#88 4/23/19 Old Red Truck

I took a pic of this truck at the Farmer's Market last Saturday, one of the other vendors said her husband forced her to take the truck that morning, and she made a face and said the vehicle was not easy to drive.  I told her I thought the truck was beautiful, and would she mind if I took a few photos for a potential painting.  Permission was granted.  It's a 7x9 canvas, so a bit bigger than my average.  It was pre-painted with a light coating of orange-red oil paint several weeks ago.  When I decided my project would be the truck, I rummaged through my stack of pre-painted canvases looking for something already red, so that's how I ended up with a 7x9.  I couldn't bear the thought of attempting this type of detail without my trusty broken brush, so I thought I might attempt to tighten up the wiggliness of my pathetic scotch tape fix job.  I pulled it apart and thought perhaps I could shove the brush end on some narrow dowel rod, or maybe a bamboo skewer.  When I inspected the diameter of the open ferrule (my new word today) it became apparent that the tail end of the brush was that same diameter.  It shoved right in and is now as sturdy-feeling as any of the other brushes I have.  That's got to be why this painting turned out nice.  Because my brush was back in business!  So, today I went a step further: the name brand of the brush was rubbed off, but the barcode number wasn't.  I googled that number and found several places to buy it online.  I've got a Blick order coming with 2 of the favored brush - just in case the back end of my latest fix goes kapoot and it's twin goes kapoot.  (It's a "Princeton Lauren Golden Synthetic 4350 Angle Shader 025", 7.4mm, $5.02, btw, which is listed as a brush for acrylics and watercolors.....not sure why oils isn't mentioned because it is working well in this medium!)  Dave walked through the room here just a bit ago, and I asked him to admire the red truck.  He said, "Wow, looks like an old international harvester."  The iH logo that I painted was super-blurred out, so how did he know?  The front grill, he said.  Boys know the weirdest stuff.

 

Top brush: the new "mangy" angle brush.  Bottom brush: the favored and now fixed angle brush.