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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. I think I'll try your flake white
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 06:41 PM
Jan 2020

It’s really nice and might be the White I need for the clouds.

And I’m happy to give critiques! It’s something I’m pretty good at. I used to go to a painting class where the professor was an elitist snob who talked in highbrow esoterically abstract terms about art. He would sit with the housewives and students who just wanted to learn how to paint for their own enjoyment and talk to them about what they needed to do in language that they couldn’t understand. My parents were like that so I grew up understanding that intellectual language and I recognized the bullying tactic. After months of listening to him talk to them and seeing how they were obviously not getting it I finally just started telling them what he was suggesting in language they could understand. Their painting really improved.

He started to tell them they were improving a lot but then they told him that I was helping them out. When he talked to me about it I just told him that I was just telling them what he did, but in language they could understand. He and I were at loggerheads from the beginning so it didn’t bother me a bit that he got vaguely pissy about it. Like all the art instructors there he knew I was good and not your everyday student. I know this because they all told me so. I could stand up to him. I hate bullies. Especially snobs! He would make sweet housewives cry.

Just tell people he was wearing mittens. ZZenith Jan 2020 #1
Lol. Mismatched mittens at that. :) femmedem Jan 2020 #3
A few years ago, I was examining a child at the pediatric... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #7
Aw, don't be envious. I'd rather be able to diagnose a child's illness. femmedem Jan 2020 #21
Decades ago, I read about an "artist" who would embed balloons... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #22
That's wonderful! Ohiogal Jan 2020 #2
Thanks. Yeah, not too much detail. But I hope I can make what little detail is there accurate. femmedem Jan 2020 #4
That's very, very good lunatica Jan 2020 #5
Thanks so much, Lunatica. femmedem Jan 2020 #6
I think I'll try your flake white lunatica Jan 2020 #8
How awful. A cruel teacher can smother a person's creativity, worse than no teacher at all. n/t femmedem Jan 2020 #9
I made a mistake: it was zinc white, not flake white. femmedem Jan 2020 #12
Thanks for the correction lunatica Jan 2020 #13
That's really beautiful! bif Jan 2020 #10
Thanks, yes I could easily overwork it in the areas where I'm struggling. femmedem Jan 2020 #11
For what its worth, I'd hang it as it is. marble falls Jan 2020 #14
Thank you! femmedem Jan 2020 #20
First rule of painting - Don't overdo it packman Jan 2020 #15
WOW I like it! demigoddess Jan 2020 #16
Thank you! femmedem Jan 2020 #19
Love it! The personality of your paintings reminds me of Andrew Wyeth...simple and Karadeniz Jan 2020 #17
Thanks! I was lucky enough to see a few Wyeths recently at a small local museum. femmedem Jan 2020 #18
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