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Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s

anyways one of terminology we have coined to talk about music is "Knee Music" which is derived from the fact that album covers that show a person's knees tend to sound the same as each other. It's kind of a sleepy, grungy indie folk pop sound with youthful-sounding, vocals that affect a candid and vulnerable feeling.

or anyway we found multiple album covers with knees in quick succession, and they all sounded the same, hence "Knee Music"

For a while, his method was slightly different, instead choosing a random genre and listening to it until he found a song from that genre that he liked.

I've painted with acrylics before, and am familiar with liquitex and dahler-rawley student-grade paints.

But I knew that for this class I'd go through a lot of paint, so I bought a bunch of paint at walmart that i used alongside a tube of burnt umber from Michael's, a tube of cyan from a pop shop in texas, and like three partial tubes of titanium white liquitex from a local art store that closed about fifteen years ago and that I miss terribly.

This was a beginning painting class, and like a lot of beginner classes it had a bunch of basic exercises. One of the assignments was to translate an image to a grid and transfer it to a small canvas as a color study. Here's what I did:

It was a fun assignment and I liked how it looked so I pinned it to a cork board.

A couple months ago I glanced at it and noticed that maybe the cheap paints I'd gotten were somewhat less lightfast than I'd expected:

I put notes about the paints inside the canvas, only the cyan and burnt sienna (which were not the Walmart paints) had pigment, opacity, and lightfast info. Didn't bother testing the liquitex white because I know it's solid.

Endurance runners

Part 2 of this