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Putting more titanium white down now to establish light and dark areas as well as continue to cover up of the initial marker lines which turned out to be a pretty big mistake but that’s why I started on this piece as a way to get back into technical readiness.
I did a lot of line work over a week or two of the painting being in the drawing area. I finally burned out and decided to swap it back to the painting room and get some reference lines on it so I could suss what’s really going on overall.
Are used to pretty cheap brush to get these lines in and got some balance as far as being able to get straighter and I can see what’s missing now or three or four key areas that I can start rendering again.
In the meantime I have been able to paint over a lot of the lines that need to be there anymore and these are just mistakes that would happen when you’ve been out of the game for 10 years but are somewhat recoverable.
It was great to have such a large piece right where I needed it next to my normal desk job and in a room where the kids get a lot of drawing done as well which is discussed in a previous post regarding pens and pencils for drawing, mechanical and artistic / composition uses.
Bought more paints and I definitely need more brushes and I’m noticing that for some reason the canvas is sagging and I’m unsure as to the root cause.
I’m used to working with a slightly thinner canvas in some cases and certainly when I do the priming there was enough shrinkage to keep things tight.
In the meantime I have developed a number of workarounds To solve the issues of a lack of Pinewood here as a fix for the twisty hardwood. Panels are the best possible option unless there’s going to be a decay issue between the canvas and panel chemicals.
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Yes that’s right I have gotten way deep into [mechanical, drafting, drawing, art] pencils and pens as I build out the studio more for our family.
Luckily we have a shop right down the street “DIN SOR” (which means pencil in Thai) which carries a lot of good quality stuff and I’m surprised at times to see what they have.
They also see that I do purchase quite a bit of stuff and anything high and they have I will definitely buy.
My hope is that I can start placing orders there and receiving some more specialized stuff regularly such as gouache And different types of paper and it would be great if they carry oil paints but that might be asking too much.
One thing I realize is that I got involved in oil painting way too early without having any exposure to a lot of the smaller and easier to manage mediums with which I could explore various themes, media, materials, surfaces, techniques and subject matter.
But each time I add something into the studio and streamline it and get it set up so my daughter can use it with us minimum impact as possible in terms of cleanup or general disorder that poor planning triggers I see that once I observe and reorganize things she can just come in and experience a new medium like pastels and area remains in good shape and orderly, so I have just been building up from there.
The most surprising thing that she did was a super impressive replication of a SpongeBob SquarePants character and it was so perfect a copy that it was hard to believe that she had done it (we thought for s second maybe her older sister) but Mom was right, she has a ‘certain line’, -sure enough it was her work.
And she did this off of just watching videos and a lot of times she does not even pause the video when she is looking for the shapes to copy.
So her success sort of fuels me keeping the studio going while I try to build up my own bodies of work which tend to go a lot more slowly due to the air more elaborate scale.
The effect of working with her in the studio is that I’m sort of meeting her halfway with all of these different media and then checking them out myself or vice versa I discover something and realize this would be great for her to work with as the SpongeBob cartoon replica was a result of just handing her a 0.38 gauge ink pen that had excellent control and she went up creating a master work from it just sitting there testing it out for the first time.
This is basically leading us through all of the illustration tools and now I am starting to understand which pens the various artists use and being exposed to a lot of new artist that I had never even known about before because I’m looking in different media now as opposed to just the world of oil painting.
Here’s KIM JUNG GI and the PENTEL ARTS Portable Pocket Brush Pen he uses below:
KIM JUNG GI PENTEL ARTS PORTABLE POCKET BRUSH PEN
YOUTUBE ILLUSTRATION CHANNEL:
There is supposedly a victor Hugo reference as there is a book by the same name and I even used to own this book and it was quite an old hard cover but I ended up having to leave it behind somewhere.
It’s time to re-book it on the Waze is this painting which Albert Pinkham Ryder did.
The Lover’s Boat, about 1881, Albert Pinkham Ryder
Flying Dutchman (1887) Oil on Canvas by Albert Pinkham Ryder
I had a book on this guy I don’t early age but I’m only just now checking back in to his work and this seems like a very compelling portrait format painting to execute and even looks like it’s made in acrylic.
I’m looking at this video of Ed Paschke in the studio.
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He’s working on the famous Mona Lisa.
But he’s got it on the ground and it’s pretty much the same height as him and looks to be about 6 feet wide not even seven.
It could be a little bit wider and noticed also like a 6 x 5.5.
It’s impressive how simple he has it and I can also see all of the source materials on the corkboard’s which I have been ramping up my own self. It goes to show even 4 to 6 inches off the floor is good enough although I can’t tell what’s in back of this thing it looks pretty stable.
So then there’s the actual process which takes place by isolating an image and getting it on to the open projector in pure black and white only no color at all.
Here’s looking at you kid.
Using little finger as a point balance and ranging tool.
He also holds the source image in his hand the whole way through.
And he only put it down when he grabbed a tube of pain and when he got the paint he got it directly from the tube they never let it hit the pallet so this must be the freshest most pure version of the color and saves a lot of bullshit screwing around with a pallet and chemicals because he’s painting clearly from the tube likely from high-quality product.
Who is the paint on pure over another set of wash so basically it’s black and white and multiple other colors by the time the purple comes over the orange or the orange yellow.
He even thins it more by using his fingertip to spread it and apply.
This last image could be used as an homage painting. Due to it what he would’ve done to an image of this type.
So to do this, you can use phpMyAdmin on your server. It’s usually in Cpanel root under SQL Services, or in your Cpanel user account under same section.
You can execute SQL queries that in effect delete the Admin user, and then re-add it with a specific password.
This password is encrypted so that’s why it looks the way it does.
351683ea4e19efe34874b501fdbf9792:9b is actually the password ‘admin’.
Once you do the below changes you should be able to login using:
Username: Admin
Password: admin
EXECUTE PHPMYADMIN SQL QUERIES:
Here’s what you can do in Zen Cart 1.5.1x.
DELETE FROM admin WHERE admin_name = 'Admin'; INSERT INTO admin (admin_name, admin_email, admin_pass, admin_profile) VALUES ('Admin', 'admin@localhost', '351683ea4e19efe34874b501fdbf9792:9b', 1);
For Zen Cart v1.3.9 and older, do this QUERY:
DELETE FROM admin WHERE admin_name = 'Admin'; INSERT INTO admin (admin_name, admin_email, admin_pass, admin_level)
RESET TEMP PASSWORD AFTER REGAINING ACCESS:
Once you are back in, go into your Administrator tab and reset the password and save it someplace you can get it later like a Google Document.
Here’s more info straight from Zen Cart FAQ:
Dictating another blog entry because now at least I have the freedom to be thoughtful in terms of what I want to post and I don’t have to put it off due to some sort of physical logistics in terms of where I am actually sitting or standing and what devices I have at my disposal and how I might transmit the images.
Now I can just compose it was the whole idea in the first place.
So I was able to successfully prime a very large surface after many years away from the craft using a Purdy brand ox hair paint brush.
I had already used the brush on a smaller surface and it worked great in the 2.5 size and so I was able to use a straight brush or the same 2.5 on the larger surface that I had.
This is the first time that I have ever composed a blog posting by using a microphone to dictate to text.
I hadn’t even thought of this until I sat down and just did it.
It’s true that there are interesting things.
There are places and doors and then there are portals.
You are looking at a portal but me and you will never know together what lies beyond that portal or through it but that’s the entrance.
So in the studio here are some of the interesting images that I am looking at and thinking of studying.
