I think my computer's colour is off, or wiki has a poor colour representation, or Winsor & Newton has consistently fucked up their batches of Alizarin Crimson. I'm going with wiki, I think they used the colour of rose madder and not the synthetic stronger version of rose madder which is alizarin crimson them being the same thing in essence, because Winsor & Newton are (some of) my gods.
Also I am sad because I didn't know it was a 'fugitive pigment', hopefully no one looks at my paintings in some years. At least they won't deteriorate as much or as quickly as J.M.W. Turner's, his impetuousness, regarding paint, is astounding. Had a genuis for light all the same and I can't wait to see his work in person, also Botticelli again, not even touching on everything else, oh my darlings, so far away in England. Soon though, for a little time I get to be with them. (Yes I have more affection for art/artefacts than people, I don't have to figure out relations with them, and they will always be there, beautiful and eternal.)
I went to the SF Symphony tonight and the last piece they did was a suite compiled from Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, it was absolutely wonderful, the conductor, who put together the suite, took the time to explain which elements were what characters and which point of the story. Now I'm dying to see the opera.
I need to go to a museum, I need to be with my old dead darlings, that is a good way of describing them. Also I need to finish my damn paintings, and read.
This is totally useless information and probably confusing to everyone but me.
This is the mermaid shell thing I'm making in ceramics. I'm almost done with it, and it's the first time I've really sculpted anything in clay. My teacher wants to put it into the C.O.M. exhibit for the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts in Davis.
