Recent content by Bongo

Linseed oil will thin the paint and dry slowly. Safflower oil thins and dries very slowly.

I think it might be a practial joke. I noticed in the video everytime someone said it was pink - you couldn't see the screen they were looking at,.

Halfboxes are harder to find and usually cost more. My first was a used Mabef 23 (23 is the halfbox 22 is the full box) I got it off Ebay for $163. It was already 30+ years old, but in perfect condition. A few years back I treated myself to a brand new Mabef23 for $215. They go for...

I use a half-box French easel - a little lighter and more compact than the standard version. I love it and totally get what you mean about the aesthetics as well as the functionality -I've made a hundred plus plein-air paintings with them in 16"x20" size with no problem and still going strong...

They would not be communicating in Italian or Arabic but their shared innate cat "language. The same with dogs. They might have trouble understanding human commands since they would have learned under a different language -

Almost any modern camera will be okay. (but not electronic shutter with led lights) The big factor is HOW you take the photograph,.-- just some considerations: lit evenly with color balanced lights proper white balance camera centered and 90degrees to painting to reduce parallax. proper...

Sheldrake's approach of hypotheses and assertions without the rigor of testable, falsifiable evidence, along with his hubris, makes calling myself a "fan" of his an overstatement. But I should not have called him a quack either,- I think he firmly believes what he says. I do/did find some of...

You are right, of course. But a hypothesis that is not testable or falsifiable can still be "ponderable" imo. Sheldrake has both credentials and credulity that makes him dangerous for the casual layperson. I'm a skeptical layperson so I can entertain his ideas without succumbing to them.

I am a big fan of Rupert Sheldrake - one of my regrets is not being able to meet him when he gave a talk at a local bookstore many years ago. His concept of morphogenic resonance/fields seems plausible to me although lacks scientific rigor, as does his theory about esp between pets and their...

The image IS A.I. generated. The same AI image with slight variation is plastered all over the web. I don't like it when people post A.I. art and claim it's original - especially when it's so blatantly obvious, it makes me think I'm being played for a sucker and a fool. (I may be a sucker...

the "interesting" link you provided starts with Welcome to the Spark Creative Community, I'm adida. and the one posted above here starts with Welcome to the Creative Spark community I am Artedia so not quite word for word

I was being facisius. I have no reason to doubt it. But every picture or video I see on youtube - the first comments are accusing works of being "Ai" and it's becoming increasingly hard/impossible to tell. People are creating fake preliminary work to "prove" their work is original and not Ai...

A.I.

It's more like - don't copy my copy of the masters, make your own copy of the masters. The Copyright Office has consistently denied registration to works that lack “human creative input,” including images generated entirely by AI in response to a user prompt. using the same AI program, if you...