What I really like when painting still-life's is the opportunity to go wild with colors. So I did a gourd in water color with as much contrast as possible. It looks like it has been painted outside on the most sunny day ever. 
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The glider fuselage has been wet sanded.
It's time to for final buffing.
I did some experimenting this morning to get a feel for process and especially process control.
I had two different polishing pads. Would they give different finish quality?
Would a grid of black Sharpie help me keep track of buffing progress?
(Don't worry about the Sharpie. It doesn't stain the polyurethane paint. I can wipe it away with a solvent like acetone.)
Either polishing pad gives similar results, and buffing until the Sharpie grid is gone appears to be a workable control technique.
Water beading on the buffed surface is another indication of progress.
On areas with complex, and especially concave curvature, I'll buff by hand.
I'm not trying to do a fantastic job on the fuselage, but I'll gain experience before I do the critical stuff: the wings.
Just realized I have a bicycle saddle (from the garage sale bike I bought for $50 -- replaced with a Brooks) which is marred by some wayward housepaint, BUT I CAN CUSTOM PAINT IT TO MATCH the new paint job on the vintage FUJI bike I am restoring. 
#paint #bikerestoration
Lesson learned yesterday: spraypaint does, indeed, float and drift instead of falling when it's moist outside. Wonder where it went. #paint
Tried out soft pastels for the first time. As you can imagine I made a huge mess but also felt very painterly while doing so. It's fascinating having those big pieces of chalk in your hands, rubbing them on the paper and making marks to get some details.
I feel like I lost some dark spots of the reference photo though. I guess you really have to plan your contrasts from the beginning. 
Landscape with a Sunlit Stream - Charles-François Daubigny #painting #paint #art #mastodonart #mastoart #gallery #artist #OilPainting #traditionalart #museum #traditionalart
Marine. Barque accostant un gros voilier - Nooms, Reinier #painting #paint #art #mastodonart #mastoart #gallery #artist #OilPainting #traditionalart #museum #traditionalart
Saint Martin and Saint Hilary - #painting #paint #art #mastodonart #mastoart #gallery #artist #OilPainting #traditionalart #museum #traditionalart
Spent some monies before tariffs started rolling in and got some phosphors (from the Netherlands).
Now I am making some new colors- a warm white and a pink. Mundy Hepburn was right- when buying phosphors- just get RGB... oh an maybe violet.
Gotta mix these on the ball mill for the recommended two days and then do some test coats- I sure am excited!
realistically I might do a test tomorrow. It will be nice to see how it moves and coats a sample tube.
It sure is coating the jar well after about 20 minutes. That is a 254nm quartz lamp for the argon mercury.
The nitrocellulose coatings are so effective! The chemicals are kinda nasty- but they evaporate rapidly and don't make phosphor waste that cannot be put down the drain.
