Something was missing! It was a "gamestopper." Can you guess?---------
Addendum: The answer was white paint! (I had the turps, medium, and rag in another part of the kit).
Friday, September 10, 2010
Uh-Oh! Forgot Something!
I opened my paintbox yesterday, ready to start out in the North Bennington Plein Air Competition, when I had a horrible sinking feeling.
Something was missing! It was a "gamestopper." Can you guess?
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Addendum: The answer was white paint! (I had the turps, medium, and rag in another part of the kit).
Something was missing! It was a "gamestopper." Can you guess?---------
Addendum: The answer was white paint! (I had the turps, medium, and rag in another part of the kit).
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turps?
Something to paint on?!
Missing a white :(
Pencil?
Rag
Solvent ?
White paint?
woops, missed the permalba. I have no clue to what would be the gamestopper.
clean cloth or... inspiration ))
the painting medium?
I've made a checklist of items I need for painting on the road; couldn't manage without it.
a palette perhaps?
Rebecca and Tom, you've got it! I had to drop everything and drive to the next town to buy a tube of white.
I'm sure the painters around me would have squeezed me a blob, but they were all watercolorists!
The monkey!?
sorry about your bad luck, but I really enjoyed the peek in your paint box :)
I could not get past what the screwdrivers are for.
JIm, I'm with you on the screwdrivers! :)
Yes...what's with the screwdrivers?
mr. gurney has such a bold brush handling that he finds himself repeatedly in the need to tighten up the screws on his portable easel to prevent the nasty wobble ;P
Actually you could have used white gouache by adding a little oil to it but given most people have these tiny tubes you would have had to paint a very small painting.
I suppose if one was out somewhere that was to far to find a store you could paint a tonal sketch using the ground and one color.
I'm seeing a lack of Turpentine and a lack of white...
I remember there was a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy Sayers which took place in a St. John's Wood-style art colony. One of the key "clews" was that the victim's outdoor paintbox was missing the Flake White. Don't recall how that identified the murderer, though. Maybe he was a watercolorist.
AW SNAP! I hate when I do that. Did you have to paint a nocturne?
The screwdrivers are for attaching the offset clips in the frame for the paint-out exhibition tomorrow.
Also they could come in handy for fending off a rabid moose.
Rabid moose?
in the uk we would be lucky to get a petulant cow
thinner?
HAHA! They were all watercolorists? :D You sir, are one of the few, the proud. ;)
Hope you had fun there! ><
James:
A beer? No, kidding. I meant a white . . . Best reason to paint in a pack is, "Hey, can I have a squirt of paint?"
Off to spend a weekend up on Mt. Hood w/Greg M. (You know who, that painterly illustration guy.) Gonna force him to do a little plein air painting outside . . .
Thomas
looks like you had better remember that you use cups of turp and liquin too. I don't see them in there.
Where is that checklist that is pasted inside the lid?
Please post lots of pics from this event if you can (when you have a chance). I wasn't able to make it this time around, but I'm off in other parts of Vermont doing some plein air painting none the less!
Yes I second -- I'd love to see photos of the event.
Is that a mirror and what's it called... smoke glass? at the bottom of your paint box?
Thomas Kitts -- I'd also like to see a Manchess Plein air.
Daroo, yes, that's a Lorrain or dark mirror for helping compare relative light values. More on a previous post: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/lorrain-mirrors.html.
Thomas, Greg Manchess is a great painter, and I can't wait to see what he does outside.
Matthew, sorry to miss meeting you here, and have fun painting. I'll post more pics over the next couple days.
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