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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

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

Oops, sorry. Is that your best tablecloth?

No offence intended.

E

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:52 pm 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

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:54 pm 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

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:52 pm
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

ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:03 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:52 pm 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

ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:05 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:54 pm 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.

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:17 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:52 pm
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.

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:56 am

ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:05 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:54 pm 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..."