Wet Canvas discussion...

Speaking of which, follow me now to another new thread where I will mention a painter's palette, that of Frederic Remington.

Thanks.

True, but what makes WC work is they arne't all on the same forum - there are separate forums for different media, different subject types, etc. That's kind of what I expected to find in the Usenet world, but for whatever reason, that never happened.

This newsgroup has the 'luxury' that it isn't sliced up (although I could think of 2 : rec.arts.fine.serious and rec.arts.fine.drivel and all the experts (you can count them on the fingers of 2 hands) are on this one place

Well, I did, browsed the site quickly and still don't know what was on Remington's palette! What was on it?

Talking of palettes, I took up the crazy idea to see what a limited palette of Cobalt Blue (PB28), Cobalt Violet (PV49) and Cobalt Yellow (aka Aureolin Yellow, PY40) can do (together with Flake White, I made about 100 ml yesterday with a dampened cloth for my mouth and nose, something I read about in WC I'm already amazed at some of the skin tones I could get with these non obvious primaries. Ofcourse I can't get any powerfull reds but I can get me Sienna's.

I hope I can get a WIP (work in progress) on WC showing the use of this cobalt/lead palette. If the painting is lousy I can always say it was only an experiment to see how such a palette works

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I debated about tossing in the web page reference. Sorry to confuse the issue. You HAVE TO READ THE BOOK I was referring to in order to get the 'meat and substance.' The web page only touches on some of the information in the book (exhibition catalog).

That's the point I was trying to make! Whether or not the people in WC are all on one forum or not, there are HUNDREDS logged on at any time of day or night - that was my point. Here in RAF I haven't a clue how many are logged on at a given moment - can't see a count of the 'lurkers' - so all we have to go on are the number of posts here. And those have always been very manageable (to read). One can pick and choose which ones to read based on either the subject line or the name of the person posting. USENET does have other art forums, but none are as active as RAF, in my experience. If anyone knows of one that is more active, tell all of us so we can have a look-see. I visit <rec.crafts.misc> on a regular basis, but it has even fewer posts each day than does RAF.

Oh, I agree. I'm just surprised it never grew big enough to make slicing it up the obvious next step, the way has happened in so many other areas of Usenet.

True, but in practice, the slicing doesn't have to be enforced by Gestapo. No one would complain if you posted on the WC oil painting forum about composition.

Of course this is all academic because we don't have enough people

You do know about scoring don't you? I know netscape doesn't have it but all other good news readers do. Before starting to post here I lurked and marked everyone who became abusive 'kill' so I just don't see many flame wars anymore. Or Mani De Li for that matter - he got pretty repetetive pretty quick.

Netscape.... does that still exist?

Well, kill filing isn't everything. Surely enough a couple found their way into my kill file but others of who I would never dream to kill file replied to their posts so I saw them anyway. Ofcourse you can kill a thread but it becomes so cumbersome after a while and you really don't want to need a tweaked newsreader like that or go through all that trouble.

Besides : some people (newbies) don't even know about newsreaders and use Google. AFAIK Google doesn't come with the possibility to kill file (although it certainly is a technical possibility). I know I sometimes used Google because I got curious

And even then : if people lurk and see all that flaming going around then they won't bother and go to WetCanvas instead were only happy people are and everybody sings Kumbaya