Posted on August 29, 2008 by valarie79
The title pretty much tells it all. : ) I decided to kinda give you an idea as to what I’m working with digitally. These are the inked drawings that I scan at 600 dpi and then take into photoshop 7 to color.
As you can see from the photo I have a monkey, bird, and [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by valarie79
Here we go. With much waiting from some of my readers and art collectors alike, I have finally made a bunch of animal drawing. I made myself sit down last Sunday and drew all 9 and inked them. I will show you the others as soon as I get them colored in photoshop. You will [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by valarie79
I have been wondering how people find my blog posts. I have a blog on another site and joined a couple of sites to increase blog traffic, but this doesn’t really seem to work for what I am after because if you visit a members site for a few seconds you rack up points. I [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2008 by valarie79
I was thinking it was about time that I actually start working my etsy shop while I have the time to do it. I was going to print off some cute magnets and iron on transfers from my artwork when I discovered that I had lost these two items.!!! I have bought replacement papers and [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008 by valarie79
I was asked if I had ever considered making paper dolls before from an individual online and yes I had a few years back. When I had just started painting I thought it would be awesome to make paper dolls and one even better would be magnetic dolls. But then I saw so many artist [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by valarie79
Sunset
Link to Auction
Here she is finally painted and posted online. Nothing else much happened today. I have classes tomorrow so this blog post will be short and sweet. Forgive the darker colors. The scanner was having problems picking up all the bright colors and it faded the image out a bit. The original is much [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by valarie79
I have been gone for the past two days to attend a funeral in Colorado. That was one of the longest car rides I’ve been on. (It still doesn’t top my gray hound bus experience in which I learned how long my kidneys could last : P Never!! NEVER again will I ride on a [...]
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