tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16461897.post115135637350358614..comments2024-03-15T22:23:48.974-05:00Comments on Fire and Ice: ....and the Art Goes Onmdfayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01710106591374460964noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16461897.post-1151696918514310422006-06-30T14:48:00.000-05:002006-06-30T14:48:00.000-05:00Your "Patrol Base-Khyogyani" painting looks great ...Your "Patrol Base-Khyogyani" painting looks great - as usual. One day I would like to see your paintings up close and personal. Thanks for answering my questions about painting on gessoed watercolor paper. I can understand why you would prefer the hardness of the plywood verses the give of stretched canvas. Although, I have mangled some watercolor paper by harsh use, I would assume the gesso must protect it well. I am willing to give it a try sometime. Now, my next question has to do with framing your oils. From your work in progress picture, it looks like you do not leave the painting on the plywood. Because it is on watercolor paper, do you hang it like a watercolor, or do you fix it permenantly to a board or stretch it like canvas? I hope you do not mind these questions, but I find your techniques very interesting. By the way, last spring I took a watercolor workshop where the artists used a two-inch brush for quite a bit of his work - it was great. It inspired me to put away my two-haired brush :)Bag Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01885412195900280096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16461897.post-1151614204189141742006-06-29T15:50:00.000-05:002006-06-29T15:50:00.000-05:00Very interesting post, as always. My favorite two...Very interesting post, as always. My favorite two pictures I own are ones that a friend painted for me. One was a canvas she was unhappy with and she was going to scrap it, but I loved it so she gave it to me. The other was one she was happier with that she gave me as a gift. I hope you are able to get in a little fun the next few weeks while working on the keester.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16461897.post-1151603163530736432006-06-29T12:46:00.000-05:002006-06-29T12:46:00.000-05:00You are a wonderfully gifted artist, and I admire ...You are a wonderfully gifted artist, and I admire your paintings very much. Over the years I've attempted to 'create' on canvas, but I must admit, when viewing paintings by truly gifted individuals as you, I feel that perhaps I should retire my brush and palette forever. Recently I have been contemplating painting icons, I suppose inspired by the Russian movie 'Andrei Rublev.' If you haven't seen it, being an artist, I think you would enjoy the cinematography, the movie is like a painting in progress, beautiful images.<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_RublevBro. Bartlebyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15980379263844521557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16461897.post-1151589404405651652006-06-29T08:56:00.000-05:002006-06-29T08:56:00.000-05:00The painting looks great from here. The walk thru ...The painting looks great from here. The walk thru the process you give makes the end results all the more fascinating.<BR/><BR/> And 'ancient keester' - hah! You'll do, Mike Fay. You'll do fine. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com