The Failure Thread

Felix

Lilikins I've fixed it for you. You need to link to the image (ending with .jpg or .png or similar). If it doesn't show up you most likely linked to the gallery on imgur (something with /gallery/ in the address)

Most of the time you can just right click the image and select 'copy image url' or similar

Felix

Lilikins I'm sorry, but I've got to ask. What animal should it be? Looks like a vampire with a bow tie 😁

Lilikins

Felix thanks for fixing it Felix! It eventually turned out to be a meerkat with a bow. My husband asked me to paint him a meerkat but I had never painted an animal before. I had been following a YouTube tutorial on how to paint animals until this point and clearly the lesson wasn’t working lol. It looks more like a demon version of Rafiki (monkey from lion king).

My husband heard me laughing hysterically, came into my painting room and went “what...what is that THING?” Thats your meerkat sweetie. Your welcome!

Toadi

I took it out but on my first one, I tried to put a deer in the background, Hubby walked by and asked why there was a dinosaur in my picture...I scraped real quick...lol

Felix

Toadi Ha! 😃 I'd love to see that dinosaur

ironchef8000

Felix Me too!
That could be an interesting event idea - paint a scene out of time. I saw one of the fan submissions on a Kevin Hill YouTube video that had what looked to be an ancient sword and armor rusting against a rock.

Sunnylady

Alright, my turn to post something that was a failure and I painted over it.

doggymommee8301

Sunnylady You consider THAT a failure? Ha! I'd have gladly hung that on my wall!

Sunnylady

doggymommee8301 Well, surprisingly there are days when things just do not work, I would hope amount of those days would go down as i gain experience. but nope. Another interesting aspect that i noticed that my own eyes are worse than camera. In reality blending did not look that bad, but when I aimed my camera all those circles appeared and became visible straight away. Major difference between two paintings was medium, tee is a beautiful medium, only what scares me that it will darken a lot comapre to oil+turpentine.

Lilikins

doggymommee8301 LOL I was thinking the same. Looks wonderful to me.

Colin Hudson

It is beautiful in my eyes. And I wear spectacles 8-)

Sunnylady

Folks, you all are incredibly kind! Thank you so very much!

JoJoSunshine

Lilikins I did the same and it just shows the link. How do you get the picture to show up.

Lilikins

JoJoSunshine I wait for Felix to take pity on me and fix it 😂 It only seems to work for me 1/4 of the time. I suspect that my issue is due to my phone - or rather my inability to get the cursor at the right position when I use my phone.

JoJoSunshine

Thanks for letting me know. I really respect what Felix has done with this whole community and am so pleased to be a part of it.