With or Without the Smile?
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
All the kids I know have huge smiles on their faces....
Especially after they complete one of my assignments
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
One-shot sticks pretty good but my kids don't like the taste when painting the smiles... always smiles
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
It takes so little to put a smile on a childs face. And being the eternal optimist with a kid still inside thats how I would paint them.
If I were ever to write an autobiography it would be titled "Laughing All The Way!"
-dan
Posted by roger bailey (Member # 556) on :
Guess that would depend on where you choose your subjects, I bet the children of Iraq don't smile too much. I know the women of Iraq don't smile much(might be cause some of them had a bit of they're anatomy removed) but I'm not sure.
Roger Posted by roger bailey (Member # 556) on :
I should have signed off with;
Roger Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Hi Roger
I am talking about your (Children and Theirs!)
I hope to help all around the world with the "Little I Know!"
Thanks! Posted by Gavin Chachere (Member # 1443) on :
They're probably won't smile once they see posts like this that are deliberately designed to inflame what you know is a sensitive situation go up after numerous requests not to.within a week give or take a few days there will be massive human aid campaigns and numerous relief agencies and efforts taking place,and it seems to me that instead of complaining here about a situation you cannot change maybe action should speak louder than idealism for once and you should join one of the efforts...getting 11 people to post up and agree with you here is one helluva lot diff than actually getting out there and doing it if you're really serious about making a change. It's not what you say,it's what you do.
Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Some smile, some cry. But even the unfortunate children smile and laugh. perhaps you could paint 3/4 faces of each back to back. Or the one child smiling with a silhouette showing a sad face.
Posted by Jeffrey Vrstal (Member # 2271) on :
The face of a child can reflect any and every emotion from joy, sadness, confusion, deep thought... you name it. Get to know the child's face. The face will have certain characteristics that are suitable for a particular portrait. You will know if the look is genuine after some time studying the MANY faces of a particular individual. When it's right, it's right.
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Always paint them with a smile! All you have to do is look carefully at anyone and you will see how much better they look when smiling.
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Gavin
This was not meant to inflame anything. But an idea that is bouncing around in my head.
I would like to approach the City Council with a Mural... A very good friend of mine is a walldog (Muralist). She and I like the thought of putting something together involving "Childrens Emotions" of today. Different faces of different parts of the world.
Thanks Dan/Geff/Bill and the rest of you for your input.
Posted by Myra Grozinger (Member # 327) on :
"Children's emotions" inspired me to pull two favorites and share them. One Mark brought to me as a surprise when he was five. The other was done by Mark's son Ivan, to show how he missed me, one day after I left from a visit with them.
[ March 25, 2003, 09:04 AM: Message edited by: Myra Grozinger ]
Posted by Tony Potter (Member # 1199) on :
Children smile! Period. It is later in life that they learn to frown.
Sure they get sad and cry now and then but no matter what is wrong with them, a goofy act on your part or paying attention to them, each and every one of them will smile. It is any sort of caring that makes a child smile. Very simple.
For that reason, I would say the only reason to show a child sad is because you want to, I do not want my or anyone else's child to be sad. Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Myra THANKS! Some of the best pieces of Artwork I have seen in a long time!
Tony.... But they do have thier own dreams of this world and I like to capture them in its moment.
Not trying to start anything.... But as an Artist I like to give back to them "Their Hopes are Real."
Thanks Again.
This is still a project piece to say something with the (Little Talent I Have.)
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
....Hey, your question DID sound a little philisophical there, at first. ...But a mural such as the one you've mentioned should reflect all kinds of things about kids, from happiness and laughter to wonder and inquisitivness, mabey all the way to the pain and suffering of an abusive enviroment.......seems like the point would be to show that children experience life just as we do, except through eyes of innocence and honesty and trust! Those three charachter assets are what makes their faces so beautiful. They're happiness with simple things is contageous. They're wonder and awe as they experience new things remind us not to take life for granted. They're pain and suffering move us to reach out and console.......hope your mural moves and touches the child in all those who see it! That to me is the purpose of any art.
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