Pages

Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Must Paint... Everything Clean... Everything New... Paint....

In the depths of my paint-induced hysteria, I can't get this clip from Southpark out of my head. Meanwhile, my sister (who came to help today because she's either a saint or insanely bored, I'm not sure which) can't seem to stop pretending to be Bob Ross and mumbling "Happy Trees... Happy Walls...."

We all cope in our own ways.

  paintfrontbed 

After two days, we have one bedroom at about 97% and one at 70%, I'd say. Left to do is the hall (small), the living/dining room (not small), and the kitchen (small, but we still need to pick a color.) My right wrist is a limp noodle and I'm getting sort of a paint-brush-holding claw thing going on. This shit is way more tiring than I remember.

We're using Mythic paints, which are crazy overpriced but smell even less than acrylic craft paint, which pleases my sensitive little self very much (honestly we don't have much choice- I wouldn't be able to live in a place that was paint-fumey.) The cans lied to me, though- it said that each gallon would do 400 sq feet...it's becoming very apparent that is referring to a single coat, and you most definitely need more like 2 or 3. Which means another hundo or two needs to be plunked down on paint. Awesome. (And no, I'm not using primer, because we're painting over very pale colors, and because I'm not entirely convinced that there's actually a difference between primer and flat, white paint anyway.)

The other nice thing about Mythic is that it seems not to make you go blind immediately if you get it in your eye.

   

That'd be my sister's bespeckled contact lens. I can't tell if she was just lucky and ONLY hit the lens, or if she hit everywhere else too and it just dissolved. I told her to wear the goggles!

In other displeasing news, my laptop's power cord has decided to pretty much stop working, despite my many attempts to save it. A replacement has been ordered but for some reason the predicted shipping is like, 22 days (WHAT?)... hopefully it'll be much faster than that, but if my presence becomes spotty, you'll know why. (But probably only a little spotty. It's not like I have multiple other internet-enabled devices or anything.) I'll line up tomorrow's post but the rest of our fixin'-uppin' posts will probably go up well after the fact. Overdramatic Siiiighhhhh.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Get Your Paint On, Week 3



It's a squid! I know, squids are totes passe. Too bad. They're fun to draw.

GYPO Week 3

I'm relatively happy with it... I feel like I'm starting to get my bearings back a little. You will notice that I skipped posting week two, though. There's a reason for that ;-P



(Wooo shitty camera phone that can't handle reds!) I am fairly certain that squids don't have ears, or if they do, that's not where they are. But whatever, he just wants to look cool, okay?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Evolution of a mediocre painting

So I'm taking this workshop: Get Your Paint On

Our first assignment was to do something based on these kinda crazy quilts...and of course my mind jumped to log cabin quilts (and knitted blankets, which is what I have more experience with...though I've never really knit log cabin anything, to the best of my recollection.)

And this is what I came up with...

photo (5)

photo (7)

photo (8)

I considered stopping here because I really liked it, but I wanted to see what would happen with all the colors... and apparently I stopped taking progress shots at this point.


photo (9)

Hooray!

More accurate colors but an uglier picture (and frankly I wish the colors were more like the one above):

GYPO Week 1


It has some issues... some colors I don't like, some sloppy brushwork, and frankly it's a tad boring for my tastes (maybe if it were way, way bigger....) But seeing as I haven't painted a damn thing since I dropped out of art school about 5 years ago and that it was my weakest subject even then, I'm fairly content with it for now. I like the actual act of painting, it's pleasant (though the smell makes me nauseous after awhile, even though acrylics are pretty nontoxic. Blerg. I should probably stop holding my face six inches from the paintbrush.) Anyway. Painting! I don't know if I'll post my assignment from each week... we'll see how much I like them ;-)

LinkWithin

romantica theme by Pink + Lola