2021: What are you doing today

[idrivejunk]

It was a Grand Three. Daily got an oil change.  

[idrivejunk]

Oop, there was another thing I did yesterday perhaps worthy of mention, I am excited about anyway... scored some acrylic paints, brushes, and canvas panels.  ~:)

All cheap crap, of course. So look out!

Naw,    this might be as much fun for me as fixing up your cars is for you guys. Before today runs out, I'll wet a brush. As usual, the first stroke is the toughest one. Looking forward to seeing if the ol noggin file system kept any technique notes once I get going.

I was thinking maybe I should start off looking at and going from but not tracing, a photo. For cars anyway, at some point.

Sure was good taking a rip-snort offa the 455 yesterday. A shot of gosh-honest willing retro survivor V8 joy goes such a long way these days.  I hope you all get a warm snap now and then, enough to get your own version of that ah.

[phat46]

Oop, there was another thing I did yesterday perhaps worthy of mention, I am excited about anyway... scored some acrylic paints, brushes, and canvas panels.  ~:)

All cheap crap, of course. So look out!

Naw,    this might be as much fun for me as fixing up your cars is for you guys. Before today runs out, I'll wet a brush. As usual, the first stroke is the toughest one. Looking forward to seeing if the ol noggin file system kept any technique notes once I get going.

I was thinking maybe I should start off looking at and going from but not tracing, a photo. For cars anyway, at some point.

Sure was good taking a rip-snort offa the 455 yesterday. A shot of gosh-honest willing retro survivor V8 joy goes such a long way these days.  I hope you all get a warm snap now and then, enough to get your own version of that ah.

Go for it! It is indeed as much fun for me as doing the real thing, plus warmer! I have a project in the shop I'm dying to get to, but meanwhile the painting scratches the hot rod itch for me. I also do boats, we have a lot around here. This is a commission for a local guy I finished today. Looking forward to seeing your brush work. 🙂

[chimp koose]

Phat you are a talented man !

[idrivejunk]

Sure is!

I didn't allow enough time to try much but it was enough to remind me of my thoughts on it. Which are I will probably have to learn using it opaque, no washes. Which is what I think I see on Phat's. I'll have to study those more closely. My only other observation was that I didn't buy good stuff. The main adjustment will be working opaque. Done it before but rarely and not with anything very colorful. It definitely takes a different plan to start. I may get flustrated before anything proud comes out. Time will tell.

[phat46]

Sure is!

I didn't allow enough time to try much but it was enough to remind me of my thoughts on it. Which are I will probably have to learn using it opaque, no washes. Which is what I think I see on Phat's. I'll have to study those more closely. My only other observation was that I didn't buy good stuff. The main adjustment will be working opaque. Done it before but rarely and not with anything very colorful. It definitely takes a different plan to start. I may get flustrated before anything proud comes out. Time will tell.

I mostly do opaque work, but using washes is  a great technique for certain effects, like "patina" on a car. I have used up to seven layers to achieve a certain look. Quality paint does make a difference, I bought some heavy body acrylics and had to make adjustments for them compared to the regular Hobby Lobby stuff. I recently bought a tube of cheap paint at Walmart just to see how it was, it actually isn't bad, but I wonder about the color fastness, time will tell.

[kb426]

Phat46, you are turning out work at a good pace. When you were young, would you have been better or worse? I was pretty creative when I was young but a lot of what I thought about wouldn't have turned out very good. Lack of sophistication comes to mind as a simple explanation.

[phat46]

Phat46, you are turning out work at a good pace. When you were young, would you have been better or worse? I was pretty creative when I was young but a lot of what I thought about wouldn't have turned out very good. Lack of sophistication comes to mind as a simple explanation.

When I was young I drew cars incessantly, usually in school when I  should have been paying attention. I kept that up for a while even when I was out of school too, but then family and life were more important. I occasionally run across an old drawing and see the date on it and think, "hey, you were pretty good!" 😃 I didn't pick up a brush till about ten years ago and did the Bob Ross thing, but no cars. Then switched to acrylic paint and cars and found my niche. I really regret not painting when I was much younger, I am still learning and wonder how it would be with fifty years experience behind me.

[idrivejunk]

Many a ballpoint masterpiece was done on notebook paper.  

My Dad's brother was a pro artist straight out of the gate and into ripe old age, starting with bread n butter hospital literature and ending having done portraits as a specialty, ducks with oils for pleasure because he had a pond to sit by after retirement age, then illustrations for a wonderful children's book rounded out a life full of just art. It can be done. My point is that his son passed at around 30 years of age. Rare conditions got them both but, my cousin never pursued anything but his father's footsteps and by the time he died, he was every bit the portrait artist his Dad ever was.

Me, I did the school and tried for the career but every step of the way circumstances kept yanking the rug out from under that direction. So all that just went on hold like putting an old car in a storage unit once I realized mind wasn't enough. Young ones have body to spare and ought to use it, so I pulled up stakes and plunked down in another state where a friend was and answered an ad for paint delivery boy. Cars were passion #2.

Over the years I scribbled cards or cartoons and once every so often I'd watercolor a car to be sure I still could. This art push is like a time capsule to me. Now, I do this partly because I've about used up my hands and want to preserve art ability. An ol bodyman came by the other day, told me he has lost feeling in his hands. Still has their use, just no feel. Shot. That there is a bad kind of thing, where you suffer but nobody can tell or believe. Enormous mental burden there. I don't want that, leastwise before I have given the art pedal a good romp.

Thats gonna take awhile with a full time job.

[58 Yeoman]

My wife and I hit a couple antique malls today, and in one I found two '58 Chevy dog dish hubcaps in pretty good condition, for $10 each. BUT...they each had a nail hole in them to mount on the wall. The Rambler dog dish next to them was the same. What kind of person does this? I hang mine on a nail or screw that catches the lip on the backside. And, I have a wall full of old license plates that are mounted through the mounting holes with screws.

I mean, you know, after I die, there MIGHT be someone still collecting plates, and I wouldn't want that person to have to deal with extra holes in the plates. Geez...

Oh, and I didn't buy them, and told them why.

[58 Yeoman]

Count this as a PSA. I went to the CVS pharmacy today to pick up a prescription refill. MY cost was $192. What?! We had switched this prescription from the Kroger Pharmacy. Well, we pulled out our GoodRX card, looked it up on the phone, and the cost dropped to $74. It would've been $48 at Kroger, but that place is a lot further away. It pays to get a GoodRX card, and it works at most places. Once in a while, they aren't the cheapest, but most times they are.

I really don't understand the discrepancy in prices at these places. We've never been refused the GoodRx price anywhere that we've used it. Want to save some money? Look into it yourself.

Disclaimer: I don't have any stock in this company that I know of, just putting it out there.

[phat46]

Count this as a PSA. I went to the CVS pharmacy today to pick up a prescription refill. MY cost was $192. What?! We had switched this prescription from the Kroger Pharmacy. Well, we pulled out our GoodRX card, looked it up on the phone, and the cost dropped to $74. It would've been $48 at Kroger, but that place is a lot further away. It pays to get a GoodRX card, and it works at most places. Once in a while, they aren't the cheapest, but most times they are.

I really don't understand the discrepancy in prices at these places. We've never been refused the GoodRx price anywhere that we've used it. Want to save some money? Look into it yourself.

Disclaimer: I don't have any stock in this company that I know of, just putting it out there.

The Good Rx actually works. I have the Kroger plan and some meds  are free. Their plan doesn't cover everything though, but recently I went there for a script and it was $220! Pulled out my phone got on the Good Rx site, got their "coupon" it said $14... when the gall rang it up it showed $7... how. is that possible?

[chimp koose]

Phat  Ill bet you ran out of the pharmacy saying "start the car , start the car!"( do you remember that ad ?)

[enjenjo]

My GoodRX  card came in the mail today.

[kb426]

^^^^^
I bookmarked their website. I don't need it now but you never know what the future might hold.