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lamortefille wrote:Romeodanny wrote:lamortefille wrote:
My first attempt is going to be something very simple. No mixing custom colors, etc. I don’t want to frustrate myself right off the bat. lol It’s nice that so many of you are willing to share your knowledge. 😀
But, mixing is half the fun! I love mixing paint, just don’t get carried away or you’ll get a really ugly mud colour that you can’t do anything with. In one of my art classes we had to make our own canvas, and we had to make our own paint. Now that’s really fun, but kind of dumb these days when there are so many different colours and brands out there. But, the main thing have fun. 😀
I could just see myself getting 98% finished and running out of my custom paint! 😯 Maybe I’ll become more adventurous if I decide to do a second or third… The only thing I’ve painted in recent years are walls. They came out nice, though. They are sponge painted and were fun to do.
I have this really bad habit of being insanely thrifty with my paints, left over from my student days, so i frequently have a hard time mixing paint in an amount larger than a quarter! LOL I usually manage to keep remaking the same colour over and over, i have good “colour memory” 😉
Melody wrote:sunhawk wrote:I’m sorry, Bee Keeper keeps sticking in my mind as well lol I mean, he COULD be holding a bee in his paw, right?? 😆
I love “bee keeper” but that makes, like , no sense at all.
Who WANTS to make sense?! CERTAINLY NOT ME!! 😉
OK, if it doesn’t have to be a Keeper, make him Bee Grabber! Bee Snatcher? :3
I really like the jackdaw Vantid!
Awww about the miscutting again, though! My dad always says “Measure twice, cut once” LOL
Keplilly wrote:sunhawk wrote:SPark wrote:X-acto is a brand name. So not all box cutters are x-actos.
And be careful using them! My boyfriend cut off the very tip of his finger with one once, sliding it along a ruler.
Oh I know that, we’ve just always called them X-actos. Like calling a tissue a Kleenex, ya know? 🙂
Yeah they are sharp LOL I took off a piece of my fingernail once, whoops :X
Yes, but brands hate it when their names become commonplace as they can lose some of the basic copyright I believe.
Example: Rollerblades were initially a brand name. The general name was origianlly inline skates. Does anyone ever call it that anymore? Thus they lost some of the copyright protection to the name. Something to do with common usage. (Amazing what I remember from Marketing class in College, huh?)LOL that’s not my fault, we called them X-actos in elementary school! T’was the teacher’s fault! 😉
mimitrek wrote:sunhawk wrote:don’t feel bad, you should see me cut prints sometime; not only do i mismeasure, i can’t cut a straight line even with a ruler and an exacto knife!
Hmm…sounds like you could use a mat cutter… 🙂
I HAVE ONE :X (there is no helping me LOL)
Watergazer wrote:I have a decent red metallic paint with delta creamcoat. I am doing a dragon in red and black like flame and will post the photos when he’s done, but that may not be for a while. I also mix sometimes with pearlesent paint, or use a pearlized finish as well, or even pearl-X powders.
I definitely would love to see pictures of that ^_^
I’m sorry, Bee Keeper keeps sticking in my mind as well lol I mean, he COULD be holding a bee in his paw, right?? 😆
i haven’t painted anything other than the gryphon but i can say that there are a few areas on the gryphon that are not easy to get to so it’s not what I would call a beginner painting sculpture 🙂 Still loads of fun though!
SPark wrote:X-acto is a brand name. So not all box cutters are x-actos.
And be careful using them! My boyfriend cut off the very tip of his finger with one once, sliding it along a ruler.
Oh I know that, we’ve just always called them X-actos. Like calling a tissue a Kleenex, ya know? 🙂
Yeah they are sharp LOL I took off a piece of my fingernail once, whoops :X
don’t feel bad, you should see me cut prints sometime; not only do i mismeasure, i can’t cut a straight line even with a ruler and an exacto knife!
Speaking of exacto knives, i’m trying to figure out if it’s a Canadian thing to call them that rather than box cutter LOL I’ve never called them box cutters, didn’t know what those were until i was older heh heh
