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shadowkatFinished the below painting today - been working on it for a bit. Had to draw it three to four times to get it right. Or to be an impression of what I remembered. It's of a couple that I saw on the subway - on the way home from church several weeks ago.
I used watercolor pencils on hot press watercolor paper - which worked very well. (Materials matter, and the pencils are easier to use for fine lines and contours, particularly if like me - your hands shake. That's my biggest problem with painting at the moment is my hands shake. Also hot pressed paper works better with pencils, while cold press works better with paints and brushes. The best water color pencils are apparently Faber Castel Al Duher - which I got from Amazon. I didn't get the huge package. I went for a pack of 26, I think. Or the $20-30, as opposed to $50-100. Supplies can be costly. Also hot pressed paper is harder to find, isn't as big or large, and in shorter supply than cold pressed for some reason or other.)
I think I have two more subway watercolors before I switch over to dog walkers and dogs and their owners. My only difficulty is I have to figure out how to draw and paint dogs. I've been trained to draw and pain humans and have been practicing and doing it for over twenty years, off and on. But dogs not so much.
As reported in yesterday's post (the personal locked one) - my art supplies came on Saturday, which included the watercolor pencils, a small watercolor sketch book, and a book on how to draw and paint botanicals. (It's a spiral paper back - which works better for me.)
Oh, and here's the completed one from yesterday's post - I think I was able to fix it. Both watercolors had issues that had to be fixed. The one above, I had to fix the girl's hair, and the one below, her eyes.
***
I tried to watch the film Nope but it put me to sleep, wasn't helped by the fact that it was a "dark" film - and much filmed at night. Which is close to impossible to see on my television screen during the day. I watch Picard at night. I'll have to watch this at night as well. Assuming it doesn't put me to sleep.
[It's streaming for free on Amazon at the moment. Oh, the following films can be found on the following streaming channels...
1. Nope by Jordan Peele on Amazon Prime
2. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - also on Amazon Prime
3. Shotgun Wedding (Josh Dushamel, Jennifer Lopez, Cheech Marin, Sona Braga, Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz and D'Arcy ?) - Amazon
4. Pinocchio by Guillermo Del Toro - Netflix
5. RRR on Netflix
There's more, I'm certain - but those are the ones I know about. There is far too much content out there - and all of it is poorly indexed and organized. They need a librarian to index and organize all of this and an IT person to install a good search engine. I can never find anything. And when I do - I get kicked out.
I tried to watch Shotgun Wedding several times, I kept getting kicked out. I'd hit on it, it would start, then I'd get kicked out of the Amazon app. I tried a final time with the caveat - that if it didn't work, I'd give up. I got in. I'm glad I did - it was mindless fun and entertaining. Quite funny in places. Also, sigh, Josh Dushamel is pretty on the eyes - and I like Jennifer Lopez for the most part. Jennifer Coolidge irritates me - but we get so little of her - it really doesn't matter. Sona Braga was unrecognizable.
Shotgun Wedding is among the Jennifer Lopez films that required last minute recasting for the male romantic lead. The other one was Marry Me with Owen Wilson. I think both originally had Armie Hammer in the role - and well...
or Shotgun Wedding definitely did, and well... (if you want to know why - go google Armie Hammer on your own, it's hardly a secret).
It is mindlessly entertaining. I'll give it that. I actually laughed during it. The set up? The bride and groom decide to get married on an island in the Phillipines - in the hopes no one will come. (They came, along with a bunch of pirates after the Bride's father's money - the bride and groom spend the movie combating the pirates and each other. )
It's really just for folks who like Josh Dushamel and Jennifer Lopez, if you don't? Skip. Well that, and want mindless fun.
***
I watched the Palm Sunday service on FB this morning, and opted to take a break from the Artist's Way. I will most likely go next week - when there may be less people in attendance. The Artist Way - I'm struggling with in much the same way I struggle with all self help books. But it did help push me to get back into drawing and watercolors. Also to rethink art.
My Aunt L has got a contract to illustrate a series of Christian Children's books. (Her work has a heavy Christian bent). Mother talked to her today, and Aunt L told her how she'd been discouraged from pursuing art as a young adult and teen, but did it anyhow. Their kids are engineers, and her grandson couldn't get into the one English Lit course he took - and is going for an engineering degree. (See half my family is engineers, the other half artists.)
I realized while watching A Million Little Things (which is in its finale season - apparently whiny thirty-something dramas have run their course? They were having a moment for a while now, but that moment is done - people want spy thrillers and rom-coms now - most likely got tired of watching rich people mope? And would much rather watch them dash away from gunfire while struggling to make ends meet.)
Anyhow, back to what I realized - which wasn't that - I realized that I have a trigger regarding bad teachers or self-indulgent teachers. I desperately wanted to learn but ran into a lot of teachers who had zero interest in "teaching". Teaching is admittedly very hard. It's not for everyone. You have to have a little improvisational ability, be able to put on a performance, keep kids engaged, and be creative - while finding a way to reach a variety of learning types. It is in short - impossible.
The educational system we have - makes it even harder. As do parents. And the kids themselves. And like I said, not everyone is cut out to be a teacher.
The episode had a behavioral sciences teacher who resented that an older man in his thirties in a wheel chair was added to her class, without taking the perquisite first. (He had taken it - but over twenty years ago.) She felt it was unfair that he jumped ahead of 17 other students. And thought he got special favors for being in a wheel-chair. He told her that wasn't the reason, but he couldn't tell her why. (He got in because the lady in admissions had put him in that wheel chair, and instead of pressing charges against her - he gave her his apartment so she could hide from her husband. She was battered wife and mother, running from her abusive and alcoholic husband. And accidentally hit him. In return, the lady chose to add him to the class - he didn't ask her to do it. She did it - because of what he'd done for her.) The teacher irritated me. She tells him to drop her class - because he hadn't taken the prerequisite. I'm triggered, because I've seen that happen elsewhere or similar things. Helping people should come first.
Maybe the show will redeem the teacher? Who knows. If it was going for another season - my guess would be they'd end up in a romantic relationship.
I used watercolor pencils on hot press watercolor paper - which worked very well. (Materials matter, and the pencils are easier to use for fine lines and contours, particularly if like me - your hands shake. That's my biggest problem with painting at the moment is my hands shake. Also hot pressed paper works better with pencils, while cold press works better with paints and brushes. The best water color pencils are apparently Faber Castel Al Duher - which I got from Amazon. I didn't get the huge package. I went for a pack of 26, I think. Or the $20-30, as opposed to $50-100. Supplies can be costly. Also hot pressed paper is harder to find, isn't as big or large, and in shorter supply than cold pressed for some reason or other.)
I think I have two more subway watercolors before I switch over to dog walkers and dogs and their owners. My only difficulty is I have to figure out how to draw and paint dogs. I've been trained to draw and pain humans and have been practicing and doing it for over twenty years, off and on. But dogs not so much.
As reported in yesterday's post (the personal locked one) - my art supplies came on Saturday, which included the watercolor pencils, a small watercolor sketch book, and a book on how to draw and paint botanicals. (It's a spiral paper back - which works better for me.)
Oh, and here's the completed one from yesterday's post - I think I was able to fix it. Both watercolors had issues that had to be fixed. The one above, I had to fix the girl's hair, and the one below, her eyes.
***
I tried to watch the film Nope but it put me to sleep, wasn't helped by the fact that it was a "dark" film - and much filmed at night. Which is close to impossible to see on my television screen during the day. I watch Picard at night. I'll have to watch this at night as well. Assuming it doesn't put me to sleep.
[It's streaming for free on Amazon at the moment. Oh, the following films can be found on the following streaming channels...
1. Nope by Jordan Peele on Amazon Prime
2. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - also on Amazon Prime
3. Shotgun Wedding (Josh Dushamel, Jennifer Lopez, Cheech Marin, Sona Braga, Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz and D'Arcy ?) - Amazon
4. Pinocchio by Guillermo Del Toro - Netflix
5. RRR on Netflix
There's more, I'm certain - but those are the ones I know about. There is far too much content out there - and all of it is poorly indexed and organized. They need a librarian to index and organize all of this and an IT person to install a good search engine. I can never find anything. And when I do - I get kicked out.
I tried to watch Shotgun Wedding several times, I kept getting kicked out. I'd hit on it, it would start, then I'd get kicked out of the Amazon app. I tried a final time with the caveat - that if it didn't work, I'd give up. I got in. I'm glad I did - it was mindless fun and entertaining. Quite funny in places. Also, sigh, Josh Dushamel is pretty on the eyes - and I like Jennifer Lopez for the most part. Jennifer Coolidge irritates me - but we get so little of her - it really doesn't matter. Sona Braga was unrecognizable.
Shotgun Wedding is among the Jennifer Lopez films that required last minute recasting for the male romantic lead. The other one was Marry Me with Owen Wilson. I think both originally had Armie Hammer in the role - and well...
or Shotgun Wedding definitely did, and well... (if you want to know why - go google Armie Hammer on your own, it's hardly a secret).
It is mindlessly entertaining. I'll give it that. I actually laughed during it. The set up? The bride and groom decide to get married on an island in the Phillipines - in the hopes no one will come. (They came, along with a bunch of pirates after the Bride's father's money - the bride and groom spend the movie combating the pirates and each other. )
It's really just for folks who like Josh Dushamel and Jennifer Lopez, if you don't? Skip. Well that, and want mindless fun.
***
I watched the Palm Sunday service on FB this morning, and opted to take a break from the Artist's Way. I will most likely go next week - when there may be less people in attendance. The Artist Way - I'm struggling with in much the same way I struggle with all self help books. But it did help push me to get back into drawing and watercolors. Also to rethink art.
My Aunt L has got a contract to illustrate a series of Christian Children's books. (Her work has a heavy Christian bent). Mother talked to her today, and Aunt L told her how she'd been discouraged from pursuing art as a young adult and teen, but did it anyhow. Their kids are engineers, and her grandson couldn't get into the one English Lit course he took - and is going for an engineering degree. (See half my family is engineers, the other half artists.)
I realized while watching A Million Little Things (which is in its finale season - apparently whiny thirty-something dramas have run their course? They were having a moment for a while now, but that moment is done - people want spy thrillers and rom-coms now - most likely got tired of watching rich people mope? And would much rather watch them dash away from gunfire while struggling to make ends meet.)
Anyhow, back to what I realized - which wasn't that - I realized that I have a trigger regarding bad teachers or self-indulgent teachers. I desperately wanted to learn but ran into a lot of teachers who had zero interest in "teaching". Teaching is admittedly very hard. It's not for everyone. You have to have a little improvisational ability, be able to put on a performance, keep kids engaged, and be creative - while finding a way to reach a variety of learning types. It is in short - impossible.
The educational system we have - makes it even harder. As do parents. And the kids themselves. And like I said, not everyone is cut out to be a teacher.
The episode had a behavioral sciences teacher who resented that an older man in his thirties in a wheel chair was added to her class, without taking the perquisite first. (He had taken it - but over twenty years ago.) She felt it was unfair that he jumped ahead of 17 other students. And thought he got special favors for being in a wheel-chair. He told her that wasn't the reason, but he couldn't tell her why. (He got in because the lady in admissions had put him in that wheel chair, and instead of pressing charges against her - he gave her his apartment so she could hide from her husband. She was battered wife and mother, running from her abusive and alcoholic husband. And accidentally hit him. In return, the lady chose to add him to the class - he didn't ask her to do it. She did it - because of what he'd done for her.) The teacher irritated me. She tells him to drop her class - because he hadn't taken the prerequisite. I'm triggered, because I've seen that happen elsewhere or similar things. Helping people should come first.
Maybe the show will redeem the teacher? Who knows. If it was going for another season - my guess would be they'd end up in a romantic relationship.