Valid 

19 creative works found

• Thank You! I'm Joining the Group
  by Patricia L. Ballard

  Today marks a change in my art. Someone bought a framed print. Thank you so much to the person who bought it! I’ve been feeling insecure …

  Today marks a change in my art. Someone bought a framed print. Thank you so much to the person who bought it! I’ve been feeling insecure with the switch from weaving to digital work. It was necessitated by allergies. Can’t take the dust and flying fiber these days. I’ve spent years learning to use Photoshop, and it’s finally starting to pay off. It had alreay paid off for me in that I’ve just loved getting to know all of you and beoming a part of the community. The sale is an extra bit of validation.

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  valid invisibility rocks
  by Levi Buzolic

  CSS is fun.

• "You're not doing ART right!"
  by BlueKnot

  Got an interesting and somewhat saddening bubblemail today. An artist who was being criticized for digital manipulating a photo and dari…

  Got an interesting and somewhat saddening bubblemail today. An artist who was being criticized for digital manipulating a photo and daring to call it “art.” They wrote to me because I also work in digital art, and asked my opinion. First let me describe the Artwork in question. It had started as a photo, then was converted to a line art drawing using software. (And by the way, if that sounds easy to you, you haven’t tried. Sure the software does most of the “work”... once you find good settings for your particular image! ...and that can be a major headache!) But more than this, the Artist had gone over each section, adjusting color and gradient. This was not a lazy piece of work. I started off addressing the work: “I actually like both versions; it’s clear that some people just don’t ‘get’ that the intention is a sort of digital impressionism, not photorealism.” “I note you said ‘Photographers’ were panning it. There are some – not all – in that category who are …. er, “purists” is a nice word. Let’s use that. The purist feels that the skill and effort of capturing the perfect picture is the ultimate achievement – they and their camera vs. the world. For them, digital manipulation is a distasteful “cheat.” Maybe to smooth over a flaw or two in the otherwise perfect picture, but it shouldn’t alter the overall look of the picture (so they say.) Fine for them, but some will insist on enforcing their opinions on everyone else.” “You have started with a great photo, and then you saw more in it: it became the canvas for another work. And you’ve done a fine job. Even if you’d just “run it through a filter”, that was your decision, you made the input of altering the picture that way. (And sometimes that yields spectacular results… look up a guy by the handle “lightsmith” here. I like his name, too: he doesn’t just capture the light with his camera, he works it over in photoshop as a smith does iron.)” The artist also asked me if I had ever “gotten flack from other artists because you don’t get your fingers dirty with paint?”... “Have I gotten flack for not getting my fingers dirty? For not even using a camera? Well, not so much personally but I’ve seen it over and over in other communities. I look at it this way: The photographer does not usually sculpt or give birth to his or her subject, they do not cause the sun to rise or the landscape to teem with flora. They take what they find and use it, manipulate it, frame it and capture that wonderful image that they saw and wanted to share. I have pictures in my head… to get them out I use models created by others and software I did not write, but I carefully place, pose and arrange. I adjust the light, changing it’s intensity, color or direction (an ability some photographers would kill for!) I compose and frame my images the same way as the photographer, I just have a somewhat fantastic camera and infinitely patient subjects. ;) “ But the big question in the email was Is it Art? “To borrow/paraphrase the definition of a friend of mine (“GoofyFoot” here) ‘Art is anything created by one person capable of eliciting an emotional response in another person.’ “ “And if I were to extend it into the definition of an artist, I’d say “A person capable of creating Art, as defined above, and who does not deny the validity of someone else’s ‘art’” ... because once you cross that line, you’ve become a snob, and the only reactions you can create are unpleasant ones.” And there you go. If it makes you feel, it’s Art. It doesn’t mean you have to like it. I’ve seen plenty of Art I didn’t like. It doesn’t mean that your way of doing Art is “wrong” and you need to do it that way. But what it does mean is that however it was created is a valid way of creating Art; and you have no right to deny the legitimacy of it because techniques were used that you don’t approve of. The traditional media artist critisize the photographers for “just snapping pics of what someone else created.” The photographers criticize the digital artists for working in a medium that has “undo.” The digital painters criicize the 3D artists for “playing with digital dollies and letting software make all the art.” The ‘pro’ photographer criticizes the photographers who “manipulate their work artificially.” The ‘pro’ 3D artists criticize the hobbyist for “not making their own models.” The oil painters criticize the watercolor artists for working in a “lightweight medium.” It’s all ridiculous. I have a friend who likes to turn the tables and ask the painters if they bind their own brushes and gather and mix their own pigments. After all, if you don’t you’re taking credit for work that is partially someone else’s. ;) Art comes in all flavors. And while it is part of redbubble’s massive organization problem, it is also one of the things that makes redbubble great. They (almost) got it all. I would never go to a photography-only site, but I’ve seen some awesome photos here that I’m glad I didn’t miss. Excuse me, I should have said “I’ve seen some awesome Art here that I’m glad I didn’t miss.”

• Is it just me?
  by RoughDiamond

  Or does this happen to everybody. When accessing an art work, the screen will automatically scroll down to the very last comment when i…

  Or does this happen to everybody. When accessing an art work, the screen will automatically scroll down to the very last comment when in reality I would like to see the work and read the comments from the top instead of having to scroll back up again … and some of these have tons of comments!!! Is this a bit petty or a valid point?

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  THAT WAS NOT A VALID RESPONSE
  by ToastedGhost

  Banks / Governments / corporates Please now state the new “NO” THAT WAS NOT A VALID RESPONSE

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  VALIDATED
  by thesoftdrinkfactory

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  Valid only for the rich and famous
  by Cliff Vestergaard

  get out of jail free

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  Valid only rich and famous
  by Cliff Vestergaard

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• It's Amazing
  by Jim Caldwell

  Love and relationships

• Wishes, Wonders, & Total Amazement
  by EmeraldSun

  Wow! Another enlightening, amazing week has gone by at home and on my RedBubble world. I have gathered and learned so much on this we sit…

  Wow! Another enlightening, amazing week has gone by at home and on my RedBubble world. I have gathered and learned so much on this we site, and even more to my surprise made some wonderful acquaintances with folks from EVERYWHERE. I am even able to now belong to a group for people with disabilities. THAT spells freedom for me. When I saw it, I became choked up. I feel like I am now validated as a person to be taken seriously….maybe I didn’t put that well, but it is an issue all people with many challenges have to deal with. Self worth. I have run across many wonderful groups to join. I am going to have a lot of fun. I do mean fun. Art for me IS exciting and fun. My cup runneth over with exuberance! LOL :D .............More of Life On That Hiway, ya know??!!

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  SPILT MILK
  by LOUIS VAN DEN HEEVER

  Acrylic on canvas / 76×38cm-Original available

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  come to the darkside
  by Mundy Hackett

  come to the darkside

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  Yeni Valide Mosque
  by Jens Helmstedt

  Gate of Yeni Valide Mosque, built by Ottomans 1710 in the quarter Üsküdar at the asian side of Istanbul. Ottoman Traces in Istanbul / In the lanes of the old quarters of Istanbul, around the Ottoman mosques and impressive historic buildings, sometimes the scenery reminds to the time between the 15th and early 20th century, when the city at Bosphorus River was the capital of the Ottoman Empire. © Photo by Jens Helmstedt Ottoman Traces in Istanbul – 2010 Calendar

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  Yeni Mosque
  by Joel McDonald

  Yeni Mosque in Istanbul Turkey in the Eminonu district. This is were they wash there feet outside the mosque.

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  Weavers at Buyuk Valide Han
  by Jens Helmstedt

  Weavers working in stuffy air in a room without daylight under the roof of Büyük Valide Han, an Ottoman caravanserai built in the 17th century. They still use a more than 100 years old loom from Germany. © Photo by Jens Helmstedt Photo published in German-language Magazine / Zukunft – Issue 07/2008 in my article about / the quartier Beyazit in Istanbul.

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  Truth - The Beauty of Logic
  by RangerRoger

  This is a painting I did a while ago using the pattern of zero’s and one’s in formal logic truth tables to define an artistic pattern similar to that of Celtic ribbonwork. I’ve been meaning to do more work along this line…In fact I’ve got several lifetimes of work to do but only one to do it in, what a bummer.

• Validation this is for you.
  by James Watson

  For all of you wonderful artists at RedBubble / This is for you. Spread the word. / Validation / Take the time and watch the whole thing / ...

  For all of you wonderful artists at RedBubble / This is for you. Spread the word. / Validation / Take the time and watch the whole thing

• Validation
  by bloorain

  There was anxiety in her eyes. There was fear in his. He reached nervously and pulled out the letter.

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  A Valid Path
  by saEnarts

  The result of anger returned as kindness, for someone who was kind when i was not. A little gift for you. Flowers created reversing a Julia with Mandelbrot. / Aka A valid Path, or Antartica / Shpongle, Alan Parson’s Project Exclusively Ultra Fractal 5.02 / Full view for best detail. / Thanks for any comments, critiques, favs. / ©saenarts. All Rights Reserved.