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).
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33 comments:

  1. Billy GuffeySeptember 10, 2010 at 7:19 AM

    turps?

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  2. Thea SchultheissSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:22 AM

    Something to paint on?!

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  3. Rebecca.Yanovskaya.September 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM

    Missing a white :(

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  4. Ernest Friedman-HillSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:35 AM

    Pencil?

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  5. DThompson55September 10, 2010 at 7:38 AM

    Rag

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  6. Alejandro MartinezSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:41 AM

    Solvent ?

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  7. Tom VdWSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    White paint?

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  8. Tom VdWSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:47 AM

    woops, missed the permalba. I have no clue to what would be the gamestopper.

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  9. UnknownSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:54 AM

    clean cloth or... inspiration ))

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  10. BoldheadstudioSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    the painting medium?

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:59 AM

    I've made a checklist of items I need for painting on the road; couldn't manage without it.

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  12. Chris JouanSeptember 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM

    a palette perhaps?

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  13. James GurneySeptember 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM

    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!

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  14. UnknownSeptember 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM

    The monkey!?

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  15. Ken SwinsonSeptember 10, 2010 at 8:48 AM

    sorry about your bad luck, but I really enjoyed the peek in your paint box :)

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  16. jimserrettstudioSeptember 10, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    I could not get past what the screwdrivers are for.

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  17. Rochelle KrauseSeptember 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM

    JIm, I'm with you on the screwdrivers! :)

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  18. Erik BongersSeptember 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM

    Yes...what's with the screwdrivers?

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  19. BoldheadstudioSeptember 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM

    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

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  20. jeffSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    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.

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  21. XladeSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:35 AM

    I'm seeing a lack of Turpentine and a lack of white...

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  22. SmurfswackerSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    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.

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  23. UnknownSeptember 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM

    AW SNAP! I hate when I do that. Did you have to paint a nocturne?

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  24. James GurneySeptember 10, 2010 at 3:11 PM

    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.

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  25. Jason Daniel Jackson Fine ArtSeptember 10, 2010 at 3:18 PM

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  26. UnknownSeptember 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    Rabid moose?

    in the uk we would be lucky to get a petulant cow

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  27. robhSeptember 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM

    thinner?

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  28. goat89September 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    HAHA! They were all watercolorists? :D You sir, are one of the few, the proud. ;)
    Hope you had fun there! ><

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  29. Thomas Jefferson KittsSeptember 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM

    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

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  30. Karin CorbinSeptember 10, 2010 at 7:51 PM

    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?

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  31. Matthew GauvinSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:05 PM

    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!

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  32. DarooSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM

    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.

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  33. James GurneySeptember 11, 2010 at 3:19 AM

    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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