true friends. these are just the people who want to meet and greet, see and be seen!

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 Response 67 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (01:11) * 3 lines
I know - I'm being unfair and stuck-up. It's just that the sort of thing that happened with the gallery boss, and then the idea at having to be at this celebration just to put a stupid signature on the cd-covers when people buy them; you know, like anyone could give a damn about Riëtte Walton's stupid signature! It's just a big farce. The BUSINESS, the SHOW of art just takes all the love for it out of me. It sort of reminds me of a circus. What goes on in the tent - if you catch my drift. I don't t
ink I have an artist's temperament. I think the ideal thing would be to get someone glamorous to impersonate me, and take the credit for my work, and who can take most of the earnings for all I care. That way I'd just be able to do my art, and leave the business of it up the person. I mean, I'm an artist, nothing more, and I hate the way one is expected to put oneself on display like a damned picture - like a thing. And more disturbing than that even, is the notion that this is what artists WANT. I m
an, art is about ART, right? To GIVE something to people. Isn't that enough reason for practicing art? Why the big performance about it? 

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 Response 68 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (20:36) * 3 lines
Unless you're a performance artist or something. Which it wouldn't seem
like you are, dear Ree! I admire your dedication to the purity of your
art form.

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 Response 69 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (03:43) * 1 lines
That is kind of you Terry. But I sometimes wonder if it isn't just another form of egotism. I just don't know anymore.

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 Response 70 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (09:18) * 3 lines
i think egotism would be running around hob-knobbing with all the "you got to know me to be famous"
people and hanging out at 500 a plate shindigs. you paint for the sake of painting.
it brings you pleasure, you're good at it.

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 Response 71 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (10:19) * 1 lines
I agree with you, Wolf. I don't find you egotistical, Riëtte - at least not in that respect. 

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 Response 72 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (11:04) * 2 lines
I'll have to go along with Sonja and Wolfie.


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 Response 73 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (18:26) * 1 lines
riette, we're not just saying this stuff. i don't think any of us would if we didn't believe it *hugs*

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 Response 74 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (03:44) * 1 lines
Thank you - that makes me feel a little better about myself. I sometimes think I'm a terrible, egotistical and unreasonable monster who does things just to get its own way - that is how the people who don't agree with me make me feel when they say stuff about me. I think I'm going to stop painting for exhibitions, do my studies, and write a book about art where I won't have to face anybody. I just get sick of being called 'wayward' or 'bad', because of my art. It's such a bore.

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 Response 75 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (09:31) * 1 lines
You CANNOT stop painting because of this, Riëtte. You will end up resenting yourself for giving up on something you're talented in, just because other people didn't like the way you saw the world. You can send all your pictures over to me even! I'd be ever so happy to take care of them for you!

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 Response 76 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (09:49) * 5 lines
no kidding. do not stop painting....you'd be stooping to their level girlfriend!
and do write that book. tell all about the stuff you've gone through with these
so-called art experts. who are they to judge what you see? a bunch of dorks, i'll
tell you. paint for yourself, you'll be so much happier for it. and remember,
no one can MAKE you feel anything. you are your master!

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 Response 77 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (10:10) * 2 lines
Add my voice to the chorus of "don't stop"s!


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 Response 78 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (01:20) * 2 lines
I'll try.
I did have an interesting dream last night, and something seems to be happening. 

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 Response 79 of 132: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (02:05) * 7 lines
And?


And?




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 Response 80 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (10:03) * 1 lines
She is working away, refusing to show me any of it....

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 Response 81 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (13:34) * 1 lines
Maybe for now but you'll get to see it first anyway...

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 Response 82 of 132: Sonja Smith  (sonja) * Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (11:59) * 3 lines
I never take anything for guarrantee with Riëtte! 



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 Response 83 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (12:46) * 1 lines
Nothing?

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 Response 84 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sun, Oct 25, 1998 (01:32) * 1 lines
Silly! How horrible I must be!

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 Response 85 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Sun, Nov 15, 1998 (01:29) * 1 lines
Funny, you don't seem to be horrible.

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 Response 86 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (04:32) * 1 lines
But can be at times....

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 Response 87 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Mon, Nov 16, 1998 (07:13) * 1 lines
Everyone has a bad day now and then. That doesn't make anyone horrible. The truely horrible people are those who refuse to allow for this.

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 Response 88 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (01:36) * 1 lines
Speaking words of wisdom here! I never thought of it like that - but I really am very horrible sometimes; just so you know.

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 Response 89 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (04:45) * 1 lines
I'd have to see it to believe it. I have heard this litany before and the person involved was overstating the situation every time.

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 Response 90 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (01:48) * 1 lines
Oh, ask anybody here - they'll tell you!

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 Response 91 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (03:52) * 1 lines
Like I said, I'd have to see it to believe it.

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 Response 92 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (22:12) * 3 lines
Tim, all you gotta do to see it is...attack her!

It's done wonders for me!!!

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 Response 93 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (23:40) * 5 lines
I would never do that. Riette is such a sweet person. Why in the world would
I want to attack her. Anyway, I was raised not to do such a thing. I would irritate all the women in my family. They are really a formidible bunch.
Seriously though. I really was raised not to attack women. While I was growing
up, my mother did volunteer work. She worked in witness protection at the sheriff's department, so there were a lot of very big men with guns around to
reinforce the lesson.

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 Response 94 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (02:05) * 3 lines
That's a gorgeous response, Tim. How comforting to know that men like that still exist.

Wer, you never attacked me! (Did that all by myself!)

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 Response 95 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (03:49) * 2 lines
It's probably out of fashion, now, but that is the way I was raised. And I was only about half kidding about the formidible women. One of my sisters was attacked by her husband, with the idea of beating her up. What an idiot. my sister has knocked out a horse with one punch. she had him served with divorce papers, right after he came out of intensive care. she was bruised pretty badly.
He had six broken ribs, one of which had punctured his right lung, a shattered jaw, fractured ulna--right arm, fractured skull, and a broken neck.

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 Response 96 of 132: Ray Lopez (ratthing) * Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (08:25) * 8 lines

that's too bad that your sister had to go thru that, but that idiot
sure got what he deserved.

i have four younger sisters, and with the exception of smacking each
other around when we were little, i was also raised in the very Mexican
tradition of total respect for the princesses!


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 Response 97 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (12:32) * 2 lines
I was talking about women outside the family. Were I to raise a hand to one of
my sisters, I'd have been killed, literally. Some things inhuman, should not be allowed to live.

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 Response 98 of 132: wer  (KitchenManager) * Thu, Nov 19, 1998 (23:57) * 3 lines
"Some things inhuman, should not be allowed to live."

I couldn't agree more...

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 Response 99 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:31) * 1 lines
My brother is a real gentleman too, but we annoy him so much sometimes, then he goes and fetches a rope, and ties us together, back to back!

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 Response 100 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Fri, Nov 20, 1998 (01:54) * 1 lines
Sometimes i've been tempted to do that to my sisters. The thought of what would happen to me if I did, let it remain just a temptation

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 Response 101 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:12) * 1 lines
ha-ha! My mum also used to practically kill us over beating each other up when we were little, but now she says her job is finished; if, after 24 years we still feel want to resort to physical means to settle our nonsense, then it's not her fault, but due to the fact that we're a bunch of idiots!

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 Response 102 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (01:12) * 3 lines
She has a point. (about her job being done) However my family expects adults to
behave, if not you will be ostracised at the very least. Yelling is O K but
physical violence is not allowed. It's a whole lot easier to forgive someone for yelling at you, than for the black eye.

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 Response 103 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (01:49) * 1 lines
That's true. With us the 'physicals' are more play than anything else now. We go crazy when we get together. Wrestling and burping and stuff. My kids think their mummy's gone mad every time I see my sister and/or brother. I have the greatest brother in the world.

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 Response 104 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Tue, Dec  8, 1998 (17:16) * 3 lines
Let's see - do I apply formally to become host again? And I have a question or two:

I am 25 (as of tomorrow), a studying underdog, my hair really needs a wash, and broke - does that mean I get a discount on the application fee?

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 Response 105 of 132: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Tue, Dec  8, 1998 (17:20) * 1 lines
Happy Birthday, Riette!!

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 Response 106 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Wed, Dec  9, 1998 (01:13) * 1 lines
Thank you!

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 Response 107 of 132: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Mon, Apr 19, 1999 (15:06) * 5 lines
I would like to invite all visitors of this conference to the International Conflicts conference here on the Spring:

http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/InternationalConflicts/all

This new conference is dedicated to the disputes between groups all over the world, be that social, cultural, political or ethnical differences.

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 Response 108 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Mon, May 31, 1999 (11:23) * 1 lines
Thanks, Alexander!

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 Response 109 of 132: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Thu, Jun  3, 1999 (05:55) * 1 lines
Any time! ;=}

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 Response 110 of 132: Riette Walton  (riette) * Fri, Jun  4, 1999 (13:18) * 1 lines
You should come to inner.

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 Response 111 of 132: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Sat, Jun  5, 1999 (13:24) * 1 lines
Huh?

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 Response 112 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (18:22) * 1 lines
I have come to know an (words defy my writing how incredible this man is) outstanding artist who lurks on Spring from time to time, and another very special artist who would like this to become a forum for professional artist to discuss techniques, media, and projects among other things. Would this be possible? Something needs to jump start this conference, and Ree is busy for the foreseeable future in becoming a lawyer. Suggestions, please?!

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 Response 113 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:00) * 1 lines
Perhaps I should just tell them this conference exists and let them go from there. I could create one called "technique" but that might not be appropriate to their wishes. Just because I cannot create greatness does not mean I do not appreciate the effort and angst in giving birth to a work of art on any level. These people of whom I speak have had professional shows, their work displayed in galleries and purchased by private and public sources. However, since our artist in residence is now in law school, we need another to take her place or at least be willing to post now and then on the subject. (Do not apply for the position, Tim!) Is there anything that I can do other than to be a sincere and dedicated cheerleader who appreciates how incredibly difficult it is to bare your soul by hanging it on the wall for all to see?

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 Response 114 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:07) * 3 lines
marcia, i don't know how to jumpstart this place. but we do have artcentaur.com waiting for us to use. we have a committee too (guess who's been given the honor of chairing? me, and i've been lowsy at it too).

and i'm another cheerleader for those who brave the sharks of critiques and those who do not appreciate the effort it takes to stand naked before all.

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 Response 115 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:16) * 1 lines
You do know! But, I have seen your work and you are an artist, too. You have not devoted the hours and blood, sweat and tears (not to mention the years of education) that the other have, perhaps, but it was just as difficult for you to post your art as it was to post my bit of fiction...and continues to be for the comsumate professionals I mentioned above. We are each vulnerable when it represents so much of our being. *hugs* to all who are brave enough to do it so the likes of people like me may be enriched by your vision.

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 Response 116 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:18) * 1 lines
Gi has expressed an interest in this and hoped originally that was what this conference would be all about. She would paricipate. I shall ask the gentleman, when he gets a moment to breathe, if he would also participate.

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 Response 117 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:21) * 1 lines
consummate....I do know how to spell, but sometime it just gets away before I can catch it...*sigh*

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 Response 118 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:22) * 1 lines
good. let's hope they will come and when ree gets back, won't she be surprised?

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 Response 119 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:22) * 1 lines
Do these stripes give anyone else a headache? Or is it because I have been reading entire topics through the stripes...?!

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 Response 120 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:23) * 1 lines
the stripes bother me but only when we're reading lines on the hot pink bars...

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 Response 121 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (19:24) * 1 lines
Yup! I shall tell Gi straight away (even though it is the middle of the night for her and she is showing inflight movies inside her head at the moment...)

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 Response 122 of 132:  (sprin5) * Wed, Apr  5, 2000 (06:13) * 1 lines
Wow, Ree's becoming a lawyer. I'd have to transfer artcentaur.com and get it active if you want to use it. 

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 Response 123 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr  5, 2000 (14:42) * 1 lines
I'm not even sure what it is. I have read about it but never been in there (if there is a "there" to visit...) Wait till I get more than one artist involved. Gi is the only one so far, and my other one is too busy at the moment to even consider asking him about it. I would much prefer to wait till he has time to think and consider than to ask now and be turned down flat. Is that okay with you?

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 Response 124 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Apr  6, 2000 (20:19) * 1 lines
transfer it so we can get it set up (if it's not a lot of trouble. if it is, we can wait)....

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 Response 125 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (14:55) * 12 lines
Over a year since anyone has written... I definately have to do something about this:o)
I must confess that I'll propably be more in the 'Drool-department' than here, but as I consider myself on my way to be a great artist...;oD... I simply have to give this place some life....

Here's my top five for a start:

1)Gustav Klimt
2)Michaelangelo
3)Leonardo da Vinci
4)Jens Juel (Danish regency-painter)
5)Renoir

and I'll be back with more ;o)

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 Response 126 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (15:27) * 13 lines
Ok... top 6-10:

6)Thorvaldesen(sculptor)*
7)C.W. Eckersberg*
8)Toulouse-Lautrec
9)Marcus Stone
10)The Queen of Denmark;oD (know, what you're thinking, but she's actually quite creative)

*Danish Golden-age-artists



Thorvaldsen, selfportrait

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 Response 127 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (15:28) * 2 lines
damit... it didn't work...:o(
better luck next time I suppose...

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 Response 128 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (15:31) * 1 lines 
 


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 Response 129 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (15:32) * 1 lines
I give up.... I'll find some other pictures...tsk tsk

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 Response 130 of 132: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (17:30) * 1 lines
i'm glad you came by. this place has been awfully lonely without ree-head!

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 Response 131 of 132: Marcia   (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 12, 2001 (17:46) * 1 lines
Hi wolfie! I notice Thomas Paquette is putting more paintings on his website. One of his now graces my computer desktop. That is about what I can afford about now!

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 Response 132 of 132: Diane Lund  (DianeLund) * Sun, Jul 15, 2001 (16:21) * 1 lines
Reason why Klimt is my favourite artist(painter), is because of the way he uses his colours...just look at the way he gets the skin to flicker... (sometimes one just can't define what it is, but IMHO there's magic in his paintings)
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