Wow! I love the way the paper-cut portrait turned out.
I want to try this sometime!
How to Make a Cut-Paper Portrait by Haya Ainu
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Here’s my latest creation.
I created the digital collage above using Photoshop and Painter IX.
I started by taking a photo of one of my Kuan Yin statues with a digital camera. Then I loaded it into Photoshop and tweaked it a bit.
Next I created the background using Painter IX. I played around with color and texture [...]
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It was hard to get started this morning. It was cold and dank and a slow drizzle of rain greeted me as I stepped out the back door. I quickly went back inside and slipped into some warm fuzzy socks and my boots before going out again. Brrr
I worked some more on Jack the rabbit [...]
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Cracked Water Pot – Mixed Media – 10 x 10 inches
The Cracked Pot
Once upon a time there was a man whose job was to bring water from the stream to his Master’s house. The man carried the water from the stream in two clay pots. He hung the pots on each end of a pole, [...]
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Jen Stark’s paper art is amazing and very inspiring. Her medium is construction paper. Wow!
Jen Stark’s Paper Art
“Creativity is the ability of a person to respond to visual and other sensory stimuli in an original way, and then to share this response with passion, individuality and spirit.” – Gerald Brommer
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I wanted to be productive today and paint something so I created the abstract painting below. I am still working on this one.
I need to work some more on the angels and the background. I am thinking of adding some touches of ink and metallic paint to spice it up a bit.
This afternoon, I prepped [...]
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Beatriz Mihazes – Video portrait of artist Beatriz Milhazes
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Sketches – Etc …
Today, I had a hard time focusing on anything but the gorgeous weather just outside my window. I did do a couple of sketches from a magazine I got in the mail this morning, but that was it.
As hard as I tried, my mind kept wandering so I finally gave up and [...]
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Visions – Mixed Media/Collage – 10 x 12 inches
I spent most of the day working on the collage/painting above, and I will post my progress in the coming weeks.
The woman represents the visionary, the healer, the medicine woman, the shaman…
She is the one who interacts directly with helping spirits to address the spiritual aspects of [...]
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Hieroglyph of the Human Soul : The art of Leigh J. McCloskey
“Leigh is a visionary painter and philosopher who has transformed his home into an evolving canvas. His environmental painting, Hieroglyph of the Human Soul, crawls up bookshelves, across the floor, ceiling, and furniture of his studio. Filled with archetypal symbolism and alchemical imagery, Leigh’s [...]
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