Sunday Oct 20, 2002

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There are good ways to prime canvasses and bad ways.

Covering a 5'0" x 7'0" canvass with gesso using a 1 1/2" brush is a bad way. It made perfect sense when I started, but now, halfway through the first of three of these, I think I need a bigger brush.

That's today's project. Priming.

Currently listening to : Victims of a Gas Attack (Oi Polloi)

next up: Thrust (Herbie Hancock)
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volkov:
I am not sure if posting in your own journal counts as talking to yourself...but if it does....boy are you headed towards the nuthouse....
I'll....uh save you a spot at the cafeteria table...remember...pretend vollyball (they won't give us a ball) at 2pm sharp in the courtyard!

and yeah it is amazing how the canvas work can make or ruin a painting.

I should tell you about photo transfer to canvas some time...it's a neat process, and then you have to use gesso to seal the image to the canvas and add a sort of painted texture to the work....neet stuff.

slightpressureok:
Here's what you do: Take a big mouthful of gesso, then think of a funny joke while standing in front of the canvas. When you laugh really hard, the gesso will spray from your nose and cover the canvas.

Simple, no?

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