Shay wrote:
> Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> Looked at home on a better monitor. Intentional or no, that's maple. 
> With a thin coat of gesso maybe. To my eye, it looks like an old piece 
> of varnished low grade maple. Either way, it has an impressive real look 
> to it.
> 
> Found this on google. Hard to tell how good a pic it is on this terrible 
> monitor, but...
> http://www.rosmanrv.com/revolution/2004/wood/maple.jpg
> 
>  -Shay
Cool, thanks for the reference.  Canadians have a big identity going 
with maple, of course, certainly when you come from Ontario at least.
But it was my wife's folks in upstate NY who actually tapped and 
rendered their own maple syrup.  You could even buy it at reasonable 
prices in NYC, until very recently.  For quite awhile the neighbourhood 
hippy, dippy, health food store had a big keg of C grade syrup for maybe 
$5 a pint.  I actually preferred the taste of the C grade.  A little 
harsher and stronger flavour. Well I guess you don't drink but it was 
like comparing rye to whiskey.

But not anymore. Now maybe you can still get some high grade syrup but 
you can't afford it.

BTW regarding the picture and monitor quality etc.  That tracing has a 
soft, grainy aspect to it which I got by using a hugely proportioned 
grid for the area light.  Basically the light at a distance of 10 units 
had a 10x10 unit grid.

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