Well I think I need to add another page under Resources – I think I’ll just call it ‘For Artists’. I orginally thought I’d add my bit about the Sketchbook Project on the ‘Art Contests’ page, but the Sketchbook Project is hardly a contest. The fact that there is a cost to the artist’s involved [...] → Continue Reading The Sketchbook Project
Online Art Fair Returns February 3-8, 2012 For “VIP2.0″ Augmented Platform Adds New Galleries, Artists, Enriched Social Media, Mobile Interaction and Museum Participation NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2011 /CNW/ — VIP Art Fair, the world’s first contemporary art fair held exclusively online, announces its second fair, VIP2.0, February 3-8, 2012, at VIPArtFair.com. Top international galleries [...] → Continue Reading VIP Art Fair for 2012 Returns
How to turn digital art into hard copy? Now that’s the question I’ve been playing with.
After the digital photography, after the image manipulation with Photoshop, or the Gimp or whatever, after the drawing using an open source vector graphics editor that I was finally able to download and actually get working (It’s called Inkscape and so far I like it!). . . After doing all that I just wanted something that I can hold in my hands, and then do something with. Like hang it on the wall for example.
Well the new computer finally moved in and I’ve been busy getting ‘Igor’ up to speed. As usual I’ve been looking for software for working with digitial images of all kinds. A couple of weeks ago I spotted a sunset that was so breathtaking it literally had me running to the house for my camera, [...] → Continue Reading Digital image manipulation software
“Richard Gregory, a prominent British neuropsychologist, estimates that visual perception is more than ninety percent memory and less than ten per cent sensory nerve signals.” That line from the first article in ‘The Best American Science Writing, 2009′ a book edited by Natalie Angier was part of my bedtime reading last night. I like reading [...] → Continue Reading What you see. . .
One of the things I’ve been grateful for lately is the wealth of open source software that is available to computer users these days. I still remember the disappointment that hit me shortly after I got my first computer and discovered that I wasn’t going to be able to turn it into the kind of [...] → Continue Reading The Computer tool.