{"id":77,"date":"2004-12-05T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-06-17T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:41:46","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/why-i-am-not-a-painter.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not a painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthe.net.au\/~westspace\/\">West Space<\/a> is holding its annual A4 fundraiser show this coming week. Opens Thursday 9 December, 6-9 pm, and stays open Friday Saturday Sunday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthe.net.au\/~westspace\/\">Details here.<\/a> Yes, I&#8217;ve put some artwork in it which I am pleased to think might sell by appealing to the punters&#8217; sense of chairty, if not their aesthetics. They also have good art for sale.<\/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<p>Having admitted all this, it&#8217;s good to know that I&#8217;m still an artist.  I have the survey letter from Macquarie University&#8217;s Economics Department that proves it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Space is holding its annual A4 fundraiser show this coming week. Opens Thursday 9 December, 6-9 pm, and stays open Friday Saturday Sunday. Details here. Yes, I&#8217;ve put some artwork in it which I am pleased to think might sell by appealing to the punters&#8217; sense of chairty, if not their aesthetics. They also [&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\/77"}],"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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}