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The time lapse on this one is going to suck. The idea was that the armature wouldn't move relative to the painting even if I moved the easel. the problem is that the cheap camera I got for pandemic Zoom meetings five years ago refuses to stay put. I put some tape on it today to hold it, but I may just need a better one. Also: nothing says "poor" like a mid-century popcorn ceiling.
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"Acrylic doesn't lend itself to blurriness the same way oil does." Just another "you can't do that with acrylic" adage that is fun to ignore. Not that you can see where this is going just yet. #acrylic #acrylicpainting #painting #artwork
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It took me while to settle on what I was going to try this time. #painting #acrylicpainting
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And now, from the "things that still exist despite their original purpose being lost to the past" file: the cross beams on lamp posts that we hang decorative banners from were for lamplighters to lean their ladders on. Image: George P. Lewis (1875–1926), "A female gas worker cleaning and lighting street lamps in Britain" from "The Employment of Women on the Home Front, 1914-1918". Collection of the Imperial War Museums, Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection (UK).
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For 295,000 years all humans managed was stone tools and setting things on fire, then about 5,000 years ago cats decided to hang out with us and next thing you know we have handheld computers with cameras and the Internet to share pictures of them with.
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Ever feel like having all your skin peeled off and joining up with baboon-faced space-whalers?
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Having a glass of milk (and coffee) with my malenky cat before I head out in the rain, singing a song.
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Having potato chips for dinner is not a sad cop-out if you make them yourself ...right?
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MacGyverred an armature today for the next and subsequent time-lapses. I'm going with another sheet of large format inkjet paper leftover from my long defunct printer. I haven't quite decided on what I am going paint this time yet. #painting #acrylicpainting
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Today I learned that decompression sickness is called "the bends" after a fashion involving high heels, a tight laced corset, and a bustle that first appeared around 1820 and repeated (as fashions do) in the late 1860s patterned after a style of ancient Greek sculpture and called "The Grecian Bend". Stooped workers with decompression sickness from working on the foundations of the Brooklyn bridge in the 1870s reminded people of the fashion. IMHO with modern eyes, this look has a steampunk Tyrannosaurus vibe
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