Sketch to GIMP

If you haven't heard me mention it before, I really love the FREE software called GIMP, which stands for GNU image manipulation program. It's a delightful FREE program with most of the bells and whistles you'll find in photoshop. There is so much to it that I only know how to use a handful of tools. I've been playing with scans of sketches and here's tonight's result. The black and white was the original paper drawing with a marker. I scanned it and saved it as a jpg, then did some fills and spraypaint with GIMP. Easy as pie! Mmmm....in the mood to draw some pie now.

Oops I Blurbed

As you can tell, I've been playing with web tools lately. There is so much out there for customizing everything from fabrics to fonts. My latest toy is Blurb and I've apparently become a "blurbarian" without much effort. Okay, maybe a day or two's work pulling together photos. I decided that it would be nice to have a compendium of the last few years' worth of artwork at a glance, so I knocked together a 194 page book filled with art. This represents at least my favorite, if certainly not all my work. So on rainy days I can be sure that I have, in fact, been doing something with my time besides biting my nails. Now, of course, I want to create some more (much smaller) original books. There is a link to the book on the right hand side of the blog--it's titled "art. stitch. life." This is just a photo book of art--no text. The software is easy to use and I'd recommend this site if you want to put something special together.

Wordle Me a Riddle

Made this neat little ditty on wordle . It's a cloud, based on the first page of el bloggo. Make love dolls and lots of kitty holding and fabric fusion!