Here's today's web report from USD.

There's a web url that appears to be missing from today's log. Same for a few other past days with a similar log report. I haven't edited out any sites I've visited. I only copy the section of websites recorded from the new web logger I'm using.

This part should go under web activity because my art project is reducing the amount of time I spend on the web. Today or the next two days is when I complete the first two paintings. Not many amateur artists or people are fortunate enough to have a father who would pay over $500 to fund their abstract art. My dad did that to my surprise. He always felt I had a future in art but I never asked him to fund this expensive kind of art until a couple weeks ago.

It takes a lot of costly paint to create the paintings. I don't apply the paint with a brush which would cost much less to do. I press the canvas onto a tray which contains the paint and pull the canvas up off the tray. And in that instant the shapes, the color blending and the entire work is created. I turn over the painting face up as soon as possible and let it dry. If the painting looks bad or unacceptable then about $150 is down the drain. And I'd have to do another one. My dad has accepted that as a risk in this kind of art.

It's abstract art consisting of a very natural look of shapes that appear to be leaves, flowers (mostly orchids,) waves, water, waterfalls, fire, smoke or ash depending on the colors used. The latter three are achieved usually with red, yellow and black colors blended. For waves and water I would generally use blue and white. And I will make an all white and an all black painting. But up close the all white and all black ones should look amazing with the plant/flower/waves shapes shining in various places as light reflects off the ridges and valleys of the thick acrylic white or black paint.

I've waited over 10 years to make an all white and all black version. Just never had the chance with working in drafting or the computer field and as I said it's an expensive way to create art. Now I'm a driver (courier) and it doesn't pay much to support this art project. So if anyone sees me taking an all white or all black canvas painting out to the car to go to an art gallery, well if you could see them up close you would have a different impression.

And I haven't even made the paintings yet. That's for later today or over the weekend depending on when the gloss coat dries. The gloss coat helps to make the painting glossy as if the glow is coming from under the colors on top. The colors including the black and white will have also gloss added to give most of the glossy effect. Acrylic paint alone is dull, so gloss gel is a must to make it shine and look alive.

And the third painting will have various colors like blue, red, purple, yellow, orange and green. It will depict a volcano erupting underwater. The green will represent seaweed or undersea plants. I'll post the titles of the three works here if they are accepted on consignment at an art gallery. And I hope someone will take them on consignment.

And in case anyone is wondering why I just didn't take out $500 or $1,000 from my funds to start the project, well it's not that simple. I have some of it in an IRA and if my dad found out I withdrew from an IRA account for art he would be furious and rightly so. And the bulk of my retirement money should probably be for retirement and not art. It's in different accounts than the much smaller IRA.

But more importantly the bigger accounts are joint accounts with my dad. And he probably would have objected to spending any of it for art considering it's his money and well as mine. So I never asked him to fund it until recently. And all of my jobs never paid enough for me to do this kind of art on a bigger scale with large canvases like the 32" by 32" ones I'm doing now. And of course I spent a lot of my money on home computers and software. Now he's decided to fund the art from his own accounts after I finally asked him a couple weeks ago.

Ok you guys I really didn't want to include this part but since you can see me doing the art with EMR inlcuding IR well here goes. I suppose you could Google this art production method to see if what I said above is legit. Or you could be looking for an art expert within the government. And just what if the expert demanded to see where my writing above came from. What if he or she wanted to see this website to better evaluate me? Maybe you guys can't afford to show him or her this site because he or she may go directly to the media with all of this. Just Google it, you'll find everything about this kind of art work to be just as I said.

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