I have begun using oil paint (again)

I suppose with age comes the ability to become patient. The time oil paint takes to dry is no longer a bothersome thing, the richness of the colour is worth the lack of speed, and the wait but…

Tubes of oil paint by 35mm_photographs

I can’t believe how much oil paints cost – I’m going to have to charge for my paintings by the square inch (or centimeter) from now on.

The photograph above was taken with a Pentax K1000 35mm film camera in the studio of West Buckland School in the 150 building – September 2012. Tubes of oil paint, a photo by 35mm_photographs on Flickr.

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'Death by Sushi' Fish can kill me. When I was very small (maybe 3 or 4 years old) my grandfather, who lost the sight of one eye from a bullet fired by a German sniper (fortunately not a very good one) during the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, wiped my face with the corner of his apron, an apron he had used to wipe his filleting knife on. He was a grocery shopkeeper who specialized in wet fish.