As I said in my previous post, it's been a while since I painted. These paintings are at least 10 years old too.
Image: CC BY-SA gallery.insaneworks.fi
When painting with oil colors, one always has a choice to paint smooth surfaces or not. I like to play with the thickness of the color. I like to create hills, sandstone, canyons and also sometimes paint with almost dry brush so that the bush stroke is very much visible.
When the painting is dry and you touch it, you can feel the sandpaperness and the lines. I like to call this gather-dust-as-much-as-possible surface. Or light-absorbing surface.
Image: CC BY-SA gallery.insaneworks.fi
I dread painting to smooth, white surfaces. It's pure agony trying to go somewhere from that clean, blank nothingness. I much more prefer starting from a mess or working with restrictions. That's why I am, or back in the days when I did paint, extremely lazy to buy new canvases or new colors. The first painting, Blue Dream is painted on a 70's curtain that has different kind of patterns, figures and threads that vary in thickness. Loose Feeling is painted on a plywood that is covered with an old bed sheet.
But the laziness doesn't end there. When my colors ran out, it always took a long time before I bought new ones. I just worked with the ones I had. The previous posts red thing is painted on proper canvas bought from the art supply store. I used all my red and white in it. Blue Dream, blue and oranges were the last colors I used this time and Loose Feeling, well you may have figured the pattern how I choose the colors. What is available and left. This is also a great way to always use everything you have bought. Never waste anything.
But I don't paint so much anymore with oil colors. It was replaced with other kind of art and madness. Photography, photomanipulation and web art.
Coding isn't really my thing. I mean I do like to code, but I do not have the patience to learn it properly. I know basic html and a little bit of javascript and I recognize php. That's it. I do know how to find sites from the internet that teaches basic coding and I do know how to copypaste the code that is free to take. But it really isn't my thing. I hate the fact that every fucking < and [ and } and , and ' and " has to be absolutely in the right place and there has to be just the right amount of those. If I delete or copypaste one of those in the wrong place, nothing works. Just one ] and that's it. What kind of a language pilkunnussinta is that?
I prefer to stay in my method: get an idea, draw the pictures, pick the right colors and fonts, create some code, try to execute it with all the shitty codes and wrong advises from the internet, bang the keyboard vigorously like 10 thousand monkeys for 10 thousand years and hope it sorts itself out, when it surprisingly doesn't, shout help and let the person next to me do all the work. Copypaste the code that the coder sends to me via mail or give my seat to the coder. After the coder has done all the work, adjust the parameters that any of those 10 thousand monkeys could adjust in the code. Parameters that are commented clearly. Color, speed, duration, directions and that kind of stuff.
So like in Watuar, I had an idea and made the pretty pictures. Or in this case, explained the pretty pictures in my head. The coding in We Curate is mostly outsourced. Not that far though. I have two coders in my family. I exploit them. One of those coders I've been luring in to Steemit for weeks and I finally succeeded in it. I'll let you know when the coder starts writing here. :D
I have a request for you. If you support the We Curate art thingy thing idea, go to We Curate last post and suggest new tags for the next round. Thanks!
Image: We Curate
Now all that you are thinking is, is there really 10 000 monkeys in Insaneworkses head? Well, I'm not going to tell you, 'cause I don't have the time to do that. One of my monkeys is eating the ice cream in the fridge and I'm not going to let the insane monkey do that alone.