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Flat Figures Painters Forum => Newbie Section => Topic started by: PJDeluhery on November 22, 2012, 12:17:50 PM

Title: New to Flats
Post by: PJDeluhery on November 22, 2012, 12:17:50 PM
Can someone tell me how to open a tube of oil paint?   Does the cap twist to the right or to the left??
(Signed)
Confused in New England.
 
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Larry Lee on November 30, 2012, 02:34:03 PM
Depends.  Was it made North  or South the Eqautor?
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Nicholas Ball on December 01, 2012, 07:54:06 AM
If it comes from Suffolk  England, they are all backwards up there  ;D ;D ;D

They also use toothpaste, cos it say's white on the tube  ;D ;D :D ;D
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: PJDeluhery on December 01, 2012, 01:08:15 PM
Thanks for your thoughtful responses. Unfortunately, I became confused and ended up biting off the bottom of the tube. Now, I have easy access to my paint. Thanks awfully for the advice.
(Signed)
This does not TASTE like Cad Red.
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Joerg on December 02, 2012, 08:21:05 AM
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Brian on December 02, 2012, 08:56:32 AM
"COUNTERCLOCKWISE"  yes but on weekends it got a left hand thread, and cad red!! no thats rose pink you just opened  ;D ;D   
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: PJDeluhery on December 04, 2012, 05:42:45 PM
"COUNTERCLOCKWISE"  yes but on weekends it got a left hand thread, and cad red!! no thats rose pink you just opened  ;D ;D   
Here in the States, we call that "anti-cloclwise."     ;) ;)
I wonder how artists knew which way to twist caps before there were clocks?  ...Discuss amongst yourselves. Quiz on Friday.
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: PJDeluhery on December 04, 2012, 05:48:42 PM
Test Post for removal.
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Joerg on December 05, 2012, 02:24:44 AM
I wonder how artists knew which way to twist caps before there were clocks?  .

And now - something of my dangerous half-knowledge: ;D ;D ;D ;D

According to Sennelier's advertisment (spelled correctly ?)  there were first the clocks ;)

Paints in tubes were invented only in second half of 19th century.

So - every painter, who owned a clock, had this knowledge when buying his first tube of paint.

Hope this helps.
Joerg
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: böckchen on December 09, 2012, 11:12:17 AM
You just have Dart around the nipple by the tongue,
and with the small crank Bump up to the top;
there immediately appears an arrow
and as they press on it then,
and you're on the tube!

But only Dart around the nipple by the tongue,
and with the small crank Bump up to the top;
there immediately appears an arrow
and as they press on it then,
and already is on the Tube!
  ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Mike Krüger Song
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Brian on December 09, 2012, 11:41:31 AM
Now just don't ask me what he's singing  ;D
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOympMtG5Dk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOympMtG5Dk)
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Chris Seeley on December 09, 2012, 12:18:26 PM
thought you had the song off by hart Brian.
 ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)
Chris
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Nicholas Ball on December 09, 2012, 12:24:59 PM
And I thought your computer could translate everything ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Chris Seeley on December 09, 2012, 12:29:21 PM
That's what he told us " my computer can translate anything because it better then yours" were his words. :P :P :P :P
Chris
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Brian on December 09, 2012, 12:40:38 PM
I didn't say I did not know what he's singing, I said don't ask me  ;) ;D 
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: PJDeluhery on December 10, 2012, 09:54:10 AM
I wonder how artists knew which way to twist caps before there were clocks?  .

And now - something of my dangerous half-knowledge: ;D ;D ;D ;D

According to Sennelier's advertisment (spelled correctly ?)  there were first the clocks ;)

Paints in tubes were invented only in second half of 19th century.

So - every painter, who owned a clock, had this knowledge when buying his first tube of paint.

Hope this helps.
Joerg

Thanks for the history lesson, Joerg.  That answers my question nicely.   8)
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Nicholas Ball on December 10, 2012, 04:13:58 PM
Ah, but the first clocks were sun dials, and although they go clockwise to the sun in the northern hemisphere, they go anti clockwise in the southern hemisphere, so again in Australia it all goes backwards. Well they are really arn't they  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Joerg on December 10, 2012, 04:52:23 PM
Well, in Australia, a paint's tube is opened clockwise (see "Alice in Wonderland, chapt.24, line 117)

J.
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Nicholas Ball on December 10, 2012, 05:36:26 PM
Touchez   J     Nice one  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: willie on December 11, 2012, 01:59:16 PM
First of all you boys have to much time on your hands :P As for nipples, I like them when they are hard ;D but that's another subject. For eating paint you must have munch the paint on you lead soldiers when you where young :P this would explain a lot about you guys. Now fellow rocket scientist I have a physics college question ?  Since we are trying to see what way to twist off the cap of paint tubes. This my help you. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere how does your toilet water go down when flushed 8). This was a question asked in one of my college Physic class for my final exam ;D Willie
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Nicholas Ball on December 11, 2012, 02:55:03 PM
Our new house is so badly built most of the toilets get blocked!!  ;D ;D ;D

Do I get extra marks for originality and inganuity  ;D ;D ( certainly not for my spelling!!)
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: marko on December 11, 2012, 03:44:59 PM
Sadly I think this our most active post area... :o


I guess that indicates something deep about our membership.
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: Larry Lee on December 11, 2012, 06:32:10 PM
Hey Nick: Please don't invite me to your house for chili and beers   :D
Title: Re: New to Flats
Post by: willie on December 11, 2012, 06:59:38 PM
Now don't get up set with the guys.  Most of them are nice and very good artist. Each one of us brings a great deal of knowledge to this club and that's the way it should be. We live all over the world yet we have a common bond we all love flats and painting them. Yes we joke and that's good for the club. Like I have said in the past this is a hobby and not  a foot race.  So I say to my fellow Flat Brothers across the Pond and here don't change. Is it true that Nick is from Digby and knows that Vicar ::) I my self are heading to my paint table with a large Brandy Willie