CHECK OUT THIS CLIP I FOUND! PRETTY COOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzdxseO-g HO…
CHECK OUT THIS CLIP I FOUND! PRETTY COOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzdxseO-g HOPE U LIKE! LET ME KNOW. FINE ART / LANDSCAPES / SUNSETS / FINE ART PORTRAITS / ANIMALS
for all the painters out there please join and put your paintings of aussie bush scenes etc. in to the group in any medium but please no…
for all the painters out there please join and put your paintings of aussie bush scenes etc. in to the group in any medium but please no photo’s and only two photo’s a day…. so lets see your work
Hi, / I just posted three paintings from a new series called MICRO-STRUCTURE. / They’re available in posters. Posters are cool. Don’t he…
Hi, / I just posted three paintings from a new series called MICRO-STRUCTURE. / They’re available in posters. Posters are cool. Don’t hesitate to comment them !
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the featured and popular pages on Red Bubble, and wondering where all the painters, illustrators and gra…
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the featured and popular pages on Red Bubble, and wondering where all the painters, illustrators and graphic artists are?! There are some AMAZING artists working in these media on the site, but it just seems like they’re all being lost in the system. I have nothing against photography or the photographers, but it’d be nice to see a more even spread. So – do your bit! Upload your best painting, illustrative or graphic pieces Seek out painted and illustrated works Comment, fave and watch! The popular algorithm is a closely guarded Red Bubble secret, however I’m sure doing the above things can help boost painting and illustration on this site. I know we can all help bring attention to the amazing artists on this site who deserve to have a little light shone on them! I will go through my own watch list and select and feature artists who I think deserve to be a little more popular. I have sent in my request to have an Illustration group on RB, and Kathleen emailed me back a few days later and said that many people had requested the same thing and that they were nutting out a plan for launching such a group. I really can’t wait, I do think a group dedicated to illustrators might be the shot in the arm needed for illustrative artists. If you’re with me, let me know!! Spread the word! (I have submitted this to a few groups, please let me know if this is appropriate – because I think it is, and highly beneficial to us all!!)
Hello ladies and gangsters, I have once again written a post on my blog, that I think have a lot to offer for many artists here on the bu…
Hello ladies and gangsters, I have once again written a post on my blog, that I think have a lot to offer for many artists here on the bub. / Both for the seasoned artist and the aspiring beginner. / You will find links to free books by the Illustration Icon Andrew Loomis. / He has written some of the best and mostly used handbooks for artists ever published. / / If you plan to improve your drawing skills, you can not do a better choice than the links I have for you here. / You can download all the books he did, and a few more, just check my blog here POS
Diesel on Decks – The Art Piece / ...
Diesel on Decks – The Art Piece / - This is my favourite design to date and, as I was rummaging through the house the other day I stumbled across an acrylic paint set. / So I popped down the shop, purchased some 45×60 canvas’ and decided it was time to convert my art from digital to reality. I decided to take some photos of the process and as it stands, I believe I am 1/4 of the way through. Enjoy. —-—-—-—-- / To start, I hopped into Photoshop and made my canvas the same size as the ‘real’ canvas. In this case, 45cm x 60cm, with 300dpi. Then I dragged my vector image across and resized it to fit the Photoshop canvas. Unfortunately I don’t have a massive printer, so I printed the image across 4 pieces of paper, (there was a little bit of the image missing on each page) aligning each page with the reference corner; eg. top left image on the page aligns with top left corner, bottom right aligns to bottom right corner etc. Then, I printed a colour version of the center image, where most of the ‘action’ happens. I will use this image for colour reference, and also tracing later on. Then came the question of how to get that design onto the canvas. Remembering back to primary school, I used a highly advanced technique (WARNING – NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED) called…...TRACING. Told you it was advanced! I coloured the back of the main colour image, and then, using my 4 pages as a guide, I traced the image directly onto the canvas. Ooooooh! Then I posed for this really cool shot. Then next bit was to get my paints out and start colouring in the areas. Even though I will later cover over the edges with thick black outlines, I wanted to be as neat as possible and take my time on this artwork. I tend to usually rush things in real life so it was a good test! When I paint, I have a habit of pouring out way too much paint then I need. Today was no different. I’m sure I will learn to perfect this wasting technique as the days go on. I was drawing/painting for about 2 hours and I’m quite proud of how far I have got already. I’m also very happy with where it is going, and it may not look like much in the final drawing SO FAR, but in my opinion it’s on track! I’m not sure how long it will take to finish it, probably another 4 days when I get the time, but I will put up another Journal entry asap! This is where we leave it for today, but stay tuned…I will finish this! If you like this art piece, please view it here > /
/ I know you like art supplies! I burnt $100 of recent income in about 10 …
/ I know you like art supplies! I burnt $100 of recent income in about 10 minutes. / It’s me! This is why I’m not a photographer… I couldn’t take a non-blurry photo of myself if my life depended on it. I bought a new nose ring this afternoon because I want to rebel against my traditional discreet nose stud wearing ways, and the girl at the shop convinced me to buy one that’s wayyyy too big.
I had the opportunity to see what my artwork looks like printed. Not my photographs, but the digital artwork. Oh my. The Japanese Vas…
I had the opportunity to see what my artwork looks like printed. Not my photographs, but the digital artwork. Oh my. The Japanese Vase leaps out of the page, with color and depth. The “I’m Not a Morning Critter” (butterfly holding a coffee cup) looks realistic, yet coffee cup? The beach scene, the Celtic spirals, all of it floored me. I am always doubtful of anything I do, and seeing my work, solid and real, amazed me
La Coiffure, by Edgar Degas ...
La Coiffure, by Edgar Degas I didn’t exactly need arm twisting when I found out there was a free event happening at the National Gallery on Saturday afternoon: I would have handed over my credit card willingly to take respite from the unforgiving heat in an air conditioned cardboard box if I could have. Instead, for two sublime hours, I sat in a small theatre listening to some of Australia’s finest writers read from poems and novels by contemporaries of Degas, whose glorious art is the NGA’s current exhibition. I was entrenched in Paris, the bawdy house of Europe, through the affairs and cross-dressing of George Sand, Zola’s descriptions of the glittering displays and the dark underside of Paris under the Second Empire, Balzac’s account of an orgy, Baudelaire’s questioning of Romantic values, Flaubert’s platonic love letters and Théophile Gautier’s description of the Opera. I was swept from Paris to Russia to London via poetry and prose selections that left me breathless with spells brewing in my eyes and the words of classics lingering around me in a velvety fog. As I walked out of the theatre and back in the bright lemony light of day and the outside world, I felt the swirling words and sumptuous art settle over me, Paris soaking into my skin. The loveliness lingered well into my weekend and I have thought to myself often since how enamored I was by the experience, how instantly I fell in love with the writings of Degas’ contemporaries and the brush strokes of Degas’ social commentary layered under portraits of ballerinas and top-hat gentlemen or horse racing and carnivals in green countryside. I recognised the feeling; I feel the same way when I come across a piece of writing or artwork on Red Bubble that takes my breath away and envelopes me. As I was driving home, I thought to myself given the chance, I would have added that afternoon to my favourites. Ever since, I’ve been thinking about our favourites and what the function of ‘favouriting’ something means on Red Bubble. To me, that one little strip of light boxes on my Red Bubble page is my own personal gallery, my own personal bookshop; a cool quiet sanctuary that exists wholly and solely for my pleasure, delight and wonder. I favourite work that changes me, that alters who I was before I absorbed the work to who I was afterward. Being able to ‘favourite’ work on Red Bubble fills me with the same itching in my fingertips that I feel when I walk into an empty house and immediately start collecting things to fill the space with; colour, sentences, textures, moments, scents, themes and life. Since Saturday, I have been sumptuously and gloriously going back through all my favourites, reading your words and tracing the stroke of your pens, your ink, your paint, seeing the world through your eye. I found myself, after a page or two, hungry and cold and aching to physically crawl into and immerse myself in your work; to fill my belly with your colours and vowels and frames and sentences, to wrap myself in each piece and hibernate amidst such vibrant and potent creative energy: because like Degas and Balzac and Zola, our art and our writing are pieces of ourselves, whether built from experience or imagination, that we have set adrift in the world to say, here I was, here’s what I observed about being alive, here’s the ink I’ve spilled, the paint I’ve shaped, the charcoal I’ve recycled, the image I’ve scored on negative, here’s the mark I’ve left behind. Whether we’re Degas (or not) we are each of us artists in our own right, brave enough to allow our craft to see the light of day. I humbly thank you for the pieces of yourself I fill my Favourites sanctuary with.
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED TODAY! ...
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED TODAY! I was happy to discover my work Featured yet again in this group… / This means so much - Thankyou ARtrageous RB ARtists!!!
Thankyou ‘Works on Paper’ for Featuring my watercolour self-portrait THIRD BORN !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ula…
Thankyou ‘Works on Paper’ for Featuring my watercolour self-portrait THIRD BORN It’s so nice to have artwork appreciated and recognised by other artists, thankyou again!!!
THANKYOU ARTRAGEOUS RB ARTISTS for featuring my Artwork & T-shirt!!! Emerging Perspective !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/si…
THANKYOU ARTRAGEOUS RB ARTISTS for featuring my Artwork & T-shirt!!! Emerging Perspective Forked – Consumabe T-shirt
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED by ‘QUORN’ Thankyou!!! Inner Vixen !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:mai…
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED by ‘QUORN’ Thankyou!!! Inner Vixen
Thankyou Visual Texture for featuring my artwork FRUIT ON!!!! I !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/170681…
Thankyou Visual Texture for featuring my artwork FRUIT ON!!!! I
Thankyou Unconventional Artistry for featuring my painting! Make me a STAR !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/v…
Thankyou Unconventional Artistry for featuring my painting! Make me a STAR
MASK feature—- Thankyou STRICTLY FACES! MASK /
MASK feature—- Thankyou STRICTLY FACES! MASK /
Thanks to the hosts of the Hand drawn and painted buildings Group, for featuring my pen and wash drawing of Alnwick Castle
Thanks to the hosts of the Hand drawn and painted buildings Group, for featuring my pen and wash drawing of Alnwick Castle
This tutorial can be used for several things, hence the terrible title :) Every tutorial I have here can be used in different ways to wh…
This tutorial can be used for several things, hence the terrible title :) Every tutorial I have here can be used in different ways to what is shown, I quite like this one though, because to get to the end result (pen and wash) the process naturally takes the path of a sketch or something you could use as a pattern to transfer one of your photographs to a canvas to paint. Warning – there’s always warning LOL This is a really, really image dependant tutorial. There is probably no part of this tutorial that is going to suit another image, but the good news is that you’ll get to fiddle around with settings, and that can’t be a bad thing :) So the start image comes to us from someone, but I can’t remember who. If anyone does find the owner, could you please leave the name and web address so I can credit them. Open the image and duplicate the it by pressing Ctrl + J or dragging it to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. Working on the duplicate layer go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur (If you haven’t got Smart Blur, try Surface Blur or Median) and you can punch in the settings I have if you are working on the start image. Click OK to accept the settings. Add a layer mask to this layer by clicking on the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette. Using a black, soft edged brush and with the opacity of the brush at about 50% (top toolbar) in one swipe brush back in the face. Once you have that done, flatten the image Ctrl + E and then duplicate the layer. Got to Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges and you can punch in the same settings I have – in the teeny weeny dialogue box LOL Click OK to accept the numbers and then invert the image by pressing Ctrl + i on the keyboard. Then press Ctrl + U and take the saturation slider all the way down to -100 change the blend mode to Multiply. Take the opacity of the layer down to about 80% (you can fiddle with that later as well. You should end up with something similar to the image below. Duplicate the original background layer and drag the duplicate to the top of the layer stack. Press Ctrl + i to invert the image and then change the blend mode to Colour Dodge. You’ll notice in the image below that the glowing edges might have been a bit strong in this instance because it has left a bit of colour in the image which shouldn’t really be there ….. thought to self – maybe I should have run through this to get the exact settings and make myself look good LOL This is where fiddling with the settings comes in useful. Go back to the middle layer of the sandwich and fiddle about with the opacity of the layer. I took the opacity of the layer down to 60 % to give it a bit more of a pencil effect, if you leave it higher you’ll get the pen effect. At this stage you could use it as a pattern for painting or if you do it correctly :) as a pencil sketch – but you can take it one step further, all with some brushes and the foreground colour set to black. Set the f/ground colour to black and go and pick a brush, I chose ‘Watercolour Loaded Wet Flat Tip – 63’ In the top toolbar and took the opacity and the flow of the brush down to 10%. Paint over the little troll thing but try not to go back over the same area more than once. You may end up with something like the image below. Go and grab a different brush, or you use the same one to go back over the image and build up an effect. If you make a mistake, switch the foreground colour to white and it will soak up some of the paint. Always make sure that you are working on the Colour Dodge layer, you’ll soon know if you’re not because you’ll end up painting with grey :) Adjust the opacity and flow of the brush to build up the image and zoom in and out to get an idea of how the process is going. After you do each paint layer in building up the image, it might be wise to take a snapshot so you can revert the image if you don’t like what you do next. You can go back to the middle layer (multiply blend mode) and take the opacity of the layer down to 0% to loose the pen/pencil lines and end up with a painted image. If you play around a little bit, you should end up with something a whole lot better than my image below :) Have fun!
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Here“ / I am thrilled wow !!! / thanks so much to / >>>>>>>>> THE MAGNIFICIENT SEVEN<<<<<<<<<< / >>>>>>>HOSTS WITH THE MOSTESTS<<<<<<<< / Marilyn“ / Martin” / Kafka“ / Trisha“ / Marion“ / Firedrake“ / Deb“
So I am working on a new piece, and it is all digital. Title…”Devastation”. This is a relatively new venture to me, and it is taking so…
So I am working on a new piece, and it is all digital. Title…”Devastation”. This is a relatively new venture to me, and it is taking some getting used to. Trying to find one’s own style in traditional mediums was hard enough for me, but finding it digitally is a horse of a different color. I enjoy the challenge, and at the same time find it frustrating. So I am off to the drawing board today, or pen and tablet I should say.
Here it is at the end of August. We’ve been in our new condo, by the University of Arizona, for three weeks and loving it. I’ve had the n…
Here it is at the end of August. We’ve been in our new condo, by the University of Arizona, for three weeks and loving it. I’ve had the new computer and camera for two weeks and am in a steep learning cycle. It’s now a week since I uploaded my first art to RedBubble and the first rush of addiction is wearing off faster and faster… meaning I’m spending more and more time “lost within the Red Bubble!” Life IS good… what’s next?
Happy! going with the flow…...started new paintings and drawings using oil paint and pen and wash techinques.
Happy! going with the flow…...started new paintings and drawings using oil paint and pen and wash techinques.
Not to those exclusive groups for people who have been on RB for over a year...
Not to those exclusive groups for people who have been on RB for over a year, not for groups for persons who do graphic art, or who are published authors, or who make comics, or for those who are real artists who use real ink or paint, nor for those who sketch or paint the wilderness or scenery, nor for photographers, because I never photograph anything either well or worthwhile. Nope! I never get invited, because, I am assured, I am just a digital artist, and I should stick to groups like that. For digital artists, as you know, cannot do a thing else, and they never do any of their work by hand, but, only by tricks and that is not any sort of art at all. It has nothing to say, no meaning, and takes no talent to create Digital art: / Yuck! Why would anyone want to look at that! Not only is it “boring”: and lacklustre but it just doesn’t mix well with other art This is not really a pity party, by the way. This is for self amusement, so liberties have been taken in regards to which sort of groups I was not invited to that were exclusive, and why. Sort of making fun of myself, because I did run into a group that was exclusively for people who have been on Red Bubble at least a year (which doesn’t actually sound that exclusive to me), and, I have never been invited to an exclusive group that I would fit into by what they say are their standards, so I did feel a momentary twinge of “poor poor pitiful me” and then I got over it, and decided to turn it into something more entertaining. I hope it entertained you: I know it entertained me!
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