Jun 2 2011

Palette not pallet or palate.

I use disposable palettes, you know those waxy tear off sheets.  I don’t lay out my paints in any consistent way and I placed my bird feeder where the cat to bird ratio would be the highest.  OK now that I have those things off my chest maybe I should explain.  I have a wooden palette that I made probably 20 years ago when I thought you needed to have one to be a painter but no longer use it. What I do use are the disposable ones and the main reason is that I work on more than one painting at a time and I often use different colours. I like that there is a temporary record of what I have mixed, when I come back to a painting I can mix some fresh paint right beside the old and get a good match.  The main draw back in keeping them around is they don’t stack very well.

As for the bird feeder it’s one of those ones that attaches to the glass with suction cups so there is an invisible barrier, right about cats eye level.


Jun 1 2011

Tire Swing

Taken with the Sony DSC-V3, the top image was shot at f4.0 again showing that you can get interesting bokeh under the right conditions with a small sensor.