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WhirrledPeas posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago

Just joined.
I will never catch up with Dr. Farrell’s work!
I’m working my way through a stack of 12 of his books, that is when I’m not on YouTube listening to his numerous interviews.
I hope I can hear his music some day.
Thanks Dr. Farrell
- Joseph P. Farrell replied 8 years, 9 months ago
  
  The music is in the members’ area… at least, what I’ve many to retype into the new program, which is a work moving slower than evolution.
  - WhirrledPeas replied 8 years, 9 months ago
    
    Thanks for the information Dr.Farrell.
    I found a composition you had posted and enjoyed it immensely.
    My late painting teacher, Frank Herbert Mason, would have appreciated your music. He taught classical painting and drawing at The Art Students League in NYC.
    We were collectively trying rediscover the secret formulas for painting mediums used by the Italian, Spanish and Dutch masters. Reminds me of the Xerum 525 used in the Bell, that lost secret formula.(maybe not so lost?)
    It’s like alchemy.
    - Kahlypso replied 8 years, 9 months ago
      
      Holy Hermetic Harmegeddon George.. you’re putting Xerum 525 into your paintings?? But.. but.. but.. radioactive mercury isnt a viable medium.. 🙂 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199010183231603#t=article
      Yep.. they used mercury in latex based paints..(insert appropriate emoticon)
      I’m a former Art Student, who also tried to recreate ancient painting formulas, how far did you get? 🙂
      I used to use a Linseed base mixed with a little walnut oil to loosen up the medium and little ratios of maganese and zinc to accelerate the drying time.
      
      WhirrledPeas replied 8 years, 9 months ago
      
      Hi,
      Nice to meet a former ASL student. I studied with Frank Mason in the 80’s and wonder who you studied with?
      Worse than Xerum 525, we cooked the linseed or Walnut oil with sugar of lead at (if I remember correctly) 230°f and then added mastic varnish to get the Maroger medium. It’s a miracle I didn’t blow up my place but probably have a reduced mental capacity from the lead.
      I felt like an alchemist trying to transmute Grumbachers to Rembrandt, ha,ha.
      George
      
      Kahlypso replied 8 years, 9 months ago
      
      Hi George, just so there is no confusion, I did not study at ASL, I’m a former student at Wolverhampton (in UK)
      But that was over 18 years ago now…. I have to admit that I havent touched a paintbrush for some years now.. Waiting to get a house before overwhelming my wife and children with paint fumes and solvent abuse.. 🙂 (that way I can go to the bottom of the gardn and intoxicate the neighbors.. hehe