r ransom

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?

A modern take on fixative with heritage ingredients

https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/home-made-fixative-based-on-size-hide-glue/

I took some inspiration from Ralph Mayer’s handbook and other sources, and came up with my own fixative. I had no casein medium but I thought that hide glue is very similar chemically. I have used it for two days now together with some new pastels that just arrived, and oh boy does it “fix”. I have been rubbing some samples with my finger, and layer more pastel on top. A heavy spray of this fixative will make the painting more transparent and slightly darker (like most fixatives). If you’re interested I can keep you updated on how it does on various layered paintings.

recipe:
2g (1g) Fredrix hide glue granules (or rabbit skin glue)

100 ml water

100 ml pure 40% alcohol (Vodka works)



I soaked and warmed up the granules in water until they melted (gently steaming) then mixed in the alcohol. This makes a very weak glue solution that hasn’t gelled (so far at least). Finally I put the mixture in a clean plastic perfume bottle with a atomizer nozzle. Spray on carefully.

Later in the thread, it's mentioned to reduce the glue from 2 to 1g

What did people use as a pastel fixative in the 1700 and 1800s?

I tried to use some blue tack to put my bird on the wall and it was dusty.

Mine are horrible this year, cracks are so deep.  I'm told it's related to water at the wrong time - but no one has been able to tell me if it's too much or too little water and what time is right and what time is wrong?