thank you so much for that explanation- I will follow the rest this evening. My artist friends barely tolerate me because I am so fascinated in the process Again I think its gorgeous.
thank you. and i've got a similar trip going with science, actually.
youtube technique tutorials can be profoundly therapeutic. especially because you know that in the video things are probably going to go mostly how they are supposed to go.
of course, sometimes in the actual work you drop too much salt or use the wrong kind of glue or don't let your basecoat dry enough and have to scrape off all your work with a straight razor and to be honest, sometimes that leads to discoveries you needed to make. sometimes.
other times you put the sketchbook out on the balcony for the night to think about what it's done.
I probably should do a youtube on how to gold leaf. It is just luck that keeps the sizing from completely covering me and of course by the time I have gold leafed everything within a two block radius only bits of me peak through the gilt. For weeks to follow people will tap me on the shoulder and say "do you know your ears are gold?"
i find that "i've decided to go bond villain" usually silences further inquiries.
also, i worked at a major craft retailer for a year and a half, more recently than i care to admit. i assume part of the recent sinus angst goes back to the christmas glitter's long-term colonization of the passageways.
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Date: 2015-11-03 10:46 pm (UTC)thank you so much for that explanation- I will follow the rest this evening. My artist friends barely tolerate me because I am so fascinated in the process
Again I think its gorgeous.
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Date: 2015-11-04 04:42 pm (UTC)youtube technique tutorials can be profoundly therapeutic. especially because you know that in the video things are probably going to go mostly how they are supposed to go.
of course, sometimes in the actual work you drop too much salt or use the wrong kind of glue or don't let your basecoat dry enough and have to scrape off all your work with a straight razor and to be honest, sometimes that leads to discoveries you needed to make. sometimes.
other times you put the sketchbook out on the balcony for the night to think about what it's done.
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Date: 2015-11-05 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-05 01:14 am (UTC)also, i worked at a major craft retailer for a year and a half, more recently than i care to admit. i assume part of the recent sinus angst goes back to the christmas glitter's long-term colonization of the passageways.