Footwear for Tubers!

Got goats? They/them. Genderqueer. Grey Asexual. Disabled as Fuck. Autistic. Not good at catchy writing. Reluctant Idahoan. Maybe one day I can move someplace more temperate and less conservative.

[potatoshoe]

i am working on the fleeces btw.

it is a lot. pls be patient i will contact you.

[thememedaddy]

[stealthflower]

Fleece related discovery of the day: indigo vats are stinky but magical. I’m very glad I was sensible and used it out on the porch.

I test dyed about 20g of floof, and 100g of two ply that I spun a few weeks ago. I’ve also got some safflower extracting on the little induction plate at the moment, so if I get a good yellow from that, I’ll try over dyeing some to green as well.

In more spinning-related activities, it’s a bad pain day today, so I’ve only done a token amount of spinning, but I did manage to skein up the first half of this lovely silk and alpaca mix, and start spinning the rest. It’s my first time spinning silk, and it’s fussier than I’m used to, but soft and shiny enough that I don’t actually mind.

[clannfearrunt]

It is simply too many degrees Celsiheit outside.

[wateryoucoloring]

happy moon day!

[potatoshoe]

want to listen to 6 hours of well researched info on culture food and fascism? this is a good vid but really long.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[tall]

[stealthflower]

Camping photos from the weekend:

Bonus picnic table with a very aussie name

And a scenic drive home, where someone is very happy to see us.

[oneheadtoanother]

[potatoshoe]

honestly i really want to drop some info on pigment lightfastness but i'm too tired rn.

i will say most student grade paints are not going to be formulated with lightfastness in mind. you need artist grade paints or you need to do research and pick carefully. and even a lot of artist grade paints are fugitive and understood to be so. i don't like that but it is how it currently is.

i spend a lot of time on blick looking at what pigments are in paints. there is probably a better way to do it, but i find it convenient.

most good quality paints have pigment info on the tubes.

it'll say something like PBk7 (lamp black) or PB29 (ultramarine blue) both of those are extremely lightfast.

the listing on blick have this info for colors, along with the industry blurb about the pigment(s) before you buy them or if you've found something and want to look it up.

i love this site but it is extremely nerdy and requires a signup.

Artist pigment database with cross reference of 80551 artist paints. Search and browse by 929 pigments, 1397 brands and 36 artist mediums (f

it's also worth looking up vids about lightfastness for your medium on youtube. lots of ppl have done a lot of good work about it.

[potatoshoe]

oh also there are uv sealants you can buy but you have to apply many coats and there's mixed evidence on how it works. it's not an accessible option for me with my health as it is (fumes, long hours standing and spraying) but ppl have had luck with it. again youtube is great resource here

[potatoshoe]

ok one more since i recently got a new tube of ultramarine since i ran out.

you might think that the pigment info should be here. there's a big white space they could put it in.

but no, it's in teeny tiny print round the back. i have to use my macro lens on my phone to read it and once you start squeezing the tube it often gets crumpled and you can't read it at all.

i find this annoying.

[iamat0m]

I imagine putting it somewhere where there's UV filters on the glass might help more than a sketchy coating, no?

[potatoshoe]

i honestly have no idea. seems like something that needs testing.

i personally tend toward thinking of my art as temporaryish. i'm not selling it, i'm not a master painter, i don't think that my work has any real value beyond me enjoying making it.

i do my best to get pigments that don't fade and aren't super exploitative or toxic and tbh almost all of my paintings are in a box. there's really not enough space to hang them up and no one has asked for one.

i paint to stay sane lol what happens to the paintings later is probably being tossed out eventually tbh.

i love learning about pigments mostly for nerd reasons ngl. but i do know a lot at this point.

[potatoshoe]

honestly i really want to drop some info on pigment lightfastness but i'm too tired rn.

i will say most student grade paints are not going to be formulated with lightfastness in mind. you need artist grade paints or you need to do research and pick carefully. and even a lot of artist grade paints are fugitive and understood to be so. i don't like that but it is how it currently is.

i spend a lot of time on blick looking at what pigments are in paints. there is probably a better way to do it, but i find it convenient.

most good quality paints have pigment info on the tubes.

it'll say something like PBk7 (lamp black) or PB29 (ultramarine blue) both of those are extremely lightfast.

the listing on blick have this info for colors, along with the industry blurb about the pigment(s) before you buy them or if you've found something and want to look it up.

i love this site but it is extremely nerdy and requires a signup.

Artist pigment database with cross reference of 80551 artist paints. Search and browse by 929 pigments, 1397 brands and 36 artist mediums (f

it's also worth looking up vids about lightfastness for your medium on youtube. lots of ppl have done a lot of good work about it.

[potatoshoe]

oh also there are uv sealants you can buy but you have to apply many coats and there's mixed evidence on how it works. it's not an accessible option for me with my health as it is (fumes, long hours standing and spraying) but ppl have had luck with it. again youtube is great resource here

[potatoshoe]

ok one more since i recently got a new tube of ultramarine since i ran out.

you might think that the pigment info should be here. there's a big white space they could put it in.

but no, it's in teeny tiny print round the back. i have to use my macro lens on my phone to read it and once you start squeezing the tube it often gets crumpled and you can't read it at all.

i find this annoying.

[potatoshoe]

honestly i really want to drop some info on pigment lightfastness but i'm too tired rn.

i will say most student grade paints are not going to be formulated with lightfastness in mind. you need artist grade paints or you need to do research and pick carefully. and even a lot of artist grade paints are fugitive and understood to be so. i don't like that but it is how it currently is.

i spend a lot of time on blick looking at what pigments are in paints. there is probably a better way to do it, but i find it convenient.

most good quality paints have pigment info on the tubes.

it'll say something like PBk7 (lamp black) or PB29 (ultramarine blue) both of those are extremely lightfast.

the listing on blick have this info for colors, along with the industry blurb about the pigment(s) before you buy them or if you've found something and want to look it up.

i love this site but it is extremely nerdy and requires a signup.

Artist pigment database with cross reference of 80551 artist paints. Search and browse by 929 pigments, 1397 brands and 36 artist mediums (f

it's also worth looking up vids about lightfastness for your medium on youtube. lots of ppl have done a lot of good work about it.

[potatoshoe]

oh also there are uv sealants you can buy but you have to apply many coats and there's mixed evidence on how it works. it's not an accessible option for me with my health as it is (fumes, long hours standing and spraying) but ppl have had luck with it. again youtube is great resource here

[potatoshoe]

honestly i really want to drop some info on pigment lightfastness but i'm too tired rn.

i will say most student grade paints are not going to be formulated with lightfastness in mind. you need artist grade paints or you need to do research and pick carefully. and even a lot of artist grade paints are fugitive and understood to be so. i don't like that but it is how it currently is.

i spend a lot of time on blick looking at what pigments are in paints. there is probably a better way to do it, but i find it convenient.

most good quality paints have pigment info on the tubes.

it'll say something like PBk7 (lamp black) or PB29 (ultramarine blue) both of those are extremely lightfast.

the listing on blick have this info for colors, along with the industry blurb about the pigment(s) before you buy them or if you've found something and want to look it up.

i love this site but it is extremely nerdy and requires a signup.

Artist pigment database with cross reference of 80551 artist paints. Search and browse by 929 pigments, 1397 brands and 36 artist mediums (f

it's also worth looking up vids about lightfastness for your medium on youtube. lots of ppl have done a lot of good work about it.

[ms-demeanor]

Hmm. Mad at some paint. Time for an experiment.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay so in fall 2024 i took an acrylic painting class that was a bit frustrating.

I've painted with acrylics before, and am familiar with liquitex and dahler-rawley student-grade paints.

But I knew that for this class I'd go through a lot of paint, so I bought a bunch of paint at walmart that i used alongside a tube of burnt umber from Michael's, a tube of cyan from a pop shop in texas, and like three partial tubes of titanium white liquitex from a local art store that closed about fifteen years ago and that I miss terribly.

This was a beginning painting class, and like a lot of beginner classes it had a bunch of basic exercises. One of the assignments was to translate an image to a grid and transfer it to a small canvas as a color study. Here's what I did:

It was a fun assignment and I liked how it looked so I pinned it to a cork board.

A couple months ago I glanced at it and noticed that maybe the cheap paints I'd gotten were somewhat less lightfast than I'd expected:

This does not match my prior experience with acrylic paint.

[wateryoucoloring]

been really struggling with art today but i don't hate this self portrait. it's not perfect but it does have some things going for it.