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Painting By Numbers House is a new house that contains
no colours but every surface and feature is primed and
ready to be painted. To facilitate a co-ordinated colour
scheme, absolutely everything has a tiny number printed
on it comprising of three digits and three letters.
These numbers and
digits correspond to a supply of the
exact amount of the various paint colours required to
make your house look exactly like the one portrayed in
the corresponding book of printed renderings. It all
works like Painting By Numbers except there are choices
and this is an actual house and not a canvas.
Choose the "Pscho-delish" for example and end up with
purple ceilings; magenta light switches; orange doors
with red door handles; yellow skirting and bright green
moulding. Perhaps "Trump' Surprise" is more to your
liking and if so you will find gallons of gold; silver and
gloss black in the range. (surprise surprise) For country
orientated folk there is the "Broccolike-it-like-that"
featuring earthy greens and browns. Or mabe you just
like lots of white, in which case there is the Whitey-On-
The-Moon range named after the brilliant Gill-Scott
Heron song (link).
Gill-Scott Heron
https://m.youtube.c...3nzoPopQ7V0&t=0&t=0
Whitey-On-The-Moon [xenzag, Nov 27 2021]
[link]
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Being a regular painter, (watercolor), the beauty and the
purpose of using that medium is the wonderful, random
bleeds that occur. Sometimes you think it's probably a new
color you've just made or a design that no one has ever
painted before. SOOOO, |
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What I don't like, and I think others should think this way
too, is not to copy what someone else sees as a rose, but to
paint what you comprehend a rose's form and such looks
like, and choosing the colors you see is part of planting your
personality on the canvas/paper/wall. |
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So neutral for a vote. Your other ideas are holding this one
up for me. |
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You do realise that this is a real house...... |
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I think two things about this. One is that you could have a kind of dual-aspect thing, were there are intricate patterns printed on the wallpaper and woodwork. One set of decoding sheets would make everything nice serene uniform blocks of grey, the other would unleash a riot of chinoiserie with peacocks and pagodas and little birds. Should be fairly easy to load 100 different design themes into a computer and have it spit out a single layout of code numbers and borders and 100 decoding sheets allowing one of the schemes to be made. |
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The numbers and borders could be projected onto the walls using a video-projector, this would allow repainting as often as you liked to re-do the decor. |
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Secondly, I think this is simply a slight adjustment to the idea of modularity, where everything is interchangeable, and yet modular designs usually fail, because it is cheaper to design and build individual different designs and most people prefer to forego the choices and buy one design off the shelf. |
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Of course, xen. I just wanted to rant. |
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The Watercolour Rant; soon be a rap track on the
nearest dance floor. Wouldn't it be great if there
was Watercolour Rap? It could join The
Calligrapher Rap, with italic pens replacing the
usual Mac10s and Uzis in the lyrics. |
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I ... like broad strokes and I cannot lie. |
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