Anna Perkins - Artist

The Purpose of Life

Unfortunately I don't have a definitive answer here. But the purpose of this website is to be my online portfolio and a place for me to explore my technological creativity. But hey, I'll keep you posted if I find the definitive purpose of life.

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Book Recs

The Care of Pictures (1948, repub. 1975) by George L. Stout

While first published in 1948, a surprising amount of the information he presents is still relevant today. Stout writes clearly and engages the reader with his descriptive prose and apt comparisons. Targeted at the non-conservator, he explains the types of damages and the outlines the basic techniques that a conservator would employ to restore a picture to good condition. Helpful illustrations further clarify the various types of deterioration and defects that can come to a painting.

Stout himself was a notable historical figure, a conservator and museum director credited with founding both the first conservation research lab in America and the first art conservation journal in America. He was most well-known, however, for his role as a "Monument Man" during World War II, where he helped recover works of art from repositories and war zones.

Website Updates

At work, I helped out on a project involving CSS, and it reinvigorated my interest in webdesign. Thus, I spent Valentine's evening and into the next day (currently 1:47 AM) improving my design. I stretched out the "Anna Perkins" part of the header and made it stick to the top of the page as you scroll. This sort of thing seems to be in fashion on the internet these days. I separated the navigation bar from this header so that not too much of the screen would be taken up by the sticky header.

I got rid of the gradient on the nav bar. I like the tab animation on hover, but that in combination with the gradient started to seem obtrusive to me. Then, I made some minor tweaks here and there, adjusting widths of floating divs, improving mobile compatibility, etc.

I finished an oil painting just before the new year, but I am waiting until I finish the next one to upload it so that I can fill up a new page (rather than having to shift everything over a spot). Next, I think I will paint a self-portrait. At school, the professors always made us do at least one self-portrait a year, and since then I've only produced one self-portait, the oil painting with my pets in 2018 (which is now even more special to me since my parents are selling the house). I didn't make any self-portraits in 2019 - really, I didn't paint any human faces at all in 2019 - so I'd like to do one this year. I plan to start tomorrow, er, today...

Written by: Anna

Posted on: February 15, 2020