A blog where Moazzam … rambles
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Macports Ruby: Symbol not found: _SSLv2_client_method error
This error usually shows up when you try to run the following command: sudo gem install For those that don’t know what I am talking about, this is the error message: ERROR: Loading command: install (LoadError) dlopen(/opt/local/lib/ruby2.2/2.2.0/x86_64-darwin15/openssl.bundle, 9): Symbol not found: _SSLv2_client_method Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/ruby2.2/2.2.0/x86_64-darwin15/openssl.bundle Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib in /opt/local/lib/ruby2.2/2.2.0/x86_64-darwin15/openssl.bundle – /opt/local/lib/ruby2.2/2.2.0/x86_64-darwin15/openssl.bundle The only way…
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Oil paints with fast drying time (but not too fast)
As some of you know, I mostly used acrylic paints because they don’t take ages to dry (unlike some of my initial oil paintings which took almost a month to dry). Who wants to wait a month to varnish their painting? Or worse, some artists wait 6 months to a year. As annoying as the…
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Setting, removing and reading cookies in Javascript
Copy/paste these methods and use them /** * Create a cookie * * @param string name * @param mixed value * @param int days */ function createCookie(name,value,days) { if (days) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000)); var expires = “; expires=”+date.toGMTString(); } else var expires = “”; document.cookie = name+”=”+value+expires+”; path=/”; } /** *…
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My latest painting
Lately, I have been painting a lot of 8×10 paintings on canvas panels. They don’t take much time and you can keep the panel on your lap, or wherever you feel comfortable. Another advantage of doing an 8×10 inch painting is that you can experiment different with different techniques and see the result fairly quickly.…
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Beware of the pouring medium
Beware of the pouring medium mixed with water as it can destroy your painting. I had a painting I had been meaning to varnish for a few months and finally decided to do it 3 days ago. For isolation coat, I figured I would use the pouring medium sold by Liquitex. It levels itself and…
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Oil vs Acrylic – What’s easier to clean?
Acrylics are much easier to clean than oils (and cheaper). Brushes With acrylics, you can get away with using just water to clean your brushes (depending on how thick you laid your paint). Most of the times, this is true even for impasto techniques. For oils, you have to use turpentine (as oil paints don’t…
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Sunlit Garden
I have been painting landscapes mostly so I wanted to try something different this time. Another reason I wanted to do this painting is to experiment with sunlight (and little details like the gate) change how the viewer feels when he/she looks at the painting. Thankfully, my experiment was successful. Here is the painting: I…
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An unconventional painting
Unconventional for me, anyway. This was the first time I painted on a wood plank. I think it came out alright. Here it is:
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Hyper-realistic beaky beans
While going through my books, I came across this painting/drawing/whatever-it’s-called I did quite some time ago. I was trying to paint a can of beans but I got the name wrong and a new type of beans were invented – the beaky beans. Here is the painting:
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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…
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