Bandon Schaefer is an accomplished artist of oil painting and drawing and recently of watercolor. I followed Bandon when I was looking for teachers in the oil color world. He was a guy that would not be afraid to talk about the mistakes he made. I loved that aspect of his work. Sure, his work is great. But his videos, he is a big person on YouTube, are not just a hit parade of how to do the successes he has created. He will spend an entire video discussing his mistakes and warning you away from them. (See “Mistakes I Made Painting Aurora’s Portrait in Oils” as an example.) Anyway, I recently saw a watercolor video from him doing watercolor sketching in Alaska, plein air painting on location. I had not seen his work in years and that was all oil painting and drawing work. Watercolor? This was interesting. I went, I saw, and had a good time. (OK, he posted this in June of 2018. As I said I followed him a long time ago.
But then the interesting stuff started to happen. I got news stories on watercolors. Um, what? I am fairly accustomed to seeing advertisements following my interests. But now I was getting “news” stories on the subject. My news story source in this case is Google.
Is this good or bad? (I took a break at this point. Now back to typing.) Or perhaps hew can I game the system to get the news and ads I want? A few years ago there was a guy who noticed this behavior in his Facebook ads. He tried to get them to show him ads for woman’s bras. Unsuccessfully as I recall. Considering the broad brush strokes they, Google in this case, employs – they show me stuff from watercolors, not plain air watercolors or watercolors designed to show nickgolebiewski’s work. That is fun stuff. (See him on Instagram) But yes, they are much too broad in their descriptions. And I am, or so I think, are far too I’m weird in my tastes to fit their means.
in so critic, no that isn’t right. Off to ask my wife how to spell. And it took a while to figure out what I was after: idiosyncratic. I am too idiosyncratic for their methods. At least yet.
And she agrees. Thank god for that.
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm