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Geek of all trades, master of a few. Plein air painting. Model making. Sci-Fi. Amateur Radio. Video games. Books. Astronomy. If there’s hobby I haven’t enjoyed, it’s because I haven’t tried it. https://danielholmes.art
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The children long for the mines.
Anytime the GOP brings up crap like this, I wish their base would realize just how un-pro-life they actually are.
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It is a neat place! Hard to convince people that a cactus garden can be interesting.
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My son and I just watched this a few days ago—going through the whole series. About 15 minutes in he (13) asks “did David Fincher direct music videos”? Yeah, his style is all over it. And we really enjoyed it. Much better than it is ever given credit for.
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When do keys release?
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Not just the pages but the data feeds.
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For the longest time I concentrated on mixing colors. And if I’m hiking I certainly take fewer colors. But if I have room, I find using more tube colors so much faster. Except for orange. Still haven’t found a good orange that I can mix with other colors without it getting muddy.
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I’ve been thinking about various travel setups for gouache—oil takes up too much room sometimes. Would you rather have more colors or mixing palette space?
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That’s what brought me to art—I was layering transparent airbrush paints, and they weren’t behaving how I expected. So I started studying pigments with watercolors, and one thing led to another. Now I absolutely love Plein air painting.
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It was amazing to be there in the moment. I was just watching the deer graze from my car, taking photos as they’d look around. Suddenly the geese appeared, and I started watching them. And then noticed I wasn’t the only one watching the geese.
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Rosemary’s Santa Baby.
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And I think bankrupting the small fish is the idea—the GOP enacted policies to do it to family farms decades ago, and now it’s oil companies turn. They’ll end up having to sell to the larger conglomerates.
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G1 Transformers, Macross/Robotech, Battle of the Planets/Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. There’s been reboots and sequels, but I don’t think anything captured me like those did.
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It also means gas prices will go up due to increased demand.
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Thanks. I’ve lived by those words since I first read them. Live is too short to not be interested in *everything*.
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I like the feel of this a lot.
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Artist oils work really well for that kind of weathering too.
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Almost every other hobby I’ve progressed to what I’d think of as “intermediate” quickly. But art I got stuck in “beginner syndrome” for a long time. It’s only been in the last 6-9 months that I’ve thought of myself as “not a beginner”.
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All that to say even if you have a boring scene, used it as a study for colored pencils, pastels, and charcoal, whatever. I’ve posted a few boring scenes to show you can make beauty out of anything.
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Just when I think I have a neat arrangement of light and shadow on scattered cloudy days, then the clouds shift and make it even better. Just so difficult to not chase the light in those situations.
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Bobcat Goldthwaite tells a story about being on a plane and someone says “I don’t mean to insult you, but are you Bobcat Goldthwaite?” And goes on a rant about that being an “insult”.
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I still can’t draw feet.
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I’ll never tire of Feynman’s lectures.
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I have to admit I’d kinda like to see Harlan Ellison reincarnated just to watch whatever CPU it is grow legs and curbstomp the idiots who thought of this.
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I learned how many varieties there are a few years ago. Had no idea there’s so many, and how different they are.
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I have an Embody. It’s close to 20 years old, but hasn’t changed a bit.
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I hated charcoal until I did this. I love the effect, but I hate the scratchiness, it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me. But I forced myself, and now I really enjoy using it.