Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We had an option on masonite or canvas. In four years of art classes I never heard a brand name ever mentioned on anything. I'm sure though someone who is a painter uses a certain kind of brush probably all from the same company and he knows what that company is. I'm not sure our teachers told the art store in Clayton which stuff to get I kinda doubt it. I think from what I know about it calligraphers are more particular about a brush than an art painter. As in I think they make their own brushes out of a stick of bamboo. I used a knife instead of a brush. And acrylics. What ever brushed I owned fell by the wayside real fast. I just could not used them. The best thing I was good at media wise was those Pastel sticks. And oil pastels. I made stuff which really looked like art with those things on paper. Not so good with acrylics and the knife. I did a lot of print making processes. One of them took place in the darkroom. The only oil paints I ever touched as Marshall Oils for hand coloring photographs. You rub it in with cotton. I got my first kit when I was 9. Had to wait a few years before I got my darkroom. Finally one day somebody told me I didn't have to color every print I made in my darkroom as soon as it was dry. I kind of thought that was part of the deal. But I would think a thing like that. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:34:17 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new > equipment > announcements and reviews... > > Mark, > > The reason you bought what they had at the art store is that around a > University, they had what the art teachers asked them to stock. > > Maybe not but a couple canvas choices, but after all, a kind teacher would > make you work on Masonite until you deserved canvas. I never got past > Masonite, but then neither did Clementine Hunter, and her stuff brings big > bux. > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> I studded painting with Eisner a name guy at Washington university in St. >> Louis in the mid 1970's. No one knew who made the canvas they were using >> or >> the name of their paint brush or knife. We just went to the art store and >> got what they had. I don't think there was a choice on the canvas. One big >> roll. >> You had a choice of natural bristle or polyester bristle. >> Oil or acrylic. I painted on cut in half sheets of masonite as did many in >> the class. 4x4 ft square. Hard to hitchhike home with on Big Bend >> Boulevard. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >>> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:59:15 -0400 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new >> equipment >>> announcements and reviews... >>> >>> They didn't talk to YOU about it. Doesn't mean they didn't talk to each >>> other. >>> >>> -- >>> Chris Crawford >>> Fine Art Photography >>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>> 260-437-8990 >>> >>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >>> >>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >>> Become a fan on Facebook >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8/26/12 7:56 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >>> >>>> My artist friends never talked about comparative canvases or brushes. >>>> Never. They went to the art store and bought what was being sold. >>>> >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> Photography >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> >>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:42:14 -0400 >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new >>>>> equipment >>>>> announcements and reviews... >>>>> >>>>> That silly meme has been done before, and it is false. Woodworkers do >>>>> have >>>>> forums where people are just as passionate about hammers and bandsaws >> as >>>>> photographers are about our equipment. I'm a professional artist; I >>>>> spend >>>>> a lot of time with painters and printmakers and they care deeply about >>>>> quality of brushes, paints, different types of canvas, arguments about >>>>> copper vs zinc for etching plates, etc. >>>>> >>>>> The plain fact is that artists and craftsmen of all types do care about >>>>> their tools of the trade. I don't understand why that bothers so many >>>>> photographers. Its dumb, and they just need to get over it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Chris Crawford >>>>> Fine Art Photography >>>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>>>> 260-437-8990 >>>>> >>>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >>>>> >>>>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >>>>> >>>>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >>>>> Become a fan on Facebook >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 8/26/12 7:35 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge at mac.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com >>>>>> >>>>>> Perfect. >>>>>> >>>>>> Adam >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information