Brett

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Be cool yall

Brett

Then I ran into Flash and Action Script: SHIT,I though, this will take me two years to get to the point where I can utilize these out of hand codes and here I am, an Artist, I belong behind the easel or my Nikons. So in that case I paid a kid just out of 4 years of school to do the databases and setting up the ability to  pay with pay pal for clients to order stuff. He did a half ass job. but it has worked to a point..

The biggest problem I have is tat I need to keep fresh current work up on the site. The way he set it up, I have no friggin clue how to do this. Since then, the kid has bloomed and is charging 10 times what he was charging, I hold no animosity, I'm glad he hit it big, he is a nice guy and I wish him well. Thats life.....WHAT THE F___ TO DO

I Got hammered one night and bought a group of domains, figuring that I would use one for a site using Go Daddys WebSite Tonight, a site kind of like for idiots like me with training wheels. I have gotten comfortable and have a site ready to go and just added a shopping cart which is going to steel time from the studio while I get it digested. Give me a month and you will be able to check it out, perhaps even sooner if I decide to publish it before it is finished so you can feed back to me what you don't like about it etc. Being an artist I am pretty thick skinned and take criticism well, as long as it is constructive and you give me reasons and perhaps ways to make it a more cohesive, flowing site. So blast away.

Hopefully this way I will be able to change out my offerings which are the latest. There will be a direct link to Pay Pal. I will be urging you to buy Limited Edition Gliclee prints rather than Originals, It is easier for both of us if you get it Framed. I can keep the cost down, set the limit to 300 prints, then sell the Original. I can frame, but keep in mind that I don't have more than 4 years experience framing professionally, and the shipping for you will sky rocket. 

A lot of folks think Giclee is a Type of printer. It Used to be that only the old messy Iris printers with their positive charged "substrate" and the negative charged ink, (and messy as a pig in a wallow) were deemed worthy of the title Giclee.  But NO MORE. With the leaps and bounds of Epson's print heads, together with the fast growing market of absolutely archival, Top Quality papers available today offered by companies like Museo, Inova, Crane,(who makes the rag we print our money on solely.) and my favorite Magiclee. Museums have opted to accept  as Giclee, any cmyk print on acid free substrate printed on a quality large format pigment or solvent based printer:usually Epson. I use an Epson 7880 the best Model , in my opinion they make..

Here is what Wikipedia lists under glicee;

Wish this bonehead luck folks, I will include a link to this blog from Art Is A Verb. net

Keep your brushes wet, and your shutters doing what they do best.

Be kind to each other,

Brett "Whistle Pig"

I used to take care of my best friend, my mom, before she stroked out in 2008. I would come into the living room after painting and she would look at me and say: "Well butt head....Did you get any paint on the canvas?" Damn I miss Pat 

If you keep up with my sporadic entries, which I apologize for my friends,  I have some items and techniques that I KNOW will assist you in your efforts to assist your creative efforts to shine. Lets start with Painting first.

I have been blown away by Golden OPEN acrylics. After Mom went to the other side, I was going through her stuff in the kitchen. I found a lot of things that helped me in my painting studio. The killer find was a Deviled Egg storage/server rig made by Tupperware. Now if she were here knowing I was using it as a paint storage system she would burn my butt. However This thing is fabulous built as if it were made just for keeping Acrylic paints viable and smooth. It consists of one 12" x 12" 2" deep base, into which two trays with 8 half egg shaped scoops molded into two separate trays that can be lifted out. Water can be placed into the bottom tray 1/4-3/8" deep to add humidity. (Just keep it level). The last piece is a sealing top that can be burped and is air tight. I have never had any tray of OPEN Acrylics show even a hint of drying out, nor have I had a hint of mold. I scour garage sales for more of these units because new from Rubbermaid, they are pricey. but they carry the WP stamp of approval. They would even work for water colors but I have not tried it. Note: if you use only Golden Open paint as well as the Slow Oil mixed in I will eat a june bug on top of Mount Blanc  if you find my words to be false. of course you must provide the travel expenses..WP

Photography:

After experiencing a 18-20' encounter with gravity last year, I crushed my knee and right elbow, so hand holding big lenses was as stupid as hanging art when you are 3 sheets to the wind. My Manfroto was only 15 ys. old but since it was built like a tank was usable but still outdated and better used as a weapon. Being a member of NAPP I saw a lot of ads for Really Great Stuff. so I ordered the large size, which now I think I could have gotten away with the series 2 size. The tripod itself is a masterpiece, the plate and quick release ball head is the most innovative thought out system I have ever seen. You can place the camera in any configuration you want for the shot you need . There is a camera plate that allows you to take portrait shots with out hanging $50,000 of gear out to the side. With this system the plate is always keeping the expensive lens and camera over the center of gravity.  <Reallygreatstuff.com> ask for a catalog, they have every type of pro accessories you could think of. Including a macro lighting system for Nikon and Canon which is obscenely cool and every single part if gear I have seen myself is so well designed and machined, there is no fumbling with awkward designs that really aren't worth sh**T. They have new stuff coming out every day, like a gimbal set that keeps piano shots in line with the center so as you offset the lens to the left you counter the problem of stitching by keeping the camera centered by offsetting it in the opposite direction and visa versa. Now I can't tell you I know what the hell that means but it sure works after looking at the result they show in the catalog.

This stuff is really great, but it is also really expensive, but even though I could have gotten away with the smaller size, I am a bit gun shy after having my old Camera with a brand new 70-200 fall over to the side as I was setting up the shot. My heart jumped into my mouth as I looked back and saw the tripod beginning to move to the side, but I got there just in time to see my best lens take a killer hit upon a rock. 

USE THE SAND BAG HOOKS IF YOU ARE HANGING TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT IN THE BREEZE, AND BUY THE I FUC----KED UP INS. WHEN YOU BUY YOUR GEAR. I CAME OUT WITH ONLY A $500 DEDUCTABLE. 

I'M PUTTING TOGETHER A NEW SITE OTHER THAN THE DATED BTURNERARTIST.NET AND AM WORKING ON A SITE DOMAIN CALLED ARTISAVERB.NET IT DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH I TAKE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO THE SHOPPING CART SO LOOK FOR IT , IT WILL HAVE ONLY THE LATEST WORK AND WILLL BE EASY TO UNDERSTAND. I ALSO SPECIALIZE IN ART REPODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY, AND HAVE TWO LARGE FORMAT PRINTERS ONE OF WHICH IS A 7880 WHICH IS THE NICEST PRINTER I HAVE RUN ACROSS AND WILL GET YOU PRINTS ON THE BEST PAPER I FIND FOR MUCH LESS THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE.  SPREAD IT AROUND YOU FRIENDS BEFORE THE HOSPITAL PUT ON THE GLOVES AND TELLS ME TO BEND OVER FOR THE BILLS I INCURRED WHEN I SHATTERERED MY KNEE LIKE AN IDIOT.

WP

"Every breath I take" has been a real, serious BITCH....."wanna buy a bike cheap?"  However-: my dilemma, here and now as I lol around in narcosis from the dreaded pain pills, is: What media can I gear into without a lot of reaching and pain?  The answer?: Derwent's Graphiteintense and Derwents Ink Intencese. Both are pencils, (apply them lightly) and after a spread wet them dowm with your nicesest Sable brushes.

After placing a composition upon a block of 140# Arches I soon was going for my regular D.S. Water colors to add cool effects. They are way better than the pills and looking at the ceiling, like a babbling junkie on training wheels, and these pencils are adept,(esspecially the Graphite Intence type, they give your water color a subdued look of an underpainting, which gives me a will to keep my W/C's all from becoming the "Let's see who can make their W/C the most blown out, everyday roadside Saturation overkill that is a very cool technique.....CHECK THEM OUT BRO AND SISTERS...FOR THERE LIE THE MAIN VIRTUE......;ah shit, never mind. They are a good deal though. I promise I will try to never steer you wrong, just remember in 75% or more of my post's I am explaining how I bent my bones, so take that shit into consideration.

If you ever read where I advise doing murals on the side of a two story wall in some city scape, I think you would be better off passing. However if I tell you Murals are painted trough the shoulder rather than through the wrist, that might actually be safe, but as far as how to rig the block and tackle, please take other, more sane peoples advice.  Especially those not on pain pills from their last mishap .

LOVE TO YOU ALL, BE COOL TO EACH OTHER. LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AND ALL THAT SHIT (JUST KIDDING)

WE CAN BE JUDGED, AS A SOCIETY ON HOW WELL WE ALL AS A WHOLE TREAT THE LOWEST MEMBERS, WHICH IN ITSELF, (THE STATEMENT) SEEMS KINDA SCREWEY TO ME

BUT THEN I AM CUDDLED IN THE ARMS OF MORPHIOUS....THIS IS ALL A DREAM

BRETT, YOUR FRIEND

BREATH MY FREIND, AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED

BRETT

THIS HERE PIECE IS ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE I HAVE HADE WITH PAPERS, SPECIFICALLY FINE ART MATTE PAPERS OF THE HIGH END OF THE PRICE LIST AND OF THE COLOR GAMBIT. 

INOVA AND WHO EVER MAKES THEM ARE SOME SWEET PAPERS, ESPECIALLY THE SMOOTH VELVITY TYPE TEXTURE. FOR EXAMPLE INOVA'S  "MUSEO MAX 365 gsm" WHICH CRANE USED TO MAKE I BELIEVE IS SUPERB. IT TAKES SOME WRANGLING TO GET THE ROLLED VERSION TO BEHAVE, ESPECIALLY THE LONGER THE WIDTH. THAT IS WHY I GO FOR THE 17"X 22" CUT SHEET STOCK. 

THIS PAPER IS SO DERNED THICK THAT IT WILL DAMNED NEAR STAND STRAIGHT WHEN HELD HORIZONTAL.

THE BEST PART IS HOW THE VELVETY SURFACE TAKES YOUR INK. AS ALWAYS I WOULD USE A "COLOR MUNKI" FOR CALIBRATION AS I DO FOR EVERY PAPER I HAVE ( SEE THE POST ABOUT THE FABULOUS COLOR MUNKI IN A EARLIER POST. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED.

I CAN ONLY ADD THAT NOT ONLY WILL YOU BECOME IN LOVE WITH THE WAY YOUR RESULTING PRINTS SPIT OUT ON MUSEO MAX, THE WAY IT FLAWLESSLY TAKES BLACK AND MAKES IT SMOOTH AS VELVET,

IF YOU HURRY I THINK IT SUPPLIES HAS A SALE ON THE STUFF AS WE SPEAK.

I'VE TRIED MUSEO'S TEXTURED OFFERINGS BUT WAS NOT AS NEAR AS IMPRESSED WITH THE SMOOTH STUFF.

LOOK, I KNOW I DON'T WRITE WORTH A RATS AS BUT SOME TIMES I GET THE IDEA ACROSS... EH?

YOUR BUDDY AND FELLOW ARTIST, BT

KEEP EM WET...

allays ready for a great time

Brett I'm hip to do it bros