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On the left

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How can you tell if an artist was left-handed?
The most obvious clue about an artist’s handedness is in shading. Keep your left elbow still, and wave your left hand infront of your across the keyboard. What diredtion does your hand move- top-left-to-bottom right? Artists tend to do shading of large areas in that difection too ( if they are left-handed). Watch out for the times they have turned the paper round, or used cross-hatching. You’ll have to judge it and come up with a probability.
 
It’s harder with paint if brush-strokes aren’t visible in which case you’ll have to look at the composition. Left handers find it easier to draw face profiles looking to the right. So if there are more faces looking to the left, then possibly the artist is a right-hander.
Here’s a list of some:
Appel, Karel 
Crumb, R.
Dufy, Raoul 
Dürer, Albrecht
Escher, Fuseli, Henry
Holbein, the Younger, Hans
Klee, Paul
Kollwitz, Kathe
Lautrec, Toulouse 
Landseer, Sir Edwin
Leonardo da Vinci 
Michelangelo Buonarotti (ambidextrous)
Munch, Edvard
Picasso, Pablo 
Raphael 
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rubens, Peter-Paul 

Amazon are unreliable

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17°C: probably the last few days of warmth this year.
Godspeed You Black Emporer- CD arrived today, ordered on 9th Sept from Amazon. It was listed with "available 2 or 3 days" beolw the page info. The majority of the order remains undelivered. the album is very good though.
Not much artwork to declare this weekend- so below is a scan from meeting notes instead.this can go in the School Planner section eventualy.
 Half-term is almost here and so will the completion of another painting. It’s also valuable time to resume the Whitley animation. I’d like a few minutes ready by November; that will include some walk-by shots as well as some moving figures in the groundshots. Sound files are near-enough ready too.

Floaters

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warm & very windy

I have floaters. They are bits in the eye that partly obscure vision. The thin thready ones have always been there, the ones that have diffraction rings around them. the new ones are more blobby and get in the way of seeing things. Its like having mucky glasses on- at least it’s only one eye and not the dominant one.

Painted freckles today. That picture with fractured eyes now has freckels. Come to think if it, it has eyelashes and eyebrows too.

Film crew

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18°C, overcast ( mostly)
Cycle 56 miles, reduced milage because I’m expecting not to drive tomorrow.
 
Filming: Normally Mondays I go in the car and cycle the rest of the week, but a BBC film-crew are visiting to make a feature about people who have "ditched the car to work". Mrs D. has set this up, she’s a real sucker for this kind of thing, (  & now she’s tired of the idea too). I don’t see why this should affect me much, I didn’t normally use the car before anyway any hypothetical ditching. I’ve cycled to work for 15 years now. Before that I didn’t work full time. Oh well, all in the aid of quaint parochial local TV.
Mostly harmless.
3ds max
More work on that model, which I ‘ve sent to the Whitley Project. I did tell them it’s a work in progress! The mapping is better and more rounding of angualr bits now there is no poly limit. The exhust stacks was quick & effective- made in edit-poly then attached to the model, looks good too. the front turret is still the old one, and that’s going to be tricky to fix. The flying surfaces are now wired together as are parts of the undercarriage.

Formatting?

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What’s happened ? The line spacing is all different here today, some lines are clipped on the right  margin so you can’t read the end of each line. Have msn mucked about with the css for this page? I can’t see anything different in  html view.

Stepping on snails

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RAIN

 
I try not to do it, but the snails just get everywhere in this rain. Wheeling in the bins is tricky [It is wednesday after all ;-)]  they look so eager and optimistic, not to mention – simple.
 
Framed 2 more paintings today…
Fixed a leaking pipe in the bathroom…
Cycled 35 miles, erm … what else?
the Graphics tablet is still not working with everything. Photoshop doesn’t recognise it’s pressure sensitivity, photoshop 6 did tho’. It works well in Illustrator as well as Coral Painter. Maybe Adobe need to release a patch for PS 9. there is nothing on the Adobe site today. Below is a little picture made in illustrator, possibly the worst picture I have uploaded to this blog to date.
 
My my haven’t I had a lot of comments lately.

linen

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28°C;unrelenting sunshine;absent wind

Rushed out at lunch-time to buy linen clothes, it’s far too hot for cotton in work. Feel muggy now. Thunder tomorrow, bed soon.

Helical clouds

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24°C:modest winds; humidity is less arrogant now.

There is a helical cloud outside, it’s a vapour trail. There are a ridiculous number over this country, never fewer than a dozen visible from this town on a cloudless day. Anyway the helical cloud, it’s got a tight springy spiral as well as a longer lower pitch turn in it. Why doesn’t it spiral in both directions you ask? Funny how you do that- I was about to!

I’ve been meaning to get round to building a spiral staircase in 3DS Max. Spiral staircases are interesting and unusual because of their two-dimensional nature. They don’t go up or down, being as they are- flat.

Sun

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19°C, 6/10 cloud; W wind,

WOW it’s nearly half-past nine, and there is this orange blob on the horizon, just by the Cathederal. Have a look, it’s all squashy and flat along the bottom.