I recently ordered these three “on sale” half gallons of acrylic paint from the art supply store at an amazingly inexpensive price. They are not the colors I would choose in a tube, because there is a certain amount of white in them and I like paints that are a purer hue. But since I am working on big canvases, I thought I would give it a try. Plus, each half gallon was only $7.00!!!
The blue has potential, as it is the most true to the Cerulean Blue you find in a tube.
I realize this is not interesting to someone who does not paint. But I probably lost that person a few minutes ago anyway.
My large canvas ( speaking to the folks still with me ,) is starting to collect collage pieces. Amazing huh? I figure my life’s work has been devoted to some form of collage, whether it be in video form or mixing it with paint. So yes, I started cutting out pieces from magazines ( old fashion magazines ) lying around the studio and all of a sudden, my heart started beating a little faster. Yes painting needs collage! I have spoken!
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You kept me the whole post and as you know I am a paint and artist challenged! The paint made me think of my childhood and finger painting days!
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You know, Marjie, I think that is what is wrong with them…..I never would have thought of that before. But you are right, it looks like finger paint. The milky colors. But I could not pass up a bargain, and this was no exception…Thanks for reading all the way through and commenting!
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Isabel has been learning about hue, tint, shade, tone. She is starting her first week of GCSE Art and has been mixing colours. This post also reminds me of a piece Tracey Emin wrote about being at college and realising that the rich girls could afford better oil paints than she could, and how that made their work look better than hers. So yes I am interested to see how $7 paints work out.
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Thanks, Denise. You know eight years ago, when I was painting before, a tube of cadmium red light oil paint, Windsor Newton, was $39.00 on sale and that was a very small tube. The paint quality helps and unfortunately is reflected in the price. When I get to the oil stage, I wonder how much that tube is now? And I will buy it. And these three half gallons will be laughing at me.
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Great colors, Hollis! I’ll look forward to your finished piece. Enjoy the weekend!
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I hope I will be as successful with this process and the results as you have been with your book contract!
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Sweet! I love how the canvas just speaks to you sometimes…
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So you know……..
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Yep. My photos do it too. Sometimes when I’m shooting, then other times when editing.
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Well, just my colours actually. Is that something to do with being Pisces, a water sign? I agree, they look like finger painting opportunities and I’ll be waiting to find out what you do with them. I like the sound of the collage though – it’s kind of synonymous with your work as far as I’m concerned 😃
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When I do a painting, and add collage, collage brings itself to the forefront of the picture plane. Giving depth to the painted areas. I have done this before. Just the last show I had was with strictly paint. It was collage in that I worked it out ahead of time to have fragments of figurative areas butting up against other similar type areas and it had a collage-y effect. This work started off as straight painting and I think I was bored with it. Now I am not. Thanks, Jenny for always taking an interest. I am nervous about this. Always am until I hit my stride.
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Perhaps you can share a photo of your work-in-progress? I love the idea of collage and painting. By the way, I guess WordPress has (sigh) revamped their platform again. I can’t see the “Follow/Unfollow” button that used to be on the menu next to the Reader button. I don’t know why WP insists on fixing that which is not broken 😉
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Marie, I noticed with you, too, on your blog there is not a follow button. I also noticed in the comments on my blog that it doesn’t show I follow you. I think I will enlist WP’s support on this one.
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Hollis, on your blog and others, I did notice that if you hover your cursor to the bottom right corner of your browser, a Follow button shows up. Very strange. I don’t know why WP would move the Follow button from where it’s been for YEARS. 😦
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Thanks Marie!!! I am going to try it.
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I have to check my WP settings again. I don’t get many of my blogging buddies on my Reader anymore. And you are, right, they always change things for the sake of what? As far as showing the painting as it goes, I don’t want to. I don’t show anyone until it is finished. I guess because, in my mind, it IS finished and again, you are right, I am a perfectionist and, it doesn’t come out the way I want it to. Neil Young said “It’s never finished. You just decide when to walk away.” Or something like that. Thanks for your interest!
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I would love to see a work-in-progress shot too, Hollis. Very excited to see this piece that mixes collage with painting. Hope to be catching up on all my friends’ blogs – sorry if I’ve missed anything!
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Patricia, it’s really hard to show work in progress, because I am in the decision making process. From minute to minute, I have to make a decision, as you know. I do not want a snapshot of one decision, when I may change it. It may not be the way it remains in the final piece.
I quit taking photos of my work in process. I learned if I change something after taking the picture, and then went back to the work and had regret, it was adding a new complicated left brain aspect to it. Therefore, if I can’t handle it myself, I don’t want to go public with it. Boy, do I sound defensive. Ha! Therefore, I think I will write,”Oh I couldn’t find the right brush today!” Really dull.Maybe blogging and visual art are not compatible. I should stick to my blogs about the way I see life instead.
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Your paint bargain was excellent, Hollis. My brother who paints murals would have jumped at this! I think using magazine or photographs or torn construction paper can add depth, interest and focal points. Excellent choice of old magazines. You are excited, which means you are heading in the right direction! 🙂
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Thanks, Robin!!!
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