May 02, 2007
wednesday's song
The colours in my high res scans are much better than in these little jpg's. But I did discover a strange problem with yellow. I am working with gouache, I bought very nice quality but pricey Winsor & Newton gouache, but I couldn't resist buying a whole box of inferior cheap gouache, just to have more colours. And I ended up using a lot of lemon yellow of the cheap kind, because from W&N I had only bought the primary yellow. The lemon was much brighter. But the cheap kind was also very thin and runny, I ran out quickly. So I bought W&N lemon yellow, exactly as bright as the cheap kind. But. On the scans the W&N yellow isn't bright at all!! @#$%^&* back to the shop.
Wednesday is not a popular day with song writers. I found some more songs, but without video, so they don't count. And only amateur covers of the songs I did find videos of (the girl that sings Tori Amos is sweet):
John Frusciante - Simon & Garfunkel - Tori Amos - The Undertones (thanks Pom)
Posted by eliane at May 2, 2007 10:20 PM"Wednesday" zingt ook zo moeilijk, probeer het maar eens. Donderdag lijkt me ook al niet zo populair, maar vrijdag weer wel.
(btw. 'sugar peas' of 'sugar snap peas' zie ik hier in de rekken liggen en ik wou gewoon weten of dat hetzelfde is als snow peas, ondertussen heb ik snow peas ook al gezien en weet nu dat die sugar peas boller, knapperiger en zoeter zijn, off topic natuurlijk)
Ja, ik bedacht me naderhand ook wat je bedoelde. Ze heten in het NL geloof ik ook suikererwten. Peultjes en suikererwten. De Chinezen eten ze in bulk.
Posted by: eliane at May 3, 2007 06:42 AMI'm unsure which type of scanner you are using to scan your images, but many of them come with changable settings. Something like brightness/contrast, color adjustment and/or descreening could improve the quality of your yellows.
Just an idea.
Elvis Costello, The Undertones, America, Emiliana Torrini...
Posted by: pom at May 4, 2007 05:25 AM@ Blain: Epson Perfection V700 with extra special software. And Michiel spent hours finding the percfect settings, which he saved, so I can scan them all in the exact same way. So that is not the problem, it seems to really be the paint. I will run some more tests to find out, but for now, I am just painting the next page.
@ Pom: wow. But no youtube URL's? I also found really nice Thursday songs, but there was a fire behind my house yesterday, and the internet cable melted.
Posted by: eliane at May 4, 2007 01:24 PMOnly for The Undertones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQp7yoqdD8
Posted by: pom at May 5, 2007 05:44 AM