@kfaythe87@GrumpyOldNurse@ArtistBristol I can condemn oppression and rape at the same time. I'd sarcastically say I'm clever like that, but apparently that is actually clever these days, and a minority position.
There are women I hate - due to the damage they have done, mostly politically rather than actually barehands violence. But while I do hate them, I don't wish they'd get raped. If rape is in any sense justifiable it'll come for all of us eventually. Same with prostitution and so forth, if any women is for sale, every woman is for sale. If any woman is a stupid bitch who should stay home then.... you see. That's the bit of Dworkin telling us to support all women I can grasp.
It's just *some* women make it hard. And I struggle. Because I either don't respect them or actively hate them or possibly both.
But rape is not justified.
If we're going to torture our enemies we need to be open and evenhanded about it. Trials and other old fashioned things. I'm not saying pain and punishment should not exist, I'm saying we need to be careful about letting stuff happend, like rape, and then saying 'she deserved it'.
@GalacticTurtle I've only been abroad once (unless you count Wales) and to me that was super exciting. Friends I was staying with one of them took me by train to the small satellite town his parents lived, for afternoon tea. His mum was wearing a very smart suit. I said how nice she looked, was she doing something fancy later. No, I was told, it was for ME, because a visitor from Scotland was A Big Deal. That had never occurred to me!
But what happens if you ask for help and the answer is no. If there is no-one to ask. The assumption is that your physical or mental illness is fixable. Guess what - not everything is. And many things that can be fixed, or at least eased, require outside help - support or treatment - that is NOT AVAILABLE. money. isolation. collapse of state systems. abuse.
You who are making this wee video with your 'here's what helped me' well that's nice you got better so quickly. That's nice you had the means around you to rest. That's nice what you had wasn't so serious that recovery was likely, rapid, and happened.
BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT FOR EVERYONE.
assuming it is, is ableist. and classist. and the rest.
Mop, cos it holds a lot of water/paint. Quill is a pointy mop. I have two, small of the type, but still very large fer me wi ma wee bits paper. Casaneo 0, and Jackson's Raven 10/0. Which are both about a round size 8. Shuge.
I don't understand them in relation to what I do. So I used one today to wet and rewet my sky. Then thought I should try big flooers and the pointy top.
Half postcard Aquafine, pinky and Spanish Moss. Cobalt turquoise and balsam. On the rest of the paper I tested my colours on. Lik ah know whit ahm daein!
It's another, 'if ye didnae know whit it wis, ye wouldnae know whit it wis', but the colours are sort of right.
Quarter Frisk (ok, for wet in wet, rewet, big skies, cotton is better, and this is good, which is just as well, I bought a big pad of it.)
Pinky (art philosophy fluorescent pink) mixed with Quinopthalone Yellow. Pthalo Blue, Jane's Grey. Mostly Pro Arte no2 bit of zero. Knockin o'er yer wee clean water jar disnae help. Pro tip fer ye's. No damage.
I think the achievement is it's done, at all. Considering.
Mind I said Holbein Lilac widnae dae fer a hen? Thought I should put brush tae the dried blobs of tube Cobalt Violent (W&N) and the Lilac fer flooers, and there wis a wee hen size gap.
Quarter Aquafine, synthetic squirrel no2 and Cotman 00. Cobalt Violent on the left, both Algae green. And a Lilac hen right enough, no a meringue.
I have spent some time watching YouTube videos of paint drying. No really. Today, specifically A. Gallo Italian handmade paint in greens and blues.
Copper Blue has white in bit otherwise pigments I have already. As I always find, if I can get a pale colour mix I can't get values. If you have the half pan convenience mix that is more likely. But pastel shades with white not really my thing.... Schmincke PY3, and PB15:3, with Cotman PG7. Down the left, them the attempt at dilute which is sort of good but the flooer is a fail. Tried a seascape with it and it's quite green (my grey there too).
Also tried PG50 aka Amazing Turquoise with the same yellow, also sort of interesting, but hard to get darker bits. And the palest, with white, of my new greens Willow. I have two whites put away PW5 and PW6, is PW4 somehow magic?
Parte seconda. It was only Thursday but that was a whole nother month! (link in first post this thread)
Here be Aquafine paper by Darker Rowney, 100% cellulose, good paper but not cotton. Used frequently even on this format of testcard, which might be better for testing paint than paper... Half postcard, Pthalo Blue, Pro Arte no2. Pthalo Turquoise for 2nd rose. Vine Leaf green.
And together with the Frisk. No cauliflowering on the Frisk. Brighter colours on the Aquafine, layers dry faster so glazing is brighter on flooers.
Glasgow, Scotland. Actual Spinster. Disabled through chronic illness. Was anon before all this stuff, hoping to make contacts with real people.GCACG Gender Critical Against Chiropteran Guano.Pronouns - No Thank You