OK, I changed my mind and decided to write something after all. I've just been putting an undercoat of burnt umber on a little painting I'm starting up. It's only about 7x9 inches, and I started it by just picking up a pencil and drawing a grotesque cartoon character on the canvas. It started out as some sort of creepy monk -- then I put a ball in his hand -- then the ball became an apple, so now it's the wicked witch from Snow White. Not exactly a very ambitious start for a painting, but it will do for what's basically an exercise in style. Anyway. I painted in the lines of the character with phthalo blue, and then she sat around on the drawing board for a week, looking more like a drawing than a painting. But now that I've put some burnt umber on her, the paintingness is starting to emerge . . . I can't wait to start building up layers of color. Glee!
--Rod
--Rod
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Why is all of the Tintin paraphanelia so expensive? There is this store in NY and SF, can't remember the name, "something world" or something, anyway, they have all of this really great Tintin stuff and Wallace & Grommit, The Little Prince, I guess mostly European cartoon stuff, but the point is that everything is about 25%-50% more than you would ever wanna pay for the stuff. I did buy a little orange Tintin note pad and I seem to recall a Wallace & Grommit car freshener that I never used, then broke and it proceeded to really leak and stink.
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i just bought some tintin books in quebec city--cheap! and fun to read. it's a great way to improve one's french. did you know there is an asterix movie out?