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Cake day: October 7th, 2025
  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?
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    11 hours ago

    If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum… do it! The colors glow like nothing you’ve seen.

    When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.

    Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.

    It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.

    Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.

    Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90’s IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie…

    I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.

    Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.

    Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.

    At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I’m going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one’s gotten it right. I’ve always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.

    I won’t even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.

    Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish… do it. It’s absolute magic.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Adulting is hard
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    6 days ago

    This was me with beer. Gave it up over 15 years ago, as what was making me feel shitty about it was putting out the recycling bin filled with beer bottles and cans… and realizing just how much money I was spending on something that was doing nothing good for me. Stopped drinking in 2009 and don’t miss it a bit. Saving a lot more money as well…