Mr. Ed and his ‘not so new’ motorcyle
A good friend of mine, Ed, is more than a motorcycle enthusiast, he’s a TEAM OREGON Instructor. He’s also an artist (although he hates “labels”). He finally has a drawing of his latest motorcycle. …
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Pure Artistic Talent (not mine)
Artist: Achille Superbi, Italy
I am not trying to make a political statement with this piece of art. I was just Googling and stumbled across this from last year. The image was posted on wittyworld.com. If you really like this style, the artist, Achille Superbi, has a website where you can purchase his work.
I am amazed [...]
Getting to know you heritage
I am not an art collector, however, I do have a good number of “works or art” around my house. The only prerequisite for something to hang on my wall is that I know the artist personally. The art spans many mediums including photography, needlework, charcoal, oils, and water colors.
Most of the work is current [...]
The wonders of GIMP
I was recently reminded that I should have a “more professional” photograph for work. For those who don’t know, my employer requests that all employee upload a “head shot” to the corporate directory. This photo appears not only in the corporate internet directory but also on in thee “electronic” business card and is often [...]
GIMP and a Tablet PC
I bought a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC off of eBay. The price was right and the machine - thus far- is working nicely. It only had 512MB so I added 1 GB RAM. I have only one real purpose of this newest acquisition - graphics. I’ve installed GIMP and will be attempting to use [...]
Block homage to RTTC
I was reading a post over at Return to the Center and decided - with my non existent artistic talent - that I’d experiment with my tablet PC a bit and use GIMP to make some hallucinogenic blocks on a psychedelic background (no LSD required).
The results a crude but I am less interested [...]
Electronic arts tablet on a budget
I have struggled using a mouse or a trackpoint or a ball for editing photos and drawing logos. I’ve always lusted for something like the WACOM Cintiq. But at $1999, it was not in my “justification budget”. My rescue came from the nearly depthless eBay. A little searching and I found a number of [...]
