DILETTANTO'S INTERVIEW ON ABC1's 7:30WA
Hey Folks,
The interview the ABC did of me following the Corel win, aired in WA last night but I don’t think it goes nationwide until Sunday night on ABC24 at 22:30. So if you’d like to see it, here’s the link.
\http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-13/a-perth-d...
Hope you approve of the shirt. It was the one I bought to get married in…
Winner? Me?? Nahhhhhh....
Found out today that I have won the GRAND PRIZE (even bigger than ‘First Prize’!!!) in the Corel Asia Pacific Digital Art Competition 2011!!!! Apart from the kudos of winning such a prestigious competition and having my work featured on Corel’s site, I get AU$5k cash and $5k worth of Corel products. I have to say that I really did NOT expect this. I thought I might be up for som…
Dilettanto v Black Dog
Four months ago, I announced I was ‘back’ on RB, only to disappear again shortly after. Those of you who know me, will probably understand why, but in case you don’t, suffice to say that although I continue to fight the ‘Black Dog’ unfortunately, the Black Dog is winning. For a number of reasons, I can’t and won’t (in that order) take anti-depressant medi…
I'm baaaaaaaaack....TAKE II
Just in case some of you think I took leave of the planet, never to return, I’m here to tell you I haven’t, although I’ve come pretty close to doing so over the last six outrageously bizarre months. Have had too much ‘stuff’ going on to be able to devote any time to RB, but now I have a little ‘free’ time (commonly known as ‘No work’) so IR…
THIS NEW UI STILL SUCKS
Try as I might, I can’t get a handle on this sucky new ui. For example: can ANYONE tell me how to find the list of posted works, showing how many views/comments /favs each has had??? I’m sure it must be in there somewhere but you must need GPS to find the thing! No wonder people appear to be leaving in droves. If they’re not leaving, then they have gone very very quiet….
WYSIWYG Calendar
As so many of you seemed to enjoy the 12 individual ‘naughty’ photo montage pages I posted a few months back, I’d just like to remind you that all 12 are available for sale on RB as calendar here:
WYSIWYG CALENDAR
Every home should have one.
Mine has.
Here endeth the shameless self promo
CREATIVITY THROUGH ADVERSITY
If you are a well adjusted, happy and contented individual, you probably won’t be interested in this entry, but if, like me, none of the above apply (and I know some of you are, if maybe to a lesser degree) then you may find it interesting and possibly useful.
It concerns my recent posting BOHOR REEDBUCK
I commented that the piece took twice as long to paint as usual and that the background a…
WHAT THEY SAW WAS WHAT THEY GOT!
A BIG thank you to those anonymous bubblers who just bought my WYSIWYG calendar, presumably having decided that hanging it on their wall and giving it as a gift, were novel ways to offend people! However, I hope they are wrong, and that the only ‘offence’ caused is ‘laughing loudly in a built up area’!
DIGITALLY PAINTING EGRETS : A BREAKDOWN
Well, now that the Egret ‘slideshow’ is FINALLY working, I felt I should give you a breakdown of what you are seeing.
So where do I start? ( People always ask that)
As you will see, I start with a blank ‘canvas’ with the ref pic above. Then I create a line drawing. In fact, in this instance, it’s 2 line drawings, because each bird is on a separate layer. Layers are th…
EGRETS: HOW THEY WERE PAINTED (UMPTEENTH TAKE)
I put this link up a moment ago to see if it worked, decided it didn’t and took it down, assuming no-one else had had a chance to try it. However, it seems like a couple of you did, and it did…so I’m posting it again and will leave it there a bit longer, even though I don’t really know how it worked…Click this link and it will take you to an FTP site called Yousendit…