Recent content by Hermes2020

Thank you, Christine and Wayne. I have the same feelings about it and will pass on your thoughts.

Thank you for that, I appreciate your input.

A bit of background: I have a friend who posts selfies on social media, showing different styles of make-up and clothing. They have been approached by a person calling themselves an artist, who allegedly has been commissioned by a client to paint a portrait of someone wearing make-up. The artist...

Thank you Christine. I will enjoy exploring the sites.

I like this painting by Joyce Conlon, who is unknown to me.

I am as excited as little boy today: I want to share my discovery of Wolfgang Rihm's music, which, quite inexplicably, has been unknown to me until a few days ago. I hear echoes of Edgard Varese and Kalevi Aho in his percussive sounds, which appeal to me very much. Here is the long percussion...

I make my panels the same way, but use 16mm thick, 40mm wide strips of MDF instead of wood. I also glue two strips on the back and screw on the little brackets with rings (I don't know what they are called) that hold the hanging wire. It is easier than having to do this after the painting is...

Has anyone here experimented with acrylic-modified calcium sulphate composites? They are available under different names, such Jesmonite, from the company in the UK that invented it about 40 years ago. Other brands I know of are Acrylic One, manufactured in the Netherlands, and Material One...

Correct, also in English. Nabokov was born in Russia, but left as a young man and lived in Germany and the USA most of his life. I could never understand why he did not win a Nobel Prize, although he was nominated a few times.

I think the ability to pun and other word play types of humour are indicators of intelligence. The author Nabokov, one of my heroes, excelled at multilingual puns that work across three languages (English, French, Russian). The parallel reality world in his novel Ada has no electricity, and...

The only way I can see the correct values is to cut two holes that correspond to squares A and B in a sheet of paper and then overlay it on the image.

That is an interesting creature. Do you know what it is called, apart from mother? Good for you for rescuing her.

Yes, the brain can be deceived easily. This is still one of the best examples, where A and B are the identical shade.

Thank you for your response. The nature of my sculptural work necessitates precise parametric specifications, unlike a more expressive, direct sculptural technique. For that reason, I find that Rhino 3D is the ideal software for me in the Windows environment, since it allows me to enter precise...