Watching Paint Dry

[Pilgrim Norway]

Ah yes Artist -

But now you have a newly opened, safe, warm spot to keep your brushes
icefree and at the ready .....

No feet under the table at my end of Norway - but I imagine that Thokenda
is on visiting terms....

By the way - it's colder here than up north and we have more snow.....

The Corps should rent my bottom field for their winter games.....

Rjukan was good enough in Rods' time and had the best terrain for all
round training - and possibly the best 'runs'

Still - I imagine that the lads still sing about their old hats etc whilst standing on a table in order to reach out into the room so perhaps
it's best to let them play oop noorth like....

'Aye

[Skiffle]

Archie,

You haven't hung this picture upside down have you .

If you have this would cause the illusion of the paint running in the wrong direction.

You could always take this picture to one of the local church's and claim it as a miracle, declaring yourself the next messiah, and blag them for all the free holy water you can drink!

[Artist]

Skiffle

Archie dont use water but sheep dip. This could be the cause of his "blobbing up" problems. Baa Humbug! I hear from NZ.

As they say it takes all sorts.

Artist

[Skiffle]

Ah,

So is watching sheepdip dry any better than watching paint dry?

What are the advantages and diadvantages (aside from having to get the sheep out first)?

[Artist]

It is if you like sheep.

Artist

[John_D]

Now theres a point.
When the Farmers paint that spot on the back of
the sheep, does it dry any quicker because of the fleese?

Aye

John_D

[Lurchenstein]

Lurchenstein,
I would not go as far as to say you were an incompetent Painter,
it may be the fact that because you are a novice, it is scabbing over
because you are just scratching the surface,

Whether empirical (or hemispherical), that makes sense John. However, there's surely an in-depth explanation for this phenomenon. The fumes may be distorting my perception of where the paint ends & where I begin.
Cheers to the whole painting lot!

[Sisyphus]

Watching paint dry isn't always that easy. Having recently painted acres of new ceiling plaster with white emulsion, on the second coat I couldn't even see where I'd painted and where I hadn't! Never mind if it was dry or not.

Enough to drive a sane man nuts. Imagine the effects on an insane man. :crazyeyes:

Solution was to wait until near sunset when the low sun shone into the room at just the right angle, grab roller and paint the 'missed' bits asap. Run into far corner of room, kneel so you could squint at just the right angle to check, roller missed bits as fast as poss. Repeat until own screams become too loud to bear.

Unfortunately, the Sun moves so what you thought was painted, wasn't - only to be revealed the following morning when, up at the crack of dawn, checked again.

Naturally, said tactic doesn't work on N facing rooms! AAAaaaarghhh.

Too late I discover there's a new paint that looks blue when wet and dries white. Now that's a paint worth watching dry! I don't care how much it costs, next time I'm buying it.

[Dave.Mil]

Dont bother with the blue wet white dry stuff I tried it and it stayed blueish. But I'm a bit impatient with my mixing so it could have been my fault.(see it's all down to prep) For your problem you could try rigging up a mirror outside to direct the sunlight off the ceiling as the sun moves(or is it us moving) move the mirror. A lot of hassle but for those of us that take our painting seriously I'm sure it's worth it.

[harry hackedoff]

I wasn`t going to join in this most excellent thread as I thought it was over my head, but since most of you actualy live beneath my feet.....

Archie is suffering from "down-ism" when he reports his confusion regarding the apparent directional vector of observed paint drops in the Southern Hemisphere.
Archie mate, there is no "down" in this sense and the paint drops are merely reacting to the gravitational effect of the Earth. Imagine a painter aboard a non-stop flight between London and Aukland. During the entire flight, he paints the inside of the cabin. Relative to an onboard observer, the drops have an apparently constant "downwards" motion. However, to an alien observer in another galaxy the paint drops actually change their directional vector by one hundred and eighty degrees. Who`s view is the correct one?
To the question of humidity, temperatures of both paint and substrate and Black Rat`s most important issue of particulate size in the 250 microns range, windspeed and direction etc etc I would say that paint dries most rapidly down here due to constant ambient temperatures above twenty-five degrees C.
Aye,

[Pilgrim Norway]

Ah yes Harry,

Wish I'd bought one of those Australian maps of the World -
I was afraid of becoming dizzy though.....

[John_D]

Harry
On the flight from London to down under, at what point of the journey
does the paint tin start to tilt

Aye

John_D

[Dave.Mil]

You may have sussed a good way to get a drip free finish on doors, paint them on planes flying to Aus. I reckon the reason it won't run is because as you go upside down so to speak it's that slow the paint remains stationary. Where's me tablets

[old scaly back]

Just to add a touch of anarak(ism).
If you was in the toilet compartment on the plane and washed your hands in the sink.
In England the water would drain out clockwise.
As you went over the Equator the water wouldnt turn as it drained.
In Australia it would drain out anticlockwise.
This is due to the rotation of the earth.zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Artist]

OSB

Good point. Which way would paint run if your were painting on a airyplane following the equator?

And just what would happen to the clockwise/anticlockwise movements of the water? If again you were flying dead straight along the equator? i,e, would it just not go Whooomphh straight down?

I wonder if anybodys tried it?

Artist