There are 2 messages totalling 55 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. paints and set dressing (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:04:17 -0500 From: Laura Davies <bratling2@g.......> Subject: paints and set dressing Ever since the end of War XIII, I've been rewatching the entire series around the times when my niece, Gracie, isn't here. (She's two. FK is still a bit too old for her!) And I've been noticing... Why, oh why did they give Nick house paint to use on his oil paintings? Artists' oil paints come in tubes that only hold about an ounce or so of paint--not cans. Come to think of it, watercolors come that way, too. And the only bigger tubes are acrylics. While there *are* oil-based house paints, they're not the same thing as oil paints. Considering when Nick learned to paint, he would know how to make his own, but since paint drys up (though it's said that oil paint never actually drys) he wouldn't be making huge batches of it. The only bucket he should have would be for gesso, which is pretty much the primer coat to go on the canvas. And he should have canvas and stuff to stretch it because his paintings aren't standard sizes... and the brushes are all wrong, too! They gave him the kind of brushes you buy to do trim work on your house instead of artist's brushes. 2D isn't my specialty, and I work in watercolors rather than oils or acrylics when and if I paint, but even I know what supplies Nick *should* have as a painter! My thinking is that because such supplies can get pricey, perhaps it was a way to cut costs? Laura (who thinks that with all the set painters around, there should have been at least one that would know what sorts of supplies should be hanging around Nick's loft!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:24:15 +0000 From: nancykam@c....... Subject: Re: paints and set dressing ---- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Davies" <bratling2@g.......> >> Why, oh why did they give Nick house paint to use on his oil paintings? >> Artists' oil paints come in tubes that only hold about an ounce or so of paint-- >> not cans. While the practical answer is, yes, they were saving money on a bit of set dressing they figured no one would care about, we can come up with a reason Nick would be painting with this stuff. It is possible that he decided to go all experimental and work in non-traditional media. Given the smears of color he was putting on canvases, that is more easily done with a trim brush than a nice artist's brush. Maybe those are some sort of oil or acrylic paint in those cans. Maybe it's house paint from Home Depot. Whatever works! Considering that artists can use anything from their fingers (or other body parts <shudder>) to handfuls of grass to block sponges to weiner dogs (see "Weiner Dog Art" by Gary Larsson) to apply paint to canvas and get their work hung in the Walker Museum of Modern Art (that's in Minneapolis), I have no problem with Nick doing this. Nancy Kaminski ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 9 Nov 2010 to 12 Nov 2010 (#2010-9) ************************************************************
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