Weird Internet People & How to Avoid Doing Housework

Weird Internet People

I was on Facebook and saw a post in Virgil Elliot's Traditional Oil Painting group.

Some guy posted this swatch of whites, which he said is a few MONTHS old and was kept in the dark.

They are swatches of Lead and Titanium whites from a few different high quality brands.

MONTHS.

Michael Harding paint.

(which is excellent paint, I have their Cremnitz in Walnut oil and never had trouble with yellowing)

I don't know wtf he is doing to his oil paint because I have a white-yellowing swatch test from August 2011 (also kept in the dark) and my whites look way better, even the leads.

Lukas 1862 wins, shockingly.

Look how good it looks!

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How to Avoid Housework

I feel meh and blah today.

I don't want to do the things I should do, like housework.

And it's raining and not nice outside.

Grace said come over! Bring Paint!

So I did.

I went to New Jersey with paint to avoid doing housework.

Grace is tuning her piano so it is partially disassembled.

I painted it because why not?

This little study was actually quite an unexpected challenge in problem solving.

Those knobs......... painting them all individually was definitely not happening.  So it was about the pattern and simplification.

This is not a good painting and that is ok.

I got a lot out of doing it, and I used up all my leftover paint from yesterday!

6x8 oil

Grace also wanted to try oil paint.

She still has these Williamsburg samples from a few years ago when we painted up at Olana.

(I still have mine too)