I need help from anyone with alot of experience with acrylic paint. My painting, Meeting in the Mist ( http://myenia.deviantart.com/art/Meeting-in-the-Mist-118132254 ), has turned puke yellow. It was fine on my wall for 4 months, and then I moved home with my parents for the summer, and I took it out yesterday and it was yellow. I took a trip to the local art store, who's employees are always very helpful when I don't know something, and was told it was because I didn't varnish it. I had, but not carefully/more than one layer, because I didn't realize how big of a deal it was, so I bought a can of Golden varnish to try to prevent further yellowing and protect my other stuff.

When I got home, I put a new white wash over the rocks that were especially yellow, which seemed to do a ton of good. Then I proceeded to put around 5 coats on it, as according to the directions, and it was much better looking. Thismorning, I went to move it, and now it's yellow again, but this time, it's in stripes! I did the varnish up and down, side to side, and then diagnally...and now I've got a yellow graph on my painting! It appears that where I sprayed turned back yellow...as the areas that were entirely yellow before are still OK between the lines.

I understand that my painting is probably unsavable...and I'm very upset, as I am incredibly proud of this thing...more than anything else I've ever made. But please, if anyone can tell me what happened and how to prevent it in the future on other art, I really want to know. When I search for information on it, I read that only oils are known for turning yellow, and cannot find anything about my problem. Other paintings I've done, with crappy paint, haven't changed a bit, siting in sunlight every day. I cant imagine this is from the sun.

It makes it worse that the painting is primarily purple, now covered in yellow :'(

Thanks for any help.

PS. sorry to be a pain and post this EVERYWHERE, but I'm really upset and want to maximize the likelihood of getting the advice I need

It drives me nuts when people insist that certain healthy foods are unhealthy. Like eggs. You hear idiots constantly claiming that the yolks are horrible for you and its unhealthy to eat anything but egg whites.

And Potatoes. First of all, the type of starch that potatoes are is very good for you, on top of all the tons of vitamins you get out of them. And don't even get me started on sweet potatoes. I try to eat at least 2 a week. People put marshmellows, butter, cheese, bacon, and sour cream on potatoes, and try to claim its the potato thats the problem, "its nothing but carbs."

Not like I'm a health nut, I just don't care for that brand of ignorance.

Today I went with my boyfriend and family to the Houston rodeo. Tonight, one of the horses bucking broke it's leg- like, the bone was in half and the leg was swinging where it shouldnt. It was like that harry potter movie where his bones disapeared. It was incredibly disturbing, especially because I'm sure that horse is getting put down. At the time, I was under the impression that they made the horses buck with something that squeezed their balls, and I was really upset that a horse would have to die because something like that. But, I did some research since I got home, and found out that that's a myth, and that its both anatomically impossible and not allowed in the US. Also, in a test of 33,991, only .00047% of the time an animal gets injured. So, I was pretty upset earlier but at least now I know what we saw was definately a rarity. But still disturbing...I'm sure I'll have nightmares of people/myself with limbs snapped in half.

I really want to make a graphic novel...but people always seem to say things like that and it never happens. I'll wait for the right idea to come along, whether it comes from me or my boyfriend. He has so many ideas, usually great, but lately they're all the same. I pal to spend some time this week finishing commissions so that I can do some of the things I've been saying and thinking I'll do.

I recently painted this for the art show at furry fiesta. I can't seem to get a decent scan or photo of it, but I've got a couple shots of it in progress here (and a partial finished pic). I learned a TON working on this. Any suggestions on where to get a good scan of a 20x30 image? I hate going to kinkos, they just charge you as their slow-ass programs take forever loading up, and then the scans are terrible.

Anyway, even though I'm burnt out on paint after this, I felt pretty proud of it and keep wanting the time to sit down and try to paint something else.

PS....how do you put something "under the cut?" I know this image is huge and probably pretty annoying.

We have 13 left, grab one while you still can! Great gifts, and will go out in the mail immediately.

10 days left!

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I upload wip shots here...finished art can be found at deviantart. These are my current projects :) . I'm trying a new method for coloring (kinda)...if you have any crit please share! First two are commissions, third is for me.

I went to a reptile show yesterday and bought my new baby girl! Her name is Shosti, named after my favorite composter (Shostakovich), and she's a ball python. The show I went to have some really amazing stuff. Isnt she gorgeous?

Appologies for the lame Austin Powers title.

Well, as some people have heard...my car was totalled. And then replaced with this NEW HOTNESS!

Don't get me wrong...I did have to pay a couple thousand to get another new car, but luckily State Farm gave me $15000 for my last one. Scion is a fixed price dealer, which means no haggling. But since he couldn't give me a monetary discount...he gave it to me in the form up upgrades! So, next weekend I'll be getting about $1k worth of stuff put on for free!
The last one's not mine, but just to show what the inside looks like.

Just do it. This sickens me.

I won't really say who I support but holy shit...I can't believe we put people like this in power. These are all well-researched cases. If this disgusts you as much as me, try to spread the word. I try to stay out of political stuff but this is just wrong.

Yesterday my boyfriend was following me to a concert his mom was in town performing at. Someone slammed on their breaks ahead of me, and I -almost- didn't hit them, but then my boyfriend plowed into the back of my car, so I've got some great damage front and back. I feel worse for him though...his car is totalled, and the airbag didn't open and the seatbelt didn't tighten, so he has bruises on his ribs. Don't buy a PT Cruiser.

It just seems like every time I start recovering financially...something happens to my beloved car and I'm eating rice or beans for every meal again. So...commissions are still open and on discount. Maybe someday I'll be able to close these again and do personal art.

Oh, and I'm going to start uploading little walkthroughs, mostly background stuff, here.

Tree walkthrough. Not tutorial, because its not the best way to do it. But it is fast and effective, I think. No explaination needed, I think, but feel free to ask questions.

More progress. The face is getting close to done...I've got to give it color variation, more contrast, and finish the mouth area. This is shown at 50%

The beginnings of my calendar image! the background is rough right now, not close to finished. This is my paragraph, and I must say it was a BITCH trying to figure out an image for this one. Lots of great concepts yet bad ideas.

Living in the city can be difficult for werewolves, as they prefer quiet, open spaces rather than the small flats and crowded streets of cities. They may stay in urbanized areas for different reasons: some have a regular human life, a job and friends. Due to all of the advantages of living near a city, there is alot of competition over urban areas. Werewolves claiming city territory are typically large and tough, and often have to defend their homes and family from intruders.

August..Alternate title: Snack Time!

More stuff I'm working on...last two are commissions. Any suggestions on the seraphim would be helpful...its been a real pain doing her! She wasnt originally colored to be black, but then I played around with colors and liked this version much better. The copper skin is really angelic, imo. I'm not bought on the hair color...

In 3 billion years, the andromeda galaxy will collide with ours...I'd imagine it might look like this as it approached. As I had mentioned, I'd been dieing to do my Luhkazti characters with a starscape...I simply found an excuse to do the sky sooner with Bloodi. So, finally some personal art. :) I'm making it huge (this is 30%) so that I can print a poster of it...my school does some great discounts.

I've been dieing to do personal art so I could do a starscape with my Luhkazti characters. But then I realized, I could probably sneak it in with some owed art :). My ACEO trade with Bloodhound Omega got lost in the mail, and since she let me take about a year making it up, I'm making it up with a full painting. :-D This is a WIP!

More progress work..things I've been working on between commissions. One is a desktop image for myself, so the wolf will be my character. Background reference is from a photo my mom took last year; wolf is a reference, cannot remember the source. (Still weak on quadraped anatomy). I started on the left...you can tell as I moved right I figured it out more...it looks messy on the left side.

This is a gift I've been working on for over a year for my mom. She loves Venice.

As said...on a bit of an art spree. And oddly enough, its nothing that I'd normally do...humans, machinery, monsters...things that I have trouble with. So eventually all these sketches will become finished products. So, heres a seraphim, who just finished destroying some city. Sword will be flaming.

Although it may seem like I'm pretty inactive lately, I've been on an art spree. Because I've got all these things I want to draw, I'm not getting any finished projects, just sketches and ideas. Eventually when my brain slows down I'll get to finishing them all. So I'll probably upload a bunch of sketches and ideas here for now.

So I wasn't into transformers when I was a kid, but I saw that movie, and loved it. I also love my car, which lead me to think it would be really cool to see my car transformed. I SUCK at anything non-biological, so this sketch took me 12 hours. Pitiful! But I'm very happy with the result. I will eventually be using the sketch to make a 'reference sheet.' My car has that chameleon paint that changes to any color between maroon to yellow depending on the sun, so my transformer will be badass. :)

My car:


My car as a transformer: