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18"x24" Gouache and Drawing Ink 1997This is about writers and inspiration...
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I have this terrible impatience with you that I really am trying to work on-- every time I read one of your comments, I'm just DYING to know what you paint like!!! I'm sorry-- like I said, I am working on it...
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I have this terrible impatience with you that I really am trying to work on-- every time I read one of your comments, I'm just DYING to know what you paint like!!!
Yikes~such pressure...I hope you're not disappointed.
That does make two of us, officially...I haven't "done it" 
I'm sorry-- like I said, I am working on it...
Hmmm*patience is NOT one of her virtues...your patience, however has rather struck her as one of yours..decides to continue admiring yours and wisely so*
Thanks, Sam
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Okay, I've thought this over, and here's my ruling on it:
A professional photo lab will doubtless have ways to baffle their lighting to accomodate irridescense; until the time comes when you decide to spend that kinda money for the entertainment of we little punks in here who want to see your work, here's what you do...
If you don't own a 35 mm SLR camera yourself, borrow one from that obnoxious neighbor of yours who certainly DOES (and who's just been waiting for an excuse to converse with you) and take it, along with your paintings, out into the daylight with some either 25 speed or 100 speed color film (these are both slow film speeds, and slow is what you want, to avoid graininess in your enlargements, and to capture a rich saturation of color)... put your painting somewhere shady, with only reflected sunlight illumining your work. Meter carefully, and make sure that obnoxious neighbor has also loaned you a tripod, if you don't have one yourself. Now, with your painting up on an easel, take a look through the viewfinder (SLR means single lens reflex, meaning that you are seeing what your lens is seeing) and decide if you need to move either art or camera or both in order to accomodate the irridescence. DeviantArt is comprised of artists who know damned good and well that the original always looks better than reproductions of it; get the best representation you can by negotiating with the reflected rays of Father Sun (for photographing with the help of Mother Moon... that's a whole different pot of coffee)... Use a constant aperture setting (the ring around the lens) of 5.6, which will give you crisp imaging and still forgive minor errors in focusing; take three shots of each attempt with one shutter speed change (one properly metered, one faster than the meter recommends, and one slower than the meter) per shot; this is called bracketing.
Take it to Walgreens, give it a few days, scan the photos (probably at Kinkos unless your neighbor's really well resourced) and then...
LAY IT ON US!!!
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K~ Copied and pasted to in my e-mail
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Gee that's sounds really complicated; why don't we just make love instead...?
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I TRIED it before...At night - at my place with all my lamps and over-heads on & I got just BLINDING LIGHT
So pics of them?..A sunny day?...Like Noon would be best I am guessing?
You're so funny~
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We could make love, absolutely...
Yes, take the digital camera outside; what you want is soft reflected light, and you're going to have to play around with moving the camera and the art to deal with reflections and such...
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I WILL
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Oh, good lord, Cagey B; if I'm ever quiet for any period of time, please know that my only internet access is here at work where, occasionally, I have to get work done... I'm never anything but delighted by everything you've written; I'm the LAST guy in the world you're ever gonna have to be careful around, I promise.
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I'm also thrilled that you've been submitting deviations, and I'm sickened that I haven't had time to properly sample your work... But I'm going to get ahead of this hopeless bottleneck at work here, and then I'll reward myself with some Butterfly Variations very soon...
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I'm also thrilled that you've been submitting deviations, and I'm sickened that I haven't had time to properly sample your work... But I'm going to get ahead of this hopeless bottleneck at work here, and then I'll reward myself with some Butterfly Variations very soon...
Poetry~ IS something to have to happen to be in the right mood for while simultaneously finding yourself with a enough time on your hands to be IN that mood
Take your time
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(I'm printing these up and reading them at home tonight... Cagey Butterfly instead of Chun Sue.)
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I'm printing these up and reading them at home tonight...
Cagey Butterfly instead of Chun Sue.)
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Chun Sue wrote "Beijing Doll" and I'm deeply into it, but not tonight.
(you better not be one of them all-talk-no-action kids, you... you're activating the launch sequence...)
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Chun Sue wrote "Beijing Doll" and I'm deeply into it, but not tonight.
Hmmm....
(you better not be one of them all-talk-no-action kids, you... you're activating the launch sequence...)
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Wats the deeper meaning of this piece?
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The woman's a writer, waiting for inspiration... the matches are ideas, the lit ones are inspired ideas... she's trying to catch them in her hat, where hungry birds are waiting to be fed; she'll put the fed birds onto her head with the hat...
the electrical sockets in the background are both neglected modern technological entertainment (she's not interested in television or radio) but also a reminder that she's in some danger here; she's writing about serious things, life or death things, here...
the monkey, trapped by the spilling gold table, is both the wildness of the thing she's creating, and her own id, which wants to feed its own apetites, but has to wait patiently with her instead; it dreams of a key-- of freedom.
There's a sort of dream logic to all of this, and none of it's cut and dried, but that's a basic run-through of the ideas involved...
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wow thats cool
i would never have thort of that myself...i tend to take things for face value.
you should write comments like that in your comment box
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Ohh at first glance it looked like it was raining fire
beautiful....you''re so artistic its annoying sometimes
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Sometimes I'm only just annoying...
as in this, the second time I've cut and pasted the notions behind this painting:
The woman's a writer, waiting for inspiration... the matches are ideas, the lit ones are inspired ideas... she's trying to catch them in her hat, where hungry birds are waiting to be fed; she'll put the fed birds onto her head with the hat...
the electrical sockets in the background are both neglected modern technological entertainment (she's not interested in television or radio) but also a reminder that she's in some danger here; she's writing about serious things, life or death things, here...
the monkey, trapped by the spilling gold table, is both the wildness of the thing she's creating, and her own id, which wants to feed its own apetites, but has to wait patiently with her instead; it dreams of a key-- of freedom.
There's a sort of dream logic to all of this, and none of it's cut and dried, but that's a basic run-through of the ideas involved...
See, Misha? Sometimes I'm only just annoying...
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you're not annoying at all!!!
thats amazing...i wish i had seen that....i didn't even TRY to look beyond the gorgeous exterior...BAD misha...totally like judging a book by its cover...wahts come over me?
That really is beautiful...the whole concept...have you ever been a writer/written? Because when you really really need inspiration...this is exactly how it feels. "COME TO ME!!!"
thats so awesome, Sam...its not even funny -_- and you ARE so artistic its annoying. Grrr
(i can be annoying too...birds of a feather
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Looking forward to coming across your annoying side, Mish-- so far it's only pleasure...
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"Lick Bush"
I'm sorry, but it's my favorite bumper sticker so far this year...
*rubs arm in astonishment* say, that's quite a left hook you've got there...
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Ah well
HA! you think my left is good? wait till you try my right
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One of 'em isn't just good, it's one step away from divine... which one is it that you draw with? Don't be punching me with that one, pal, cuz I'M NOT WORTHY!!!
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you silly silly person!
stop making my little head swell
and look who's talking mr. "she's a writer trying to capture ideas"
if my hand is divine...i think yours lacks comparison
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If I could begin to figure out the emoticons, you'd be getting such a hug from me right now...
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urm...its : hug : minus the spaces
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Oh hell, I could do this all night...
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...thats the wayyyyyyy we became the brady bunchhh!!
*sorry, couldn't resist*
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I used to to pretend I was an emoticon snob; turns out I was just sadly unskilled...
Now I'm gonna be one of those sad cases that communicates exclusively with them... teach me something new tomorrow, too, okay Misha?
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Sure! Misha the conqueror...
today, emoticons...
TOMORROW, daMN....
no, dont try the DA chatting...please....its...disturbing
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i faved this a long time ago!
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I'm just now getting around to making some things available as prints, Bekkaroni; you might be seeing alot of reruns from me in the future, because, I guess, when you submit something as a print, it shows up in your watcher's devwatch folder...
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ahhhhhhhhhh i see. if i had any money i'd buy this one. its one of my most favs you've done
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I've got an 8x10 of it at home; guess what you're getting in the mail, my little Miss Immortal...
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aw you dont have to send it to me. its alrighty
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oh, and
[link]
is that it?
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YOU FIGURED OUT THE EMOTICONS!
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Beautiful colours. IΒ΄m stunned by the light effects. ItΒ΄s impressive that you are able to do it with gouache
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Gouache is misunderstood and underappreciated... gouache is the George Harrison of the paint family...
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True. Just like oil is overappreciated.
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Have you gotten to try water-based oils yet? I've been working with them for the last three years on 5 paintings I hope to finish simultaneously... I definitely recommend them to you.
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I havenΒ΄t heard of water based oil yet. But you seem to like em so I will ask next time in an art-supply store
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They've only been around for about 10 years now; Grumbacher started it, and they're into their third incarnation of it (called Grumbacher Max 3; avoid the earlier ones), and that's mostly what I use. But I use Aquarelle's Ivory Black, Titanium White, and Cerulean Blue, because the Grumbacher Max versions of those colors don't want to mix down in water...
But this is a way to paint with oils and avoid asphyxiating on all the turpentine and shit, and it's HUGE fun blowing oil paint through an airbrush...
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IΒ΄m impressed your avator looks differently everytime.
So you are doing airbrush also. I have never tried it. But I guess you can do cool light effects with it.
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It's one of those things you know right away if you love or hate... I don't think it's ever an acquired taste, like bleu cheese dressing; just love or hate. I loved it right away, but it took me longer to be remotely any good with than any other medium I've ever tried.
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