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September 9, 2016 6:48 AM Subscribe
This is the soothing thing I didn't realize I needed. Thanks!
posted by travertina at 7:10 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by travertina at 7:10 AM on September 9, 2016
Noooo, Stop! You're mixing it too much! All that beautiful marbling, smoothed out into a flat mess >_<
posted by I-Write-Essays at 7:15 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by I-Write-Essays at 7:15 AM on September 9, 2016
This gives me anxiety? Brains are weird.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:33 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:33 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
#rake thing
#[yelling] —me irl I love this
I was not expecting this color
this one is the best I want to live in it
posted by clavicle at 7:40 AM on September 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
#[yelling] —me irl I love this
I was not expecting this color
this one is the best I want to live in it
posted by clavicle at 7:40 AM on September 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
annette labedzki does this on instagram
Yeah, that last link in the post is to one of hers! These are so beautiful and soothing.
posted by leesh at 8:12 AM on September 9, 2016
Yeah, that last link in the post is to one of hers! These are so beautiful and soothing.
posted by leesh at 8:12 AM on September 9, 2016
Yeah, it was all cool, but the dat course/discourse thing wrecked me. I snorted.
posted by eclectist at 8:17 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by eclectist at 8:17 AM on September 9, 2016
This is surprisingly beautiful, and satisfying on a level I can't quite articulate. Considering the fact though that i've spent the majority of my days at work over the last 3 weeks making paint from scratch from raw ingredients and in 5 gallon increments, i do find it a little less than what i'd hoped.
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 8:17 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 8:17 AM on September 9, 2016
Several of them made me hungry. Like the brown, white and red one.
posted by Splunge at 8:28 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by Splunge at 8:28 AM on September 9, 2016
This gives me anxiety? Brains are weird.
Seconding this. Not a case of the screaming Fantods, but the all swishing and blending and especially the near constant tiny clicking of the tool against the surface aroused a strange sense of disquiet in me. And the gestural finale of spreading the newly blended paint across the screen was too much like seeing the guts of a smashed insect spread on a windowpane for me.
brains are weird.
posted by Chrischris at 8:40 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
Seconding this. Not a case of the screaming Fantods, but the all swishing and blending and especially the near constant tiny clicking of the tool against the surface aroused a strange sense of disquiet in me. And the gestural finale of spreading the newly blended paint across the screen was too much like seeing the guts of a smashed insect spread on a windowpane for me.
brains are weird.
posted by Chrischris at 8:40 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
oh my god this is fascinating
The thing that gets me about these is the sheer confidence in mixing. I'll usually put a few globs of paint here and there on the palette and cut them together a bit at a time incrementally to get something close to the neighborhood I'm looking for. Maybe it's because I'm partially colorblind, but I can't imagine just thinking "I need X of A, Y of B, and one-half Z of C", laying out a pile, and just, you know, going to town like that. It's borderline obscene!
It's really fun to see all the techniques. I don't think I ever learned "how" to mix paint, and I love that everyone does it so differently.
posted by phooky at 8:45 AM on September 9, 2016
The thing that gets me about these is the sheer confidence in mixing. I'll usually put a few globs of paint here and there on the palette and cut them together a bit at a time incrementally to get something close to the neighborhood I'm looking for. Maybe it's because I'm partially colorblind, but I can't imagine just thinking "I need X of A, Y of B, and one-half Z of C", laying out a pile, and just, you know, going to town like that. It's borderline obscene!
It's really fun to see all the techniques. I don't think I ever learned "how" to mix paint, and I love that everyone does it so differently.
posted by phooky at 8:45 AM on September 9, 2016
Wow! To me it looks like mixing food coloring into buttercream and spreading it across a cake. (Which has strong childhood associations for me; my dad worked in a bakery when he was in high school, so he's done many many colored buttercreams for birthday cakes and Christmas cookies in my lifetime.) Brains!
posted by clavicle at 8:46 AM on September 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by clavicle at 8:46 AM on September 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
"Your request http://paintmixed.tumblr.com/ was denied because of its content categorization: Mixed Content"
Oh, workplace webfilters. You are too much.
posted by psoas at 9:23 AM on September 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
Oh, workplace webfilters. You are too much.
posted by psoas at 9:23 AM on September 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
I was not expecting this color
oh that is so pretty! these are all wonderful!
posted by mochapickle at 9:24 AM on September 9, 2016
oh that is so pretty! these are all wonderful!
posted by mochapickle at 9:24 AM on September 9, 2016
this is one of my favourite things that i never even imagined would be enjoyable, it is so relaxing.
posted by poffin boffin at 10:09 AM on September 9, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 10:09 AM on September 9, 2016 [2 favorites]
Wow, this hits me right in the... well, wherever it was Bob Ross hit me. The colors make me salivate (for real) but the treat for me is those lovely mixing tools. Now daydreaming of a job where I could spend a morning with those, like First I’m gonna use this shiny flat teardrop, then I can bring out the teeny tiny cake server & make it all smoothlike. So, so satisfying.
posted by miles per flower at 10:41 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by miles per flower at 10:41 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
Can I get this in app form so I can mix the colors too but without the mess?
posted by IndigoRain at 11:27 AM on September 9, 2016
posted by IndigoRain at 11:27 AM on September 9, 2016
So soothing.
posted by Neely O'Hara at 11:19 PM on September 10, 2016
posted by Neely O'Hara at 11:19 PM on September 10, 2016
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I read it at first as *nixing* paint colors and expected clips of people making faces at Lowes
posted by krix at 7:05 AM on September 9, 2016