I was actually quite a good artist in my youth, having inherited my father’s gift, himself a talented artist.
But like him, life got in the way of my art and I didn’t use my skills since. I once tried to get back in the groove to little avail, can drawing be unlearned? As my attempts were feeble to say the least.
With this in mind I sought new ways to rekindle my artistic flair, so decided to work with painting by numbers.
But art should be something shared for everyone to participate in, so I have created a series of painting by numbers artwork for you to try at home.
Here is my first piece entitled “Bathtime!”
As you can see it’s a cat licking it’s bum.
Colour codes are as follows:
1) White
2) Light Brown
And if you print on white paper you won’t even need to colour in the number 1 sections, saving you half the time.
I hope you enjoy unleashing the artist within.
Mooselicker
/ June 4, 2013My painting looked so beautiful then I scrolled down and now there’s just a giant paint stain on my computer.
joehoover
/ June 4, 2013I’ll add a disclaimer that I can’t be held responsible for damage resulting from this.
Mooselicker
/ June 4, 2013That’s probably a good idea.
El Guapo
/ June 5, 2013If you aren’t including mental damage in that disclaimer, I think I’ll have a pretty good case against you!
joehoover
/ June 6, 2013My friends are in NYC right now, I could send them over with a threatening tone, drop the case or they’ll mess up your plants
Red
/ June 4, 2013I will live dangerously and paint the tongue pink and rough.
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013All is good as long as you stay in the lines. Going over the lines is punishable
segmation
/ June 4, 2013Just 2 colors?
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013Should it be a psychedelic kitty? It could be limitless then
segmation
/ June 6, 2013I love all the colors from the color wheel. http://www.segmation.wordpress.com
joehoover
/ June 6, 2013I’ll try better with the next instalment, at least until my brain wanders off to the next thing
pouringmyartout
/ June 4, 2013I started to do the painting, but then I got too caught up in making the asshole photo-realistic and gave up when the paper disolved.
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013I bet you did too!
pouringmyartout
/ June 5, 2013HA!!!
Laura
/ June 5, 2013I was going to try this, but it’s just way too many colors for me.
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013Maybe I should have done a black kitty?
benzeknees
/ June 5, 2013Before I started writing, I used to do paint by number paintings. They’ve come a long way, you have to blend colors now & make a 3rd color out of 2 pots they’ve given you. I found it calming. BTW, you would have to paint the white spots otherwise the number 1 you put there would still show up.
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013haha! Good thinking! Now I know you are expert in painting with that knowledge that completely escaped me.
I’m doing a series of them – at least until I think of the next skit to run with
gingerfightback
/ June 5, 2013I wish I could do that
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013I am guessing you are not referring to wishing you could paint by numbers but the licking but instead? I wonder how much pilates classes you would have to attend to actually achieve that?
gingerfightback
/ June 5, 2013Stopped at 4 Joe!
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013Must have been a good teacher
gingerfightback
/ June 5, 2013Not really – did me back in – never been right since – martyr to it these days
joehoover
/ June 5, 2013We’re not getting any younger, I do my back in just lying on the sofa
gingerfightback
/ June 5, 2013Be strong
El Guapo
/ June 5, 2013I started to do this, but realized I couldn’t support the subservise messages implicit in this piece.
joehoover
/ June 6, 2013Next week’s may be more user friendly
appletonavenue
/ June 5, 2013I’d do it, but I’ve no brushes or paint. Argh, I hate these “participation” blogs. Off to the art supply store.
joehoover
/ June 6, 2013😀 I think it can be copied into MS Paint and then you can go to town on the light brown
appletonavenue
/ June 6, 2013Wonderful.
pegoleg
/ June 7, 2013Lovely. Like you, I’ve been looking for a way to bring creativity back into my life after many years absence, but I don’t know that I have time right now to do it justice. I’ll just print it out and do the actual painting after I retire.
I think you’ve hit on something here, Joe. You could do a whole line of irreverent paint-by-numbers – seriously, it would be cool.
joehoover
/ June 7, 2013I have a few planned til I get bored, you’ll have a whole binder full for your retirement!
Madame Weebles
/ June 7, 2013You kill me. Now was that drawing done directly from a Lily pose, or did you just dream that one up off the top of your head?
joehoover
/ June 8, 2013Lily isn’t ambidextrous. Random google image that you can trace the outlines on Gimp (free photoshop type thing) to make it look like a pint by numbers. Next week’s is more challenging.