{"id":580,"date":"2011-04-02T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2015-07-11T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T09:38:22","slug":"monstercolors-vs-montana-94-bemused-hmmm-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/monstercolors-vs-montana-94-bemused-hmmm-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Monstercolors Vs Montana 94 Bemused Hmmm Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Took some time to make the \"Bemused Hmmm\" face less cartoony and more photo-realistic. \u00a0It was my first piece since returning to painting and as such was not very good. \u00a0The patchiness of the fill-ins, the inconsistent colour of the two sides of the background and the annoying off-shape nostril had been bugging me for weeks. \u00a0So I changed it.<\/p>\n

Paint geeks out there may be interested to know that I used a different brand of spray can in each version. \u00a0The earlier\u00a0image was done with Montana 94 paint which, as far as I know, is the most expensive 11oz can on the market. \u00a0It's promoted as being a superior product and people tend to agree. \u00a0The new improved painting on the right was done using Monstercolor, a much cheaper brand retailing at nearly half the price, yet often snubbed by hardcore graff-nerds. \u00a0 I guess this example proves that choice of paint pales into insignificance when compared to artist skill. \u00a0The fact that the one on the right looks better can be put down to nothing more than practise.<\/p>\n

Having said that, the shades of grey\u00a0do<\/em> seem more consistent in the Monster range. \u00a0Ok, so they are all a kind of bluey grey but they blend into each other beautifully. \u00a0The Montana range on the other hand, offers a more neutral grey with the one exception of the Anthracite Grey (the dark one around the ear) which is clearly way more bluey than the others. \u00a0Even if I had blended it properly it would still not be as smooth a transition as with a more colour-balanced range.<\/p>\n

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Also, one bone of contention is that the Montana 94 can has the words \"Low pressure\" \u00a0printed on it, supposedly offering the slow controlled release of paint as a unique selling point. \u00a0But I find the paint comes out of Monstorcolor cans even more<\/em> predictably. \u00a0Is it really the low pressure choice on the market? \u00a0Maybe Monstercolor paint is higher pressure but has a thicker consistency so it seems lower pressure? \u00a0I did a side-by-side comparison today and found that using the same cap, the small detailed lines around the eye and lips were a nightmare with Montana but\u00a0achievable\u00a0with Monster.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I'm not going to be forming any kind of die-hard\u00a0allegiance to a brand\u00a0any time\u00a0soon. \u00a0Some painters proudly proclaim that they only use X because of this reason, or they found this thing better with that one. \u00a0But the way I see it, it's a massive global industry and all the manufacturers are constantly working to improve their ranges and claim more of the market. \u00a0Things change all the time and if you want the best paint, keep an open mind and watch all brands closely.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Monstorcolors visit http:\/\/www.monstercolors.com<\/a><\/p>\n

To learn more about Montana visit http:\/\/www.montanacolors.com\/?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took some time to make the “Bemused Hmmm” face less cartoony and more photo-realistic. \u00a0It was my first piece since returning to painting and as such was not very good. \u00a0The patchiness of the fill-ins, the inconsistent colour of the two sides of the background and the annoying off-shape nostril had been bugging me for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[86,78],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-graffiti","tag-taunton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}