Oil on Canvas
Took this in early spring as the snow was starting to melt fast, this was taken with a Kodak Easy Share camera.
I wanted to try and capture the height of this old place, and the beautiful woodwork, and old lighting. I used my Canon EOS, Rebel XT. It was taken as is.
A pair of pink ladies sunglasses isolated on a white background and reflecting in water ripples
Enlarge for best viewing. This is the 20ft. tall, 3 ft. thick wall that surrounds the Nashville State Prison, which is now abandoned. The prison was used to film The Green Mile and The Last Castle.
Taking the time learning software is – well gotta think of it like nny other kind of learning i guess… / though… there was the block I had last year… / after an horrific eviscerating humitliation diguising itself as a relationship, I couldn’t paint for three months – see the piece Ms Poli and also for the STORY about the… girl…. Kissing Miss Poli I ended up hacking a role playing game on my PC – to the point where I made an utterly convincing version of myself, and my best friend. And my cat. I was not using a modelling editor I was working in in pure code and then just running the game again and again to see what the characters looked like. / 60, 80 hours a week. more. i don’t even know what languages I was using. No idea. / Very weird. I am at heart, somewhere disguised by the er biceps and er so forth – truly, deeply, passionately… a NERD… oh yes, a dungeons and dragon playing, computer building hacker. I just fit all the artist sterotypes and, apart from the former, none of the nerdy freak ones. / When I was trying to find the texture files to get the right kind of coat to match the cat that I so adored. I FINALLY thought – dude. this may wel be insane. SO – I took the time to learn some more photoshop stuff and used my digital 12 meg cam PROPERLY, allowing me to upload a full 12 meg image of this piece. I suppose I should delete the other one but I can’t… the comment mean too much to me. Ex-girlfriend, my hand is the link. This is the heart of that text: / I did it on the train to university when I was in second year, around 1998, I think. I love this piece. It is definitively unusual. I invented the face though it looks like one of my ex girlfriends, Sarah Mennie. I should track her down, though I believe she lives in Adelaide now. She was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Anywhere. She was an alcoholic, and more mad than I was. There was something utterly gentle about her, and she loved me so hard, so deeply. I remember when I was coming down from a manic drinking bender and I was having an intense anxiety attack (two of the LEAST descriptive words in the english language – when you are having an anxiety attack you are convinced you are dying. It is one of the most horrible things that I have ever gone through, an unstoppable avalnache of fear – anyway:) - And she held me so tightly and started crying too. I know she loved me, perhaps more than anyone else in my life. I didn’t catch her beauty in this piece, but there is something of her in the eyes, some doomed gentleness. Ah well. I cheated on her. I was manic and 21. I was a bastard. I am sorry, yes. Sorrowful, yes. Oh, Sarah, I still think of you. I hope you are ok, I hope that you have lived. That you have stopped drinking. That you are happy. Whew. Now to see if my lame poverty indueced sucky dasl will hold out for the upload. Thank you, thank you all… your comments help me and give me hope in hell (I am presently in the one day a week of respite I manage to carve from the week. Has been a fortnight of torture this time though. Yeh. I have this day. I do. Paul
The Buddha observed: What you are now is what you have been, what you will do is what you do now. / Spiritual progress through correct action will eventually lead the Spirit towards Nirvana and release from the cycle of rebirth. Restoring Karma is dedicated to John Scott and all his family Acrylics, ink and pigment
One of my “famous” Marker Pen and Tippex (correction fluid) works… you have to work fast using Tippex… but sometimes inspiration visits when your unprepared. Click here to view the next in this series
a mixed media collage on canvas, part of the “hidden”series. / this series is inspired by memories of a 1960s country childhood. games of hide and seek,” he loves me, he loves me not”, and biblical proverbs concerning the raising of good children!
darker version.
corrections and marines
Corrections Officer – just trying out some new ideas
I took some photo of a cool dude on a harley and used it to draw a Corrections Officer – it was a request
This goes out to my mate, Auska, whom also goes my many other names, of which mad cunt is one. He is, in my mind the personification of the term my friends so often use in reference to him and conversation with him. Of course, the political correctness within us leads us to believe that the use of the word cunt is offensive. This is an ignorant perspective, for the context and use of the word (for it is only a word, which is comprised of four letters, its meaning is a choice) to Auska and co is different to anything sexist or negative. So this shirt represents a choice. Do you want to wear something in knowledge that people will judge you, this is politically incorrect, how dare you! Or, are you like Auska, a fucking mad cunt. And will wear it anyway, for your reasons, because you want to, this is your choice and freedom. Who is anyone to judge me? Now that’s Fresh
There are so many tips’n’tricks, tutorials, enhancements and various other interesting articles listed around Redbubble. I’ve decided it …
There are so many tips’n’tricks, tutorials, enhancements and various other interesting articles listed around Redbubble. I’ve decided it is time to revitalise the articles I have written. / Why? Because so many writers are long-winded, overly-descriptive and their instructions are near impossible to navigate. I believe my documents cover the many issues necessary to run a successful redbubble gallery, allowing artists to successfully present their portfolio to all clientele. Linking Text and Images Advantage of Tagging your Uploads / ASCII Characters in your RedBubble Journal / Coding your RedBubble Journal / Embedding a Profile Banner / Linking Images in Series, Columns and Rows / Linking Photographs / Naming Your Art / Using Favicons in Your Profile Exhibitions, Marketing & Sales Add This To Your Cart / Making a Profit Because of Redbubble / Marketing and Sales / Running Sheet for Exhibitions / Sell, Give, Donate and Use Your Skills / Selling Your Art Successfully Photography DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? v.2 / Knowledge is Power / Two Crafty Ways to Become a High Profile Photographer Interesting Reading Consent for Photography Not Required in Australia / Correct Spelling on Mozilla Firefox / DPI Determines Resolution, Not Quality / Online Purchasing : Safe or Scary? / Playing the Popularity Game Without Caring if You Win or Lose / Tip for Answering Comments About Redbubble Advantage of Choosing RedBubble / My Redbubble Dictionary / Ode to Redbubble / Redbubble Breeds Winners This will be updated as I write more interesting articles and tutorials for your reading-pleasure.
Every so often I like to stand back and realize my exact place in the grand scheme of things…..
Reap it
Hats and bats
Corrections tee
Horizontally Challenged Albert / Gravitationally Challenged Albert / Differently Weighted Albert None of them sound as good as “FAT” Its a shame we have become so politically correct. I really liked it when Bugs Bunny cross dressed….
Another version of Bob’s enlargement with colour tune up! /
This isn’t going to be a start to finish project, but rather a couple of different ways you could be using selections and adjustment laye…
This isn’t going to be a start to finish project, but rather a couple of different ways you could be using selections and adjustment layers that you may not have thought of. You can borrow my image below to practise on if you like, copyright is mine etc., Lets look at doing dodging and burning with some very loose selections and a bit of mask blurring. Open the image and grab the Lasso tool. You can press L on the keyboard or access it from the side tool bar. Select the road area – see image below – when you get to the straight parts of the image, hold down the shift key to so the Lasso Tool draws a straight line. Hold down the Alt key on the keyboard, then go to the bottom of the layers palette and click on the ying yang symbol (new fill or adjustment layer) and click on Curves. A small dialogue will appear (you can name it burn if you like), change the blend mode to Luminosity and click OK – the Curves dialogue box will then appear. Try to keep part of the road in view, then you can pull the line down to where mine is if you want. See image below. Click OK to accept the change. You can fix up the mask at this stage if it needs a little adjusting. Grab a white brush and paint :) There is an obvious transition line, so it needs fixing. Click on the layer mask to make it active, and then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur I punched in 20 pixels for this image – that will vary of course depending on what size image you are working on. Click OK to accept your blur settings and then you can switch the adjustment layer on and off to see what you have done. If you don’t like it, click on the curves adjustment thumbnail (not the mask) and the Curves adjustment dialogue will appear and you can change the settings to suit. Duplicate the adjustment layer and click on the eyeball of the ‘Burn’ layer to hide it. Double click on the adjustment layers thumbnail and when the Curves Dialogue box reappears hold down the Alt key of the keyboard and you will notice that the cancel button changes to ‘reset’, click on that to reset the line. Reference the image below to see where I have moved the line to and voila – some instant dodging. You would normall do that on 2 different parts of the image and on 2 curves adjustment layers. After you have finished the burn process, grab your Lasso (or any selection tool) and select another area and go through the process again. So this gets the mind moving to think …. how else can we use this to do interesting things to our images. What about some colour ? Lets have a look at doing something like that :) With the same image open, go to View in the top toolbar and make sure that “snap’ is ticked, and then in the view menu go to ‘New Guide’ and in the small dialogue box check either Vertical or Horizontal and in the ‘Position’ box type in 50% – a guide will appear. Do the same again, only make sure that if you checked horizontal the first time, that you check vertical this time. You should end up with something like the image below. Grab the Rectangular Marquee tool and draw around one of the 4 sections in the image. The selection should ‘snap’ to the guides. see image below Hold down the Alt key and click on the ying yang symbol at the bottom of the layers palette and choose Solid Colour from the fly out menu. Change the blend mode in the ‘New Layer’ dialogue to soft light and click OK. Now go ahead and choose a colour in the Solid Colour box …. I chose Red. Click OK to accept the colour. Remember that you can change this at any time simply by double clicking on the adjustment layer thumbnail – change the blend mode of the layer if you like, or take the opacity of the layer down. Grab the rectangular marquee tool again and select a different section of the image and run through the whole process again until you have all 4 sections with a different colour. see image below To clear the guides go to View>Clear Guides Whether you do any blurring on those layer masks is entirely up to you. I didn’t on the image above. So can we do something with type in a similar way …. course we can :) Grab the Type Tool from the sidebar, or press T on the keyboard, and type something – I chose ‘A Road’ LOL Hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard and click on the type layer thumbnail, that will load the transparency of the type – grab the type layer and drag it to the little garbage bin at the bottom of the layers, or make sure the layer is highlighted and then click on the little garbage bin at the bottom of the layers palette and then click yes in the dialogue press that comes up or hit enter on the keyboard. You should be able to guess what is going to happen from here :) Hold down the Alt key and click on the ying yang symbol at the bottom of the layers palette and choose solid colour from the fly out menu, change the blend mode to soft layer in the new layer dialogue box that appears and then choose a colour. You might end up with something like the image below. What you’ll notice, is that you can see the road texture through the type. You could do a similar thing with a shape layer. Draw out the shape, select the transparency and then delete the shape layer. Continue on with the usual procedure. You can also use this to produce a coloured vignette around the image. Select the Elliptical marquee tool and draw out an oval kind of shape. To position the oval in between drawing it out, hold down the spacebar and move the mouse to drag it where you want. Release the spacebar to continue enlarging it. Go to Select>Modify>Feather and 50 pixels for this particular image. Go to Select>Inverse or Shift + Ctrl + i and then follow the usual procedure – hold down the Alt key and select whatever adjustment you want from the adjustmet layers fly out menu. I chose solid colour and changed the blend mode to Overlay and picked a dark brown colour. I also chose to give it some more blurring, using Gaussian Blur with a radius of 50 pixels. See image below. You can use any of the adjustments on your images, so don’t just stick to the ones I’ve shown you here. I chose a Pattern Fill layer with Green with Fibres at 300% on the image below and changed the blend mode to Darken. Have fun !
Taken off the shores of Garibaldi, Oregon just before sunset as heavy fog was beginning to roll in. Taken with Canon 50D DSLR at f22, ISO 200, focal length of 70mm. A tripod was used to blend four exposures at 1/2 ev intervals using Photomatix HDR software.
Featured, the C.O.R.E. group, 10/29/2009 I wasn’t going to have a discription, but because of the differences in culture among countries I better explain the symbolism. This picture is pointing out the tyranny of political correctness. It’s purpose is to silence all others that do not have the same opinion. In a world where it is allowed to flourish its as if all others have no voice [ no mouths ]. A collage of digital paintings all mouse drawn and painted in photoshop 5.5 For that bright flash of color or as a conversation piece in your decor use a small ‘Mounted Print’ on a plate easel, chic.*
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