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Category: Art
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A Confluence of Art and Writing
I know I’ve talked many times about my favorite webcomics, but I’m coming back to it again. For one thing, they are a daily habit. With my morning cuppa, I skim through anywhere from 2 to ten webcomics. For another thing, I said somewhere else recently that I never read comic books as a child.…
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Moss Gathers
But not on a rolling stone, as they say. I’m running a sort of hands-on workshop for creating an author blog or website over at the Mad Genius Club today, if you’d rather talk about writerly things than art. Because this is an art blog, today. I have gotten away from my schedule, but it’s…
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Piracy and Prints
Over at the Mad Genius Club I talk about piracy today, after having learned I’d inadvertently bought two pirated books. Here on my blog? Well, I’ve had a wild hair, and I have been pondering it. I take all these pictures, you see, and as a businesswoman, it has occurred to me that I might…
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The Eyes Have it
Shakespeare is often misquoted as saying the eyes were the windows to the soul. In fact, the quote was from Guillame de Salluste, and went more like “Lovely lamps… windows of the soul.” Whoever said it, and in whatever form, eyes are extraordinary structures. Through them we read, look at art, see our mother’s face…
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10 Awesomely Geeky Hats You can Make
#geek #crochet #nerdcraft #ohmigod #totesadorb #hatpatterns #babygroot My regular readers will have already noted several oddities about this post. One, it’s not my usual format to make a list of ‘8 amazing…’ or ‘5 funny…’ because that’s not my style. However, last night I’d clicked on an article with great geeky patterns… for knitters. I…
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Freedom Lives
I don’t know that I can write about this, today. Not with any coherency, and I may never be able to do that, this has shaken me. Others have written fluently, and I’ll share those words. Click on links to read more, and feel free to share, either this post, or the cartoon I created…
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Traveler’s Travails
The last few times I’ve flown, the TSA has been peculiarly interested in my hair. I normally wear it twisted up in a bun and secured with a clip or hairsticks. I actually asked about the hairsticks one time, as they are hardened teak, sharp, and could readily become a weapon. I was told they…
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Artfully: Day 20
We went shopping today. This place is very special to me, it’s where the First Reader took me on our first date. I was smitten with it – and him, right away. I think you’ll see why I’m so fond of it! I was trying to shoot with just the 55mm setting on the lens,…
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Artfully: Day 19
Today I was working on setting up blog posts for this blog, and others I guest at. As I will be doing a cover tutorial tomorrow for Mad Genius Club, I worked on cover art for two stories I wanted to use as demos of before and after. Both are manipulated photographs.
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Artfully: Day 18
In the spirit of the Raymond Chandler quotes earlier, I have a Noir guy for you this evening. My ever-patient First Reader modeled for me. This was shot at 35mm for my lens challenge (for those keeping track) under fluorescent lights with no flash. I took the RAW file into Photoshop, masked the background, and…
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Artfully: Day 17
“Mom, mom! Look…” The caramel-haired boy, whom as Wizbun knew, sometimes tasted like his hair looked, had leaped from the couch where the rabbit cowered, and caught the little dragon neatly in his hands. Now, the scared rabbit crept a little out to see his Mistress standing on the stairs, while her son ran up…