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A rare full day

Journal Entry: Fri Apr 4, 2008, 5:14 AM
I actually slept last night. Fell asleep against my will around midnight and woke up around 7. I got a lot of painting done in my class. I have the core painting and one of the panels painted now. I started the second panel. I'll do either 3 or 4 but I need to hurry and move on to the next project already. I went to home depot today to buy some of the fixture stuff I'll use on the painting and panels. I also noticed that they have lots of BIG things that could be used on which to paint. For my second project, I have to make use of stencils somehow, some sort of graffiti style art, which I only tried once or twice in pencil drawings yeaars ago. It was fun though. I wanted to do something earthy and ancient with insects, but I'm not sure yet. For it though, I bought a masonite (hardboard) panel that is a couple feet shy of being my height. It was only like four bucks. I was amazed, because it probably would have cost at least $25 at art supply warehouse. I just hope I have enough gesso. My sister tells me that the board must be sanded before you can gesso it, but I never sanded some of the other masonite panels I painted on, and they are fine. I think she's wrong.

In other news, I was majorly bummed out the other day and painted a little something. It's pretty different from a lot of the stuff I paint, and I'm almost positive I'm not done with it yet, but I'll probably post a w.i.p.

oh and i got a wii the other day.

smash bros is fun.

  • Mood: Dazed
  • Listening to: Godspeed you black emperor
  • Reading: blogs
  • Watching: Thats 70s Show (No Party, No Pooper)
  • Playing: Wii
  • Eating: Salad
  • Drinking: Hawaiian Punch

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Holy fuck

I just realized I have enough money to buy a Wii and smash bros also. Is it awesome? I want to play it so bad I'd probably strangle a baby dolphin.

I was going to tell you to check out :iconj-m-s: for stenciltacular organic bug-like inspiration, but like so many other great artists on DA he's taken all his stuff down.

I've been painting on masonite/hardboard since I was 14. My art teacher in highschool told us that "professional artists' will sand, gesso,sand gesso the hell out of that stuff. But what the hell do they know?

I've never sanded them, I like bits of weird texture in my stuff, like lots of extra chunky textures. Gesso isn't a bad idea though, that stuff is pretty absorbent at first, especially with spray paint. Painting both sides isn't a bad idea if you might be painting thickly.

huh?

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Supercollider? I barely know her!
Well I had to go to walmart at 6am to get a wii. I don't know how hard they are to find in other locations, but here, it's a pain in the ass. The game is pretty similar to melee in structure and gameplay. There are 16 unlockable characters and like 15 or 16 originally playable characters. The non-returning characters are Mewtwo, Pichu, Dr. Mario, Roy, and Young Link. Well, I guess "Toon Link" is technically like a young link. Even though they removed 5 characters, they added like 11 brand new characters. Theres more added into gameplay too. The "subspace emissary" mode is a one player adventure mode with storyline videos between levels that ties all of the characters together. It's pretty long too. It took me a while to beat it. Theres tons of added stuff like the stage builder, sticker system, online play, new items. It's definitely worth it.

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Immerse your soul in love
you probably use less gesso if you sand it.

glad to hear your painting. and watch out. getting lots of sleep is addicting.

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love, tim
My teacher told me to gesso, sand, then gesso. I'll probably do that, I hope I have enough gesso though.

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Immerse your soul in love
It's going to be a while because I haven't finished my previous project yet. I'll be working on it more since my work hours have been cut though.

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Immerse your soul in love
I usually just use a flat white interior paint, the other stuff gets spendy.

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Supercollider? I barely know her!
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that worked. I assume that primer is pretty much the same stuff/idea as gesso.

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