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06/15/11

Gardenscape

This is a (small) detail of a big watercolor/acrylic on paper that I’m currently pressing flat. There were a few small wrinkling issues because it’s mainly acrylic on paper. When it’s nice and flat I’ll post the whole photo here. So . . . . I’ve been very busy lately with various things and exciting news: I’m going to be in a real honest-to-goodness studio in July. I’m very excited because it’ll be my first studio and I’m very curious how it will affect my work habits. I have always painted in very small spaces (or outside in the back yard when necessary) so finally I will have a large area in which to work, where I don’t have to take down and set up everything constantly. I can leave everything out and set up! If you an artist, you know what a major pain in the posterior it is to set up and take down everything every bleepin’ day. It’s almost enough of a deterrent to make a person stop bothering at all. Now that problem will be solved.

The new studio is right downtown in my city here in central Minnesota, so it’s in an excellent location in our “arts district”. The location itself should help a lot with exposure for my artwork here, something I’ve always had a problem with. More details on all this will be coming up. . . . . and I’ll have photos. I’m interested in how other artists set up their studios, so I’m looking at lots of pictures of them… if you have a good studio set-up you love, send me a link.
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02/9/11

Middle East Background

It might not look like the Middle East yet, but it will.  Yes, another in-progress watercolor. This one will have a portrait painted on it.  In reality it’s not quite this bright.

And this is the final version of the painting I renamed Border Walls.

My Artspan site has a better copy.

The color is still not 100% correct,  as I took this photo outside on a very gloomy day which rendered everything blue-ish.  How do I compensate for that with my new camera?  I don’t know yet.   For a simple camera, it sure seems fussy to use.  I tried to fix it as much as I could. After finishing this painting, which I enjoyed doing so much, I attempted two others which were not as successful.  I completely started over with one of them. The other will morph into something besides its beginnings.

01/30/11

A Puggle Fractal

Using a new fractal program and changing one of my first images, I discovered it reminded me of my dog. So this is Puppy Fractal. (My dog is no longer a puppy but she has a face that retains that youthful dog appearance and she could pass for a puppy.)

The fractal program for the Mac is called Oxidize. There are very few of them, and this program makes “flame” fractals, so I mention it in case someone else is looking for something for their Mac. There are a ton of programs for Windows, but lots of artists do not use PCs, but instead use Macs. Macs are traditionally more friendly to artists — at least usually. Oxidize is not easy to use and it has a daunting learning curve and terrible documentation.