Tag: painting
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March 2025 Wrap Up
There’s the old saying about March that it comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb, meaning that it is usually a windy month that settles into a peaceful spring. This year, the lion roared all month long and brought rain and hail with it. You would have thought being forced indoors I…
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New Brushes – Synthetic Sable
If you’ve done any figure painting at all, then you will know that brushes wear out, even the best ones. After a little over 3 years, my Raphael 8404 Kolinsky Sable No. 1 no longer holds a good point. That means it is time to buy a new brush. With prices rising on just about…
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Swatches!
Anyone who has ever been in the paint area of a hardware store has seen hundreds of paint swatches printed on paper that you can use to find that right shade of color for the walls and trim of your house. Well, at least a close approximation of what the color will look like. I…
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Last Painted Figures of the Year
I came nowhere near my goal, it was very ambitious, in painting figures for the year. The reason for that is simple, I still think I can do everything I could when I was thirty. However, a body that has finished seven decades of life and then some, tends to laugh at what I think…
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Northmen and Barbarians (NSFW)
Once again, a post has the NSFW, Not Safe for Work, rating because one young lady is topless. The ancient writers tell us that women in battle would expose a breast to allow men to know that she who could bring life into the world could also take it out. The probable truth is that…
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The Fertility Idol (NSFW)
Believe it or not, this post has a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) rating since a stone statue as well as its worshippers are topless. So, if you are a Christian Nationalist or a Republican, pretend to look away. I think I first saw an idol like this in photos of a museum exhibition. In…
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