r ransom

Bacon fruit combo of champions?

r ransom wrote:

What is best human food to put bacon in?

More bacon

Or possibly more bacon on top of more bacon

As it's still frost and rainy season, and health is intermittently good, I'm going to expand my guidelines for myself to include bringing nature indoors to paint from, or painting my houseplants.  So long as I'm attempting to make art from life, that should make me happy.  

I've stopped making miso for myself too, as I like the commercial melow flavours better.  But I still make it for friends sometimes as they say it tastes like "real" miso and mass manufactured miso doesn't taste "real".

I think it's something to do with the food we ate as children.

A different way to play a 3 string cigar box guitar without a slide, but still getting cool slidy sounds

I love the dragons.  

This year I have two focuses:  Composition and Trees.  

As for the medium, that's the harder bit.

My original plan was to use oil paint as I've dabbled a bit with en plein air oil painting last year.  There is a lot of room for improvement.



I feel like I got worse as the summer progressed.

A lot of that is composition issues combined with nerves.  

This year, life is strong and I have no idea if I could find 2 hours a day just to paint.  So I've simplified my kit to a small 4x4" watercolour sketchbook, a tombo mechanical pencil (mentioning the brand name because it has a massive eraser built in that is one of the best I've ever tried), and my fude fountain pen (looks like someone dropped it nib down, but it makes amazing marks).



This is the minimum kit for making a picture a day.  

I'm going to try to focus on simplification and composition - and values.  The ink should make it easy enough... in theory.  

Basically, it's a set I'm comfortable with, but have a lot of skills to improve.  

My sample art took 20 minutes to decide what to paint, 20 min to do the sketch and line work, then 2 hours to paint with watercolours (because drying time sucks).  Hopefully, things will speed up to just do the ink stuff.  If time allows, I can add in some additional mediums (thus the watercolour paper).  

I'm thinking of giving PleinAirpril a shot this year.  It's an art challenge where we attempt to do one small painting or other art project, outside in the open air, each day for the month of april.

To celebrate Earth Day and connect pleinair painters around the world, Warrior Painters launched the #PleinAirpril Challenge in 2017. Now in its 10th year, this global painting challenge continues to bring together thousands of artists to observe, explore, and create throughout the month of April.


This year’s theme is Harmony in Contrast ✨

I'm going to give it a shot this year, and see where it goes.  I'm not going to do the whole instagram thing, but an important part of this challenge is to share our attempts and keep accountable.  If anyone wants to join in, please feel free to post your art here.  

How to Participate


Paint one painting every day in April

Share your work on Instagram and/or other social media platforms of your choice ... (like permies)
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Guidelines


Any medium is welcome - traditional or digital

Painting from life is encouraged, but photo studies or virtual pleinair are welcome too

The goal is consistency, exploration, and growth!

I'm not a huge fan of PDF files.  If given the choice, I would rather buy an old style paper pattern.  But, if it's the best pattern for my needs, I'm willing to use them.  

Positives - if the maker did it in layers, you can usually print one to three sizes at a time instead of all 20 sizes.  Makes it way easier to adjust the pattern before cutting.

It's also nice to not have to go shopping in person.  PDF files are usually more size inclusive than the big pattern making companies.  

Downside - printer paper is way harder on pins and scissors than pattern paper.  Extra time to tape it all together.  Then going out to buy more tape.  Usually having to trim two edges of each sheet...

Solo Guitar Playing 1 by Noad, exercise 26 is so beautiful, but harder to play well than it looks.

Here's what it will sound like when I get the hang of it



And Here's what it would sound like if I had a teacher to play the other part.