The Muppet Show was so cool when I was a kid. Dora never has any cool guests on her show, and they keep singing the same three or four songs over and over and over and over and over. Anyway, here's what kid's TV was like when I was a kid.
Alice Cooper…
So because I needed my garage for building stuff rather than parking stuff, it's currently parked in Phil's building. It's not as if there are many camo Porsches in Toronto (so it's easy to find my contact details if you see the car and google it), so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised at this email. I guess I need to buy a car cover. A locking car cover. A rubber locking car cover.
To: glider@zentastic.com
From: Not telling <oixdkvuwhbem@gmail.com>
Subject: Isn't this your Porsche?Hope your warranty covers cumshots, dude.
So I go to the art supply store this morning on the way back from dropping off Nefarious at school to pick up some top coat polymer because I used it all up. They didn't have it out, so I asked for a jug of it to be brought from the back (there was a small bottle on the counter but not a big 4L jug). When the girl that works there returned from the back room, she had a bottle of gloss clear acrylic gel (basically acrylic paint without the pigment, so it has the same chemical properties and is very compatible).
“No, I don't think that's what I need,” I say. “I mean the gloss polymer, like those”, and indicate the bottles on the counter.
“I was afraid you were going to say that,” she said. “We stopped keeping that out here because it was destroying people's paintings.”
“I know, that's why I buy it!”
I explained that I understand that it dries differently and has different — and partially incompatible — chemical properties, and that's what I'm looking for, because by changing the way I mix that, I can change the shape of the painting as it dries, and the painting actually scars and “keloids” — it becomes a very organic process, because it's not like normal painting where you create something and walk away. This is almost more like developing a photo (or growing a plant), because it continues to change after you're done.
[Edit: I'm sorry for repeating myself... I realize I just wrote this in the previous entry as well]
I got some more work done on my painting. Here's me, my muse, and ten pounds o' paint stuck to a canvas… I think I'll do another day or two of work on it, build a frame, and then dump painting for a while and focus on sculpture. Painting is really painful for me and I'm feeling kind of drained by it all and would rather do something else.
OK, so the base coat is in place. Next I have to line it, which means it moves from blurry blobby mess to something that actually looks like something rather than vaguely looking like something… Then I'll fiddle with the tone balances a bit, build a giant frame, and I'm done for now.
