WHATEVER! Some have, by profession, the need to take off these frames in order to question and decipher paint films so often worn by travels, misadventures and maybe, maybe mind you, by the millions of gazes who have caressed them. Watching Mum’s caring, slow, meticulous and reverent work adding the missing pigmented dot between colour-space…
Tag: painting
When the Muse is spent, the dance over…
WHATEVER! When the Muse is spent, the dance over… paint must settle in the final movement the painter or chance (or both!) has chosen for it. If She is patient enough, and you’re one of the lucky ones, She might even enter a Muse-um. (That’s a sort of retirement home for Muses where you get…
From bodies of paint, to bodywork to… bodies of work!
WHATEVER! Just as Art, further down the track, doesn’t really ‘happen’ until the work and the reader/viewer/listener meet… paint doesn’t really ‘happen’ either until it meets a painter. Densely asleep in its tube, tub or pan, it is not the same ‘thing’ as when the medium is dancing under a brush, a palette knife, or…
Hues on Tubes are weird news!
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves Before I proceed, and yet again for the sole purpose of your edification as I would rather not serve you that somewhat disappointing entrée, but the truth is… hues on tubes are indeed bringing you weird news! The Oxford English dictionary defines “hue” as…
Should I, before we get sidetracked, state the obvious?
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves Should I, before we get sidetracked, state the obvious? Never a great idea but the title of this book being what it is, I must at least clarify that there were many centuries in which, obviously, hues were not in tubes. For that to…
Pigment Making
HOW? I feel like admitting right now that, although I researched this HOW? section as thoroughly as I did my whole book, I personally am no pigment or paintmaker… Yes, of course, I’ve tried my hand at both, but compared to some out there who have made that, if not their whole life, at least…
Some pigments are opaque, some are transparent
WHICH?Pigment Characteristics Where goes the white when melts the snow?Shakespeare (perhaps) A long time ago, I read that titanium dioxide is entirely transparent. Only when ground, as the crystals get smaller and light scattering becomes more intense, slowly but surely do we begin to ‘see’ the pigment as white, until… we don’t! Keep grinding titanium…
Some pigments are clean, some are… dirty? muddy?
WHICH?Pigment Characteristics Well, actually, forget just for this once my comparison to school kids… paint can be dirty business, yes! But pigments? Pigments are always clean. Of course, Colour is discussed here, but the confusion exists. When painters and paintmakers talk of a “clean” colour, they usually refer to the fact that it hasn’t been…
Some pigments are expensive, some are ‘dirt’ cheap
WHICH?Pigment Characteristics There was a time, not so very long ago, when the effort, skills and raw materials used in the making of any object were intrinsically valued. Regardless of the beauty or how impressive the final product was. An intricate, well-knitted sweater you would wear for years even if it scratched a bit. A painted…
Is there a possible definition?
WHAT?I. What is paint? All of this said, can there even be a definition of paint? “Paint: A coloured substance which is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating.” The Oxford Dictionary, obviously, has only been to the hardware store! You would hardly think of a Singer Sargent…
in bed with mona lisa 