Priming it. Then filling the weave texture to make a more uniform surface. Search for a product named Gesso.

Google it if you’re uncertain.

I would suggest doing a little more filler prep on your canvas. It will help smooth everything out and make it easier to paint and you’ll get more consistency.

Keep at it! You’ve got pretty good proportions and I like the color composition.

She is absolutely gorgeous.

I am a shit rider, but this is the the style of riding I love most. He’s just a joy to watch.

You paint a picture I’m familiar with, but didn’t experience firsthand. You were my friends and acquaintances I grew up with.

I’m late Gen X/Millennial cusp. The oldest of three siblings, both of whom are squarely Millenials. I got computers, but I also enjoyed formative years without them. My parents are boomers, and were not perfect, but I feel like I got the right stuff from them.

I don’t have kids. In the 90s when I was a teenager, I saw the writing on the wall and decided never to have children.

Where did the parents get it? Why did they get it? Why don’t they know better?

I’m not being cheeky. I want to know real answers to that shit.

Wow. That looks like my old foster dog Lonnie.

Lonnie has a blue left eye.

Well, it’s not too late yet, anyway - but we’re damned close.

You should write more.

I don’t filter by instance. I get everything. Also, it doesn’t change my point.

Okay, buddy. As you wish. You’ll surely defeat the fascists with that go get 'em attitude.

Nah, dude. Do it half-assed and it’s not good enough. You can do whatever you want, but if you want change, anything less will be defeated.

You can’t protest from the comfort of your living room.

https://youtu.be/12X-i9YHzmE

Some I took recently of a tree with both pink and whites.

It’s so fucking common these days. I keep seeing it on things I want to like, but I refuse to encourage the behavior.

Mobilization is easy. We need to ORGANIZE.

I’m repeating myself from above, but here’s what we need to do when we gather:

• Get names and contact info from 10 people at the event
• Plan when and where to meet again.
• Ask these people to do the same
• Decide on how to be more disruptive and make more noise! We need to shake things up.
• Cute and clever signs mean nothing if it doesn’t get attention. We need to speak TO the power. We need to upset them DIRECTLY.

The only thing the powerful can hear is the noise made in their pocketbooks.

On a weekend when we’re not disrupting anything. The defacto complaint is, “I can’t take time off work.” Sorry for the inconvenience. Then the next most common excuse is, “Nobody shows up during weekday protests.” Well, shit. Sorry for your democracy. See you next time we put up clever signs on a Saturday.

We need to organize.

• Get the names and numbers of 10 people and make decisions to meet. Ask them to do the same.

We need to organize.

• Decide on how to be more disruptive and how to make more noise.

We need to organize.

• Cute and clever signs don’t mean shit if the establishment doesn’t read them. Make decisions that affect their profits.

Organization is hard. Mobilization is easy.

Kwame Ture convinced King to include Vietnam in his stance against the government when most people said that it would be a mistake. Ture marched with King. He helped organize the Million and More March on DC. He was an authority on protest and civil disobedience… but I think it’s time to be uncivil.

https://www.itsinscope.com/research-internal/2020/10/31/kwame-ture-organisation-vs-mobilisation

She’s so pretty. That fur, though… my apartment floors would be soft.

I already don’t call it that.

Good job, Detective Clouseau.