Now what?

good grief


So I tried to make a painting video earlier this week without any success. First off I have a webcam built into my laptop. I tried to record with it, but the big problem was I couldn't find an angle that would show what was going on. It wasn't showing what was happening on the canvas at all. A lot of white and shine, but no drawing and the lighter colors of the paint wasn't showing either.

* My side note for the post... I paint on a flat surface, being number one my kitchen table or two on the floor of the front room while either listening to music or letting the Tv talk to itself. I swear it has been a long time since I actually listened or watched a show and was able to comprehend or should I say absorb myself enough in the show to know what is going on. lol My mind wanders off to other places while painting, so I guess there really isn't much reason to have these items going in the first place.

I don't know if I will ever paint on an easel! I have one. My younger brother bought me one for Christmas... I just don't know where I put it because I am a creature of habit and it just felt wrong painting with the canvas up right and tilted.

I might buy an artist table one of these days when I actually take the time to set up an art room or a craft shop. ( <----- for the scroll saws, drimels, carving tools, bits and pieces of random stuff such as beads, wires, glass, cutters, kilns, etc. ) I also have a bad habit of wanting to do other crafting things besides painting) I own three different sewing machines and haven't really used them yet. At one point I was going to make rag dolls with a pattern I would make. Many post ago I actually had a doll made from a very basic pattern I drew out. I think I posted it sometime last year. I had material bought up and everything, but I let that fall into the background with school etc. Something extra to take to shows... I may drag something out and try again later this summer because I do have a couple or shows during the fall schedule coming up. I have my 10 x 10 purchased and in a shed in the backyard. Ah!!! lol I told you my mind tend to wonder off....

Ok, back to the video thing. I have two older webcams. Much much older. I purchased it when any webcam that came out was well over $150 dollars and I was in my first year of college. I tried plug and go, because most programs can be loaded off of the internet and I didn't want to get out the CD to load it. I got an error message stating that the program wasn't compatible with windows vista. Ok.... I got the CD out and put it in the drive. Again... the cd loaded and then it said again wasn't compatible with windows 98, program configured for windows 95. No updates available. So a webcam from 1998 doesn't want to work with a computer bought in 2009. lol so The two cams I have from roughly 1998 and 2001 will not work even though they would be perfect because I could rig up a stand to angle them the way I need. The camera with the laptop doesn't want to angle... and I am not going to duct tape the laptop in a weird angle just to film my painting.

Soooooo if you are actually still reading this. No videos for a while. I still really do love the whole concept of watching others paint. I know I have watched many on you tube and am hooked on finding more because I find it very fascinating.

(cough cough) I'm also a penny pincher in a huge way and somewhat stubborn : ) but I know the easiest way is to just go buy a new webcam. It takes me a while to talk myself into a purchase so I would give it maybe another month before you might see a video. lol

I wonder if making a podcast would work with postings of pictures on the blog to go along. Kind of like the read along books on tap you used to listen to as kids. hmmmm??? something to think about.