by Cudedog » Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:30 am
Hello Barbie.
Your painting looks very nice, I would definitely hang it in you home.
The technique reminds me very much of Bob Ross. I used to get up early Saturday mornings (years ago!) to watch his show on PBS. He would go from a blank canvas to a fully finished painting in the space of his 1/2 hour show. Many of his old show are available to watch (for free) on YouTube. Just type in "Bob Ross" for your search query.
His videos are really fun to watch, with his painting and making off-beat humorous comments through-out. Most of his paintings are pretty jaw-dropping.
Have also been thinking about your "heating" problem with your house (too much heat!). My (ex) husband was a solar contractor about 30 years ago, and here is a trick you might try (if they allow it in your park).
What a lot of people don't realize is that once the solar energy comes through your windows, it is now inside your house (even with inside window coverings like blinds or curtains). And it cannot escape again, because the solar energy is blocked from going out again from the window glass that the solar energy has just passed through. So the trapped solar energy builds up, spreads (heat always rises) and begins to heat up the entire room (or rooms).
This is exactly the same way how a greenhouse works. This is why greenhouses are warm to hot inside, even on a cold day - the glass on a greenhouse lets in, and then "traps" the solar energy behind the glass, where it cannot escape, thus warming the greenhouse.
Try this: put some kind of covering on the outside of your windows. This can be anything from just hanging some of those roll-down bamboo shades over the outside of the windows (check roll-down bamboo shades on Amazon or Walmart, the lighter color the better), all the way to a reflective film put directly on the outside of the glass (not the inside!). Again, neither of these will work if they are on the inside, they need to be on the outside of the windows, so as to block the solar energy.
A way to do a "test", before going to the trouble and expense of purchasing and hanging outdoor blinds/shades, is to hang something on the outside of one window that is in full sun for a couple of hours (something light in color, not dark - light colors reflect heat, dark colors absorb and re-radiate heat). Something heavy enough that it will block sunlight - maybe a towel or something (try not to have it touch the glass). After an hour or so, touch the glass on the (inside your house!) of the blocked window. The glass will be relatively cool. Touch the glass of a window in full sun without the covering. The glass will be hot!
The hot glass is constantly radiating heat into your room, the cool glass is not! Even the glass on a window with shades drawn on the inside of your home will get hot. Hot glass radiates heat into your home.
The trick is to block the solar radiation before it gets inside your home.
I feel for you, Barbie. I the older I get, the less I am able to do hot weather. I would love to move to southern Oregon to get out of the heat here in the Central Valley of California, but after looking for a place for close on two years I haven't been able to find anything that would motivate me to move.
Good luck!
Anne
