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April 30, 2005
Ambition
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Since my ambition is to develop fluency in Corel Painter, this will be an exploration of different brush strokes, rather than doing a representational sketch. As a first step I created a palette from from another image that had colors I liked.
I layered the canvas with diagonal strokes using a wet impasto brush. I then created four circles and filled them with gradients. Then I used the Jeremy's Distorto Paint brush to stroke through the circles. This brush comes with the bonus CD in Jeremy Sutton's Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artists Handbook. The font used for the text is Spirit Medium. I had done several other brush layers before I decided to keep the impasto brush layer. Then I moved it into Photoshop and saved it for the web version.
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April 27, 2005
Daring
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This illustration got me thinking about daring things a few weeks ago.
When I was a kid, I used to like to parachute from swings--actually pretty daring of me since I was afraid of most of the other items in a playground.
As an adult, the most daring thing I ever did was to complete a firewalk at a Tony Robbins seminar about ten years ago.
To create this illustration, I took a photo of my feet, and then drew an outline in Painter. I sampled some burning charcoal and made a pattern for a pattern pen to create the background.
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April 24, 2005
Autumn Still Life
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Autumn is my favorite season.
This was a picture of my neighbor's fall arrangement.
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Autumn
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My DH took this picture in Lakeside, Michigan a few years ago.
Lakeside and the surround towns are on the East side of Lake Michigan. If you live in Chicago, then you are used to seeing the sun rise over Lake Michigan. When you travel to Michigan, you get to see the sun set over the lake, which makes for a nice change of pace.
There are steep stairways to get to the beach areas. Although we visited in October, the fall colors weren't really out yet. Photoshop to the rescue.
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April 23, 2005
Where does the time go?
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This is a stock art image from Photoshop with the text superimposed. One of my favorite quotes.
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April 18, 2005
Unfolds
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This is something I did using the folded paper tutorial from My Janee's .
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April 17, 2005
Reinvent
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I didn't want to look at the other entries yet, because I'm sure someone else has used this concept.
My original idea was to create something with Madonna, since she is the master of reinvention. But I didn't have the time to pursue this. The caterpillar was done in Painter IX using a Wacom Intuos 3--the rest was done in Photoshop CS.
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April 14, 2005
Alone
A friend of mine suggested that I really don't need the scrabble tiles in the image. I added them after I removed the face, because the image seemed to need something. It looked too lonely. Hmmm. Maybe that's a good thing. 
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I'm not happy with this one.
I started it in Corel Painter. I had a sketch of a partial face included, but really didn't like the way it turned out. Then I moved it into Photoshop to finish it. One thing I notice is that text layers don't transfer as editable text layers. Maybe there's something special I need to do to the image before I save it as a .psd.
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April 04, 2005
Travel
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When the pioneers were traveling westward along the Oregon Trail, were the kids as restless as they are today in mini vans equipped with DVD players?
More experimentation in Painter. I was playing around with the image hose and some water color brushes. I didn't spend as much time on the kids' faces, because I wanted to finish this. I may come back to it later to do more work on it.
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