Digital Painting, psykopainting continued...

You can take photos from the wiki commons page of famous individual such as Geronimo, George Washington or Chief Joseph and use them as a template to start a digital painting.  Then adding some of the important words or works associated with them can add another element to the total work.

James Gurney painting video

watercolor video

James Gurney, has a website called gurney journey and he teaches a lot of great art things. The picture to t he left is a google image of him painting and the watercolor video link above it is from a you tube video he did today. I would encourage everyone to check it out.

Digital painting

Digital painting can be a fun use of artistic experimentation. One such site is called pyskopaint and is one of the apps available on Chrome. Here are a few of my first tries.

Brown Trout on Rainbow Rocks

Fancy Nancy "Lizzy"

Lizzy Busy, always up for a pose.

The site is fun, but rather addictive.  These are all manipulations of photos, but I have some paintings from scratch as well.

Religious Art

Caravaggio is one of my favorite painters. In this painting Saul of Tarsus having seen an angel is thrown from his horse and becomes a Christian convert. In art throughout the ages man has taken various approaches to convey testimony and tell story, from literal story telling, to symbolism. Even landscapes can be said to be included in the realm of religious paintings. What works inspire you? How do you convey those things which cannot be easily spoken?

The idea for this centerpiece came from a rustic Christmas one found here:  http://amandawickcunningham.blogspot.com/2011/12/winter-rustic-pepsi-crate-pine.html.

Well, I decided to hijack my husbands blog so that I could pin my own stuff.  My Mom told me I should pin it, so here I am.  I love how it turned out.

I used a crate that I got from my Grandparents' farm the last time I visited them.

Michael's had some great garlands this year.  I also used 6 jars and 6 flameless candles.  I had some pumpkins, gourds, and garlands left from last fall to help fill it in a little.

My coffee table is from a design on http://www.atouchofarkansas.com/2010/10/big-coffee-table-end-tables.html.  He got the design from http://ana-white.com/.  My end tables are also copied from Ana White.  I'll have to post them another time.  I love how they turned out too.

I've thought about starting my own blog, but I just haven't had the time.  All of my kids are in school now, but we've been trying to get our house ready to put on the market.  I hope to put some pictures of the before and after on some time.  I just wish I would have done more before pictures.

Spring is here and the apple blossoms on our tree in the front yard are amazing. The bees are loving the tree like no other. They create a soft hum that is medatative and almost zen like that is quite in contrast with the construction of the new school across the street from our back yard.

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