moving right along
Most of this was painted with a roller. The black outlines were done with a small brush. Sophia helped.
This is taking forever. Got most of the outlines done today. Took six hours. At the paint store they sold me on the new style of roller for paint. Used to be everyone used the 9 inch long deals that were big around as a roll of electrical tape. Or three hot dogs tied together. Or the same diameter as the fat end of a wiffle ball bat.
This is the old style of paint roller. Notice the amount of infrastructure required to house the nap itself.
Now, witness evolution. They have become thinner than a single hot dog. Sean even calls them hot dog rollers, maybe because they are about the same length, although a little less thick, and probably healthier to eat. It makes sense, and perhaps Lyle the mathamagician can back this up, having a very thick-in-diameter paint roller doesn’t put the paint on faster or thicker than a thinner diameter roller. It just costs more in material to manufacture and ship, and takes more display space on store shelves.
The new roller is a single piece of metal.
So our generation gets to witness an advance in paint application, and who among us has taken a minute to really appreciate that? Is this the only blog to note it? Are you gonna say no one cares? I don’t believe that. It affects us all, all of us who live in homes with crummy outdated color schemes in our bedrooms, any of us who have to move out at the end of the month and need to touch up some walls to get the security deposit back. Paint is like the glue that holds pictures in photo albums, but your house isn’t an album, unless you think of rooms as pages, in which case, the glue is actually paint because you hang pictures on the wall, and that wall has been painted.
Nice work!
Comment by Dastard — August 9, 2009 @ 12:18 am
For your application, hotdog roller was the right Idea, small surfaces, small length roller, turns better in tight areas. the smaller the diameter the less paint it holds and the more your ass is going to bend over. Hotdog rollers are good for exterior spindles. If you tried to paint a wall with a paint that had any type of sheen, you couldn’t keep up with a wet edge, It would flash like the Odiorne Point Pedophile, especially in California where all the Low voc paints, All Low v.o.c paints dry like a mother fucker. That is why a lot of Painters don’t have the patience to use new Paint that came out by Ben Moore called Aura, That is a kick ass paint that lays down like melted butter. I remember my first painting job at Gold’s Gym, Sean and I needed to do it at night when they were closed. We played racquetball and went swimming, no one told the cleaning lady that we were going to be painting in there, so when she saw shadows in the gym, she called the cops, they came in with guns everywhere, i think sean was just coming out of the hot tub in his underwear, dripping with water and fear when they said “Freeze muther fucker”
Comment by poop — August 9, 2009 @ 2:32 am
what will the thought bubbles/ boobies say?
Comment by n.d.p. — August 9, 2009 @ 8:58 am
the powdery colors are very playful
Comment by n.d.p. — August 9, 2009 @ 9:00 am
i’m very proud and impressed with this work of yours. if i move down after all, i can hire me to guard this work of art at night. so long as you supply me with a badass costume and bully club.
Comment by mims — August 9, 2009 @ 9:53 am
Truck looks awesome.
Ken goofing around on a night job? I don’t believe it for a second.
Remember when we cleaned the ceiling in that Friendly’s with Hamilton? Let’s just say that Friendly’s wasn’t puttin’ whipped cream on any desserts the next day…
Comment by Lyle_S — August 9, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Gonna put things like “I wanna be your junk man” and stuff in the bubbles. My neighbor Kal came out and told me it looked like a diaper delivery service truck. So thanks to you all for the encouragement.
Comment by Rolston — August 10, 2009 @ 6:11 am
dude! it’s looking so good!
Comment by molly — August 30, 2009 @ 5:41 pm