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    joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 18. Oct 2010, 08:54 in Community Chit-chat archive
    Hi

    What talents would you like to possess if you could choose :?:

    I would like to be able to play a musical instrument, mainly the piano.

    I would like to be able to speak another language fluently, instead of my very rusty French.

    I would love to be able to dance really well ( any kind of dancing, but mainly ballet )

    Joan :D
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    • lupin15
      lupin15 Member Posts: 2,182
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      To be able to sing in tune lalalalalal tum te tum...tone deaf and speak different languages oh la la :):):):):):)
    • annie_mial
      annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      Oh, if only I could sing and paint........could do both at the same time!

      Annie
    • joanlawson
      joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      delboy wrote:
      Contortionist.

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      You have the talent to make me laugh :!: :lol:
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    • barbara12
      barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      Like Annie I would love to sing, my mother was a singer but i am tone deaf :roll: and I would love to paint , I have had a go thanks to Joy, but I'm not very good...well not yet..i live in hope. :)
      Barbara x
      Love
      Barbara
    • joyful164
      joyful164 Member Posts: 2,401
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      annie_mial wrote:
      Oh, if only I could sing and paint........could do both at the same time!

      Annie

      I think we had this conversation before love, but everyone can paint if they gave it a try. You don't have to paint with a brush either. Get some acrylic and a pallette knife and start from there. You can get some great effects. If you make a pattern say, then just flick some paint over what you have done, hey presto, you have a masterpiece, just like that. No, honestly, give it a try maybe, but never say can't.

      Love from Joy
    • joyful164
      joyful164 Member Posts: 2,401
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      As for what other talent I would like to be good at, yes, the piano. I can just about 'tinkle' out some tunes and play one piece of music, but I think, with some music lessons, it would all come back to me, except my arthritic hands and wrists would hold me back.

      And I have my Aunt's piano in the dining room behind me.

      Well the evenings are getting dark so I won't be able to paint then. I might give it another go.
      Joy
    • annie_mial
      annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      joyful164 wrote:
      annie_mial wrote:
      Oh, if only I could sing and paint........could do both at the same time!

      Annie

      I think we had this conversation before love, but everyone can paint if they gave it a try. You don't have to paint with a brush either. Get some acrylic and a pallette knife and start from there. You can get some great effects. If you make a pattern say, then just flick some paint over what you have done, hey presto, you have a masterpiece, just like that. No, honestly, give it a try maybe, but never say can't.

      Love from Joy

      Hey, Joy, we did have this conversation before and I have now just realised what the problem is! 'Tis me.........when I say art I mean, well, art........an artistic representation of something a person, a place, fruit, flowers, sunsets, whatevers.
      Coloured splodges on a piece of paper may well be art to others but to me they are just that.....coloured splodges.

      I've never understood 'modern' or 'abstract' art and I once looked at an Impressionist painting upside down for 10 minutes wondering what the hell it was all about. Admittedly it had been hung upside down, but I should have spotted the signature was in the wrong place and upside down long before 10 minutes was up!

      I have to face the fact that I'm just an artistic Philistine......and let you and Joseph and all those who can continue to delight me with their talents. (But I still wish I could paint).

      Annie
    • daylily
      daylily Member Posts: 619
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      I've always wanted to play the harp-lovely music :)
    • dorcas
      dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      I'd love to have any creative or artistic talent. :|

      but I do enjoy hearing or seeing the talent in others. :D

      Iris x
    • joyful164
      joyful164 Member Posts: 2,401
      edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
      I have to face the fact that I'm just an artistic Philistine......and let you and Joseph and all those who can continue to delight me with their talents. (But I still wish I could paint).

      Annie

      Hi Annie

      sorry for being AWOL. I have been absorbed in a painting which is not going so well at the moment. You are not an artistic Philistine. I do not understand loads of Modern art. AndI cannot understand the millions of pounds being paid for some of it. If, say, people started recognising my name and liked the painting I do, and buy it, then I could probably start changing my style and going for rubbishy modernistic art and then people would still buy it. I'd be happy for just a hundred here or there.
      What I was trying to explain was 'experimenting with some paints and some brushes. Experiment with the way you hold the brush. There is a brush that is so exciting and it is called a sword brush.

      I can go on forever once I get on my bandwagon. You will think I am lecturing. I think the only atistic thing I am going to do for the rest of the day is sleep. Everything has caught up with me this last few days plus having the flu jab so I will come back and talk art to whoever wants to another day.

      Joy

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