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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Thanks. I do learn a little something more with each try.
Plus real writing means you get to use pens.
Mmmmm...pens...
It is just a big stack of transparency sheets more or less. it helps to turn off the ones you are not working with so they don't cloud what your are editing. I make lots and lots of layers and just turn off the ones I don't like. I was doing line art colorizing mostly so layers were really important. Photo editing they are less so, but still really handy.
And I think that's exactly what the wife needs. She's managing her personal life, her teaching life, her church life, her mom's life, her mom's doctors lives, negotiating with her siblings to still be a part of their mom's life, Jr's life and Luke's life...
I pretty much keep the house and paperwork in running order and cover for her when she can't be in seven places at once.
Maybe we should just hire a scheduler...
I feel a little outta place, tuh say the least... heh... these are the kinduh kids I usedtuh beatthecrapoutta when I wuz in skool...
Real writing also let's me draw in the margins.
Have you used any of the "Varsity" pens? They make disposable "fountain" pens. But they're hard to find.
Don't think I don't remember.
I LOVE making happy clouds!
What I really found, is that I loved painting his landscapes, but that I was never going to want any of them in my house... and after I'd finish one, or get frustrated by it, I'd just scrape the canvas and do a different one. You can do that with oils, since it takes so long to dry.
What I really wanted to do was to draw horses... and dogs, and I found painting them with brushes way too imprecise. I got pretty good at drawing horses in pencil, but really I can't match the art of the real thing, and enjoy now just photographing them.
I get lost in layers, it's really frustrating.
When I was applying for colleges, I got accepted at Virginia Tech as an art major. And I got accepted at the school I went to as a music major. I should have gone with art there as well.
It was apparent by Theory II that I had no business in the music department, so I sort of floundered with majors and ended up with a Speech degree because it was the closest I could get to journalism. But it wasn't close enough to get me a job. It did eventually help me get to politics and gubmint...sigh...
So, I want to mesh the writing and art together and have music and drama on the side. And I want someone to pay me a six figger income to do it.
And I want to live at the beach.
And that's all I want. And nothing more.
Except this ashtray...
Yep - that's how I first got into fountain pens. It's been downhill every since. ;-)
Actually I was lucky in that I was in Europe when I first discovered them. You can buy fountain pens at any drug store there - they're much, much more common. I have a Waterman pen (French...but I didn't know better...;-) that is a lower end model you can't get here - one of many in its class. Here, we can only get the more expensive ones. And it's not a bad writer! Just a little stiff...the nib is...iridium, I think?
And then I have a couple of older inexpensive Parkers I got on eBay. Still love to have a nicer one someday.
More info than you bargained for? ;-)
Mornin'! [sip]
Another thing to consider might be the Blackberry. Nice thing about it is that it is also a phone, does wireless email, and synchs nicely with outlook. You end up only having to carry the one thing, and not an extra thing.
They've really got the email and synch thing nailed. I don't think anybody else is yet even coming close.
My .02 :-)
No, I find it interesting.
I like doing calligraphy, but I'm not that good with it.
Is it spendy?
I'd hate to think tho that we'd have to change her cell number again.
You do a very fine job of photography!
But there's still something about paintings and drawings...
If I'm ever wealthy, or even just well off...I'd like to have lots of paintings! Not necessarily by big names - just interesting art. We've played for a local art fair several years in a row, and one of the best parts of it is just looking at all the paintings and sculptures and photos and all. Most aren't THAT expensive as art goes - under a couple of hundred, say, and some for hardly anything at all, at least for the smaller works.
Click the pic! :-D
There are multitudes of websites with tutorials out there, just Google "Photoshop tutorials." One site I kind of like is RetouchPRO, which focuses a lot on photo restoration. One of the fun things they do is a weekly challenge... they have a photo that everyone can download and work on, then they post the results and share ideas. I haven't had the time for that in quite a while though.
Anyway, Photoshop is ~not~ easy software to learn. I have been using it for about 5 years now, and there are still tools that I have never used, and in fact don't really know what they do!
I don't do calligraphy...just write. I'd like to learn someday, though. It does take a special kind of pen.
Mostly I just love the way fountain pens feel, and the smell of ink, and the fun of filling the pen yourself...even if I do half the time end up inked up myself!
heh heh heh...
I'm stealing that.
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