"They're freaking amazing scribbles."

Umm... no.

Of course she chooses examples where there's more explainable depth in the artist's intention (e.g., the clocks) or where there's actual skill required (e.g., straight lines with oil paint), but what about examples of paintings made up of random smudges and brush strokes? Not only am I sure I could do something like that, but I've been loosely considering making something like that to hang up at home.

I could get into this, but I'd like to start with something easy like cutlery or an oil painting. Then later when I got good I'd move onto food items like sandwiches and fruit. I think I could do it.

secret ingredient is ferric iron oxide powder, used to make black oil painting pigment, sold at art supply stores.

pretty nifty!

As an artist and a painter, there is nothing new here that I didn't already know or understand.
I had hoped he would zoom in more and identify the bonding precess of the latex particles.

Different types of paints bond differently. (oil, water colours, latex, acrylic, gouache, egg)

Acrylic is quite different than most paints as once the medium evaporates and the pigment binds, it cannot be redissolved.Once the barrier between the pigment particles is removed, the pigments bond to one another to become a larger particle, on and on until the paint is dry and the particles form one large piece of solid plastic - never again to be separated.

Water Colours have no binders in them at all so once the water evaporates, the pigment just drys on the paper. Re-introducing water again will lift the pigment again as the process starts over. (minus pigment particles that get caught in the tooth of the paper.)

Oil paints stick together in linseed oil and are bonded by the linseed. It causes a strong bond but oil paint can be dissolved again using the right solvents. A varnish is used not to adhere (or fix) the pigment but to both hide linseed imperfections and to protect the paint surface from scratches.

Latex paint is a rubber (unlike plastic acrylics) and the process for the drying is different again. Anyone ever watch a foam rubber pour?

With all the differences, this video gives a rather slim and elementary vision of what is going on. It's more a document of evaporation more than anything as we watch the water dissipate and leave the pigment behind to stack on itself.

I would really like to have seen the actual pigments bonding with each other. I would also have liked to have seen different paints in comparison.

I up-voted for the pure dedication that goes into one of these. I couldn't care less what she looks like. There are several of these types of videos on the sift, and I've upvoted everyone of them - because they are neat-o!

I always wanted to film myself doing something and then paint on canvas a separate painting of each frame and then resemble it so that the animation would be in oil paint - then I started to realize just how much work that would be. This is the next best thing to me!

I'm an fine artist working mainly in oil painting and silkscreening and gave a great interest in graphic design. I've worked freelance for years designing everything from logos to packaging design.

I used to run a small web design company which was lucrative in its day but I opted out when websites started to become less design and more about programming and data-basing. I am technical minded and could have done it, I just chose not to so I could focus on the design side of things

I worked for several years in the Newspaper industry designing ads for just about every company out there from WalMart and Canadian Tire to large oil and gas companies, local mom & pop stores and even government.

I now work full time as the designer for a large college in my area, where I design all sorts of marketing pieces, brochures, newsprint ads, magazines, posters, postcards, logo and concept designs as well as web content.

I like my job, I wish it paid a bit more as living costs in my area are high. I also wish I had more time for my personal creative work. I should be working for myself but I'm lousy at business.

Fail again. I was trying to be germanely humorous.

In fact, I find your observations to be penetrating and provocative.

This, cloud art, originated in Turkey and spread throughout the Empire. It is also known as marbling art or marbling paper.

The medium is floating paints on oil covered water, so everyone is right.


>> ^reiwan:

>> ^chicchorea:
Water colors in a new and improved way, new, at least to me.
Excellent find.

I think hes actually using oil paint, on water. Since oil does not mix with water he's able to manipulate it like that and it wont turn into a giant mix of colors. Thats my guess anyway.
edit - After watching a second video of him, I dont think that is water. It seems more viscous than water. As he moves his tools through the solution, there are no ripples or anything like you would see in water. I think its this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing

>> ^chicchorea:

Water colors in a new and improved way, new, at least to me.
Excellent find.


I think hes actually using oil paint, on water. Since oil does not mix with water he's able to manipulate it like that and it wont turn into a giant mix of colors. Thats my guess anyway.

edit - After watching a second video of him, I dont think that is water. It seems more viscous than water. As he moves his tools through the solution, there are no ripples or anything like you would see in water. I think its this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing

Found him....his name is Bill Alexander. It is mentioned in Bob Ross's Wikipedia page that he studied with Alexander. His show was called The Magic of Oil Painting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcBlM3ZVGQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulELto3MUHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRIX81-DYE

>> ^BoneRemake:

What is that song at :23 ?

is that " MY GIRL "
my girl, talking bout myy girl..

or what ? its got me thinking.


Yes, but maybe just sufficiently changed not to need paying royalties...

Thats why my oil paintings always had my dog's hair in it. I'm not sure where the dead ants came from thoough....huh.

Ah, "The Dental Society". A bunch of old guys with handlebar mustaches and watch chains looped through vests, sitting around the parlor with an oil-painted portrait of a tooth above the mantle.

"So gentlemen...about the teeth."

"Hear, hear! The teeth."

"It's stupid to encourage people to take care of their teeth. We make more money doing root canals and filling cavities. We should be encouraging people to brush with caramel."

"Quite right, my good man. Quite right."

Truer words have never been uttered. If anyone has proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt, George Bush and his cronies have gotten away with stuff that is just ludicrous.

The type of war-profitteering alone that has gone on in this administration at the cost of thousands of innocent lives should be more than enough for jail time and yet, at the end of his last term we will see tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) spent on a nice oil-painting of Bush to forever commemorate his presidency.

When I was in school, I knew a fellow artist who oil painted stamps, and then sent letters threw the mail with them.

Sometimes its not really about making money, but proving that you are that good.

My name came from a 'teen nickname "Smiley" which quickly transmorgrified from "Schmiwy" to "Schmawy" and it stuck, so it's not my birth name but feels like my name nonetheless. Like a lot of people here, this is my first real interaction on the web, and I feel a lot like Kreegrath and Alien_concept that the idea of talking about myself feels unnatural, since I don't do it in real life so why do it here?

Sooo...

I was born in the UK, emigrated to New England in 1973. I'm pretty much a textbook definition of 'Yankee', but my parents were somewhat private people, so my upbringing was in a sense very British. I have always had a deep love of the United States, but have always felt somewhat at odds with it. There is a contingent of citizens here that cannot defend their consciousness from the media. For more information on that topic contact Choggie. Or Quantummushroom for that matter.

My interests lie in anything creative. I spend time doing oil paintings, trying to write songs, designing and building small wooden boats, restoring old 19^thC. houses, and working full time as an industrial designer. Creativity has by definition to me meant "maximizing expression within constraints". That's why I like the Sift so much, because the meat of the project is inherently someone else's work and otherwise grounds for bannination. So I express myself with what I can, and it's proven to be rewarding and fun. I mean, every artist restricts themselves with media, subject matter, style, ect., right?

This is a VERY special place on the internet If you hadn't noticed, and I have sworn to defend it by tooth and nail. If you do anything to jeopardize The Sift you can expect me, and ten others like me, to come after you. We will defend this bastion of decencey on the internet to our last keystroke. I have real relationships with the people here. I cannot abide by those who would say something in thread that they would not say in 'meatspace' or 'in real life'. I maintain that this isn't virtual at all. That's why this place is different. But I don't have to tell that to anyone here.

I'm a bit older than many, and younger than some on The Sift. I've been here from day one, counting lurking. The only other place that felt like this was MeFi. We've got DagMaggot to thank for that cultural infustion, I think. I get very upset when valued members start to feel this is no place for them, and will do whatever I can to make sure they don't leave. I have been harassing senior members lately when they start to feel disenfranchised by The Sift. We owe so much to their efforts, and as much as I feel we can carry the torch of decency for them, I get pretty broken up when they leave.

In conclusion, I have 2 ¹/₂ main principles that guide me in everything I do. The first is Love, the second is Hard Work. What one won't fix the other will, and if you use both look out! The third lesser principle is 'shoot for art', but it's far less important.

In the interest of full disclosure let it be known that I drink, smoke, own and shoot guns, ride motorcyles, climb mountains and sail seas, sew, use a straight razor, think being gay is awesome if you're into it, like paying taxes, and vote.

And I love you all.