No painting looks it’s part in the first few hours. Not on my canvases at least. It comes together a bit at a time. It doesn’t matter, because I know where I’m taking it. On the other hand, heading to a canvas and just starting to apply paint with no clear objective is neither my...
Annealing softens the copper. Then the crush washer can be reused to help seal the drain plugs of my Series 3 Land Rover. These are 1 1/8th inch inner diameter and just under 1 1/2″ outside. Hardware stores stop at an inch. Same with car parts stores. clean the washer heat it with torch till...
It’s been a few weeks since the Lotus last stranded me. The clutch would not disengage. Now I realize why and it just now occurred to me that I could have gotten myself home had I known what I now know about that subsystem of the car. Several revelations attended the repair that I have...
In the old days the artist would plan the painting and then work out compositional details by painting what they called ‘studies’. It’s not so different than studio musician’s jam sessions. Or a writers rewritten versions that pave the way to a final draft with just the right energy and flow. Now we can accomplish...
There can be no argument that I’m very slow about certain tasks. When I used to have to do work that required me to go under the building in the office, it took far longer than maybe it should. Spider webs, lake puddles topped with irridescent film of dubious composition, slime, rocks, and the dank...
