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Post by BlueAndGold on Feb 13, 2020 12:53:03 GMT
You mean, there are still people in the world who know what a T-square is? And a Speedball pen?!! Is that a model of an F-1 engine on top of the black file cabinet?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 13, 2020 12:59:43 GMT
Here is my little art corner. As I mentioned, I do almost all of my commercial work digitally, but I still like to work with traditional media just for myself if nothing else. The device hovering over the drawing table is a camera lucida, which allows me to enlarge and reduce photos and sketches. The small bookcase in the foreground holds boxes of paints, etc. The right-hand picture is from the other direction. The shelves are mostly filled with magazines and old pulps. The filing cabinet is my morgue: thousands and thousands of photos and clippings on just about every imaginable subject for reference. Interesting work area, and as I suspected well-organized.
Sometimes there's nothing quite like working on something old-school.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 13:21:43 GMT
Brilliant little corner Ron.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 13, 2020 13:34:43 GMT
You mean, there are still people in the world who know what a T-square is? And a Speedball pen?!! Is that a model of an F-1 engine on top of the black file cabinet? Oh, I even have a full set of French curves that takes up almost an entire drawer! And I still use them. That's not an F-1 engine, it's part of the translating device the Guild navigators used in David Lynch's Dune. You can see part of one of them here pbs.twimg.com/media/DCs5MWHVoAANeZj?format=jpg
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 13, 2020 13:41:11 GMT
Here is my little art corner. As I mentioned, I do almost all of my commercial work digitally, but I still like to work with traditional media just for myself if nothing else. The device hovering over the drawing table is a camera lucida, which allows me to enlarge and reduce photos and sketches. The small bookcase in the foreground holds boxes of paints, etc. The right-hand picture is from the other direction. The shelves are mostly filled with magazines and old pulps. The filing cabinet is my morgue: thousands and thousands of photos and clippings on just about every imaginable subject for reference. Interesting work area, and as I suspected well-organized.
Sometimes there's nothing quite like working on something old-school.
It only looks organized when seen from a distance. And you are right: there really is no substitute for the feel of putting paint or ink on canvas or paper.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 13, 2020 14:00:01 GMT
Interesting work area, and as I suspected well-organized.
Sometimes there's nothing quite like working on something old-school.
It only looks organized when seen from a distance. And you are right: there really is no substitute for the feel of putting paint or ink on canvas or paper. With my space my spouse would call it organized chaos as she can't find anything yet I can lay my hand on it in a heartbeat or three.
I've got three large juniper [two dead and standing the other a deadfall] that would be wonderful to work with. They lived to be 200-year-old or longer, just a matter of getting to them without receiving any broken bones.
At any rate, almost time to go play forester as I'm not quite ready to go back to lumberjack. Working without sufficient room to move is a great way to visit the E.R. without warning.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 13, 2020 21:56:59 GMT
This is the view from the same spot looking up. Essentially a 30-odd foot tall top-heavy dead tree waiting to fall, or crush anyone foolish enough to not study angles and have a clear escape-route ready before trying to fell it.
Should you have a story involving someone out in nature, this could be an element. A tree like this one could stand a few more years, fall during the next heavy rain, or come crashing down because an animal or person walked too heavy-footed near it.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 14, 2020 21:09:03 GMT
Perilous dead tree or not, those are some beautiful photos!
And, yes, I certainly can see them being used as a visual element on a cover!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 14, 2020 21:40:05 GMT
Perilous dead tree or not, those are some beautiful photos! And, yes, I certainly can see them being used as a visual element on a cover! Ron,
Knowing the risk of that tree, as long as the kids stay away [it's hard to get to] I'll likely let nature take it down for me.
That said, I did a little scouting in spots I haven't checked for a couple years and I can likely take a few more pictures [with the phone since I'm not sure which box holds the old camera] and forward them to you.
I kind of miss my yondering days, seeing places few others dared get to. Perhaps one day Their Graces will want to visit a few quiet places...
Let me know if you'd like some extra photo stock, it makes me stop to look around which some days is a good thing.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 15, 2020 13:06:33 GMT
Love to see some pix! I am always adding to my photo collection!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2020 17:59:32 GMT
I need to figure out where images from years gone by are stored, not certain which drive they're on. I'll also see what I can catch at different times of day then burn them to CD.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 15, 2020 18:04:45 GMT
I need to figure out where images from years gone by are stored, not certain which drive they're on. I'll also see what I can catch at different times of day then burn them to CD. That'd be too cool! Thanks!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2020 18:28:31 GMT
I need to figure out where images from years gone by are stored, not certain which drive they're on. I'll also see what I can catch at different times of day then burn them to CD. That'd be too cool! Thanks! If I can find enough of the images I've squirreled away the past few years it will be a cache burned to DVD.
If I had 90% of the images I captured over the last forty years from coast to coast I'd have to send a terabyte drive.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 20:02:24 GMT
That'd be too cool! Thanks! If I can find enough of the images I've squirreled away the past few years it will be a cache burned to DVD.
If I had 90% of the images I captured over the last forty years from coast to coast I'd have to send a terabyte drive.
Cameron, you can send one folder a day using www.wetransfer.com (the free version).
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 15, 2020 21:46:40 GMT
Before we moved to our current home, we lived in a house that was surrounded on three sides by woods (the fourth was water). I have sixteen zillion photos taken from walks among the trees all through the year. A lot of these have shown up as backgrounds or details in my artwork. It would be nice to get a different kind of foliage than that of the east coast!
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