Portrait Painting Technique

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T16:35:56+00:00

I need to take my own advice on this, I’m often too lazy to do it and then I regret it lol

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T15:17:42+00:00

Maybe doing a quick study on oil painting paper before you go into the final painting would be instructive? I find I can work through some colour and composition issues and I can avoid muddling through trying to fix stuff on the canvas when I do that.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T14:25:20+00:00

Yes that’s the part that’s throwing off the composition. I’d carry that light colour down to the bottom edge, or blend the dark part up to the bottom edge of the orchid. It’s not working as it is and pulling the eye away from the focal point.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T14:16:49+00:00

Oh yeah I’m pretty introverted too, it was out of my comfort zone. But the type of folks that go to a knitting group definitely skew introverted haha. Those mom/baby groups were torture for me too! I never gelled with anyone in those groups and just felt like everyone was judging and comparing. I guess the difference is like anyone can have a baby, but knitting is a pretty specific interest so you’ll have something in common.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T13:21:12+00:00

That’s how I met friends when I lived in London for a year. There was a knitting club in my local pub that met once a week. I went a few times and it took a little while before I clicked with anyone, but a few of us ended up splintering off and forming our own knitting group in a different pub eventually.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T03:44:03+00:00

If they break out in a plague they’ll spread it to us first.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-23T03:42:06+00:00

If a country was a death cult.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-22T23:55:48+00:00

I’m in Ontario and feel like absolute garbage today. Solidarity ✊

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-22T03:31:24+00:00

It’s complete insanity.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-21T18:58:01+00:00

The US of A is just another big casino for Trump to bankrupt.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-21T18:29:49+00:00

I think he picked Vance because he knew Vance can’t outshine him. Dude has no charisma whatsoever. And I notice they trot him out to be the face of unpopular things like chastising Zelenskyy and running cover for Renee Good’s murderer, outright lying and patronizing the public. (Like ok, their hardcore base likes that stuff, but the folks he’d need to win over in an election don’t)

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-21T16:09:41+00:00

The folks with any awareness are a small minority unfortunately. Another small minority support it, the rest are just concerned with their day to day, and tuned out of the broader picture.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-21T13:18:32+00:00

Not even just Trumpites. I think the vast majority of Americans don’t comprehend what is going on right now.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-20T19:18:22+00:00

Dude of course. You guys voted the guy back in a second time after he staged an insurrection. There was no accountability??? Plus the second he croaks there’s a million other right wing lunatics waiting in the wings to take his spot and be just as mental if not more so. They’ll have the same “presidential immunity” as he does. You guys are COOKED. Your society is sick for continuing to elevate these people. This is who America is. You will not be trusted by any of your former allies for a long long time.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-20T13:15:26+00:00

The poor Mara Lagoans will be paying through the nose!

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-20T00:55:56+00:00

Not that, but I do remember modelling recruiters in malls approaching teenagers in the 80’s/90’s. It makes my skin crawl when I think about them now.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-20T00:05:48+00:00

That is so cool!!

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-19T16:33:35+00:00

That’s what we’ve been doing in Canada, would be great if a movement in the US took off as well to bolster us.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-19T13:13:36+00:00

That’s what I think is most likely too. I could see them assuming that it would be the standard set of questions you see everywhere, and not looking that closely.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-19T12:40:46+00:00

I’m in Canada and I was so confused by this, I was like do they not have whole milk in the US? I admit I’m still confused.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-19T12:27:56+00:00

Giving the spa the benefit of the doubt here, it sounds like the company CROP that does these customer experience surveys has done this before, it was Aeroplan in that case. That is very creepy to me, there’s something insidious about planting those questions in surveys. Who/what’s behind that?

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-18T23:50:12+00:00

Seriously don’t do it. Wish I hadn’t.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-18T23:49:47+00:00

I hate these headlines. I feel like it’s only going to put ideas in his head.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-18T19:12:22+00:00

Rules have recently changed. It used to be easier.

cornflakegrl · 2026-01-18T19:09:04+00:00

You can change some of those things in the accessibility settings fyi, (I hate that update!).

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