Month: July 2015
-
My misadventures with paint brushes and pig hair
When I started painting about a year ago, I knew that I was not allowed to use any brush made of human hair (Islam forbids it to the best of my knowledge). Human hair was very common for soft brushes a few years ago so I took extra pre-cautions and made sure I didn’t buy…
-
Synthetic alternative to hog bristle brushes
I will add more brushes as I come across them but here is a line of brushes I have fallen in love with : http://www.dickblick.com/products/princeton-catalyst-polytip-bristle-brushes/ I bought a few of these brushes and had a chance to try the fan brush. It has become my favorite. Their fan brush is almost as stiff as a…
-
A big $1.00 peel off palette for acrylic paints
I took up painting as a hobby about a year ago which is when my search for the perfect palette began. After having searched for an easy to clean but inexpensive palette, I came across this at my local Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Polypropylene-10-Double-Wall-Dinner-Plate-Set-of-6/44198302 I got 2 of these plates and have been using them. They require no…
-
Some very cool features in PHP7
I played around with PHP7 over the weekend and I have to admit it has some very cool things I have wanted PHP to have for a while, and then some. Here are some of them (in no particular order): Performance PHP7 will increase the performance of PHP scripts by 50-60%. Nuff said. Anonymous Classes…