All my life I have languished as a person who is suffering from ADULT ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD). At the suggestion of my physician, I filled out a short personality assessment questionnaire. It asked questions like, "Do you lose your car keys or wallet often?" and, "Do you have poor penmanship?" For just about every question, I checked the ( Read more... )

The bug finally bit me, I love to shop online. When my student aid came in, I become a proponent of therapy shopping. Maybe it is the political climate or stress from school, but here's a list of all the whacky stuff I bought ( Read more... )

There is a metal cap that fits over the paint cup of the airbrush, and if the nozzle isn't screwed on all the way it will make the cap shoot up into the air like a flipping coin. It's startling when it happens. I'm always unscrewing the nozzel so I can pinch off dried paint on the needle tip. I finally managed to get some more hours in on the mural ( Read more... )

Haven't gone back to the mural since I posted about it earlier, but I'm thinking about it right now. I'm worried I may never finish it. Like the way I don't eat the last bite of a sandwich because I don't want it to end, and leave it as an offering to the gods. The less I work on it, the more units of utility pleasure I obtain. My mural has been a ( Read more... )

The mural crisis from yesterday has been averted. Using nail polish remover, I was able to strip away yesterday's labor in vain. For you see, Createx translucent paint is thinned down, and contains very little pigmentation. When I mixed the purple, it went to mud. The bottom part became too dark with too many layers. I think I've learned that if ( Read more... )

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Today I began painting the lower bird's tail feathers. I used translucent Createx bright green and Testor's translucent Aztek emeral green, and shaded with translucent Createx deep blue. I had a lot of hic ups getting started. I thought my airbrush was getting clogged, but I didn't have the nozzle screwed on tight enough. Because of that I wasn't ( Read more... )

Have you asked? Have you decided? Are you moral and logical? Have you developed the capacity to love? Have you contributed to the world? Have you lived a life worth living ( Read more... )

Translucent airbrush paint is really going to cause some gorgeous z-axis light play in this mural. I'm going to use a 4030 reducer in a 1:3 ratio, using all translucent Createx acrylic airbrush paint. The reducer stops tip dry and enhances paint flow. At 40psi, paint will atomize creating intricate fades with full coverage. With a dual action ( Read more... )