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Posted: 1/25/2023 11:00:15 AM EDT
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It would be much more difficult for freshmen to install rivets under the wing if the wing was already in place before that part of the project began.
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Posted: 1/26/2023 10:23:53 AM EDT
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Could you use an adjustable cable tensioner to correct the wing droop, or was it always your intent to use that as a suspension point anyway?
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Posted: 1/26/2023 11:56:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ashraam: Could you use an adjustable cable tensioner to correct the wing droop, or was it always your intent to use that as a suspension point anyway? With the spinning propellers, it was always the intention to have suspension, especially for safety. It's just too long for me to be comfortable. Yes, a tensioner probably would be enough to correct the drop, but once we add the cowlings and propellers, my guess is it might still be a problem. Too much weight. |
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Posted: 1/26/2023 12:05:59 PM EDT
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Update 1/26
My parachute specialist decided she wanted the chute would be easier to mate together with it down, and not hanging. It's been kind of rough looking at times, but I'm starting to see this coming together pretty well.  She's been a great sport on seeing this through.  Not sure our 1/48 model is going to survive all of this. It's been getting passed around quite a bit as students find measurements for the details they are working on.   More contour ribs for the cowlings.  Starting to add foam in between the ribs. Lots of discussion on how to do this the best way to get the results we want. There is also lots of skepticism that this is going to work.   New lights up in the smoke. We were going to airbrush paint this morning, but we needed the lift to paint behind where our firefighter is going. I was lobbied that this was more important at the moment.  The elk had to come down again to get the lift back in there. Hopefully by the end of the day we are close to having a good coat of blue up there and we can then clean up the trim, and blending to the neighboring colors. 
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:41:29 AM EDT
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If you make a FUGO that needs ping pong balls, let me know - I can hook you up with a donation of a few hundred PP balls in a snap.
For the record - the days of spontaneously flammable celluloid ping pong balls went away around 2005. All modern (USATT and ITTF-approved) ping pong balls are now made of inert ABS plastic. Now, about those t-shirts... |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 1:40:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: If you make a FUGO that needs ping pong balls, let me know - I can hook you up with a donation of a few hundred PP balls in a snap. For the record - the days of spontaneously flammable celluloid ping pong balls went away around 2005. All modern (USATT and ITTF-approved) ping pong balls are now made of inert ABS plastic. Now, about those t-shirts... Hell, now I have to hoard pre-ban ping pong balls? 
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Posted: 1/27/2023 2:04:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: guns762]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: If you make a FUGO that needs ping pong balls, let me know - I can hook you up with a donation of a few hundred PP balls in a snap. For the record - the days of spontaneously flammable celluloid ping pong balls went away around 2005. All modern (USATT and ITTF-approved) ping pong balls are now made of inert ABS plastic. Now, about those t-shirts... A few hundred is more than we will need  , but yes, we will need some ping pong balls.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 2:36:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: guns762]
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Update 1/27
I tried to get pics of the back of the head with the neck, and was told...."NO!"  She was quite persistent.   We added a little bulk to our firefighter in some areas with plastic bags. We also filled up a few of his pockets and his pack.   The taxidermy mounts from this week are all set and drying now.  Students cleaned up some funky areas on the fuselage. More bondo and sanding was required.   We are nearing the end of the papermache on the fuselage.  The foam continues on the cowlings. It's rough right now.   The top of the wing is skinned, and we are working on details like the flaps and the tip of the wing.  We have success with the much thinner acrylic.  Last bits of fitting are making sure it lays perfectly into the fuselage.  |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 2:40:02 PM EDT
[Last Edit: xanadu]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: A few hundred is more than we will need , but yes, we will need some ping pong balls. A gross then (144)? Orange or white? |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 4:05:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: A gross then (144)? Orange or white? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: Originally Posted By guns762: A few hundred is more than we will need , but yes, we will need some ping pong balls. A gross then (144)? Orange or white? White would he best. We can paint if we need them something else. 
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Posted: 1/27/2023 6:37:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: White would he best. We can paint if we need them something else. Will go out UPS on Monday to PHS, Attn: Art Department. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 7:47:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: Will go out UPS on Monday to PHS, Attn: Art Department. Thank you!!!!!!  
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Posted: 1/27/2023 8:24:00 PM EDT
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I'm confused by the trying foam and rib sammich where "Students are unsure if it will work", isn't that how you've done nearly every project so far?
I guess I'm not seeing how it wouldn't work or something. Maybe I skimmed too fast.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 7:31:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: LordEC911]
[#14]
Windscreen is looking great.
Any change with the technique or was the thinner material just much easier to shape? Looks like everything is going pretty smooth. Edit- Read through the entire F22 thread this past week. All the updates and documentation are so well done not sure how you do it all with everything else on your plate. Now I get to try and catch up on this one. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 12:26:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LordEC911: Windscreen is looking great. Any change with the technique or was the thinner material just much easier to shape? Looks like everything is going pretty smooth. Edit- Read through the entire F22 thread this past week. All the updates and documentation are so well done not sure how you do it all with everything else on your plate. Now I get to try and catch up on this one. The thinner material makes it much easier, but we suffered two fails just in cutting out the material. It's way more fragile when cutting than the lexan. This was just acrylic, and 1/8". Having some time with the heat gun also helped him understand what he needed to do to get the material to bend without going too far. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 12:29:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brass: I'm confused by the trying foam and rib sammich where "Students are unsure if it will work", isn't that how you've done nearly every project so far? I guess I'm not seeing how it wouldn't work or something. Maybe I skimmed too fast. The process is sound, and the students understand it, but the results were not what the students wanted to see. It is still very rough in it's resemblance to what we want and that can be tough on trying to keep a persistent attitude. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 3:03:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2023 3:45:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2023 3:50:43 PM EDT
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Update 1/30
More clean up on our fuselage, and papermache work.  Cargo bay door layout.  Wing root transition.  Working on our "flaps" line on the wing.  More foam to sculpt on our cowlings.  Glass is on. Now we need to detail.  "Yogi" on our tower. A picnic basket and "Booboo" is in the works.  |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:45:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2023 9:18:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: The process is sound, and the students understand it, but the results were not what the students wanted to see. It is still very rough in it's resemblance to what we want and that can be tough on trying to keep a persistent attitude. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By brass: I'm confused by the trying foam and rib sammich where "Students are unsure if it will work", isn't that how you've done nearly every project so far? I guess I'm not seeing how it wouldn't work or something. Maybe I skimmed too fast. The process is sound, and the students understand it, but the results were not what the students wanted to see. It is still very rough in it's resemblance to what we want and that can be tough on trying to keep a persistent attitude. I can understand a frustration of knowing how something can/should work and trying to get a new group to understand that, especially when you've had different or better/worse results with previous classes and are now into a pipeline of learning how to build large scale projects. That's a lot for a teacher to keep track of while getting students to have the same confidence you and we have in them. |
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Posted: 1/31/2023 5:59:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By raffi383: Will there be a sign like this painted on a nearby wall? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67686/1000000387_jpg-2691839.JPG Now in the works. Thanks.
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Posted: 1/31/2023 9:18:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Now in the works. Thanks. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By raffi383: Will there be a sign like this painted on a nearby wall? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67686/1000000387_jpg-2691839.JPG Now in the works. Thanks. Cool. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 12:06:35 PM EDT
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Update 2/1
Yesterday just got too busy for an update. My beginning Art classes are learning Impressionism/Post Impressionism, and I have to actually do that teacher thing and lecture.....for two more days.  Good news is.... We got our firefighter up on his platform for display.  We decided to tether him to the wall, as a precautionary measure, and to get him to stand more vertical. His head went on pretty easy.   We are now using spray foam to blend the blocks of wood to the platform, adding dirt on top of the foam. We will work with some glue and more dirt to hopefully make those disappear.  We still need a pulaski axe that he will have in his right hand, resting the head on the platform. We will also attach his helmet to his other hand. The parachutes never seem to end, but we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We attached fabric to the ends and started shaping them.  We also hung it back up so we could spread glue over the fabric so it would hold its shape. We will do both ends, then the top cover, which still needs it.  Students began spraying paint on the smoke. It will take several coats and different colors before we are what we think is needed. I think we may go back and add a bit more outward protrusions of smoke to the composition too. I'm still not happy with it the way it is right now.   Details to our fuselage are being added every hour.  Our wing also has papermache on the edges now, and almost ready to flip over to do the underside.  |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:09:54 AM EDT
[Last Edit: backbencher]
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Wasn't Impressionism a movement by some artistic types that couldn't afford glasses?
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:21:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: Wasn't Impressionism a movement by some artistic types that couldn't afford glasses? Isn't impressionism like "time lapse" on what it would look like now and then at some other time of day on the same canvas? Maybe something else or one painting in that category. I think expressionism is the one you're looking for that's easy for people without glasses. I really suck with trying to "classify" art other than "modern" and otherwise decent stuff where you can at least guess what the subject being painted is. Expressionism, no glasses needed, just emotion smeared around: 
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Posted: 2/2/2023 7:11:15 PM EDT
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Update 2/2
Crazy busy day today. We got a lot accomplished. This is the beginning of our slurry nozzle.  This will attach to our rear side door.   A few more details needed before paint.  The engine cowlings came a long way today.   New ribs to help us get more body details.  Removing excess foam with the handy hot knife.  "One foot in the black" to be added to the display. We changed it up a bit from this photo, allowing it to be a bit bigger.  Smokey the Bear poster painting underway.  Foam and dirt to hide the blocks of wood.  Details on the tail. We will cut the back side tomorrow.  |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 7:22:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: Wasn't Impressionism a movement by some artistic types that couldn't afford glasses? Capturing a moment in time and concerned with light and color, lots of landscapes Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassatt, are all popular and well known Impressionists. They were followed by the post-Impressionists, some better known, CeZanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, .......and Picasso(Cubist who was inspired by CeZanne). Still a very popular style done by many modern painters. Student work from last year.  |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 7:58:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Capturing a moment in time and concerned with light and color, lots of landscapes Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassatt, are all popular and well known Impressionists. They were followed by the post-Impressionists, some better known, CeZanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, .......and Picasso(Cubist who was inspired by CeZanne). Still a very popular style done by many modern painters. Student work from last year. https://i.imgur.com/1Y9yUUo.jpg Still seems a lot of modern "art" could've been prevented by some good optometrists and psychologists.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:39:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Capturing a moment in time and concerned with light and color, lots of landscapes Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassatt, are all popular and well known Impressionists. They were followed by the post-Impressionists, some better known, CeZanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, .......and Picasso(Cubist who was inspired by CeZanne). Still a very popular style done by many modern painters. Student work from last year. https://i.imgur.com/1Y9yUUo.jpg Guns, Do your students ever sell prints of their paintings? My wife said the bison one was "gorgeous." |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:03:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Capturing a moment in time and concerned with light and color, lots of landscapes Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassatt, are all popular and well known Impressionists. They were followed by the post-Impressionists, some better known, CeZanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, .......and Picasso(Cubist who was inspired by CeZanne). Still a very popular style done by many modern painters. Student work from last year. https://i.imgur.com/1Y9yUUo.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By backbencher: Wasn't Impressionism a movement by some artistic types that couldn't afford glasses? Capturing a moment in time and concerned with light and color, lots of landscapes Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassatt, are all popular and well known Impressionists. They were followed by the post-Impressionists, some better known, CeZanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, .......and Picasso(Cubist who was inspired by CeZanne). Still a very popular style done by many modern painters. Student work from last year. https://i.imgur.com/1Y9yUUo.jpg I like that better than the majority of famous/popular impressionist paintings I've seen. The one in your avatar is awesome. Do you have a bigger picture you could post? |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 11:32:27 PM EDT
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The enthusiasm and excitement in this photo are overwhelming. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:15:39 AM EDT
[Last Edit: guns762]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By raffi383: Guns, Do your students ever sell prints of their paintings? My wife said the bison one was "gorgeous." Yes, they can be talked into it. I asked her about it this week, as I was using the picture of it for class examples. My wife also loves bison paintings. I'll ask her what she wants for it, and let you know. It's a acrylic on drawing board, 16x20? There is another bison painting ( from 6-7years ago).. my best student......ever.....and another teacher bought it for $400. She told me yesterday she'd sell it to me for the same. Not sure I can justify that right now. .My wife is trying to decide if we have room for it.  |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:17:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brass: https://i.imgur.com/ZygAxW9.jpg The enthusiasm and excitement in this photo are overwhelming. End of the day.... we all felt like that.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:31:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CenterMass762: I like that better than the majority of famous/popular impressionist paintings I've seen. The one in your avatar is awesome. Do you have a bigger picture you could post? I tried to paint in the style of Harry Koyama, an artist in MT. He does some fantastic modern impressionistic type paintings with intense colors. My wife saw one while we were waiting for dinner up in Billings and I painted this for her for a Christmas present. It's oil on canvas, 24"x30"  The unit following Impressionism, paints in a silk style painting of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. She's also a Montana artist. My students work from realism to cubism through the semester. Each project getting a little more abstract. This is my example of that style for the students. This is watercolor, I think 16x20 
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Posted: 2/5/2023 10:10:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: kudzunc]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Update 1/30 "Yogi" on our tower. A picnic basket and "Booboo" is in the works. https://i.imgur.com/WT0zRlm.jpg Sweet on the Yogi and Boo-Boo addition. How was the conversation in the classroom with that recent Chinese ""Weather Balloon"" after them learning about the Japaneses Fu-Go Balloon Bombs? I imagine they had a lot to say about what could be on it. Luckily you have a (MR.) Moose for the Ping Pong Balls. You might be glad you students are too young to have watched the show or this could get into escalating paybacks. Two clips to help the younger crowd here from "The Captain Kangaroo Show" with the good Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Dancing Bear, Mr. Green Jeans (they were green although most episodes were in Black & White or people watched on B&W TV sets) , Grand Father Clock and the rest of the whole crew From a 15 years ago upload, so brace for that 240P as the highest resolution quality clip, showing Mr Moose being a master at baiting for puns and Ping Pongs from above.  Captain Kangaroo with Mr. Moose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSpPyTNSlTU "Captain Kangaroo-Counting Ping Pong Balls" in 480 P at least  Captain Kangaroo-Counting Ping Pong Balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHx0EoveT90 Speaking of Mr Moose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Moose you wanna guess what plane he shows up in after Bunny Rabbit steals a yellow plane with Capt Kangaroo inside it and gets airborne at the Oshkosh Air Show episode? Some details are on that wikipedia page of the dogfight. I'm trying to find that specific clip on youtube but failing. Just another back tie in Easter Egg. These displays may become more complex than the show "Lost" for all of their connections. The school's news paper might be able to run several lists of 25 Easter Eggs you missed while walking through the halls... |
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Posted: 2/5/2023 11:08:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: I tried to paint in the style of Harry Koyama, an artist in MT. He does some fantastic modern impressionistic type paintings with intense colors. My wife saw one while we were waiting for dinner up in Billings and I painted this for her for a Christmas present. It's oil on canvas, 24"x30" https://i.imgur.com/Owdbmrc.jpg The unit following Impressionism, paints in a silk style painting of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. She's also a Montana artist. My students work from realism to cubism through the semester. Each project getting a little more abstract. This is my example of that style for the students. This is watercolor, I think 16x20 https://i.imgur.com/a6s7Eud.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By CenterMass762: I like that better than the majority of famous/popular impressionist paintings I've seen. The one in your avatar is awesome. Do you have a bigger picture you could post? I tried to paint in the style of Harry Koyama, an artist in MT. He does some fantastic modern impressionistic type paintings with intense colors. My wife saw one while we were waiting for dinner up in Billings and I painted this for her for a Christmas present. It's oil on canvas, 24"x30" https://i.imgur.com/Owdbmrc.jpg The unit following Impressionism, paints in a silk style painting of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. She's also a Montana artist. My students work from realism to cubism through the semester. Each project getting a little more abstract. This is my example of that style for the students. This is watercolor, I think 16x20 https://i.imgur.com/a6s7Eud.jpg I really like your watercolor with the teal horses! Which paper did you use for that? I get junk results from paper that isn't cotton or half cotton, I re-wet too much I guess since I don't know how to watercolor. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 10:51:01 AM EDT
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Update 2/6
Seems I forgot to update on Friday.  Hopefully things slow down a bit this week. More foam removal from around our engine cowlings. The students are starting to see that we will "get there" on these.   Booboo looking for his picnic basket(still being painted). We also have a ranger that will be looking out over the railing at the top, but she came to us from the package "topless"  and needs a shirt before we can stand her out there on the deck.  He have our logo now drawn up above the burned wood pile. We should have paint on there later today.   Mr. Munger, and Mr. @Spark556 looking at the fire, ready to head that way. We need a chute there too, now that I think about it.  More smoke added, and a bit more today, along with more paint in the clouds.  Rivets and window details continue.   Tail flap formed up.  Higher view of our firefighter.   |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 11:12:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: I tried to paint in the style of Harry Koyama, an artist in MT. He does some fantastic modern impressionistic type paintings with intense colors. My wife saw one while we were waiting for dinner up in Billings and I painted this for her for a Christmas present. It's oil on canvas, 24"x30" https://i.imgur.com/Owdbmrc.jpg The unit following Impressionism, paints in a silk style painting of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. She's also a Montana artist. My students work from realism to cubism through the semester. Each project getting a little more abstract. This is my example of that style for the students. This is watercolor, I think 16x20 https://i.imgur.com/a6s7Eud.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By CenterMass762: I like that better than the majority of famous/popular impressionist paintings I've seen. The one in your avatar is awesome. Do you have a bigger picture you could post? I tried to paint in the style of Harry Koyama, an artist in MT. He does some fantastic modern impressionistic type paintings with intense colors. My wife saw one while we were waiting for dinner up in Billings and I painted this for her for a Christmas present. It's oil on canvas, 24"x30" https://i.imgur.com/Owdbmrc.jpg The unit following Impressionism, paints in a silk style painting of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. She's also a Montana artist. My students work from realism to cubism through the semester. Each project getting a little more abstract. This is my example of that style for the students. This is watercolor, I think 16x20 https://i.imgur.com/a6s7Eud.jpg Thank you! The colors are amazing in that bison painting. Fantastic work on both of them. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 12:47:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brass: I really like your watercolor with the teal horses! Which paper did you use for that? I get junk results from paper that isn't cotton or half cotton, I re-wet too much I guess since I don't know how to watercolor. Student grade watercolor paper. I think 400lb, cold press. It's decent stuff. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 12:49:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CenterMass762: Thank you! The colors are amazing in that bison painting. Fantastic work on both of them. Thank you. I'm made prints out of it by taking the image to Walmart and having it printed. They turn out decent. |
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Posted: 2/6/2023 3:18:20 PM EDT
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With such a severe bend in the windshield, would it be easier to actually use the framing lines as frames so you could put a moderately curved piece and a lightly curved piece in rather than a single big piece?
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Posted: 2/7/2023 10:43:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: Will go out UPS on Monday to PHS, Attn: Art Department. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xanadu: Originally Posted By guns762: White would he best. We can paint if we need them something else. Will go out UPS on Monday to PHS, Attn: Art Department. Ping-Pong balls were in the office this morning. I'll let the students open them and take some pictures. Office people already asked when they get to come down and play "pong".
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Posted: 2/7/2023 10:45:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brass: With such a severe bend in the windshield, would it be easier to actually use the framing lines as frames so you could put a moderately curved piece and a lightly curved piece in rather than a single big piece? The large piece ended up perfectly shaped, and provides a nice shape to then build the small frames on for each window. 
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Posted: 2/7/2023 12:20:46 PM EDT
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Update 2/7
More work on gridding out the windows on the cockpit.   As students were mapping out rivet lines, they discovered a bit of a problem with two of the windows. They were an 1" too close together. Students mapped out the correct distance, then cut the correct placement. They will seal up the corrected area today.   More trimming and shaping, on the seemingly endless amount of work left on the cowlings.   This worked better than anticipated in removing excess material inside the cowlings. We have to make a few pieces of foam a bit more solid, but it's going to work.  Smokey's sign. I talked with the artist about how we might make it a bit weathered in the final product. We will see how it turns out.  Shirt and pants being added to our lookout tower observer.  Bit of 3D vegetation being added to the base of the firefighter tier.  Darker color added to our smoke. We still need to blend it out more, and define more darker areas. I think we will add a bit of blue to some of the lighter areas as reflection of the sky, and black to the darker area. Students have a good grasp of what needs to happen here over the next few days. 
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Posted: 2/8/2023 12:43:20 AM EDT
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I'm pretty sure the students could just rivet a piece of aluminum over the window error. Isn't that what LockMart would do?
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Posted: 2/8/2023 1:50:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By backbencher: I'm pretty sure the students could just rivet a piece of aluminum over the window error. Isn't that what LockMart would do? I don't' see a window error. It's done so well i thought it wasn't made and put on yet. |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 12:21:03 PM EDT
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Update 2/8
@xanadu Big THANK YOU Sir!! We received plenty of ping pong balls. No red solo cups were found in the room, but they did find a sourcream container. These should work perfectly. I've already got a student who seems excited to start the drone build. We snagged some larger pops from the Robotics dept that they won't be using, so we should be all set. They did a nice job moving the window and patching up the old one. A little more glue and some sanding, and it shouldn't show up at all after paint.  The slurry nozzle looks pretty good. They need to secure it a bit more on the back. We want to run wire out of it, and then attach pillow fill to create the slurry.   Rivet lines never seem to end. I thought this note was funny. One student was working on laying out lines, and wrote a note.... the next hour disagreed with her statement.  She added to that, and then was a bit disappointed when there wasn't a response to the note.   My students convinced me they needed to cut the elevator completely off, so they could make it look like it moves, and set it into a position that would allow the aircraft to climb. I agreed, even though it sets us up for more work.  They did a great job and it looks very clean.   We will probably finish the skin on the bottom of the wing today. Paper mache will follow.  Sculpting on the cowlings continues.    We had a little more adjustment on our window frames this morning. This wasn't quite what we wanted.  More work on our tower late yesterday afternoon. I've got the original team back on it, and they have some ideas on how to detail it up a bit. Maybe some lights.  Lettering is going well, and quickly.  Darker color added to our smoke. We have another plume to add, hopefully today, along with finishing the bottom area.  |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 12:32:24 PM EDT
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Details for the tower should include the Osborne fire finder.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 4:33:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By elcope: Details for the tower should include the Osborne fire finder. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/3446/IMG_2460_JPG-607702.jpg I'll suggest that.
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