sundshine in the Pacific NW

[monikasiberkat]

OMG this alien thing came down and shined all over us. I am now a nice sunburnt crispy critter. Serves me right for working in the garden naked and forgetting to put on the sun tan lotion. OUCH

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[tuftears]

Or incorporate the chocolate wine-soaked fruit INTO the art! *splat*

I just watched season 1 of the Dresden files the other week, it's pretty good stuff.

[monikasiberkat]

There's a Dresden Files tv show???!!! Ack I better go look at this didn't know. Shows how much I watch tv.

Yeah wine soaked fruit in the art, do you think it would look any good? Ah who would care everyone get ripped!. Lol.

Well another class day of frustration on how to draw ACCURATELY. I think we were all over heated form the week, ok we Pacific NW'sters are used to living in 60 degrees or less ost of the time. But jump it to 85 all in 3 days and we don't really catch up to it. So we poor little flowers wilt like crazy. And the class room is not really air conditioned but today it was tolerable.

I am having fun though, learning to make supports aka a piece of carefully built gessoed wood. sand gesoo sand gesso and then transferring the very accurate drawing onto the board with charcoal. You can't use graphite under oil paints really. Or so I have been told repeatedly.

Who knows maybe I can't paint the Wizard Dresden?

[spots_da_hyena]

Humm, art you have to keep refrigerated. That would be a strange frame to put it in. I guess in some way we are doing it wrong if some one can roll their naked body around on a large canvas and call it a painting, or have an elephant slap a brush around on a canvas and get world acclaim.

As far as the pencil not to be used with oil I am finding that it's a debatable thing in some forums like Wetcanvas. But it is coming up more a rumor than truth. I have to side with rumor myself as I don't see a very thin light line a problem. Now if you draw a complete drawing that could be enough to bleed but why do one medium then cover over with a different one?

[monikasiberkat]

OH you don't have to create the enitre picture with graphite then paint over it. You draw it all up like a study then make a blow up if you wish to do it larger. Then you transfer that to your canvas or board, spray a little fixative and go to it.
As for Pencil I get yelled at for using it as it will "strike through your colors". that is it migrates up a bit in a chemical reaction. I have no idea if this is myth or not but all Atelier's seem to feel this is not a good medium to use and charcoal is better. Just make charcoal transfer paper. Pretty easy too.

I have seem pencil pop up thru the light washy layers of paints in that style of painting. Fat over lean I am told it's called. It shows thru and believe me people can make a bit stink about this when they pay higher prices for art. They want "Perfection!". So you better know the archival ways of painting before you decide to ignore the rules I guess. I have had people get all upset that pencil showed thru my arcylics.