Paint Drying

[Vero]

What do you do whilst you're waiting for your paint to dry?

I have nothing to do now so I'm going to ask this fantastic question... sure most people's paint probably dries when they're working somewhere else for real money... hmmm... any ideas?

[Arabella]

Mostly clean the house.
But loafing, dorking around on the internet and reading magazines are up there.

[Vero]

I've already done that, those were first on my list, and I can't read anymore - my focus has gone... I might, just might buy one of those hollywood celebrity magazines then do a collage.... hmmm, otherwise I'm thinking beer and marijuana wit some music... or sightseeing... there's always the open university, I might do a philosophy degree, now there's a good idea... although October's a long way off... I might have to re-wet the paint first...

that's my impressionist version of dorking around

[Joshua Burton]

While paint is drying? Well... sculpt, sketch, take photographs, learn photoshop, hit the library, or... find 15 different ways to make someone outside of your house aware of your existence without being seen.

Tired, sleep, byee.

[Temperlyne]

If the paint is still wet when I have time for a next session of painting I count myself lucky... But when I finally finish a piece it is annoying to wait for the paint to dry so I can digitise the image. So usually I don't wait at all.
BTW I think my artisan oils dry quicker than normal oils because I mix it with acrylics and water.

[jlof]

I usually continue working on a another painting.

[Mad Bob]

Depends.

Although acrylic dries fast, sometimes you have to let it stand and dry out thoroughly as it will darken - if the paint has been plastered on thickly, this can mean overnight. IN WHICH CASE.....................

[1] Make coffee

[2] Check email etc

[3] Again, depends. If the painting's doing what I'd hoped it would, no problem and I know exactly where I'm going. If it's going wrong somehow, then I prefer to think about something else for a while and let my subconscious deal with it. In either case, I usually play Wolfenstein 3d, sometimes in competition with junior, and usually imagining that the bad bastards are people I don't like as I plaster them up the wall. Sod the ethics, it's good psychology.

[Vero]

I decided in the end to take up drum and bass, the results can be heard here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemus ... dID=540359
try listening to sweet, duoyoed or laph, those are the recent ones I did while the paint dried... fairly boring/reptetive stuff to be honest... never mind, the painting seems to have dried anyway... I also went on a tour of the local gallery listings, found an exhibition of some nice sewing and some other fairly average stuff...

[adam@redeye]

What do you do whilst you're waiting for your paint to dry?

I have nothing to do now so I'm going to ask this fantastic question... sure most people's paint probably dries when they're working somewhere else for real money... hmmm... any ideas?

Go to the pub

[Mad Bob]

That's a good one, Adam. I used to get some of my best ideas in the pub.

[Vero]

Alcohol is a fatastic inspiration, it is a shame as I see it that many of the good old pubs are being replaced by fancy modern bars, the pub is a very 'english' establishment, it's antique classy charm seems to be lost in the new era of Sky TV, chips and alcopops. Must say I tend to prefer gin and tonics in lovely gardens though - too much noise in the pub... maybe someone should get a job in a fancy new bar, then take it over with old style stuffed deers and conga drums in place of dj booths... hmmm... a long-term initiative it seems... or instead of that a decent art gallery...

[Mad Bob]

You're right about what's happened to many pubs. Mine was a genwine 15th century one with huge timbers and a fireplace you could hold a party in. Original Georgian prints all over the walls, grandfather clock that had a mind of its own. And if there was ever a power cut, out would come the candles........................... *blinks away nostalgic tear*

Now another victim of progress. I don't go there any more.

[Vero]

I live close to a hubub of bar activity, so I find it hard not to venture into bars occasionally, some are nice - however they're usually pumped with o.t.t. music that is a few notches too high, a little like in Spinal Tap where the guy has notch 11 on his amp. That's one of my major gripes with bars, the loud music, it makes subtle conversation an impossibility; surely it is that that makes a good pub adventure, that and the beer at least...

Ah well, it's just a fad imo, hopefully it'll pass and maybe pubs will go for restoration as the new fashion.

[Mad Bob]

Aye, I just hope that not too many will have been damaged beyond proper restoration. In Chesham they once knocked down a 17th century half-timbered pub to build a high-rise nuclear fallout shelter which became an early Waitrose. My own pub was 100 years old before chimneys even became fashionable; it had an Elizabethan fireplace (ie a small doorless room where you burnt things in a big wrought iron basket) and some bastard stuck a TRENDY YUPPIE STOVE in it! And what they've done to the place since - all those lovely 18th century settles gone, replaced with ghastly modern chairs..........

One reason that place was popular, as you say, was that they didn't have the regulation thud machines without which some believe a pub can't possibly be a pub. That was one reason I went there, anyway. The ideas that came to me in that pub whilst sozzled in a tranquil beer stupor, coalescing from the whirling washing-machine drum of my mind like a favourite girl waving from a wild Polish Oberek, and then frantically developed on wads of paper that I always carried about with me (yes, including the novels I mentioned in another thread)..........

I'm gonna go get a drink.

[Vero]

The novels sound intriguing... I might have to start an alcoholic adventure in surreal pub writing.

[Mad Bob]

Well, the fact is that I found it easier to concentrate when whammed to just the right degree, and I've always forgotten everything unless I wrote it down fast. I've also been a lifelong sucker for history, so what better environment to concentrate in than to be surrounded by it? Hey, I just realised; that pub would have been there when they were burning the locals just up the hill for reading the Bible in English!

[Vero]

I can't believe some of the stuff that religion can be blamed for, it really does defy reason.

[Embolus]

The best thing to do while paint is drying is to fasten cement slabs to your ankles and crawl through barbed wire. Once through, smack a large beehive and rub your face against their honeycomb. See to it that your eyes are pried open with toothpicks, so that their stingers may pierce your cornea freely, and inject your oculus with fearsome venom.

One might then lick shards of glass.