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  Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 659 Registered: 8-2006 |
Carrie and Rekha -- thanks for checking in; you have contributed so much, and it's always good to hear from you! I've been away myself for several weeks -- made ny way through the Panama Canal reading McCullough's "The Path Between the Seas." It was a great break from winter, but I didn't get as much travel sketching done as I would have likes. The cruise ship didn't stay put in any one location for long, and the scenes were not always that spectacular or inspiring. I think I am an incorrigible lover of the landscapes, art, architecture and culture of Europe! | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 435 Registered: 8-2006 |
No, Griz I haven't disappeared! It's nice to be remembered. I needed surgery on the knuckles of my finger and thumb and am stil working on them to improve range of movement. It'll be another be another 6 months before I can lift a knife and fork! | ||
Carriestuartparks New member Username: Carriestuartparks Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2007 |
Gosh, I didn't know I'd disappeared.  This past year was crazy busy with lots of classes in forensic art. I post here and there and sometimes forget to check back. Thanks for reminding me! Blessings, Carrie | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 631 Registered: 8-2006 |
Thanks, Joanna. You are right about each person's situation, just like their art, being unique. However, it sounds like your scary math is about a general economic situation that applies to all! Actually I have a very helpful local ML advisor who knows us well, and I hope all our friends have a similar contact to help them navigate these scary waters! | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 175 Registered: 10-2006 |
You can always write me and see what I have to say. We don't do mass mailings via email for various reasons--but mostly as all advice must be tailored to whom you are giving it. art_by_joanna at yahoo dot com will get you my office # if you really want to chat about retirement. Right now I'm working on some very interesting math for a seminar next week --I hope to see eyes bulging and hair standing on end. That's what happened to me when I learned it. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 629 Registered: 8-2006 |
Joanna, it's good to see you back on the board, even briefly. I can understand the current financial climate keeping you quite busy -- if you have any special wisdom or guidance, email all of us! George notes that retirement gives more options for the use of our time -- can you guess from the number of posts by each person which ones are at leisure? Retirement is a privilege, and I'm grateful! | ||
George Unregistered guest |
That happens to a lot of us who are not retired. My life returns to a very busy work schedule in about a week and a half from now, so will not be checking in here much after that. But, the real downside of being busy at a day job is the time lost from painting. | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 174 Registered: 10-2006 |
I dropped in. During a bad session in the stock market, I'm busy since by day I am one of those finance types. People need handholding. You still won't see me much. I don't think I've been here in at least a quarter of a year. Not sure. And nope, not painting--will do so Saturday at a demo but my life is rather restricted right now. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 618 Registered: 8-2006 |
Marie, another thought is that phthalos are staining, highly penetrating colors. Stains usually do dry with hard edges at the fringes of their deeper penetration of the paper or other material. Paint that tends to float on the surface is more likely to disperse in a loose way at the edges, or to allow us to easily scatter the particles of pigment with clear water. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 616 Registered: 8-2006 |
Marie -- Hooray!!! It's so good to see you back! Hope all the things that have been going on in your life are good things! Thanks for taking the time to satisfy my curiosity about the soft drying edges of the paint (what was it again?) you mentioned in one of your posts. Your explanation makes sense. Guess I could have tried it for myself, but I wanted to know why it happened -- and you seemed to be the right person to ask. As a follow-up, I imagine that if you should need a hard edge when using one of these paints, there are ways of getting one. It's not that you can never get hard edges; it's just that, as you say, it much easier to get soft edges when using them. To be precise, you are actually saying that you never get hard edges with these particular pigments when you're trying for a soft edge. Right? That's good information to keep in mind. | ||
Marie Senior Member Username: Marie Post Number: 462 Registered: 8-2006 |
Hi all, I'm still here. Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I have had a lot of other things going on. Grizrev, I know you have been asking for a while about why some pigments dry with a softer edge. Maybe it's my imagination, but my experience has consistently been that when I drop pigment onto a wet page, the inorganic pigments -- ultramarines, cobalts, and earth colors, for example --- will dry with a much softer edge than organic pigments, such as thalos or quinacridones. Although I am sure that additives such as ox gall or gum arabic will influence the behavior to some extent, I tend to think that the pigment particle size has a lot to do with the type of edge that gets created. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 615 Registered: 8-2006 |
Eric, that's an interesting thought. Certainly there are other online forums besides this one. But why would they leave this board? Don't we also talk about art? Are our discussions so broad ranging, covering all the various aspects of art, that we don't focus enough on a specific area, such as technical analysis of art materials, to maintain their interest? Isn't that why we have threads? Of course, our level of discussion may not be challenging and informed enough to meet their needs, in the way Handprint is able to focus and elevate the quality of information. Who is to say? They will have to speak for themselves, if they ever return. Remember the MTA? You are right about Marie. She is a vast storehouse of knowledge. I am still waiting for her to enlighten me on the reason a paint she discovered recently never dries with a hard edge! She has the patience to investigate the scientific side of painting and conduct lab-type experiments such as watching paint dry that I do not. I guess it is selfish to expect her to do the work, then report to me, but we do need people like her to resource the rest of us! | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 26 Registered: 4-2008 |
I wonder if some of them have found a different board. Given the fact that they seemed to enjoy talking about art, I would think that might be the case. Marie, in particular is missed on this board. It seemed as though all of her advice and knowledge was sound and sensible. The others have also spurred some good conversation and given some great advice. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 460 Registered: 8-2006 |
Griz, i haven't a clue.. suggest you click o their names to get their email address and contact them. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 609 Registered: 8-2006 |
Have Marie, Joanna, Rekha, and Kisha disappeared into the same oblivion as Kukana, Linda and Carrie Stuart Parks? That's not to say that women are the only persons missing from the Forum. Folks like Robert also evaporated into the internet ether along the way. Does anyone have information about these missing persons? Eugene, you have been along for most of the journey of this board. Do you have a clue? |
