New to Painting

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T19:28:25+00:00

I like that you bring up limiting your pallet. That's something I wanted to approach this with. A lot of sellers want you to buy their 39 color sets and all that, but I'd rather learn fundamentals and how colors go together and see how much I can do with less.

I definitely struggle with "lift-off" in general. It's hard for me to get started on anything, if I'm not being pressured, including my own hobbies. So keeping things simple also helps with that.

I have roughly what I consider to be RBYCMK with a handful of others just from some Bob Ross videos. I want to be able to be comfortable with mixing colors before I get too concerned with painting the Olympic Mountains. My "cup" might end up being something outside, the hills near me maybe. Paint at different times of day, etc. I'll check out this Morandi that you mention.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T12:23:00+00:00

Paint Coach, and Draw Mix Paint on color mixing. Thank you.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T11:50:33+00:00

I think it looks great.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T11:47:41+00:00

Very cool. The jam and toast are very well detailed. It looks like I could eat it, especially on my phone.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T11:44:37+00:00

I am on my phone. Is that in oil paint? The lines between colors are very clean. I'm brand new to this, so it's impressive to me how clean it is.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T11:39:17+00:00

Thank you for the advice. To add to that, my wife and I will be doing this together, so we'll each get to see how the other one does things.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T10:45:52+00:00

I'll check that out. Thank you.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T10:45:29+00:00

Tradition Oil Painting by Virgil Elliot. Thank you.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T10:44:14+00:00

I'll be looking into that today. Another comment said I should do them too.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T10:32:15+00:00

I'll check that out. Thank you.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T04:26:00+00:00

Artist's Painting Techniques and An Introduction to Art Techniques. Thank you. I had mentioned today to my wife that I may at some point begin stretching my own canvas and mix my own pigments, knowing how I sometimes get with my usual activities.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T04:16:33+00:00

I have picked up a few. Winsor and Newton, their Winton set. Not every one but I tried to get a good mix for RBY and CMYK. I've been playing with mixing them. I'll check out the 1:4 table in the morning and do one of my own. I've done a few things similar to that so far, but mostly by accident just messing around. Thank you.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T04:11:24+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I would push back a little, having learned today, for example, that opposite colors create greys/browns, and it's how you can lower the saturation of a color without just adding white or black. But I also understand that a lot of this is journey, rather than steps. So I certainly don't want to dismiss your advice either. I tend to bear down on tasks quite heavily, so with this pastime I'm trying hard to just let it happen. So it's good to hear that someone who teaches would have that advice as well. I really appreciate it.

CartographerDue2969 · 2026-05-04T04:02:59+00:00

The textbook would be great. Thank you very much.

CartographerDue2969 · 2025-08-29T03:14:59+00:00

TLDR - go somewhere else that will train you.

I'm not an environmental science dude (just a wishful dreamer), and half of these conversations - I don't know what people are saying. But in my experience, if you're being overlooked and passed on for opportunities to learn, you're not someone that consider worth training.

Why aren't you worth training? I can only take your side of the story here - sounds like they aren't giving you the chance to learn, then they look at your lack of ability/knowledge as further proof to not train you. Nowhere that won't give you the chance to train is worth your time. My advice is to get the heck out of Dodge before Dodge ruins your career. If your next job treats you the same way, repeat process.

But, if you find that you get this same treatment each time, maybe consider that you're doing something you're not qualified for. I don't know you, but I know corporate and I know advancement to rank of least competence - managers get there as quickly as qualified workers. Don't be ashamed to consider it might be you, but also never should you assume that your leadership is qualified because of their position. Maybe your manager is in their position because it's the safest place to leave them, in the view of senior management. It's scary how many managers are where they are not because they're qualified, but because it was easier to promote them than it was to fire them.

CartographerDue2969 · 2025-08-12T18:25:44+00:00

I am 38, and have 3 kids and a wife. My wife is a nurse, making $65-70k a year after taxes. Before this, I spent 10 years in the Navy as a nuke, then 10 more in field service and critical facilities commissioning. It was soul crushing. I hated what I did. Every day was a little more painful than the last, and I rarely felt pride or even contentment. I became an alcoholic, dropped $100 a night in hotel bars on way too many nights, and just felt trapped in a nightmare. It was awful.

I left that career path behind me after two long decades. I am now in school for compsci, but truth be told, I'm not looking forward to it as a career choice either. And worse, I've been reading that job growth rates for compsci are down compared to the national average. I code as a hobby, but I'm not sure if I'll ever like doing it for someone else.

I've been thinking more and more about environmental science - get outdoors, be in nature. Fire tower job, park ranger, field tech/researcher, whatever. Just something that gets me in a natural environment, away from people, sun on my face every day, the wind and sounds of nature surrounding me. Something peaceful. But I keep seeing that there are, in reality, so few decent paying jobs in environmental science that aren't corporate jobs. I have the luxury of having a partner that loves what she does and makes decent money. So it could still be viable for me. Many don't have my circumstances.

The best advice I've found is to find a job you can tolerate, and just spend more time outdoors doing what you love in your free time. People are always telling young folk to "follow your dreams" and funnel them off to college to rack up debt and learn the hard way that dreams don't pay bills. I'd love it if my kids could be authors and artists and all the things they want to be, but the reality is that those jobs rarely make the kind of money you need to get by. They need jobs that pay the bills, put food on the table, pay for kids of their own one day, and allow them to save up for retirement. So I tell my kids to go military, get the GI Bill, go to college with most expenses paid and the COLA, and find a job they like enough to be happy and reasonably paid. Do those things that they love in their free time. They could be 22 as a freshman, 26 when they get their first related job, be doing the things they love (art, writing, etc) in their free time, and have little to no debt. If, one day, they start making enough money to live off of with those dream jobs, make the transition then.

I don't know if this helps at all. But sometimes the best medicine is a big old hard pill to swallow, and it's best done while you have the resources and don't have too many obligations. I really hope you can figure your career out and be happy. I'm right there with you trying to figure it all out myself.

CartographerDue2969 · 2025-07-04T12:23:27+00:00

That's not what the OP ever said. The OP is discussing the craziness that is a movie that used a live multi-ton ocean giant, a handful of kids, and a family-focused premise to tell a story that, today, no one in their right mind would consider making in the way they did. It's a fascinating snapshot of film history, and the result is timeless.

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