Cedar Writes

Category: Art

  • Inktail & Friends

    Inktail & Friends

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    I have alluded to it, but now I’m going to get into details. I am working on a coloring book. No, not coloring it myself (although I need to do that for the cover I think) but creating one for other people to color in. I’ve been asked many times over the last couple of…

  • Review: Art Books Part II

    Review: Art Books Part II

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    You can find the first part of this series here, where I talk about two ebooks, both of them on digital art and painting. Today at the Mad Genius Club I hosted a great essay by Jason Fuesting comparing Starship Troopers the movie to the book. But this post is a review of two three books,…

  • Reeling

    Reeling

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    I left the exam this morning feeling dizzy and hollow. Part of that was not having remembered breakfast before I left the house. The rest was, well, this was the hard one. It’s all downhill from here. I’m really not up to blogging, but I wanted to share a wonderful post about Leigh Brackett, you…

  • Review: Art Books, Part I

    Review: Art Books, Part I

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    I have a lot of books on art. Not as many as I used to, sadly, but still, more than I probably need. Books! must have books. Ok, so I hoard books like some kind of dragon librarian. And the art books are meant to learn from, which means that sitting on the shelf they…

  • Time is fleeting

    Time is fleeting

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    And I have much to do. Here, have a dragon. She’s small. Have two!

  • Unmessy Painting

    Unmessy Painting

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    I’ve been messing around with digital art again, since unburying my desk and freeing up my pentablet for use again. I need to work on my skills, but so far I’ve done two completely different things… Well, ok, the windows are similar!

  • Solace

    Solace

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    I’m exhausted. I have class. So I’m going to leave this piece of artwork here for today. I painted this last night, free-form, and just let the brush go where it wanted.

  • It’s Back

    It’s Back

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    After a couple of days of being less than functional, my blog is back up (I hope. If you’re seeing this, then good!) and running. On the other hand, I have an exam in a couple of hours. I’ll try to put up a real post with actual content this afternoon. I have a lot…

  • Brushstrokes III

    Brushstrokes III

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    I’m still painting, and I don’t think I will stop when October and the Inktober challenge ends. I’ve been experimenting with adding color, and the alcohol inks are still a challenge but I’m getting a better feel for them. I will be setting up a shop in time (when I have time) and selling originals.…

  • Brushstrokes II

    Brushstrokes II

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    The continuing work I’m doing for Inktober, and my own amusement. Several people have encouraged me to consider doing a children’s book, for now I’m holding off on that simply because I haven’t got a story… I’m sure that will change if I think about it long enough. Art is easy to formulate in my…

  • Brushstrokes

    Brushstrokes

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    I’ve been painting this week, after I was inspired to pick up my brushes and participate in Inktober. I don’t know that I’ll have time to do this every day, and I didn’t start at the beginning, but if you wait until the condition is perfect, then you will never begin. Monochromatic ink wash, soft…

  • Art Manipulation

    Art Manipulation

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    I have the tendency when I’m bored and have a few minutes to kill, to read. If I’m not in the mood to read, I tinker with the apps on my tablet or phone. Since I’m not really a gamer (there are exceptions, and if I could find certain board games on the app store,…