Make It Bigger While working in ArtRage on the iPad, I didn’t realize that I had the ability to increase the size of the canvas. Using the default size was too small, making it was difficult to paint details and blend paint. Increasing the Canvas size to the maximum (2048 x 2048 for iPad II) […]
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Trying Something New It’s been a while since I have posted anything on this blog and I apologize. In the future I am going to try to post more consistently. With the end of the summer came new beginnings. I made the decision to focus more on my art and leave my full-time employment. On
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Quick Draw Last Friday I spent just an hour and a half working on the painting. I want to spend more time with this project, but it’s turning out to be more like quick therapy sessions. With hectic everyday life and work responsibilities, I’ve been finding it difficult to take the time I need to
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Short Bursts of Production Ever since I got back from my vacation, I’ve been trying to focus on my own work but not so successful. During the week I’ve been focusing on work and trying to get together a new portfolio site to showcase my work. That’s left little time for my Mosterpiece project. For
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This is the progress of eight sessions of working on my first modsterpiece. I hope you enjoy. Modsterpiece in Eight Days
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Art Therapy After a overly long roller coaster of a week, I was finally ready to get to the National Gallery of Art on Friday to work on my painting. I started off with a new class on Monday which was a lot of fun but also a lot of work because I was trying
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A Full-Bodied Week This week was definitely eventful. I was able to spend two afternoons at the National Gallery this week to work on my painting. All in all, it was a wonderful week. And with the beautiful weather, it has only made walking from the gallery to work a memorable time. This week I
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Friday Is Becoming My Favorite Day of the Week Last Friday I had the chance to paint at the museum all day. It was a perfect day, again. The weather was great. I had lunch with Dennis again in the refectory. Mental note to self — I need to dress a little better to have
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A Day Out With Dennis I had the best day yet at the National Gallery of Art, although it started off a little frustrating. Today the weather was mild and cool with a decent breeze. Since it was so nice outside, the visitors were at a minimum at the museum. Early on in the day,
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Inspiration Put to Good Use My visits at the National Gallery have really started to pay off. I was a little frustrated with being able to mimic the technique and the colors in the John Singer Sargent piece I have been working on with my Modsterpiece project. Today I tried to focus on the illustrations
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