Friday 11/17/2023
Took a standard walk. At 10:30, put on my red shirt and drove to the museum to lead the noon tour. That went pretty well, about 10 people, very attentive.
Practiced guitar. Revised the short video I made yesterday, to make it a little longer, at Kass’s request. Then sat down to make an orange color.
Previously I had purchased some Light Orange acrylic paint. It looked like the right color in the color patch at the online hobby store, but when it arrived it was clearly too light and yellow. Today I sat down with a sheet of plastic for a palette, and a couple of blunt hypodermics for dispensing small quantities of liquid precisely, and experimented. I had some deep red from the same paint company. Pretty quickly I worked out that just a teeny addition of the red to the orange got the right color. About 1 drop to 16 drops, or so.
I put all the orange in a bottle and threw in a couple of screws I had in my junk drawer, to facilitate mixing. Measured the weight of the paint in the bottle (by weighing an empty bottle then the full one), and began dispensing single CCs of red and shaking, shaking. Pretty soon had the right color. Here it is, posed against the same reference pic as yesterday.
Codgerville 