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Blue Water

2010-12-05T12:58:00.003-06:00

I got to open my birthday/Christmas present early. I am now the happy and proud owner of my own Mac Book!! First order of business, hook up the Bamboo Wiacom tablet, and install the painting programs and try them out. I do love Corel Painter Essentials. This is just playing with watercolor brushes and getting the feel of how it works with the McBook. Loving it!!

Aviary's Free!

2010-02-19T21:56:00.000-06:00

My tablet has been out of commission for a while, so I haven't been doing computer art as much lately.
But I got an e-mail today that Avairy is now free!!
I had really started to fall in love with Avairy, way back when, when it first started. I was excited to learn a lot of new things. But then, it went from beta to pay-for, and I lost my love! It was way out of my price range considering my skill level.
But now that it's free, I'm excited again!
And, I just got a new camera, so I'm more inspired on the photography as well. Combining the two will be awesome.
I've started posting a bit more often on my crafty blog too, stop by if you like.

Landing

2009-02-06T21:33:00.000-06:00

Eye

2009-01-16T21:24:00.000-06:00

Playing with the iPod Touch app Colors, very nice program, maybe I need to get a stylus, my finger feels too fat to make much detail.

11-30-8

2008-11-30T19:44:00.003-06:00

Snow

11-29-8

2008-11-30T12:20:00.000-06:00

Shapes or Moon Flower

11-28-8

2008-11-30T11:58:00.000-06:00

11-27-8

2008-11-27T11:19:00.000-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving

Remember back in grade school when we all still knew we were artists?

11-26-8

2008-11-27T10:53:00.002-06:00

Spore

Stencils made from Spore game shots, using the color palette from 11-25-8 art.

11-25-8

2008-11-25T22:36:00.001-06:00

Layers

11-24-8

2008-11-25T22:09:00.002-06:00

11-23-8

2008-11-23T13:08:00.000-06:00

What I believe

11-22-8

2008-11-22T18:40:00.002-06:00

Lady Bug

No photo.

11-21-8

2008-11-21T21:20:00.000-06:00

Ace

11-20-8

2008-11-20T21:05:00.002-06:00

Daisy

Stencil made from my own photo, just experimenting.

11-19-8

2008-11-19T22:14:00.002-06:00

First Day of School

11-18-8

2008-11-18T19:32:00.003-06:00

Garbage Pail Kid

Something silly. My own silly Garbage Pail self.

11-17-8

2008-11-17T20:28:00.002-06:00

Stencil Fun

11-16-8

2008-11-16T11:56:00.002-06:00

Meeple with Flower

I wanted to make a cute background for my Twitter page. (Feel free to follow me!)

11-15-8

2008-11-15T12:04:00.003-06:00

The Last Thing You'll See (Hopefully)

The perspective is a bit off, but I did this all from my head.
As I was deciding if I was awake or not this morning, I started thinking about what to do for my art piece today, and this was what popped into my head. I've been really loving HBO's True Blood (and I predict that Sooki will eventually become a vampire, too, I almost named this one 'Sooki' for that very reason).

11-14-8

2008-11-14T19:23:00.002-06:00

Three Trees

Learning Art Rage, one thing I'm practicing is use of layers. I actually used 8 separate layers for this piece. I started with purple pencil, and finished with it on the top, for an imaginary feeling.

This is sans the purple, for a psuedo-realistic look, color-wise at least. But a little dull IMO.

In playing around with all the layers, I discovered how cool these two looked together. This is my favorite.

11-13-8

2008-11-13T14:50:00.001-06:00

Lily

11-12-8

2008-11-12T22:18:00.003-06:00

Stress

11-11-8

2008-11-11T16:59:00.000-06:00

Color Burst

Playing with the same colors.

11-10-8

2008-11-11T16:27:00.003-06:00

Color Arch

Late, but the inspiration came to me yesterday, so it will officially be yesterday's art. The inspiration came from a sort of shrine that was in the background of a documentary we watched last night. The colors inspired me.

11-9-8

2008-11-09T09:25:00.000-06:00

Playing

More playing with Avairy.

11-8-8

2008-11-08T13:12:00.003-06:00

Kaleidopillar

I love Art Rage, but there are other programs to try out as well. I've decided to give Avairy a try, and went through a tutorial this morning for their Peacock program. This is one of the creations I came up with.
If anyone would like an invitation to Avairy, I have a couple more to give, so just leave me a message.

11-7-8

2008-11-07T20:39:00.003-06:00

Sunset

11-6-8

2008-11-06T21:01:00.001-06:00

Rail Road Crossing

11-5-8

2008-11-05T20:44:00.001-06:00

The Lost is Found

11-4-8

2008-11-04T21:59:00.002-06:00

11-3-8

2008-11-03T17:51:00.002-06:00

Cactus Flower

Playing with texture. Crayons on tinfoil for the actual flowers, then took away the tinfoil background.

11-2-8

2008-11-02T12:16:00.002-06:00

Ode to the Bean

Created with several hues of one creamy brown color, using chalk, airbrush, glitter, and paint with palette tool.

11-1-8

2008-11-01T12:03:00.002-05:00

Shapes

I'm starting Art Every Day Month, and still practicing how to make the tablet feel like drawing, I am referring to some drawing books. This is a beginning assignment, the instructions quoted directly:
"Children’s drawings tend not to be accurate, but they have qualities of directness and free expression that adults would do well to capture. Indeed, Picasso stated that he had spent most of his career striving to draw like a child. With this in mind, I want to take you back briefly to kindergarten.
With a soft pencil, fill a sheet of scrap paper with 30 or 40 simple pictures, shapes and motifs. Draw them straight out of your head, using simple lines and making each one as direct and confident as you can. "

Purple Bud

2008-09-18T21:59:00.002-05:00

Coneflower1+2+3

2008-09-01T12:04:00.001-05:00

Playing with how layers look individually. Based on ideas from first tutorial. From my own photo.

Coneflower3

2008-09-01T12:03:00.005-05:00

Colored pencil layer. From my own photo.

Coneflower2

2008-09-01T12:03:00.004-05:00

Paint layer. From my own photo.

Coneflower1

2008-09-01T12:02:00.003-05:00

Background. Chalk smeared with pallet knife. From my own photo.

Stencil Play

2008-09-01T11:38:00.000-05:00

Just playing with the stencils.

Caterpillar 2

2008-08-24T09:44:00.000-05:00

More playing with the techniques from the first Art Rage tutorial, using my own photo.

Caterpillar 1

2008-08-23T21:13:00.000-05:00

Playing with some of the methods from the first Art Rage tutorial, using my own photo.

Rose Tutorial

2008-08-21T22:01:00.000-05:00

From the first Art Rage tutorial, using their photo.