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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 20, 2023 22:35:13 GMT
I'm impressed, that looks great! Your second tank, and it looks already a lot better than the PzII. Could use tad more weathering, but the decals look perfect. Can't wait for the Grant. Thanks. Thing I've already noticed: This is a lot like painting. The more distance in time and activities, the better it look. Originally, with all the half-mess mistakes you made, know about and remember, it "looks messy, broken and soiled". But already the next day, it looks much better, not bad at all. And then on the pictures: "- Why was I ever dissatisfied with this? It's nice." So yea, I'm happy with this model too. Some small things left to do, dots of paint. Weathering? Ehmm, my two goals with this is to learn the hobby-craft, and to make a collection of WW2 tank models. But I'm fine with having them in Museum condition. I prefer that to all muddy and caked. But I have ordered some sort of "makeup" sets from Tamiya. I'll probably try powdering the tracks a bit. The decals yes. I suppose you spotted the one I melted on the Panzer. I still find decals difficult. Luckily there aren't many on tanks. I've learned one thing though: A brush is a much better tool to manipulate and move the decal, than cotton tips, tweezers, fingertips or scalpels. So that's a revolution at least. The Grant: I find that I already have to start painting some things. It's necessary because you don't have enough space and access after assembly. So I already need to decide which finish I'll go for and figure out what the color is. As usual, internet visits only give me a strong suspicion of that most people talking about this don't really know much. It's amazing that camouflage colors have been able to stay such a mystery for so many years. This is a surprise to me. I actually thought all those things were exactly known. Anyway, there seem to be some facts this time. This particular North African scheme is supposed to be 'Dark Olive Drab' and 'Desert Pink'. The problem is that no one seem sure what this desert pink and dark olive drab hues were exactly like. Well fine, then I don't need to be so fuzzy myself either. The suggestion is that Dark Olive Drab is like the American grey olive drab. Which makes sense since it was built in USA. Then maybe the British just swabbed on some of their desert pink (which is an ochre mixed with white) to make it better fit the desert. I think there are some acrylic hobby-paint brands that have 'desert pink' and US 'olive drab'. I'll try get them and use them out of the bottle. I don't have to mix this time. Not much anyway. I still need to add a slight atmospheric effect to match the way I painted the Panzer and Mathilda.
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Post by rewindbutton on Nov 24, 2023 10:55:58 GMT
This is a lot like painting. Yes, it's all about painting, which is why I knew you'd be good at it. But I'm fine with having them in Museum condition. OK, then I'm fine with it too. I suppose you spotted the one I melted on the Panzer. Yeah, but I wouldn't sweat it too much: wartime paint jobs were hardly perfect. And isn't olive drab just a denomination for various shades of greenish brown? Here's a Tornado GR4 in modern desert pink:
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 24, 2023 18:31:32 GMT
And isn't olive drab just a denomination for various shades of greenish brown? Here's a Tornado GR4 in modern desert pink: Well, apparently there are many different "Olive Drab" (surprise, surprise ). But it's actually not so bad, because some of them are pretty well known and defined. US Army Olive Drab from early WW2 for example. And I have confirmed that the British "Dark Olive Drab" is indeed the American paint that Lend & Lease material were often painted with. And US Olive Drab is available as a match in ready mixed hobby paint. I purchased a Japanese brand. Don't know what it's like to paint with yet, but I have the paint sample so in worst case I can mix Vallejo to match. Unfortunately, the only "Desert Pink" available in similar ready matched, is the modern Gulf War variant, which is less red and lighter. So instead I followed the recipe Airfix provided: Three parts "US Tan" (a Vietnam War Air Force paint) and two parts white. Vallejo has an almost exact match for US Tan, "Beige Brown", so I used that. I kept suspecting the paint dried up too dark though, so before I got happy, the recipe had changed to 19 parts white, 20 parts Beige Brown and 1 part of "Red Leather". I'm going to commit to that, looks good to me. From what I understand, Desert Pink was an improvised paint. A mix of an ochre and white, so I'm going to judge exactness is not needed/possible.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Feb 1, 2024 23:14:57 GMT
Before I framed and glassed them, I Photographed a couple of paintings that I finished after my mother's funeral. Icy River Wooded Mountain Side They are watercolors. Just like those I've previously shown. I've only painted watercolors for decades. But actually I don't consider myself a "Watercolorist". I used to paint oils, and my aesthetics is still to make it have the character of oil paintings. Now, painting oil and watercolor is as dramatically different as possible, technically, the craft. But I think I'm getting there, getting the character, after all these years. But my life took a different turn and watercolor is what I could keep of my hobby. It has a much smaller footprint and not the same health concerns. You really do need a large, well ventilated studio to paint oil. ...Or do it outdoors, in the summer. I'm going to try that these summer, also do some portrait and figures. Landscape is fun and easy but you got to have some variation.
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Post by rewindbutton on Feb 2, 2024 13:01:56 GMT
The Icy River looks fabulous, would buy and hang for sure.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Feb 13, 2024 21:34:55 GMT
...'And since I posted a video about the Blackwing in technology and crafts, let's hear what Jazza has to say about it. Too long video, didn't watch: Jazza: "So are these pencils better than other pencils? I'll say: - Yes! "
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Feb 20, 2024 1:02:30 GMT
I have occasionally posted videos by Baumgartner restoring old paintings. Now he's still in the business of course, but he's making these documentary videos about stuff behind the art world. "Behind the canvas" he calls them. He knows his stuff, so I was somewhat surprised by one leading question he asks, that actually implies some ignorance, and which was also dodged - not answered by the manager. " I'm presuming that when you're working with Cobalt, it's not highly toxic naturally mined Cobalt? " Since that question is not answered, I'll do it instead: There is no other way to obtain Cobalt than mining it. There are a handful of Cobalt pigments, most of them blue, only Cobalt Blue and Cobalt Green has normally "Cobalt" in the name, though 'Cobalt Chromite' is a common name for Bonnard Blue, a surrogate Cerulean Blue (Cobalt Stannate). They are all synthetic, non-natural compounds, not found in nature, typically Cobalt furnace-combined with a different metal, aluminum, tin, chrome, potassium... But, sorry, all of them are toxic and carcinogenic. Lol, no point in smoothing over that lol. Just don't use them. If you buy 'Cobalt Blue Hue' instead, you're buying an Ultramarine variant that is an absolutely excellent artist paint. If you buy 'Cerulean Blue Hue' instead of 'Cerulean Blue' you're buying a surrogate created with Copper Phthalo cyanide (it's really not at all as toxic as it sounds) that is fully up to Artist standards of durability, even if it's not quite as indestructible as genuine Cerulean Blue. Remember, the "Hue" postfix means it's not the real thing, but a replacement. As does also the "Permanent" prefix. 'Permanent' is used when the genuine pigment is no longer considered durable enough for 'Fine Art" purposes, and there is a modern, better pigment that is similar enough. 'Hue' is used for replacements when the genuine pigment is either health hazardous, extremely expensive, or no longer obtainable. In the case of Cobalt Blue replacements, you don't have to buy exactly the 'Hue' paint. There are other excellent Ultramarines that can replace Cobalt Blue. "Permanent Blue" was an old favorite of mine. It's not so common under its original, old name any longer, more often called Ultramarine "GS", "pale", "cold tone" or "feinst". "Ultramarine" probably sells better, and it is an Ultramarine. Fun fact: Ultramarines are the largest and most complex non-organic compounds known. It's a sodalite structure with lattice units like Na6.9Al5.6Si6.4O24S4.2 or variants of that.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Feb 21, 2024 13:15:00 GMT
Clearing Fog
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Post by Sweet FA on Mar 7, 2024 3:48:53 GMT
Meanwhile in Scotland.. "Bottlecelli" by Smug (bottle cap mosaic) Glasgow art installation designed to highlight success of city's deposit return scheme pilot project, which has now recycled more than a quarter of a million bottles and cans Lidl (Supermarket chain) has today unveiled a 25 foot tall reimagining of Botticelli's Birth of Venus in Glasgow crafted from more than 30,000 bottle caps to celebrate more than a quarter of a million bottles and cans being recycled through the city's deposit return scheme (DRS) pilot project. Created in tandem with Australian-born artist Smug - who has painted dozens of realistic murals around Glasgow - "Bottlecelli" celebrates 253,000 containers being recycled through Lidl's industry DRS.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Mar 24, 2024 19:30:55 GMT
Poppies have very strong meanings for me. Symbolic, emotional, and personal memories. I almost always try to photograph poppies when I see them. But the images don't come out as powerful as I want them. Actually, except for closeups of individual flowers, they always come out as duds. So I've wanted to paint a poppy field for many years. But IMO that's almost as difficult as photographing them. ...To make it come out right. I wouldn't be able to use any of my photographs, because the colors, light and perspective just doesn't work. So I thought and thought about it a lot, figuring out the colors and composition that might work. And it lay fermenting in my head. I didn't dare attempt to paint it of course, the usual creative crisis, but worsened because this was an important subject to me. But one afternoon I was going to paint for a group of ladies and I had no other thing on my mind, so I took the leap. I was surprised and delighted by how well I thought it came out. And how close to my vision and image idea. The lesson is that it's sometimes good to think about a thing for a long time. As usual it's watercolor, transparent watercolor, on stretched 16" x 12" paper (so due to the taped edges it's smaller, more like 15 x 11). Technical points: The seagull was lifted with a Topz while the sky was still wet. There were two masking operations, one preserving the demarcation of the distant grass field against the tree lines. And I first painted the red flowers' underwork, masked them when dry, then painted the grass/straw. After removing the masking I finished the flowers. I did a better job with photographing and image processing than I usually do, so the image is pretty representative for the painting, ...for once. In short, I'm pretty happy with this. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Mar 27, 2024 11:42:46 GMT
I was sure I already posted this? Was it autodeleted for some CR reason?
If it survives this time, there's only great images here. The genre is not my cup of tea, but the artistry is fantastic.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Apr 17, 2024 8:48:44 GMT
Health, Safety and Environment.So it dawned upon me that I probably need to say something about health hazards. Well, artist paints are not really dangerous (any longer), but you don't need to be stupid about it either. And keeping a few things in mind, make them “less dangerous”. (P.S. : The solvents used for oil painting are dangerous! Even the "odorless". Don't paint oil indoors in your home. Get a studio or go outdoors.)First of all, don't trust the label “Non-Toxic” for even a microsecond. I have not kept up to date what it's supposed to mean in legal terms in different regions today. I just ignore it. I was a child when it started to pop up, and then it only meant that any attempt to murder someone, by feeding them paint, wouldn't be instantly successful. Basically, it only meant they had removed Arsenic, Mercury and Lead. And while we're at labels, the phrase “For Artist Use”, or anything similar, is NOT a quality grade! Absolute rubbish is marketed as “for artists”. They simply have to have that declaration on, to be allowed to sell it in retail in some countries. The only completely safe colors, are those that are explicitly intended also for children, and made by big reputable, responsible Western brands like Caran D'ache and Crayola. From which follows: Don't give artist paints to children as toys. And keep out of children's reach (and pets). The thing with children, is that even if you trust them to not try the paints as candy, they're still liable to try it to play tattoo or makeup. And even if you successfully teach them not to, how do you stop such things from happening, when they are joined by friends or smaller siblings? But also don't be scared. You don't have much to worry about. There's also no real reason for a hobby painter to use genuine Cadmium, Cobalt or Antimony pigments. Those are extremely permanent, but there are modern alternatives that are quite good enough and paint and mix better, not to mention that they are much cheaper. There's also an environmental incentive to avoid Cadmium and Cobalt, because you will produce waste., and how do you dispose of rags and wash liquids with good conscience? You need to keep in mind and understand two symmetric rules: 1: All (modern) artist paints are perfectly safe as long as you use them as intended.Which typically means use it for art, and apply it on suitable surface (not your skin, for instance, or Easter eggs), typically canvas, board or paper, with a brush or painting knife (not your fingers). Stick to this rule and even Cadmium and Cobalt paints are completely harmless. 1B: Don't eat where you paint. (It's not dangerous to accidentally get a modern paint on your hands. You only need gloves for Lead, Mercury and Arsenic paints, and don't use those anyway. But there is a difference between accidently getting some paint on you hand, and painting with your hands or painting on your skin. Don't do that.) 2: No artist paint is guaranteed to be safe, if you use it for a purpose, or in a way, that is not intended.In particular, do not use an artist watercolor paint in an airbrush. There are many pigments that are known to be highly safe, Iron Oxides and Iron Hydroxides for instance. But paints also contain other ingredients, for stabilization, for consistency, against bacteria, mold and fungi. These additions can be allergens and/or carcinogens. And as you can probably guess, anti-mold, anti-fungi additions are toxins. 2B: Don't paint where you eat. Finally, don't ever be tempted to try to use dry pigment powders, to “make your own paints” or anything like that. Steer clear of such nonsense. Just buy ready colors already milled together with a binder and other ingredients. One of the things I try to stress, whenever talking to people about paints, is never give paints as toys to children, that are not expressly made for children and made by a large reputable Western brand like Crayola or Caran D'Ache. Unfortunately I never have the impression of that people take me particularly seriously though. And through social media, I definitely get the impression of that people gift "cheap" color-kits to young relatives all the time. A lot of the hobby and "art" colors offered on the mass market, like Amazon etc, are made in China and only have Western 'branding' and labels. But that doesn't actually matter so much, since the anti-mold, anti-fungi, anti-bacteria, anti-yeast toxins are widely used in the West as well. Only that Western brands are more deliberate in targeting their markets. i.e. Artist paints ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN. And, additionally, Western artist materials are not "CHEAP". What tempts people buying paints as toys for kids is the cheap price. There are only two "serious" manufacturers of artist materials for 'Fine Art' in the East. Shanghai Aowen of communist China (brand name: Paul Rubens) and Japanese Holbein. All the rest are either crap, garbage, or mainly make art supplies for 'Functional Art', like Sakura, Pilot, Copic etc. During the decades that I have spanned as an artist - mostly amateur, hobby artist, but originally professional - there have been some big changes. Digital art has pretty much wiped out both Gouache and Airbrush from originals for printed art, advertising etc. (Gouache has gained a foothold in Fine Art and Airbrush survives in figure & model painting). Acrylic has become perhaps the most prolific medium. And the pigments available for paints have changed very much. When I started, typical premium artist paint brand ranges contained both highly durable pigments and not durable pigments that had been traditionally used by some artists. They also contained a number of highly toxic pigments. Thus it was also part of the artist education to learn which materials to use, how to use, and which not to use. Despite that this was a tradition in art education going back all the way to Cennino Cennini and the 1400s, it was also ignored in large chunks over history, because market profits and artists' desire for "beautiful" paints, i.e. pretty colors. Today, most of the non-durable paints have been weeded out from the premium brands, as has the most lethally toxic ones. My impression is that education about materials has mostly disappeared from art education as well. (I say "impression", because I have no complete knowledge about what goes on in art education these days.). The underlying reason the premium brands could do these changes, is the progress in technology of organic pigments. By "organic" we absolutely don't mean anything coming from biology, like plant or bug dyes. This is organic in the chemistry sense, complex molecules formed with Carbon atoms. And some pigments, both durable and non-durable, have become much cheaper due to mass production. Now I come to the point of this post: - You still have to be careful about what you use and how you use it! USE AS INTENDED! That's really the most important message here. The common "For Artist Use" text that adorns also a lot of the cheap & pretty garbage, is NOT a quality stamp. They wouldn't be allowed to sell the shit in retail in a number of countries without it. That's why. While many organic pigments are not immediate poisons, like Arsenic, Mercury and Lead compounds, they are often aggregated in so small particles that they pass much too freely through many of our bodies' natural hazard filters and cleansing services. Durable pigments are also "durable", not easily broken down. And even if some of them are listed as no harmful effects known, in general too little is known. As a class, organic pigments are often - but not always - allergens and/or carcinogens, even if only mildly. That's one reason to be cautious of things which are not very well researched or known. Another is that paints are made from more than pigments. And when pigments stopped containing Lead, Arsenic, Mercury (and toxic vehicles, thinners), the paints would start to suffer a number of problems from various forms of biological growth. So to all these modern, "environmental friendly" paints are given some anti-biological additives, which often are very toxic. Which is something I intend to illustrate with this video about clothes.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Apr 19, 2024 7:13:29 GMT
Have a listen what we created lately featuring a great trumpetist
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Apr 19, 2024 21:46:05 GMT
^ That's really good!
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Apr 20, 2024 8:21:02 GMT
^ That's really good! Appreciated! Thanks!
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Apr 24, 2024 12:20:46 GMT
I've been at it again. As usual it's watercolor (transparent) (mostly Cotman, but perhaps some Rowney Artist and some W&N Professional), 11 X 15 (on 12 X 16 inch paper)
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