07-31-2010, 08:54 PM
O.K. ... now there's nothing after me here when I start.
First and foremost ...Friggin' AWEsome!!!!!
Next, the "poking" is called "stippling" and there is actually a stipple brush - it's round but has short stiff bristles. I have a couple in my taboret next to my drawing board ... they're escapees from a class I took on Printmaking sophomore year. Oh, and BTW... on a scrap piece of material, try running your thumb across the end of the bristles like on a toothbrush ... another stippling method, not quite as controlled, but effective, nonetheless.
And a question ... what brand of colored pencils are they ... they look to be sort of waxy ... are they? I'm sure they're not Veri-thins and they don't look like PrismaColor, but I'm having a tough time identifying them.
The spiral steel tubes are an incredible manufacturing process ... I got to witness it a number of years back. The sheet steel feeds through rollers which wrap it around a mandrel while a mechanical (robotic) welder knits the edges together as the seam passes by. So cool!
And when it comes to rain ... I took this from my truck in my driveway, the day I got the photos of those colorful pipes that I gathered for you ... I waited in my truck for 45 minutes for this "Scattered Shower" to pass before giving up and taking a standing up bath with my clothes on!
![[Image: AnAfternoonShower-smalledit.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Images%20of%20Florida/AnAfternoonShower-smalledit.jpg)
First and foremost ...Friggin' AWEsome!!!!!
Next, the "poking" is called "stippling" and there is actually a stipple brush - it's round but has short stiff bristles. I have a couple in my taboret next to my drawing board ... they're escapees from a class I took on Printmaking sophomore year. Oh, and BTW... on a scrap piece of material, try running your thumb across the end of the bristles like on a toothbrush ... another stippling method, not quite as controlled, but effective, nonetheless.
And a question ... what brand of colored pencils are they ... they look to be sort of waxy ... are they? I'm sure they're not Veri-thins and they don't look like PrismaColor, but I'm having a tough time identifying them.
The spiral steel tubes are an incredible manufacturing process ... I got to witness it a number of years back. The sheet steel feeds through rollers which wrap it around a mandrel while a mechanical (robotic) welder knits the edges together as the seam passes by. So cool!
And when it comes to rain ... I took this from my truck in my driveway, the day I got the photos of those colorful pipes that I gathered for you ... I waited in my truck for 45 minutes for this "Scattered Shower" to pass before giving up and taking a standing up bath with my clothes on!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln