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Digest - 9 Nov 2010 to 12 Nov 2010 (#2010-9)

Fri, 12 Nov 2010

There are 2 messages totalling 55 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. paints and set dressing (2)

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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!)

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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

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