NEW ART PROJECTS GOIN ON?

Farmer we're still waiting to see those images


What have people got going on?

I'm up to my eyes 'cos the open studios have now started and we've got a couple of shows later this month,

Luckily the gallery I've got an upcoming show at asked if we could do October into November instead of this month into October that took the pressure off a bit.

Im home for a while so Ill try to get a site to transfer some digital pix of some sea shots and some paintings and sketches.

Im listening to the book "Michelangelo and the Popes Ceiling".
In there is a series of lengthy discussions of pigments available to Michelangelo (and all artists of the time). They refer to the GESWATTI FRIARS (Sp?) as masters in the arts of pigment manufacture . Im not sure wheter Ive got the spelling correct so I am having a problem googling up any further info. ANybody have a better idea on this Order of monks??

sounds like Jesuits but that can't be it..

were the Jesuits called Friars Osso? I don't know catholicism well but instinct tells me they were a different sect?

Friar has a more friendly ring - we had Blackfriars and Greyfriars in our city in the past and they weren't Jesuits I think, I could be totally wrong though.

Friar from 'brother'? Frere in French and my Italian is non existent The Jesuits seem too stern to be called brother by all and sundry.


Farmer: Could the first part be something akin to Jesus? Jesuwatti? Gesuwatti? (only guessing here)

Lovely to see you back - you've been gone a long time. Please do post some stuff as I'd love to see it.

Ive tried a number of combinations
Gesuatti
Jesuati etc. all came back as no shows.
Tjhese guys had a guild that Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, etc used their colors . The chemistry of which made their paint studios sound like hazardous waste sites.
I never realized that the use of white lead in the Intonocho layer of a fresco had a bad feature, that in time, made the white turn to black because of the swapping of Sulphur for the Oxide. Therefore old frescos had almost a "photonegative" appearance.

I didn't know that either.

I hope Osso may be able to cast some light on the word for you. She knows quite a lot about Italy.

No, Jesuits were not monks/friars, unless I missed something in my observations. That is why I said it couldn't be them. Still, gesuiti is close-sounding. I looked it up too, Farmer, and didn't get anywhere after several minutes wandering around google.

It might be one or more of us will need to peruse the book - it sounds interesting.

Nothing. No art projects going on atall. Well, no paying projects. I need to work on websites for both myself and my old man, I could take a look at the self-promo pieces I started awhile back...always something to do, right?

I'm in a lull, waiting for my house to sell or not. Have a few more projects re spiff up, and then, dammit, I'm going to put up the easel and finish the big one of the oaks in Laytonville..

Go for it.

smile..
OK!

Osso, how are you going to move with canvases that have not dried?

They don't take that long to dry enough to move... and I am only thinking of working on this one, which is presently up on the mantle unfinished but looking finished to most visitors. Have other tasks at hand, but its a local scene and I'd rather finish it here, we'll see.

yes Osso go for it and post the painting here?


- sorry I misunderstood what you said about Jesuits - too many late nights.

I hope the house sells for you, a very stressful time I should think. I hate uncertainty like that.

wait, I missed something here. You trying to sell your house Osso? where you going? Everybody seems to end up in Albaturkey

Yeh, I'm trying to sell my house and move to Abq, and doing it with a fixer upper just as the market noticibly cools.
Geez louise, I may have to figure out temp work - but not yet.

Hello fellow artistes...

I paint in acrylics (used to do oils, long ago) and watercolours. I have probably done about 6 dozen paintings (usually 20 x 24, but one was 5'x3' and some were 3'x3') since 1990, when I moved to acrylics. I've sold some and given lots away as gifts... I have about a dozen left. I paint in a variety of styles - naive art, representational, surreal... you name it... but always with happy colours cuz I'm a pretty happy person. When I figure out how to post pics (or follow some directions), I'll put a couple up for your critiques...

A couple years ago I started in with w/c... I'm having a lot of fun with that. I also work with pastels and pen & ink.

I sew applique things - mainly cuz I'm a crappy sewer and 'art' forgives a lot of mistakes! I will post some of what I did and you can give me your opinions.

Mainly I love LOOKING at art - anybody's and everybody's, whatever media - I just totally LOVE it and regret very deeply not having a studio so I have to take over the dining room and/or kitchen and/or living room

Life's a beach for hubby but too bad \ he should have built me a studio...

Oh, I started painting on glass a couple years ago, and also jst finished two tile mosaic tables for my deck.

We had a great idea for a splash rail in our second bathroom - again, I'll post a pic when I figure it out again, because it's ORANGE - the them is Santorini, during the Minoan era, pre-eruption (3500 yrs ago)...

anyway, the idea! We got some 1/4" glass cut to specific dimensions and four holes drilled, and we put family pics up, glass over and screw in... very unique! You can also put art behind it... I'm going to get another glass for my kitchen splashguard - everyone loves the bathroom one.

Nice to meet you guys... I'll have some time to figure out the pic thing in a couple of days...not that you're all hanging around with tongues lolling out or anything!

A great big welcome to you, Mame.

ditto

Hi. Its neat when people are interested in a number of media and forms. Ive lately taken to "transfer collage" Ive used watercolor to express my work and then Ill xerox and blow up a series of food coupons and other papaer products (labels, newspaper headlines) and Ill transfere them by reverse copying and then xeroxing on a thin paper. Then Ill rub with mineral spirits to transfer onto my watercolor.
Theres all kinds of artists on the board mame, academics, hobbyists, professionals, etc Theyve all been really helpful .