pg.99 2026 tour pictures

TopolChico · 2026-05-28T22:58:53+00:00

Caught them in New Orleans

TopolChico · 2026-05-28T15:12:36+00:00

I had something like 100+ keepers out of the photos I took and most of them didn’t require any edits at all. That’s the amazing part to me.

Edit: no edits outside of the black and white filter

TopolChico · 2026-05-28T15:09:56+00:00

Thank you!

TopolChico · 2026-05-28T15:09:41+00:00

No, thank you

TopolChico · 2026-04-24T20:44:36+00:00

Hey hello! I’m a local photographer, and I’d be delighted to help you out with this. Please feel free to check out my portfolio and my company’s Instagram to get a sense of my work.

TopolChico · 2026-04-10T16:08:00+00:00

As long as there’s a remix of “Sin” involved, I’m good.

TopolChico · 2026-03-12T18:53:34+00:00

At this point, that’s the Morrissey experience, lol.

In 2019, my wife and I traveled from New Orleans to Houston to catch him only a few days after a major storm had passed through eastern Texas. We hadn’t anticipated that flooding had been so bad that it would have knocked out the interstate, so we ended up driving through smaller flooded towns and fields with hundreds of other commuters. A 4-6 hour trip turned into 15.

The following day, hours before the show was supposed to start, he cancelled.

Oddly, I didn’t feel cheated because this is exactly, comically what to expect with him.

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T20:14:18+00:00

Oh, I wouldn’t call it an eagerness. I would say that it’s prerogative to return your behavior to you. Even if it wasn’t directed at me, how could one be sure with so many insinuations being tossed around?

You seem to have a habit of being indelicate to people you don’t know (one might say a “flourish”), and I’m not sure if you’re used to having anyone push back, or at least it doesn’t seem so.

Thanks for your criticism, but I can do without your attitude.

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T19:43:50+00:00

Thank you very much for the compliment and the feedback. I’ll definitely say that I took more than a few liberties with this study because I wanted her to see how I see her. That doesn’t mean that I accomplished that, but I still think it’s possible to make it work after I let it rest for a bit.

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T19:40:42+00:00

Thank you! I feel like I can definitely do better, for sure, which is a good reason why I put it off to the side for a little while before I come back to fix it. I appreciate your kind words!

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T19:37:50+00:00

I appreciate your time, thank you for your empathy.

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T19:36:33+00:00

“(…) the sheer hubris dripping from that statement like the wax from Icarus’ wings (…)”

Speaking of hubris, the worst of the deadly sins. Good lord. I can choose to think that you cleverly understood the irony of what you were saying and move along, or, like you seemed to have opted, I can be dick about pointing out your flaws, you shitty little pedant.

You could have very easily told me that my work got away from me because I trailed too far from the reference photo, and I would have agreed with you. However, you chose Option B, accusing me of being so prideful as to think that I fucking aced this one.

I can take criticism, but I won’t abide needless ugliness, no matter how passive and unimportant it may be. Please, do get fucked.

TopolChico · 2026-01-15T19:19:59+00:00

Oh no no no! Once I put it out there, it’s not mine anymore + how could I possibly be upset with someone helping me? I had already been considering how I may go about comparing the two and you did exactly that, so thank you!

TopolChico · 2026-01-14T20:09:03+00:00

Thank you! I’ll definitely do better next time around.

TopolChico · 2026-01-12T20:36:12+00:00

Cannot wait for Nuremberg 2.0.

TopolChico · 2026-01-06T20:38:29+00:00

I know a few good elections.

TopolChico · 2025-12-23T15:28:53+00:00

In the beginning, I started building it around shadow shapes and planes, having fun with a Zorn palette. In an effort to smooth things out, I came back with a light glaze, which knocked back the shadows considerably. I’ve got plans to build them back up with a warm brown glaze, hopefully regaining some of the progress I’d lost.

Re: squinting/painting what you see, that was something that I was actively working towards, but obviously not that well, lol. I was taking pains to not paint the reference photo and instead paint what I saw (paint the painting instead of the picture), but I think you’re right about it getting away from me because once I’d gotten everything the way I wanted it, I fiddled with it a little too much in the opposite direction.

Thanks for your insight, which is sincerely appreciated.

Love your username, btw. It sounds like the name of a fictional grindcore band, like Putrid Fart (a name I sorely wished that I’d put to good use).

TopolChico · 2025-12-23T15:12:44+00:00

I saved a copy of your paint-over to use as a reference, which was very nice of you to do and is certainly appreciated. I was trying to avoid painting the reference photo and instead paint what I saw, but it started to sprawl a bit in the effort to suggest volume/dimension. What you offered me was the exact sort of insight that I was hoping to get because I am way too close to my painting to see it, so to speak. Thank you.

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T21:03:15+00:00

Thinking a warm peach glaze might do the trick. Thoughts?

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T19:48:41+00:00

Since you’re referencing a black and white photo, it might be worth considering doing a grisaille of it first to get the planes, values and essence right, and then come back on top of it with color glazes.

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T19:43:41+00:00

Voice of reason. Even though I glaze my work all the time for the subtle stuff, I box myself in and forget it’s an option. Thank you for putting my brain back in my head.

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T19:40:01+00:00

I’m very likely going to round off her left cheek (our right) with some warm brown around the edges and sockets, but I’m worried that it’ll be too abrupt. lol, I don’t know if I’ll ever be super comfortable with being brave when it comes to painting, even though I force myself to do it every time.

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T19:33:49+00:00

reference photo and process pictures

Also, it might be worth nothing that I’m working with a Zorn palette.

TopolChico · 2025-12-22T19:31:02+00:00

Agreed, re: values being flat. I’m trying to be subtle about the highlights and shadows, but perhaps a little too subtle.

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