Don't you Hate it When ...

[MurrayG]

Don't you Hate it when... Sometimes I have one of those moments at ANY stage of my creative process. But I will kick of with these couple of recent "moments" when the air turned blue.....
I hate when I put a painting on it's board, up on my easel to check something etc and the board slips off the clamp step onto the shelf crushing one or more pastels to powder..... Or, a stick rolls off onto the floor and the soft Sennelier shatters to a million pieces..... Just saying.

 

[Artyczar]

Don't you hate it when you are fairly positive that your oil painting is surface-dry and you attempt to touch it to make sure, but then you leave a big fingerprint in the paint? (Doh!)

 

[Enyaw]

when your knife or brush has a tinge of pthalo blue on it that you did not see and you plop it into your white ...

 

[MurrayG]

Oh yes, done both of those, with the same "air turning blue" as my Dad used to say.

 

[CaliAnn]

Don't you hate it when that glass of water you just gulped down, is actually the glass of water you rinsed your paint brush in?

 

[Kyle Martin]

Sennelier pastels are such a treat. However, I feel your pain when the little clouds crush to dust.
I had a recent problem with pastels, the huge Blick store in Chicago changes location, and they no longer carry all of the sticks.
So when I went there with my list of needed pastels, they didn't have half of them in stock.

 

[Kyle Martin]

Don't you hate it when that glass of water you just gulped down, is actually the glass of water you rinsed your paint brush in?

Yes! And to think the impressionists used to sweeten their coffee with lead white.

 

[CaliAnn]

And to think the impressionists used to sweeten their coffee with lead white

I sweeten my coffee with alcohol

 

[Enyaw]

I hold the coffee and it's sweet

 

[Artyczar]

Don't you hate it when that glass of water you just gulped down, is actually the glass of water you rinsed your paint brush in?

Or you dip your brush into your coffee! I have done that many times.

 

[CaliAnn]

Or you dip your brush into your coffee! I have done that many times.

me too! And being the sicko I am, I will still drink the coffee ... maybe it's the alcohol .....

 

[Artyczar]

I usually do it when I'm working with watercolors, so depending on the color or how much paint was on the brush, I'll still drink it too. The alcohol is a good solution. I'll keep some Baily's nearby or something. (YUM!)

 

[MurrayG]

Don't you Hate it when you are finished and happy with the result and someone says... Hmm its very purple (or blue, brown, red or whatever... ). Know what I mean?

 

[snoball]

When you are making last minute details on a mostly dry painting and you get the side of your hand in fresh paint and smear it on finished paint?

 

[Artyczar]

When you are making last minute details on a mostly dry painting and you get the side of your hand in fresh paint and smear it on finished paint?

Exactly!!! I hate that!

 

[Artyczar]

Don't you Hate it when you are finished and happy with the result and someone says... Hmm its very purple (or blue, brown, red or whatever... ). Know what I mean?

There's always some dummy trying to ruin things, right?

 

[Enyaw]

There's always some dummy trying to ruin things, right?

yea ... like (true story) here. I was at a gallery trying to get in the door and the owner said to me something that went like this. You know you have no talent. Look at the painting over there. That's talent. You see how they got purple to act as a shadow. Man that is good. I tried to an artist but I didn't have it either so I opened up a gallery. Well, sorry I couldn't help you but you just don't have it.
Now don't you hate that when something similar happens to you?

 

[MurrayG]

Don't you Hate when you are out with some watercolour tubes to paint outdoors .... You are squeezing the little expensive tube of colour to get the most out of it. Out comes some media and no colour ... Or worse, you realize that it's coming out of a hole in the other end cos it's been mangled so much !!!

 

[CaliAnn]

Don't you hate it when you put on your favorite jeans, only to find that they shrunk .... only they didn't shrink ....? Not art related, but I still HATE that!

 

[Enyaw]

... when you are picking up left over paint and you pick up your patch of white: only when the knife puts in upside down on your wax paper do your realize you forgot to clean you knife from the last wipe ....