Welcome one, welcome all to the Third Term Art Club! We are a discussion based club (little/no roleplay) revolving around art in all mediums. Anyone is welcome to join at any time to discuss and share art, write and receive critiques, ask for assistance or request art from other members. Members of last term's club -- I wasn't sure whether to automatically add you or not, but if you're still interested, there's obviously a spot for you here! :) I'd love to see some people give new things a try! I know I will be!

I plan to have several Club Challenges to hopefully inspire some beautiful art and keep everyone practicing. If you have ideas for new challenges, please sMail me anytime!

When you join, please feel free to include links to your DA/Art blog/Image portfolio and list your primary medium for our member list and spotlight above! We want to showcase everyone's art and give you the recognition you deserve!

ART CHALLENGE Submit a piece of art representing your favorite aspect/part of Harry Potter as a whole. This can be done in any medium, including written pieces, and can be about anything: favorite character, house, place, quote, the concept of wizarding as a whole, etc. Have fun with it, and be creative! :)

Due Date: March 31, 2016 11:59 EST

Submissions: None Yet!

I would like to join again! Here is my DA: (where finished things go) link and my Art tumblr: (lots of WIPs) link Primary Medium: Digital Illustration/Painting

I also really like to make craft type projects when I have the time. Usually with my roommate.
Eventually I would like to get back into water coloring and oil painting.

Wow, I absolutely love your style! Your color selection and backgrounds are really phenomenal. I feel like I could definitely learn a thing or two from you about colors and lineart.

What kind of crafts? Like decor type crafts? :D Painting is something I've never tried. For the eventual 'try a medium you're unfamiliar with' challenge, I'm definitely going to have to give it a go!

Thank you so much! Traditional art using ink pens taught me how to line art, and I took a few painting classes in school that really taught me a bunch about color theory. But mostly it comes from repetitive practice.

Your gallery is looking good. You seem to have a firm grasp on proportions and I like how you are using different angles and expressions. Keep it up!

Lets see... We like to make wreathes around the winter holidays. We made a bunch of glitter magnets this one time. I have done a few wire trees, but my wire was always too big and they ended up being HEAVY omg. What else... I can sew a fierce pillow X3

Painting is super fun! It can be hard for me to wrap my brain around because I am so line oriented, and with paint you are literally painting blobs of light, but it can be awesome if you stay loose and just flow with it. Watercolor is a little different, you have to be very patient or have a blow dryer on-hand if you want to do anything quickly XD Just remember to keep your brushes super clean and everything will work out alright in the end.

Sure, add me to the list. I go through periods where I don't do any art for a long time, though. ^.^;

I primarily use pencil/paper for drawings. Some of these I scan and color digitally (I use a mouse, not a tablet).

dA: click

dirty brushes are a huge pet peeve of mine. You finish using it, CLEAN IT OFF! Oh, and CAP THE MARKERS. ALL THE WAY. You gotta hear it click! flails

I may have been an assistant art teacher for a time. ^.^;

I'll join. I fear I've been neglecting my art badly lately though. My "studio" (a table in the attic) is a shambles, buried in books and power-tools. I constantly fill sketch books with random doodles, but I rarely finish anything lately.

My main mediums are pencil, colored pencil, and computer colored sketches.
I'm pretty eclectic though, and love playing with wood carving, clay, paper mache, oil painting acrylic painting, chalk..., whatever I can get my hands on.

I'm looking forward to the art challenges. Get some motivation going :)

here's my DA link http://chatlunatique.deviantart.com/ and my terribly neglected Elfwood accounthttp://www.elfwood.com/u/nekomata

Wow, your coloring looks so good! How long does it take you about? And, I love your clay models! :D Clay is so much fun to play around with. Haha, I can't wait to experience the qualms of having dirty brushes and noting how it affects my work.

:D Welcome aboard! If I could draw animals half as well as you can, I'd be bloody proud. Your winged dog is particularly amazing. Was it meant to be a tribute to a pet, or is it just a winged dog?

Ooh, wood carving. How exactly do you start a wood carving? I mean, how do you select a piece of wood? What kind, anything you're watching out for as far as knots, how large do you select based on the fact that if you make a mistake you have to make it smaller?

Wire trees?! Those always look so cool. C: What do you make the wreaths out of? Also, thank you for the tips on water color! I have some brushes and acrylic paint here, but I definitely want to get a decent watercolor set. I feel like it'll help me in the long run with digital painting after I've figured out my style.

Most of my carving was repair work on the old Herschell-Spillman carousel in Golden gate park and the Dentzel/Illions at the San Francisco zoo. (Got really good at carving horse ears and legs before arthritis ruined my hands) I like to carve white pine, cottonwood and butternut. Basswood is soft and really easy to carve, but dull unless you plan to paint it completely. Walnut is beautiful but it dulls the chisels too fast. I had to carve 12 near-identical lion-foot furniture legs in walnut once..., I was hating life by the fourth one. I prefer to avoid wood with ribbon grain like rosewood, and knots are a real pain to work around as well. Mistakes generally mean more firewood. I usually ended up pitching the piece and starting over 'cause the replacement carving had to match exact size requirements for the repair to work. Too bad my old photo albums are buried in the attic, I'd love to try and scan and post some of the pictures of my carvings.(Pre-computer age stuff) but it was mostly stuff like this and this. The pale wood areas are the new carving [edit] The winged dog was a tribute to a lab mix pup that I did for .

I found a pretty legit tutorial on pinterest ~ link You can add more than just ornaments, like ribbon or fake flowers or leaves etc... Unfortunately the hot glue doesn't hold up so well when the wreath is in storage. So they are pretty temporary. We are trying to work out a way to make them hold together longer... But better glue takes forever to dry and holding each one while it drys for like ten minutes is absurd IMO X3

Those carvings are truly amazing. The amount of time and patience that must take is mind boggling! So if I go to the San Diego zoo, will I see these?

I keep looking at them and more and more detail just jumps out at me. Incredible!

:D Wow, makes it look so simple. I'll have to do that this Christmas! Hm. There's got to be another way to affix them. Yet all I can think of is poking a hole and tying them. Which would probably break more of them in the process than simply re-gluing every year. ^-^

I've never been to San Diego, but I understand the Balboa Park Carousel has some very nice antique horses (and other animals) from a variety of carvers. Many of them look to be Herschell-Spillman animals like the ones I worked on in Golden Gate Park (The hopping frog is unique to that company). I understand the brass ring dispenser still works, so it's definitely worth the cost of the ride!

Hello, everyone! I'd really like to join your club :-)

My deviantart is here. And I guess my primary medium is digital art.

Really looking forward to making some art buddies!!

Hi :3

Can I join the art club? I don't have a deviant art page or anything but I promise I'm decent at drawing :D!

My primary medium is pencil ^-^!