The Quiet One

Another year is -

Another year is paid for this blog. My credit card bill came today with a $89.50 charge from Six Apart. Money well spent since I do enjoy blogging.

The artwork above is something I create on the Gateway computer last night using Photoshop Elements. I was just in the mood to have a little fun. Actually it came out pretty good. I'll transfers it over to Mac for a few more tweaks.

An Artwork piece

Here's one the artworks I did over the weekend. I did the color part in Painter Essential, then brought it into Photoshop. Use the Liquify tools to reshape the painting a bit. Ok I really reshape it. It was interesting painting that just needed something. But when I got done with, it still needed something. So took a shot of piece of log that was falling apart and layer it over it. With that simple move gave it some much depth.

Not sure if it really shows up. I only did a 5x7 because I was more into learning what I could do with the brushes. I plan to spend more time with Painter tomorrow, there's a few more ideas I want to tried.

Sometimes -

 

You know, sometimes the perfectly exposure picture is boring!  Occasional it does paid to be on the darkside or on lightside. Took this picture last friday, sitting outside eating my lunch. Could have spent all afternoon outside.

However-

I wanted to learn more about Painter Essential and what I could create with it. Spent the afternoon figuring out what exactly I could do with the brushes. Drawing on a paper and drawing with a graphic tablet are two different things. At least I don't feel bad about wasting stuff. Somehow manage to come up with something interesting art work. Everything is abstract since I deal with real stuff in the photos and poems.

Yes there's in the abstract paintings or artworks but why does everything have to reveal ? Life should have a bit of mystery to it. Another thing I'm doing with the projects I do with Painter, is bring them into Photoshop. There I can adjust the color a bit or take one my abstract photos and layer it on the artwork. Gives the painting a wonderful dimension to it. It's an aspect I'm going explore this summer. Would love to tried create new texture using paper and other things.

I'll post one the artworks tomorrow.

Thank you all!!!! - Reader Appreciation Day

To all my readers-

A big Thank You for reading this blog,

For putting up with my many moods  (the good, the bad and the ugly ones).

For reading my poems despite the grammar errors in them.

For enjoying my photos and my wild artworks that post here.

Finally for just able to have your friendships that run across the internet.

Again

I Thank You

*****

This wonderful idea for having a Reader Appreciation Day was dream up by Robin at The Other blog. I hope will become an annual event now.

I wonder -

Maybe an opening to another world

and all I have to do,

is step across

                                                                           Or could it be just telling me

                                                                           to be still

                                                                                         and enjoy its mystery.

Hopefully April will bring -

Hopefully April will bring me some warmer temperatures. Plus few a nice days on my days off. I have nothing new in my photo folder.  So tonight I created this using my old Painter Essential. One these days I'll get a newer version. I just hope this looks good on another computer. I'm the iMac right now.

So for the last day of March, it pretty much rain all day. The best part, it didn't snow. So maybe the corner has turned, all the snowflakes are now sleeping in their bed up at the North Pole. Maybe in two week, all the buds on the trees will open and tiny little green leaves will greet the sun.

Chilly day and chilly night.

Winter has come back with a blast of artic air. Right now this room has a chill to it. Yes I can turn up the heat, it's only on 64. But other people  can't, so why should I ?

Well, I did manage to type up a few poems yesterday on the Mac using iWork's Pages. It's pretty good program. I set up a templete for doing poem. And yes, I still want a Wordperfect for a Mac. Was hoping to do more but landed up not feeling for most the day. I'll post one the new ones tomorrow. Still questioning a few lines.

Also finally got around using my camera a video camera. I could never do it because Quicktime does not like my Gateway. Almost crash it twice. So today I pulled out my direction book and figured out how to do it. Videos came out good, work (of course) great on the Mac. So I'll tried again with shooting some video this weekend. As posting it on the blog.

No because I don't know how to do it. lol!

Well there's is Youtube to host it. Which by the way is a great way to find old musical videos I haven't seen in a very long time. Another thing I want to tried is iTunes. There's a few songs I would like to have for my music collection. All I need to do is find my Apple password and I'm going on a buying spee!

Hmm I don't remember

Hmm I don't remember what photo or photos I used to make that. But I do enjoy making them and lately I've been working with type of artwork.

Thanks to all  who comments about the dentist problems. I'm hoping to get this resolve this month on what going be done. However, I think I'm going have to switch to another dentist. Ugh!

Merry Christmas!!!!

 Have a Merry Christmas!!!!! 

The tree I made using Painter Essential 3, it works better on my iMac. However I'm going replace it with number  4 ones these days

Couple photos+ Photoshop =

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