But first…
Dulltown, Europe: Today’s random dictionary words are: ‘dictyogen’, ‘leiotrichous’, ‘slammerkin’, ‘parablepsis’, and ‘doup’.
Please look these words up and impress your friends with one of them today…
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Over the years, thinking about art, as one does, one might have a fleeting idea for a piece of artwork, sometimes silly, sometimes serious, which one might make, ‘one day’…
A while back I bought a nice thick hardback notebook to jot these ideas down in, so that when I became rich, famous, and bloated, had lost my edge, and run out of ideas, I could go back to it and reignite my creativity…
One of these daft ideas I recall, was to buy a ‘Painting By Numbers’ kit and do the painting, but with the little pots of paint deliberately wrongly numbered. It could look rather interesting… possibly…
Anyway, yesterday in a local department store I spotted such an item going for only £2.99 – I couldn’t resist buying it…
Oh, what a very nice windmill, and what a lovely couple going up the creek, followed by a cheeky plump white duck… I notice that the painting is called ‘PAL7 – Windmill on the River’ for ages 8 to 88… I also see, to my dismay, that the colour pots are arranged in two straight lines; doh! I was hoping that you’d get a proper shaped cardboard artist’s palette with a hole in it for your thumb, with the colours arranged around the edge; still, you can’t have everything… I think when I do it I might wear my paint spattered smock and my beret though… A ‘Disque Bleu’ in a cigarette holder would look cool too!… (DB)
I would imagine that artists, and students in art schools, all over the world are all so very desperate to do something ‘original’ and ‘new’ (there isn’t much left that hasn’t been done!) that someone has already used this little idea of mine. Perhaps someone won the Turner Prize with this a few years back, I wouldn’t know, I don’t follow such silly goings on…
Anyway, I shall at some point have a stab at it and put the result on this blog for you to see… I think my first decision will be which colours to replace the blue and the white of the sky with… I am open to suggestions… Actually this is more difficult than I imagined…
Hell, I don’t want to ruin it!… Or do I?…
u might create a fauve painting. it would make it more interesting and colourful.
Of course, I think my rules are, that I just use the supplied colours and stick to the printed outlines and numbers – but yes, it could look like a Fauve work!
Oh the palette was definitely down the bottom as I remember. I loved painting by numbers. I expect an update on this every day now.
Ah, those were the days! It was real smelly oil paint back then – just acrylic now!
Don’t know when I’ll make a start on it – I’m so, oh, what’s the word?, er… lackadaisical…
tubes, there were wonderful tubes, prussian blue I loved, oh, don’t get me started!
What? Tubes with Painting by Numbers? The one I had had little plastic pots…
You could be right. I think there wasn’t enough paint in the PBN set so I used my artists oil paint box to make up the difference. Mmmm, I loved those paint tubes though, burnt ochre, something sienna, something amber, cerulean blue. Don’t those colours sound so seductive?
Oh yes! I love the sound of them too, Cobalt Blue, Viridian, French Ultramarine, Crimson Alizarin, Titanium White, Flake White… ah, I can smell them as I type… seductive indeed!
Please, don’t mention viridian, you wicked tempter.
Viridian, Viridian, Viridian! So there!…