Brian's Morning Newsletter

Tuesday March 2nd 2010

Good Morning
Got to run this morning. Our Blazer has minor mechanical issues, which means I will drive Nell to work in the Trooper, pick up a new starter in town, return and install the pesky little devil, all before I head off to work myself. Perhaps Desertgate will be able to reschedule my one job from 1:00PM today until tom0rrow, giving me more time to work on the Blazer. You may recall that Jack and I just did a starter replacement becasue I'm almost certain I gave the tedious job its BMN due in blood, sweat and tears. You may also recall that job was frivolous in the end. It turned out it was a bad cable not the starter. The starter is very difficult to reach in that model Chevy. Without really trying I've iced the cake of irony, since that was dad's Blazer that we laboriously removed and then reinstalled the starter on (Big Sigh.) Wish us luck.

As the subject suggests, this morning's BMN is a rush job. I have about fifteen minutes left to write. The Trooper started, again I forgot to get my new netbook out of the car after work yesterday, now it is defrosting inside, but this time I'll let it warm slowly before I switch it on.

As you may be able to detect, I worked on two of my paintings in progress, not much just a bit of touch-up. This picture of the hand is the proper color, but my attempt at glazing a transparent color over the too-dark index finger was unsuccessful, the color is fine, but somehow, even thinned with a wet brush the color blend I made came out opaque. It's funny, but yesterday I said I didn't care if it was perfect, it was close enough for me to feel good about it.  Then I went and fiddled with it, and now it makes me feel like I need to fix it. See, I should have left it alone, except I really haven't learned anything about layering transparent colors, but then why would I?

Yesterday I posted a color chart, which each artist is supposed to create, I didn't. I guess it just goes to show I can't cut corners if I wish to learn something.
After all there is a reason why it's called "beginners luck"
Lucky for me the hand painting was never a masterpiece, and secondly, layers can always be added afterward, but first I better create my color chart made with the paints we have to work with.
Oakie dokie
Tomorrow is another day
Catch me then?
Brian Rodgers

How to Test if a Paint Color is Opaque or Transparent

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