Sketch in coal-tar/oil paint?

[meshpig]

This is a scanned Polaroid of the end of my career in visual art from 1995 which I found yesterday in a pile of photos.

Basically, I lost %50 of my eyesight due to a genetic disease back then and couldn't continue with that or anything else visual, it never got to completion... now I've got less than %8 of normal vision in total and wish I could trot out a drawing with a pen, brush whatever to post a pic.

There was a gap of a few years before I discovered 3D graphics and LW.

But then, I remember in Primary school getting 2 bits of paper and drawing an image and then tracing the next frame against a window. Then you'd get a pencil and roll up the front sheet and run it back and forth as a simple animation.

-One of the greatest painters in the 20C is Francis Bacon. He makes a still image into a moving image, figurative painting into a kind of virtual animation.

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[bluerider]

Thanks for posting the studio shots.

Do you do anything to your monitor when your working in 3D because of eye sight.

[meshpig]

Thanks for posting the studio shots.

Do you do anything to your monitor when your working in 3D because of eye sight.

Luckily I can still use colour, though see it only at the edges of the centre.
Macs have a great zoom... the whole screen can be magnified x40, so with a big screen it's the nearest thing to having normal vision I come to.:thumbsup:

I am trying to get the idea that 3D is very helpful for the vision impaired (at least for some types) across to the Blind Society.

-As recreation but it also maintains eye-hand coordination and uses the eyes in a constructive way... for those who want to hang onto what they've got and not go totally audio.


M

[gerry_g]

Like the style meshpig looks cool, I thought I was hard done by cos I have a little grey fuzzy speck at the center of my left cornea due to carelessness observing the last major solar eclipse but wow I feel for ya

[zapper1998]

Like the style meshpig looks cool, I thought I was hard done by cos I have a little grey fuzzy speck at the center of my left cornea due to carelessness observing the last major solar eclipse but wow I feel for ya


Did not they tell you to wear welding goggles to view the Eclipse.......

"As they say":
U only have 2 eyes, 1 spare, no replacements, Take care of the eye's.

Take a 15 minute break every hour U work at the computer..

I weld about an average 2 hrs a day for the last 20 years, when I was a [kid oh 9 or 10], My dad is a Machinist, and I accidentally was watching him weld some framing on a big earth mover...Boy did he come unglued when he say me watching with out EYE Protection, luckily he was only welding for a few seconds, when he knocked the ground clamp off the tractor, cursing he was, then he saw me and, Blam, did I get in trouble.
Got the lecture of my LIFE, that day.
And did I learn a lesson, oh yes I did, it felt like a bucket of sand in my eyes for a few days.
The doctor said I was ok, my eye sight was not damaged, BUT did I learn a lesson, wow.
At that young age it scared the holy c__p out me...
And have done it a few times after that...no damage yet...
knock on wood as they say..

I work in a very Heavy Industrial Atmosphere, and accidents happen all the time.

So believe me I know, I Have had a few friends loose there eyes, vision,
due to carelessness, and stupidity.

Michael

[gerry_g]

Zapper1998 yes I was looking through some dark film and squinting through one eye but somehow through jiggling it around managed to expose my left eye, but this is a tiny blemish no bigger than a spec and 99% of the time invisible. Only when I look at a bright clear sky or some thing similar am I aware of it at all and unlike meshpigs condition is not degenerative.

[meshpig]

Thanks gerry_g. The up-side for me of course is that I wouldn't have gotten around to doing something I always wanted to do otherwise.



Cheers!


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[androidmaker]

do you have macular degeneration?

[meshpig]

do you have macular degeneration?


Similar, cone and rod/macula dystrophy as in the cone cells simply stop reproducing where a degeneration is a matter of the efficiency of existing ones ie. old age.

I don't know why I posted a blurb about my eyesight. I guess I sometimes feel a little out of place being so into a visual tool?

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[meshpig]

This is a scanned Polaroid of the end of my career in visual art from 1995 which I found yesterday in a pile of photos.

Thought I'd put the studio image again... (sentimental maybe).


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[bluerider]

Love the studio space....wow.