Ask Eclair anything.

[Eclair]

Were you initially shocked that oil paints can be left on the pallette for weeks withought drying up?

I thought that was kinda cool when I first used them.

They go a bit manky though, I must say.  I usually don't have much left on the palette, I do it pretty thickly.  But I do love that you can go back a couple of days later and manipulate the paint a bit more.  I love layering the varnish too...you know fat over lean, so you get a really beautiful lustre on it if you take your time with each layer.

[Mr Smith]

Do you have any scannings of your work that you could post here?
Sounds like you do a great job.

I must admit I got a lot of pleasure out of popping the shell on oil paints left out, and getting to the fresh stuff underneith. Much like a pimple.

[Lucifer]

Were you initially shocked that oil paints can be left on the pallette for weeks withought drying up?

I thought that was kinda cool when I first used them.

They go a bit manky though, I must say.  I usually don't have much left on the palette, I do it pretty thickly.  But I do love that you can go back a couple of days later and manipulate the paint a bit more.  I love layering the varnish too...you know fat over lean, so you get a really beautiful lustre on it if you take your time with each layer.

"manky"!  i love that word!   

[Eclair]

Do you have any scannings of your work that you could post here?
Sounds like you do a great job.

I must admit I got a lot of pleasure out of popping the shell on oil paints left out, and getting to the fresh stuff underneith. Much like a pimple.

Ooh, pimples!  POP! 

Yes, I have some scanned.  But I've worked on them since.  Will have to take some more pics.

[Eclair]

Were you initially shocked that oil paints can be left on the pallette for weeks withought drying up?

I thought that was kinda cool when I first used them.

They go a bit manky though, I must say.  I usually don't have much left on the palette, I do it pretty thickly.  But I do love that you can go back a couple of days later and manipulate the paint a bit more.  I love layering the varnish too...you know fat over lean, so you get a really beautiful lustre on it if you take your time with each layer.

"manky"!  i love that word!   

Thanks.  It's describes a lot of things!  And I am now 169...too cool!

[Natalia Evans]

No, I go shopping with a purpose.  Smash and grab.  Although I did go out on Saturday to get some bargains and I wandered around for ages....I have to be in the zone and alone.  I never go shopping with anyone, male or female, I get to focused on what I want to look at and frustrated if I can't leave when I want to.....

such a caring and sharing person I am.

Same here. I hate waiting on someone to leave and having to leave just because the person you're with wants to. My second BF feel asleep at a bookstore while I was there for four hours. Did the same thing to my mother at a Disney store in Paris and wore her legs out from standing and I was there for two hours and only bought a pair of 101 Dalmatians socks. Considerate eh?
Then she made me wait for her to rest on a bench after I was done in there.


You have any kids? If so, how old?

No, do you?

Nope.

[Natalia Evans]

Do you read fiction too?

[Scrapheap]

I read tea leaves.

[Eclair]

Do you read fiction too?

I used to a lot when I was younger.  Now I like like true stories.  The last fiction book I read was The Da Vinci code...but really it relates back to some fact, so it's probably the reason I liked it.  The fiction book before that was The Shining by Stephen King...just because I never got around to reading it when I was younger.  Most of the fiction I read before that over the last 5 years would have been classic novels, not new ones.

[Eclair]

I read tea leaves.

How Quaint.

[SovaNu]

Were you initially shocked that oil paints can be left on the pallette for weeks withought drying up?

I thought that was kinda cool when I first used them.

i painted my first painting in a week and the oils didn't dry. couldn't have done it if the paint had dried.

[SovaNu]

But I'm really enjoying oil painting...mostly abstract...I've tried out all sizes... from miniatures to large...I have a really big piece that I'm working on at the moment.

i don't like acrylic, it sucks. i also like to paint semi-abstract and espressionistic.

do you use lots of paint or thin layers? i like to use huge globs.

[Calandale]

I wish that I knew what to wish for.

You've had 40 years...Lord help us.  I think greed for wishes to be granted is more your problem.

How about I wish for more wishes?
Even if that's all I keep wishing for.

[Calandale]

Ever read "Holy Blood Holy Grail?"

[Lucifer]

ach.  don't start me on that book.  it started all the generic, semi-conspiracy theory twaddle off.  quite interesting in itself, but spawned all the hysteria which culminated in "the da vinci code" (a book i use to teach students how NOT to write, by the way).