r ransom

Watching the Mare's tails clouds mix with smoke from a near by wildfire as the sun set, I realized two of the barriers stopping me from painting the sky.

1. The sky we get here is unlike what i see in traditional paintings and mainstream media.   If I shared the paintings, would it look real?

2. I'm too slow at painting and have poor short term memory.

Then I got the idea that these are also two very good reasons to start skying.

At least gmail says bluntly that they will protect their customers from emails they deem as harmful to the user or corporate values.  I think it was in the terms of service or one of the fine prints.  They added the words about 2 years ago, but have done it for ever.

Every email provider does it.  Some more strongly (yahoo, hotmail, rogers...) than others (proton mail).  They say if they didn't, we would get thousands of spam and scam emails a day.

One day, I hope to find an email provider that can treat me like an adult and let me sort my own mails.  Maybe even let my library tell me when my books are ready to pick up or let my government ask me if I am still alive so I don't get accidentally declared dead, again.  That would be lovely.



In the past, I've had to reach out to my email provider and talk to a real human to let them know that permies is a trusted email and i wants them precious emals.

Gosh, i need to reread this thread when my brain is better.  I missed the upsidedown idea the first time.

Thank you for reminding me.

I would love to see the pictures you generated.

My problem with ai, is it's not very good at gardening. It either gives too vague instructions or too over generalized.  Example, applying information from new york growing season as if it aplies everywhere.

I wonder if you ask the ai to take into account more local to you problems and climate.  I don't know if ai is good enough to do this yet, but it would be cool if it could.

Wow! Already?

Autumn, bring it on!

Wow, she does a master copy of the entire painting and such a good job too.  And then she sold it, or more likely, it was commissioned.



I've never seen anyone get so excited about a tube of raw umber....except maybe me.  It's an awesome colour!

Watching this, I'm filled with the desire to do the same.  It would take me a year.  But one or two portrait copies of someone in the picture might be feasible for next spring.  

If you had to choose one section of the painting that would make a good study and could work well with lilacs, where would you choose?   Not dead chicken girl, let's go with one of the guys.

Wow!   Great flash mob.

A few videos later lead me to

r ransom wrote:I was wondering about a helmet like in Rembrandt's night watch, on the far left of the picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch

I've never really looked at this painting before close before.

I was thinking of doing a small study from this as I've wanted to do a Rembrandt study and maybe I could add lilac.

But the more I look, the more confusing it is.

Who gave that almost blind guy towards the right a gun and didn't teach him good gun safety.


Why is that young woman running around all these armed men and why she got a dead bird hanging from her belt?