{"id":5473,"date":"2012-06-17T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2012-06-17T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:50:50","slug":"why-i-am-still-not-a-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2012\/06\/why-i-am-still-not-a-painter.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I am still not a painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first posted this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/why-i-am-not-a-painter.html\">many years ago<\/a>. I&#8217;ve now started a new painting, for the first time since this last effort described below. The new painting will be a copy of the old painting, as I kind of miss it now. Someone in Melbourne has it, I think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/7386889198\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/painting_01a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"New painting, first stage.\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting_01a.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting_01a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last attempt to make a painting was not entirely happy. Having promised to paint something for an exhibition due the next day, I found an old box of cheap Chinese foil tubes of oil paints. Most of them had partly or completely dried out, and split open when I tried to squeeze some paint out of them. At least I got blue and yellow, two thirds of the primary colours. Also, I found a brush, which was useful. It was sufficiently frayed at both ends to make me spend a few seconds figuring out which was designed for applying paint. When I started painting I remembered that (a) oil paint needs thinner and (b) I don&#8217;t have any thinner. It was a very thickly-textured painting, and may still be drying to this day. The next revelation was that when you need to change colours, the brush has to be rinsed out (<em>cf.<\/em> points a and b, above). A solution of Sard Wonder Soap does the job nicely, but don&#8217;t expect it to improve the consistency of your paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first posted this many years ago. I&#8217;ve now started a new painting, for the first time since this last effort described below. The new painting will be a copy of the old painting, as I kind of miss it now. Someone in Melbourne has it, I think. My last attempt to make a painting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}