Here’s the wash (under-painting) for my first-ever oil painting! I didn’t have time to finish it and i realize the values are off, but i’m still proud of it.
This will become a more fleshed-out monochromatic painting next week. I’m really enjoying the painting class. It’s really different from dry media, which stay exactly where you put them (except for smearing) and are difficult to remove if you get it too dark. Oil paint stays wet and can be pushed around and blended. It’s way fun!
I’m re-building my collection of creative works, since almost everything i made before got lost. And this time i’m going to photograph EVERYTHING.
Sorry, that’s what one professor or another used to call writing down or drawing whatever comes to mind without editing or censoring it. That’s what i plan to do now. Sorta.
The photo is of my new Paperwhites which Nathan bought for me a few days ago, for no particular reason. They’re lovely and still have their bulbs, but they get top-heavy when in bloom and fall over and stand back up again regularly. It’s quite beyond me.
Our oil painting class began last night. We’d been making bets with each other about the sex, age, and crankiness of the teacher, judging solely by the provided list of required materials. We figured male, middle-aged, fairly strict and moderately arrogant – or maybe that was just my bet. Turns out i was totally off – she’s young and quite nice. I’m definitely excited to start learning about painting technique, because although i do pretty well with dry media of all sorts, i’m clueless about paint.
Obama is President, hooray!!
Not a lot else to report. It’s still cold. I haven’t begun packing yet. I still have my job… I think. I still see English errors everywhere, but I’m feeling less enthusiastic about blogging them, because i see people whom i know damn well read my blog continuing to make the same mistakes. It’s good for a giggle at best, but nobody’s actually learning from me. And maybe that’s okay and it’s still worth doing, i’m just not sure yet.
So i’m at the grocery store the other day and i need to pick up some orange juice. I always get Tropicana pulp-free plus calcium & vitamin D in a half-gallon carton. I’m looking and i see other Tropicanas – lots of pulp, some pulp, probably something with fewer calories than normal – but not the one i prefer. Then i realize, that goofy-looking carton is my orange juice! It is, actually, Tropicana, and it’s the type i buy religiously.
This is a really bad redesign, if you ask me, for several reasons:
- The brand name is flat color, it’s smaller than it used to be, and it’s VERTICAL. I didn’t notice it for quite some time.
- It’s not as easy to tell what kind of oj you’re getting, ’cause it’s labeled in a tiny strip up at the top of the carton
- That text running vertically along the entire carton…? Who’s going to put her head on sideways for five minutes to read that?
- It just looks nothing like what it used to. It’s not recognizable.
Photo found on TheDieline.com – check out their post about the redesign
I’ve been complaining a lot lately about packaging redesigns – but seriously, what are these companies thinking? At least Tropicana’s new package isn’t as bad as the Sierra Mist bottle, though.
This isn’t common English misuse so much as Engrish, but it’s still fun. My friend Calee snapped this photo over in the Drake neighborhood. I’d gone by this place before, but never noticed all the wonderful mistakes in their signage.
We got our lovely loft!! We’ll be moving in March, so get your address books ready. I’ll have more personal business to blog about when all that happens, sorry about all the English stuff and everything. I’m planning to move all of that to a new blog eventually, but first i have to design and build it. So that could take a while.
Come on – what else would you expect from an Adamo?? 
(CC) BrianSolis. www.briansolis.com.
This is the first photo of the Dell Adamo. It’s thinner than the Macbook Air. It comes in black and “white” (it looks more like silver to me). Sleek, sexy – what more could a devout PC user want?
(…How about MY NAME BACK? PLS.)