Feb 12 2007
Painting
One of the many uses of a chihuahua.
I’m painting the hallway bright yellow. Together with the new lights the corridor looks and feels much bigger. The actual painting is fun, but prepping the walls, filling holes and repairing blemishes is a tedious process and took way more time than I like.
After this I only have to do the living and dining room, then the house is totally painted, for the first time since Alison moved here about 13 years ago. The paint that is on the walls now is put there by her predecessors and only one, not completely covering, coat in an ugly brown. A job long overdue.
But before I start that I first want to built some bookcases, so my books can leave the boxes I’ve put them in, more than 3 years ago.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 @ 02:31
ik vind dit zielig
Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 @ 02:37
Ik moet Max nog leren hoe dat zit met Photoshoppen enzo: hij gelooft nog wat hij ziet….
Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 @ 07:05
Ja!
Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 @ 07:15
Ja is right!
The hallway has become a yellow womb. Because it’s monochrome, the places where light reflects look like reflecting light – it’s hard to describe, but woodwork is usually painted differently so you don’t notice that it’s also reflecting differently. Now you do, especially now that there’s lots of light.
It’s really pretty.
Sunday, 4 March, 2007 @ 06:22
I can remember doing this myself in your room in the Witte van Haemstede straat! Brings back memories! We did not use chihuahuas back than, just the ordinary Cavias, but the result was the same. The yellow was also the same. There was a theory behind it. I’m not sure if it had to do with Mark’s colour blindness to a certain very bright type of yellow, or that it had to do with tungsten light! Or that he added a bit too much pigment to the white paint.
Wim
Sunday, 4 March, 2007 @ 08:55
The yellow was not the same. It was ver pale yellow back then, this is pure yellow, as yellow as yellow can get.
And maybe I lack a perception of yellow, but Alison thinks it’s cool too. But maybe she is colourblind also.
Ah well, come by and see for your self.
PS, Chihuahuas are much better than cavias: They absorb much more paint and they don’t squeak as much. I can recommend them.
Monday, 5 March, 2007 @ 08:26
Mark thinks I’m imagining things, but I think of bright yellow as being particularly Dutch. Not that Holland is all yellow all the time, but that it’s used as an accent more often than I see in Montréal.
I think it has to do with a vibrant yellow cutting through the grey Dutch weather like a mercury lamp. Mark thinks I’m nuts.
(Oh, and RE chihuahuas: you can get some really cool effects when you use their ears to overstamp with other colours.)
Sunday, 30 January, 2011 @ 23:10
I just came across this site after looking for paintings of chihuahuas. I have to say I am a little concerned. I am not sure if this is a joke, or if you actually used the chihuahua to paint the walls… If this is real, this is a horrible way to treat an animal that wants nothing more to love you and please you. I really hope that dog is okay.