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April 9th, 2011
Well finally Spring is beginning to feel like its here. We have robins battling for space on the lawn and I can go get the mail without a jacket. Yup. Good times. I'll be working more closely with my local Artist Guild getting more of an online presence and making more of an impact on the townsfolk. The Wiccan community has been very good to me and I'll be creating more art with that in mind. That's all for now. I'm going out on the patio with my coffee to watch the birds.
February 4th, 2011
I can't believe it's February. Looking at my September entry, I would really love some of that heat right now I can tell you. We have 18" ice dams that are crystal clear and we can't seem to go four days without some kind of storm. My driveway is getting narrower with each one. Please remind me of this month when August rolls around again.
I've been spending more time with Wiccan imagery in my main Zazzle shop. Great stuff that really speaks to me. I'm also concentrating on getting...
Sometimes, you really do get the bad guys.
September 17th, 2010
Sometimes, you really do get the bad guys.
So the doorbell rings when you don't expect it to. You look in the driveway and there is an unfamiliar truck backed into it. Something tells you to take down the license plate number so you do.
You call "Who is it" and get no answer. The storm door is locked so you open the front door to a young kid. Since this scenario has played out before you take careful note of his appearance.
He asks for someone who doesn't live...
September 2nd, 2010
I'm adding designs to my various PoD's now for my favorite time of year. Autumn, and especially Halloween.
It doesn't feel very "autumn-y" at the moment. It's still really hot here in Connecticut and 90+ degrees for days at a time tends to make New Englanders cranky. And hurricane Earl should be here tomorrow. As long as I can still access the internet and work on my various shops, I'm good. I do have to say that I'm getting really tired of the TV and radio telling me over and over...
August 18th, 2010
I know better, and yet I let my client take four illustrations without paying me. I've done work with him ( a mason) before with no problem. This time, his client, a homeowner building a new house, emailed me trying to get me to take more than 60% less! The image you see to the left is one of the illustrations. (I know.) He paid over a million for a knock-down. I had to work from blue prints to get the illustrations done. To see this and other mason jobs visit my commissions gallery...
June 19th, 2010
When working on a tight deadline this blog is the first thing that suffers. Well, I'm halfway through a two part commission that's due in the middle of July. They are big pieces. Well, they are for me anyway.
When I browse around the internet lately, I get to thinking that I should simplify the look of the main page of my main website, but I'm not sure how to organize it. I guess I'm gonna have to break down and make the time to figure out how to code for those drop down menus. I'm...
April 27th, 2010
I can't believe it's been a week and a half since the "Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks Tour" seminar I went to in NYC. So much great information.I've been to several of these seminars and have always come away better for having gone. I was never too sure of how to use layer masks and now I have a grip, albeit shaky, on it.
The Designing with Type section will probably be the most useful. I've designed many greeting cards in my Zazzle shop (http://www.zazzle.com/nightmareartist) and...
April 9th, 2010
Well, the Fat Boy Fossils shop on Zazzle.com is now live. It is a small shop at the moment, but that will change as I get more trilobites and ammonites photographed and scanned.
I play with the images in the computer and digitally alter them with cool backgrounds and colorful effects. So if you are a fossil lover or collector stop by and look around. Then let me know what you think. If you have any suggestions please let me know!
April 6th, 2010
So Easter is over and the next holiday is Mother's Day. It falls on May 9th this year and it's coming up fast! I have Mother's Day cards available on my Zazzle.com shop. These cards are great because they are customizable. I know! You can add your own message anywhere on it. There is a wide selection of fonts in virtually any color. Add to the front, inside left, inside right or the back.
You can upload photos into the cards too. Who doesn't have a ton of photos to share these days?...
April 2nd, 2010
I've been getting alot of queries by people who want commissions done in oil rather than the dyes and color pencils I usually do. I don't know what spurred that, but it would be a nice change. I haven't done an oil in a while and I do love working with them. The last one was an expanded scene from one of my Magic: the Gathering images; The Lord of Atlantis. It has three figures and a coral reef and city background. It was big too. Well, big for me. Two feet by three feet. My other oils were...