Happy Birthday! April 17, 2008
Posted by Enas Yorl in Home.trackback
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to mee-eeee!
Happy Birthday to me!
I am now Old Enough to Know Better. I got toys too! I’ll show them to y’all later.
****Update**** Yay toys!
I bought some more watercolor stuff online and they just happened to arrive today. Whee! One is a really nice tripod and the other is a board designed to stretch watercolor paper without tape or staples. Just get it completely soaking wet, put it into the frame and screw it down. As the paper dries, the fibers try to shrink back to thier normal state, but the frame keeps it stretched out, so that when you paint, the paper doesn’t warp or buckle. I LOVE working on stretched paper, but don’t always have some on hand. The board and tripod were made by the same company (Guerilla) so the board is designed to pop right onto the tripod. Oh, and I also got some translucent plastic watercolor paper (Yupo) - I’ve mentioned working with it before. They’re full sized sheets too so I’m looking forward to getting some nice, big paintings. Oh, and I also ordered a bunch of new watercolor paints - high quality stuff from Daniel Smith. I’m really looking forward to those getting here.
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- Stretchy stretchy!
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- Even better together!
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- Firm footing
***Another Update***
I’m really testing the watercolor board right off. I soaked a half-sheet (15″ x 20″) of Arches 300 lb paper and screwed it in. Even wet that sucker is tight - it’s going to be an amazing surface when it’s dry. I hope those new paints get here soon.
***Yet Another Update****
I just tested the watercolor board. The paper already feels dry, and there’s an oh-so-slight-sliver of bowing in the board because the paper no longer touches it in the middle. Oh man that paper is going to be so tight. Alas, the paints are still stuck in the warehouse.
Hooray for the birthday boy!
Why thankee Weasel!
Happy birthday Enas. Don’t know if your near me, but if you passed dirt you’re catching up.
Happy Birthday bro!
*opening a beer, in celebration of Enas*
*and cause I’m thirsty, and had a beer*
*but mostly in celebration of Enas…mostly*
Thanks Kowboy & Bmac! I’m celebrating with Speyburn single malt scotch. Cheers!
Happy Birthday from the folks at Mitchieville!
Personally, I stopped having birthdays about 15 years ago—keeps me young and fresh.
Best wishes, dood!
Well, crud. Rectal-cranial inversion and I didn’t refresh the link to your page… happy belated birthday man!
Get to an age where you’re happy and just park yourself there, I say.
Cool toys. Expect to see something, I do… and you answered a question I’ve always had but never thought to ask - how the heck they kept the paper from wrinkling.
Thanks y’all! I’m gonna park in my late 30’s here and not have anymore birthdays like the Mayor.
LK, you can still paint on paper that isn’t stretched. You tape it down real good and paint until it starts buckling, then stop and hit it with a hair dryer. It mostly flattens out again. A big part of painting this way is the generous applicaton of hot air at the rght time.
There used to be a really, really and large art store in Nashville — the name of which completely escapes me now. Anyhow, way in the back, still in its carboard Winsor & Newton box, I found a small wooden version of your stretching frame. It’s beautiful. Sadly, mine doesn’t work all that great (it puckers at the corners). I usually paint on illustration board.
Hope the day is treating you right, Enas. That’s a very cool rig you got going.
HB, EY. You spring chicken, you.
Thank you Geoff & Weasel!
Illustration board eh? I might have asked you this before, but have you ever tried Clayboard?
One of the cool things about my job is that we get a paid vacation day for our BD, so I’m taking Monday off. And the weekend after that my parents are taking me out to a nice restaurant and catch the show at the Comedy Stop at the Trop.
I don’t recognize any of the comics scheduled for next week but that doesn’t mean anything. We’ve been going here for years and we saw some people before they hit it big: Roseanne Barr & Sam Kinison come to mind. My parents didn’t like Kinison, but Roseanne had us in tears. She used to be really funny.
Better a spring chicken than a sprung chicken, I always say.
Well I don’t always say that, and haven’t ever, but I should.
Happy belated Birthday, Enas!