Painting Question
Carl Zager
Badger 250 $10 hobby special and Propel cans. When I added a model 200
(the old straight line bottom feed model) I got the old Badger 180
compressor delivering about 28 psi -- gotta be the $150 one from the
late 70's -- and passed the hobby brush down to my daughter. I was told
get a moisture lock and a pressure guage. Never did. Then a few years
ago, folks started talking about tanks. Haven't done that yet either.
I sometimes get spurts and drips but I think it's got more to do with
the consistency and age of the paint than the pressure (the 180 is a
diaphragm model). Fairly fresh Floquil, thinned at the recommended ratio
(and I have my charts at home) always gives me a smooth, even coat.
Sometimes I gotta move closer or farther away. Too close, drips; too far
away, dried pellets like sand paper. Had a lot of trouble for awhile
finding the best way to use the acrylics until I started thinning with
alcohol instead of water.
Old, leftover paint is best used for brush weathering or broad stroke
scenery colors. No amount of thinner, no amount of shaking and stirring
will get all the nasties that clog up the needle out of old paint. Write
it off and use fresh for your crucial projects.
I will probably add a small tank and a pressure gage soon. I don't think
the compressor affects the delivery that much, but I hate the constant
noise and I'm starting to think that there may be something to
delivering different types of paint:thinner ratios at different
pressures.
I think my experience and feelings are more typical of a tangental hobby
user. As soon as you get serious and start talking about the pro lines
from Badger or Pasch, and start thinking about focusing on the quality
of the product you produce, then you probably ought to be investing in
a quality piston compressor, moisture traps and regulators.
But for my hobby money, a tank is cheaper than a "silent" piston model.
I saw a small tank from Sears/Craftsman in the $15 range a while ago.
I'm still looking for that deal. can you tell I'm not in a hurry?
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had suspected that I was possibly "dated" --- but this is just too much.
Jet painting.!! Now why hadn't I thought of that? Too late now. Let
the young artistes fly.!!
And, Hey.!! -- you guys. Remember to wear your masks.!!
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LLThrasher
cyberspace because the combined knowledge on newsgroups can be truly
awesome.
I'm looking for the name of the artist who painted a specific picture.
The information I have is that it is possibly turn-of-the-century US,
possibly antebellum South, or, who knows, maybe it's a scene in Paris.
It's outdoors, in a park, a soldier with gray or white hair is reclining
on a bench, a woman in a long dress is sitting on the bench, too, and
she is wearing a hat that is quite possibly the soldier's hat. Does
this ring any bells with anyone? The person who wants to know has a
framed print. The date 1895 is on the back of it. She's afraid to
remove it from the frame because it's quite fragile, so if the painting
is signed it's way at the edge and isn't visible. I haven't seen it
myself so I can't describe the style. I've tried various art
reproduction web sites, some of them very impressive, but haven't come
across this particular painting.
Linda
BLIND 321
<< The date 1895 >>
That's thirty years after the War of Northern Aggression. What makes the
painting seem antebellum? What color is the soldier's uniform?
KS
Carl Zager
Wrong group!
Ah, well, first day of vacation!
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LLThrasher
blue
LLThrasher
Blue, like I said. She doesn't really know what the significance of the
date on the back is. Possibly it's when the painting was done, rather
than the date of the scene shown, so it might have been painted thirty
years after the war. The woman isn't in a Scarlett O'Hara hoop skirt,
just a long old-fashioned dress. I haven't seen it so that's the best
I can do right now. The fact that it was reproduced made me hope it was
well-known enough that someone would recognize it.
Linda
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> KS
Blue, like I said. >>
Well, then he's a yankee, so it's definitely not an antebellum scene. Though,
the dress the woman is wearing sounds like the straight, plain kind that were
favored by women during the war. (Southern women only wore the Scarlet O'Hara
hoop skirts when they were at parties. As one cannot sit in them, they were
quite impractical for every day wear, especially if you were planning on riding
a horse, which was a very common pastime for young ladies back then. At any
rate, by the second year of the war it was considered criminal to wear anything
ornate or frilly with so many men dying.)
Perhaps this is a depiction of a Federal soldier on leave? Those prints were
very popular up north during and right after the war because the majority of
Yankees who died in battle died on Southern land (as most of the battles were
fought down here) They were mass produced up until the turn of the century and
it was considered patriotic to have one. Generally these types of paintings
tend to be surreal and very sentimental. For instance, big flowers on the
trees, very lush looking grass, that kind of thing. The soldier will have rosy
cheeks and his eyes are very dark to indicate that he's seen the atrocities of
war first hand. The most popular prints tend to depict the soldier asking the
woman to wait for him or giving her a ring.
As an aside, prints of The Lost Son, that is to say a painting of the grave of
a Confederate soldier who died and was buried in Northern soil, were pretty
much a staple in Southern homes right up until the Depression and were second
in popularity only to Jergen's portrait of Robert E. Lee. My great-grandfather
had both of these hanging in his house: the Lee by the front door and The Lost
Son in the front parlor.
KS