As a beginning illustrator and very “wet behind the ears” in 1980 when I set out at 22 to make a living right out of art school, all I knew was “fast media” ? I had only used oils in a few figure painting classes, and didn’t know the medium well. None of the instructors I had really talked much about the inherent properties of oil, drying time, block-ins, washes, etc., so Oils were a mystery to me until 2000, 20 years later, when I decided to learn them “for reals.”

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Acrylics dry fast, so that’s what I used when doing all my time-sensitive commercial work. I did a lot of airbrush work back then, so It was an obvious choice. Still, the darks in acrylic dry a step or 2 lighter, and the lights dry a bit darker by the time the water has “flashed off” ? so it was always a wait-and-see game, for me.

I decided to try a small figure painting in acrylic, using washes, glazes and scumbling to achieve an atmospheric effect. It was a bit of a trip down memory lane. For starters, some of the still-good tubes of acrylic I have are older than many of the people on my mailing list. In the picture of some tubes of mine, you can see that I dated them, sometimes, so I would know when I bought them ? never thinking I would actually have them nearly 30 years later. The tube in the middle, dated 9/85 is a sure tell. But if you’re a Pasadena local, you know that the tube to the left (Modular Color) was from an old product line that was hue and value-based, sold in metal tubes, and in this case, from “Standard Brands” paint store on Orange Grove in Pasadena ? that store long ago having changed hands. (The $1.03 price tag is certainly nostalgic!) That store tag means I bought it during my school years, 1977?1980. Yikes-squared!

And it still flows.

I put the near-full “Portrait Pink” tube in the picture to show how useless therefore largely-unused it is.

But I digress…

Stage 1 ? The drawing in pencil and then brownish acrylic

I started with a canvas glued to 1/8″ luan mahogany plywood. You can’t see it here, but the canvas has been highly textured with modeling paste, knifed? and bushed?on, coated in gesso, and sanded.

Stage 2 ?  A quick, warm/neutral wash of acrylic:

Raw Umber, Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna, greatly thinned with water

Stage 3 (2.5, really)  ? I pat it and wipe it down quickly before it dries to get rid of

the drips and brush marks.

Stage 4 ? I start re-working the darks before I completely lose my drawing,

then do another 2 or 3 washes over it.

Stage 5 ? I alternate between warm and cool washes of color.

Here, a Payne’s Gray wash has been added mostly at the top. By the way, Payne’s Gray is merely a premixed Ultramarine Blue and Ivory Black ? it says so right on the label.

Stage 6 ? A Yellow Ocher wash has been added, plus some reworking

of the lost highlights using Titanium White Gesso and water.

Burnt Sienna is used in the shadows to keep them from going too dark, for now.

Stage 7 ? Creating atmosphere with more thin washes.

Yellow Ocher and Burnt Sienna both have a slight opacity to them ? they are not true transparent colors, like Ultramarine is. Therefore, they tend to lighten. This begins to create a “foggy,” more unified look to the lights and darks. This also ties the cool highlights back to the color scheme.

Stage 8 ? I wash in some local color and re-enforce the highlights.

I want a warm-to-cool graduated background, and I want something light behind the head to bring out the profile, so I start working the cool light on the wall. I also add the red of the drape on the chair, while reinforcing the satin white.

Close-up ? A bit blurry, sorry!

Stage 9 ? Oil Wash or Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue and Raw Umber, Turp and Linseed Oil

What???

You may object to oil paint being used in an acrylic painting since one cannot paint with both. This is mostly true. The astute among you will know that you cannot paint acrylic over oil ? ever. But the reverse is not true. You can paint oil over (dried) acrylic. This is completely archival.

The really super-astute among you will realize that this last stage ? where I am leaving off for now ? is where I became frustrated with the way the acrylic painting was going, seeing the seemingly endless work ahead to get what I wanted, therefore I “changed horses in the middle of this stream.”

Goodbye acrylic, for now. This painting has plenty of potential, and it’s only going to be realized if I enjoy painting it, so… I did what I had to do. For now, I like oils better, and I believe I can finish this faster/sooner and with greater artistic freedom in oils.

Paint Smarter?

?Dave

Source: http://everydaypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/08/draped-in-satin-acrylic-figure.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.

The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe ? from Mumbai to Miami ? is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, deluges and droughts.

The 594-page report blames the scale of recent and future disasters on a combination of man-made climate change, population shifts and poverty.

In the past, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, founded in 1988 by the United Nations, has focused on the slow inexorable rise of temperatures and oceans as part of global warming. This report by the panel is the first to look at the less common but far more noticeable extreme weather changes, which lately have been costing on average about $80 billion a year in damage.

“We mostly experience weather and climate through the extreme,” said one of the report’s top editors, Chris Field, an ecologist with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. “That’s where we have the losses. That’s where we have the insurance payments. That’s where things have the potential to fall apart.

“There are lots of places that are already marginal for one reason or another,” Field said. But it’s not just poor areas: “There is disaster risk almost everywhere.”

The report specifically points to New Orleans during 2005′s Hurricane Katrina, noting that “developed countries also suffer severe disasters because of social vulnerability and inadequate disaster protection.”

In coastal areas of the United States, property damage from hurricanes and rising seas could increase by 20 percent by 2030, the report said. And in parts of Texas, the area vulnerable to storm surge could more than double by 2080.

Already U.S. insured losses from weather disasters have soared from an average of about $3 billion a year in the 1980s to about $20 billion a year in the last decade, even after adjusting for inflation, said Mark Way, director of sustainability at insurance giant Swiss Re. Last year that total rose to $35 billion, but much of that was from tornadoes, which scientists are unable to connect with global warming. U.S. insured losses are just a fraction of the overall damage from weather disasters each year.

Globally, the scientists say that some places, particularly parts of Mumbai in India, could become uninhabitable from floods, storms and rising seas. In 2005, over 24 hours nearly 3 feet of rain fell on the city, killing more than 1,000 people and causing massive damage. Roughly 2.7 million people live in areas at risk of flooding.

Other cities at lesser risk include Miami, Shanghai, Bangkok, China’s Guangzhou, Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Myanmar’s Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) and India’s Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta). The people of small island nations, such as the Maldives, may also need to abandon their homes because of rising seas and fierce storms.

“The decision about whether or not to move is achingly difficult and I think it’s one that the world community will have to face with increasing frequency in the future,” Field said in a telephone news conference Wednesday.

This report ? the summary of which was issued in November ? is unique because it emphasizes managing risks and how taking precautions can work, Field said. In fact, the panel’s report uses the word “risk” 4,387 times.

Field pointed to storm-and-flood-prone Bangladesh, an impoverished country that has learned from its past disasters. In 1970, a Category 3 tropical cyclone named Bhola killed more than 300,000 people. In 2007, the stronger cyclone Sidr killed only 4,200 people. Despite the loss of life, Bangladesh is considered a success story because it was better prepared and invested in warning and disaster prevention, Field said.

A country that was not as prepared, Myanmar, was hit with a similar sized storm in 2008, which killed 138,000 people.

The study forecasts that some tropical cyclones ? which include hurricanes in the United States ? will be stronger because of global warming. But the number of storms is not predicted to increase and may drop slightly.

Some other specific changes in severe weather that the scientists said they had the most confidence in predicting include more heat waves and record hot temperatures worldwide and increased downpours in Alaska, Canada, northern and central Europe, East Africa and north Asia,

IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri told The Associated Press that while all countries are hurt by increased climate extremes, the overwhelming majority of deaths occur in poorer, less developed places. Yet, it is wealthy nations that produce more greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, raising the issue of fairness.

Some weather extremes aren’t deadly, however. Sometimes, they are just strange.

Report co-author David Easterling of the National Climatic Data Center says this month’s U.S. heat wave, while not deadly, fits the pattern of worsening extremes. The U.S. has set nearly 6,800 high temperature records in March. Last year, the United States set a record for billion-dollar weather disasters, though many were tornadoes.

“When you start putting all these events together, the insurance claims, it’s just amazing,” Easterling said. “It’s pretty hard to deny the fact that there’s got to be some climate signal.”

Northeastern University engineering and environment professor Auroop Ganguly, who didn’t take part in writing the IPCC report, praised it and said the extreme weather it highlights “is one of the major and important types of what we would call ‘global weirding.’” It’s a phrase that some experts have been starting to use more to describe climate extremes.

Field doesn’t consider the term inaccurate, but he doesn’t use it.

“It feels to me like it might give the impression we are talking about amusing little stuff when we are, in fact, talking about events and trends with the potential to have serious impacts on large numbers of people.”

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Online:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mumbai-miami-list-big-weather-disasters-150359548.html

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I sometimes wonder if all artists get “painter’s block” or if it is just some of us unfortunate few? Anyway, I am enjoying an extended period of inspiration and motivation, although I seem stuck on the same subject matter (yes, MORE flowers.) I just finished my latest work in my Vase Series, although numbers were never my strong point and I forget where I am in the series now. So I’m calling this one “Red Sunflowers” and pretending like I didn’t want to assign a number.

I believe my vase series is about to end, however. I have been “seeing” different images in my mind that I want to translate onto canvas. 


When I first began painting, I played around with some abstract faces. Above are a couple painted several years ago that I deemed utter failures, but now that I look back on them, I can see some sort of promise there. I ended up painting over them for reasons I haven’t really explored, but now I regret that I don’t have them. Thanks to encouragement and goading from my WONDERFUL friends, I’ve decided to broaden my horizons and perhaps create a new series of faces. Maybe this time I will be better about keeping count so I can actually have an official series of 10 (or 5 or 12) or maybe I’ll just continue being a complete space cadet and lose count at 3.

On the home front today, it is Superbowl Sunday. I’m not even sure which teams are attached to Tom Brady and Eli Manning but I’m making a ginormous pot of chili and allotting myself a couple of hours on the couch to watch boys in tight pants beat the crap out of each other. And, since my sprout and I are still in training for the Nashville Country Music Half Marathon in April, I’ll have to fit in a little run today (which I should have already completed but I’ve enjoyed sitting around in my jammies, having coffee and blogging.)

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Renee

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Remember those six Jeep concepts which were supposed to be unveiled on the 31st March? Well Jeep have had a change of plan and decided to release the information a few days earlier. Out of the six, only two could really be called concepts, the other four are basically Mopar accessorised Wranglers and Cherokees. The Jeep Mighty FC concept is the show stopper though. It?s a modern day homage to the Jeep Forward Control which was built from 1956 to 1965.

To create the Mighty FC concept, Jeep?s concept engineers took a 2012 Wrangler Rubicon and repositioned the cabin over and ahead of the front axle, they then lengthened the wheelbase, and added a custom built drop-side cargo box. The cab utilizes a roof from the Mopar JK-8 conversion kit, as well as a custom-designed front clip. The Wrangler-based interior has been upgraded with bold, heavy-duty Katzkin leather and a decidedly Scottish color scheme. The cargo area is handled by a full-width, drop-side tray-style bed that measures more than eight feet in length.

Jeep haven?t just given the vehicle a new body either. Off road capability has been massively improved with the addition of Mopar?s new Portal Axle set. These offset axles offer the greatest amount of ground clearance without requiring excessive suspension lift.

That sort of off-road performance doesn?t come cheap though. And the off-the-shelf Mopar front portal axle carries an MSRP of $12,500. The rear portal axle?s MSRP is $11,000. That?s over $23,000 worth of just axles! Not including the King coil-over assemblies along with stronger Teraflex control arms and track bars, or the massive 40-inch tires mounted on custom Hutchinson 17-inch beadlock wheels.

Other Jeep Mighty FC highlights include King coil-over reservoir shocks, Hanson bumpers, a Warn 16.5 winch and a Corsa stainless steel exhaust system.

Source: Jeep

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Tommy Tallarico, founder of Video Games Live, reacts to seeing himself at the Smithsonian!

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March 18, 2012 at 4:20PM by Jim DiPeso |

Americans don’t like regulation. By a hefty margin of 12 points, a recent Pew Research Center poll showed, a majority believes that government regulation of business does more harm than good.

Except a significant majority of Americans want to strengthen environmental protection regulations or at least keep them as they are. Same for car safety and efficiency regulations. And workplace health and safety regulations. And food production and packaging regulations. And prescription drug regulations.

So, what’s a confused politician supposed to do? Attack regulations as a socialist plot or demand that the government slam its boot on the necks of industry greedheads?

What they can do is understand that most voters are not the monochromatic simpletons that ideologues on both sides of the aisle treat them as. People can have complex, measured views on public policy issues that resist easy categorization. Answers to polling questions depend mightily on how those questions are asked. Words matter. Different words in different orders elicit different emotions and trip different breakers in our mental circuits.

Here are the details from the Pew research:

Over the past two decades, the public’s general view has shifted back and forth in response to two contrary propositions: 1) Government regulation of business usually does more harm than good, and 2) Government regulation of business is necessary to protect the public interest.

Majorities in favor of the first proposition peaked at 54 percent in the mid 1990s, plunged to a low of 36 percent shortly after the turn of the present century, and now stands at 52 percent. In contrast, majorities favoring the second proposition followed an obverse track: peaking at 54 percent shortly after the turn of the present century and hitting a low of 40 percent this year, beating the low of 41 percent notched in the mid 1990s.

When you get beyond general propositions and ask about specifics, however, views shift dramatically. Different words elicit different reactions. Take environmental protection, for example. Fifty percent of those who responded to Pew’s most recent survey want to strengthen environmental regulations. Another 29 percent want to keep them as they are. Only 17 percent favor reducing environmental regulations.

To be sure, there are significant partisan differences on the environment. Compared to the overall figures, a higher percentage of Democrats want environmental rules strengthened and a higher percentage of Republicans want them reduced. Even so, the percentage of Republicans who want rollbacks is a distinct minority of 36 percent. The numbers for independents, the gatekeepers to Congress and the White House, are closest to the overall results.

Pew also has found that voters’ response to specific regulations hasn’t changed much since 1995. Large majorities support either strengthening regulations or keeping them as they are.

What are lessons to be drawn from these startling results? A reasonable conclusion is that a goodly number of Americans are generally skeptical about government, a belief deeply rooted in America’s political chromosomes. Yet when they think about tangible matters that affect their everyday lives, Americans see the value of standards that keep the air and water clean, and that keep food, drugs, cars, and workplaces safe.

Most Americans are pragmatic most of the time. If only politicians were so.

Source: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/republican/environmental-regulations-1203?src=rss

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February 19, 2012 at 9:21AM by Jim DiPeso |

It’s President’s Day weekend on an environmental blog site. What could be better than highlighting the good stewardship deeds of America’s chief executives?

Let’s run through several of the better-known accomplishments, and then turn off the beaten path.

Theodore Roosevelt … 5 national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 bird and game reservations, 150 national forests established or enlarged. Check.

Fifteen presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, have used the Antiquities Act to protect great American natural and historic treasures. Check.

Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill establishing Yellowstone National Park, America’s first. Check.

Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency, and signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act. Check.

Jimmy Carter secured passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which doubled the size of our national parks and wildlife refuge systems. Check.

Now, let’s talk about Rutherford B. Hayes. Rutherford who? Hayes was one of those obscure 19th century presidents with facial hair who left faint marks on our collective memory. History buffs will recall that Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio, entered office in 1877 following the disputed election of 1876,  whose ugliness made the 2000 affray seem like an ice cream social. The ill-mannered among Hayes’ Democratic opponents referred to our 19th president as “Rutherfraud.”

Hayes, with an earnest and upright reputation, pulled remaining federal troops out of the South, instituted civil service reforms, banned alcoholic beverages from the White House, and kept his promise to serve only one term.

Hayes also appointed Carl Schurz, a former Missouri senator and German immigrant, as his secretary of the Interior. In the days when management of extractable resources on federal lands could charitably be described as loose, Schurz laid the groundwork for establishing national forests and putting public timberlands under professional management.

In an 1889 speech, long after he had left office, Schurz recalled what passed for federal timber management when he took over at the Interior Department: “I observed the notion that the public forests were everybody’s property, to be taken and used or wasted as anybody pleased, everywhere in full operation. I observed enterprising timber thieves not merely stealing trees, but stealing whole forests. I observed hundreds of sawmills in full blast, devoted exclusively to the sawing up of timber stolen from the public lands.”

Schurz saw to the hiring of federal agents to run the thieves off public lands. He pushed unsuccessfully for legislation to withdraw federal timber lands from sale, regulate timber cutting, and impose fines and jail time for deliberately or accidentally setting forests on fire.

He warned about the consequences of resource mismanagement and depletion. In Schurz’s day, as he recalled in his 1889 speech, conservation critics sneered at learning the lessons other countries had learned the hard way about forest depletion. To his critics, Schurz said: “Let me say to you that the laws of nature are the same everywhere. Whoever violates them anywhere, must always pay the penalty. No country ever so great and rich, no nation ever so powerful, inventive and enterprising can violate them with impunity.” One can imagine Schurz’s voice thundering across time in response to the sneers of today’s arrogant anti-conservationists.

Schurz’s conservation ideas bore fruit in 1891, when the Forest Reserve Act was enacted. The new law authorized presidents to establish forest reserves on public lands. Six years later, Congress passed legislation specifying the reserves’ purposes: to protect watersheds and secure timber supplies from depletion. Between 1891 and 1901, Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley established 30 million acres of forest reserves. Theodore Roosevelt quintupled the size of what became known as the national forests system, which today, including national grasslands, covers 193 million acres.

Carl Schurz, the mostly forgotten Interior secretary for the mostly forgotten President Hayes, helped set this conservation achievement in motion.

There’s your President’s Day conservation lesson. Enjoy the weekend.

Source: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/republican/rutherford-hays-environmental-legacy-1202?src=rss

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Adding purple to the shadows, Ceramic White to the highlights.

I?ve used the Carbazole Violet to deepen the shadows of the face, then popped in a bit of Raw Umber to emphasize the darks. The beard got a treatment of whites and Raw Umber to make it feel more bristly, then I used a little Cermaic white to pop in highlights. I?ve re-worked the teeth, which are consequently a touch too bright. I?ll have to glaze over them to drop them beck into the mouth a bit more. The length of the extended arm got a glaze of Ceramic white that unified the flesh, especially after I worked a little Carbazole Violet into it in the small areas of shadow. I?ve coloured the arm and hand purple because the guy has been hanging upside down for a while ? the blood would sink downward.

I?m contemplating the next painting, which I will start pretty soon, with so little to do to complete this piece. I?ll miss working on the Hanged Man. He?s been a lot of fun.

Source: http://gildedraven.com/2012/03/4912/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4912

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Instability in Libya, Egypt and throughout the Mideast has sent gas prices well north of $3 a gallon. Try these 5 road-tested ways to save money on gas. Also check out the most fuel-efficient 2011 cars and SUVs. By Dan Shapley

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Average Gas Prices Are Only Going Up

Gasoline prices have never been higher for this time of year, as unrest continues in parts of the Mideast. The political instability key nations in the oil supply chain highlights one of the clearest reasons for investing in renewable and alternative energy supplies, including electric cars. In the longterm, shrinking supplies, increasing demand and (possibly) new climate change regulations promise, ultimately, to drive oil prices higher.

Here are five^* road-tested ways to save money on gas. Of course saving money isn’t the only goal: the more gas we save, the less pollution we create, and the less beholden we are to those who control the oil supply.

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