In the middle

[ochoin]

I often simultaneously paint figures from several periods as I find it alleviates boredom.
I just noticed that the "middle" features on my painting table at the moment - Napoleon's Middle Guard & my Middle Ages' "Lion Rampant" force.



As you can see, I'm in the middle of this task & progressing middling-well. So, it may look like a muddle but it is the 'Middle".

donald

[Essex Boy]

Looks like you paint much of the 'middle' as well!

How do you get so much paint on the work top?

You must be made of money. I've never seen so much wasted paint.

Iain

[Essex Boy]

Oops, sorry. Is that your best tablecloth?

No offence intended.

E

[ochoin]

Looks like you paint much of the 'middle' as well!

How do you get so much paint on the work top?

You must be made of money. I've never seen so much wasted paint.

Iain

I wipe my loaded brush on the plastic tray? Which I've been using for 5+ years?

And I may not be from Aberdeen but accusing me of "wasting siller" is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Please keep in mind I mostly use 1/72 plastic figures which often, at best, look like troglodytes &, at worst, formless lumps of plastic.....all to *save* money!

donald

[ochoin]

Oops, sorry. Is that your best tablecloth?

E

I have long been a fan of Action Expressionalism as created by the sublime Jackson Pollock:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... k-painting

donald

[goat major]

You must be made of money. I've never seen so much wasted paint.

Says man who paints the bottom of his bases.

I spent a lot of years painting in Middlesbrough

[Essex Boy]

Looks like you paint much of the 'middle' as well!

How do you get so much paint on the work top?

You must be made of money. I've never seen so much wasted paint.

Iain

I wipe my loaded brush on the plastic tray? Which I've been using for 5+ years?

And I may not be from Aberdeen but accusing me of "wasting siller" is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Please keep in mind I mostly use 1/72 plastic figures which often, at best, look like troglodytes &, at worst, formless lumps of plastic.....all to *save* money!

donald

'Siller' - thank goodness for Google.

Your 1/72 plastic toys are splendid fellows (did you perhaps mean to say 'gargoyles' rather than "troglodytes"?).

War it is then. I look forward to the peace negotiations - your round I believe.

E

[Essex Boy]

Oops, sorry. Is that your best tablecloth?

E

I have long been a fan of Action Expressionalism as created by the sublime Jackson Pollock:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... k-painting

donald

Errrrrm.............I'm not going to comment...........too easy.

[Essex Boy]

You must be made of money. I've never seen so much wasted paint.

Says man who paints the bottom of his bases.

It's those little finishing touches that make all the difference.

[ochoin]

Oops, sorry. Is that your best tablecloth?

E

I have long been a fan of Action Expressionalism as created by the sublime Jackson Pollock:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... k-painting

donald

Errrrrm.............I'm not going to comment...........too easy.

Don't tell me you're one of the “I don't know much about art, but I know what I like” crowd?

EH Gombrich (famous art historian) wrote, "There are no bad reasons for liking art," So there!

Most art that gets praised today is forgotten in a few years. But Pollock has stood the test of time. We won't talk about the prices his work realises (very infra. dig. to judge art this way) but the fact he's given wall space in many prestigious art galleries, around the world.

I believe there's only one Pollock in the public domain in OZ - a work called " Blue Poles" which was supposedly painted by Pollock, totally inebriated, dripping paint on the canvas from his vantage point, hanging from the beams of the barn he used as a studio. I don't care. I've seen it several times & it's magnificent.

donald

Save you looking: https://www.artnet.com/artists/jackson- ... SVkqunXSQ2

Siller? The Incomparable Burns used this word so it's practically mainstream.

"The great folk hae siller, and hooses and lands..."