My Toshiba M200, which has been the took for most of my work in the last few yours suddenly won’t work as a Tablet. No pen. Hope it is a quick fix but I can’t see how to do it. It is Queens Birthday here, so I can’t even take it in to be fixed. Any ideas?
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Digital Art Studio – adventures in Ink
I am reading a book, Digital art Studio, about print making using digital images and ink jet printers. Lots of info & ideas for using more traditional media in combination.
To get an idea check out the websites of the three authors:
I am busy gathering material, bought some “Rabbit Skin Glue” today, and InkAID.
Some images follow:
Landscape
I have these in mind to experiment with in the printing. These are about how I want them to look, but I will try different plain paper, wartercolour etc, and use “vivid” versions to compensate for the absobtion. I might also try over printing.
And these might end up in my landscape presentation of prints in the usual way.
Landscape Pond
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Landscape Pond
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Leaves
Leaves
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Now this one grew out of the last one. One thing leads to another. But the process is not done. I can see this leading to more “design” style images, I am getting the hang of it and using a few new functions I am learning in the software (like copying a layer and then moving it slightly etc)
But what do I do, work on the bush or play more with designs? So this is what happens… a myriad of scrappy projects that I love doing… To be honest I think I will get there. Sooner or later I’ll get a series done and they will a unified life.
Earth Crosses got there, though there is a printing job to finalise there.
Next post, more moves into different directions.
hcard and linking stuff
I am still mucking around with Microformats, Id do it on my Psyberspace blog but it is harder to fiddle there on WordPress.com (must change it over to my own server. some time)
Have added a hCard to the bottom of the sidebar in the main view.
Some software will show up what is there eg Operator, Firefox add-on.
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It is not nothing to do with art. Here is a hCard for example for Andy Warhol. It is part of wanting to make maps of connections between paintings, art networks as net artworks. So I am exploring these Microformats and FOAF and JSON all things Google are getting into.
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Making links between painting and so on is definitely art for me, and it is very psyber. I will be blogging and linking these discussions in the Psyberspace blog.
Andy Warhol
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
New York
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
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Paint? More from the workshop…
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Here is another cross. This one is a hybrid. The back-ground is paint and the verticals are digital. There is no original either, the base image was from a shot I took of part of the canvas, resized from landscape to square, beefed up the image in post-production. I think it will make a good print.
I still have the 600×600 mm original acrylic but it got tortured out of recognition! A lot of agony & ecstasy.
This one shows a some of what I learned over the three days. Layers. Removing paint in a variety of ways. I will keep going with this. More hybrids, and perhaps the other way around too! I could print the vertical on the texture.
My goal is to make a set of physical ones.
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Some more from the workshop soon, I still have the photos to take.
Later: Saturday, 5 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
In the thick of it
Photo of the view, first night on the workshop:
The next day I learned a lot about paint. My first real go at real-media in a long time, decades!
The focus and the exercises were great.
One small bit of real paint from my exercise sheet.
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I finished up doing some acrylic seed heads, but they are gone, apart from a digital sketch I made on the Tablet at the end of the day: the usual digital follows.
Poppy Seed
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Gessoing Boards
Here is another shot of preparations for the wkshop.
