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Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :

spent the day with a brush today, thats sooo much fun... did a pictorial and a bunch of stripping on a truck as well as a little vinyl on the doors ( hehehe I made the help do the vinyl) I must of had 12 cans open. a few colors were brand new cans, makes you wonder what a can thinks? what does it say at the end of a day? does it look at paint job and say "wow, I did that!" I wonder....

... aah a brand new can, the lid goes 'pop' as you lift it off and the paint looks so happy sittin there not a drop on the rim the edge of the lid is clean as a whistle, completely undisturbed... then the old popsicle stick goes in 'splat' paint on the rim, all down the side, its a disaster! then the paint recovers, "its ok at least he didnt mix us with... oh noooo!" the brush with the yellow paint comes down and plops right down into the process blue leaving a little green drizzle on top "aaaah!.... it ok, its o-k we will be fine"
the brush goes to the pallette... "hey, being green is not so bad... wait wheres he going?!?
no not the white!!!! NOT THE WHITE!! the now kelley green brush plops down it to the pristine, pure, virgin white... "AAAARRGGHH!!! I dont know if she will recover, shes got green all over the top, looks like a emerald oil slick! then the popsicle stick goes in again, a qucik stir and ... "whew, she looks good, she is still white as snow, no damage. but wait! what is he doing with that popsicle stick? it has yellow all over it! looks like hes going back at the white!!! oooh! big blob of white gets dumped into a small mixing cup, ooooh nooo! hes going in again! two tramatic dips! she has yellow all over, shes doomed to be biege" the lid goes on the white... "she is safe now"
just then the yellow gets knocked over, dumping much of it on the workbench...
"he was a good can, he will be truly missed, we gather here today to pay respects to chrome yellow, he meant so much to us all, he was known to help any can when they needed him, Red, just last week he was working with you to make a beautiful orange... and imatation gold, he was always there when you needed better coverage, and green when you need to and some brightness, he was there... and blue, you where there with him in his final moments, working together with white on a mint project. rest in peace old chrome boy" the lids go back on the cans and thet get packed away back in the cabinet, until the next time they are called on to make art or letters or just a stripe..when one of them will have to put their life on the line again just like old yeller did today. [Frown]

Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :

Thanks for the *GRINS*
For some reason I just yesterday remembered how an elementary school teacher used to assign us writing stories like "describe your experience as a gumball in a machine" & other strange scenarios like that. At least paint doesn't have to worry about being cloned into bootleg paint molecules being traded, shared & fought over on the net [Smile]

Posted by Gilead (Member # 158) on :

And here I was avoiding oil-based paints because of the fumes...perhaps I've been missing the whole point. [Smile]

Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :

ken i bet your hero was the guy on tv with the afro hair and did landscape paintings...with a all those "happy little trees and brooks".....hahahahahahah but i have to admit....no time in this work is better spent then the days i get...with 5-10 open cans of paint, 3-4 brushes in paint, mixing colors that you cant buy, smellin like turps and paint, and got it on my shirt, in my hair, on my face....and prayin i didnt spell anything wrong!!! and its such a joy to clean up, and pay homage to those fantastic brushes that you treat like a tender young woman, as you clean and wipe and roll them and then set them back in there oil. then you put everything away, wash up with mineral spirit rag best you can....and step back and say ..."boy that was some fun"!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ August 07, 2002, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: old paint ]

Posted by Airbrush Bobby (Member # 5) on :

I have had cans of one shot so happy I took them to the marina!... sunning themselves as I placed them by the stern as I dipped and painted. Music flowing...paint flowing and without looking I'd nudge one into the water and they'd swim! swim down.... deep..... never to return.. guess they didn't want to go home! :0(

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

*............and I thought I was spacey.;
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thanks for the grins. [Big Grin]

Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :

Geez, I never open new cans of paint, the ol'fashion way!

I shake them for a few minutes and install a thumb screw. No mess, no problems

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

Shaken. Not stirred. Madden. JOEY Madden [Wink]

Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :

awwwh come on! nobody cried when old yeller die?

Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :

lol Ken....just all the boat owners in the area who got a new yellow waterline stripe!

[Roll Eyes]

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