Yes, yes, I know I have a goes-nowhere link on my Gallery page right now for paintings, and I know I talked about my plans for it here a couple posts ago. That bit's got bogged down by the fact I discovered my mobile phone's camera secretly got lat/long/elev EXIF data turned back on against my express wishes, and as a result the metadata in all the JPEGs of my paintings that I took excruciatingly describe where my flat is, down to the nearest decimal. The way around this is fairly simple—just copy the content into a new file—but I have all those saved on my laptop and it's totally inoperative until I can get the battery replaced. Yeah. I didn't follow my own rule of "never save personal files onto Drive C" and now I can't get to my painting pics. I'm sure I can scrape together the $45 it's going to take to replace the battery (which would be made easier if you could buy one of my music albums on itch.io :P) but I guess I'll just retake the photos with my purpose-built camera.
I'm not much of a painter, really. All I do is imitate Bob Ross, but sometimes that's all you need. For a long time, my roommate and I lamented the fact that the sitting room walls were completely bare, but we could never find the right wall art. Well, I singlehandedly solved that problem by simply supplying my own. Since I took up landscape painting in July of 2020, I've painted on 25 canvasses. A few of those are paint-overs, so I've actually done about 30 individual paintings. Out of those 25 canvasses, 15 are displayed in my flat, and those are the ones I'm going to put on the Gallery page.
Just to prove I'm not making stuff up, here's a preview. This one was already on my desktop computer from an earlier photo backup and has no metadata of any kind.
--11 July 2024--