Studio Journal
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 01:51PM
Can't you just hear the lapping sound of the waves chanting to the blue moon?
I created this image in iPad iDraw, a great portable vector program, and tweeked the textures, lighting and cropping in Photoshop.
Nature, Sensuality, Sound, iPad Art Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 05:13PM 
Somnolent scent of white flower frangrance and lemon. The creamy white color spiked with yellow and burgundy on dark green leaves. The curvaceous lines of this masterpiece of a blossom. No steel magnolia for me. Only the real thing. Elegance, charm, warmth and honesty from my flowers and people, please. The magnolia says it all and symbolizes the sheer depth of Southern beauty. Enough said, huh?
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 09:54PM
There are some colors I have always had a hard time defining, like the rose in the photograph below. At first glance this rose can appear to be white, but upon closer inspection you can see lots of pink and cream. Pale, pale coral? A tinge of pink and a tinge of yellow? Exquisite, whatever the color may be. So beautiful it inspired me to create a rose pattern, which is what you see at the top of this post.
From the photograph you see above I created a pattern and used it to fill the word "Rose" created with the font Impact. I played around with the layer blending, and here is what I came up with. It is what I call Meaningful Text, and it is a nice feature to use in logos. It is also a lovely way to keep forever roses given to me by a wonderful and thoughtful man.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 03:33PM
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:53AM 
Because I produce art work in so many different ways, I developed an explanatory caption to provide information about the tools used to produce a particular work of art. I first developed the image above at the top of the post. It is beautiful to me, but is too ornate and too large to accomplish the goal of revealing information. As an alternative I designed the middle image, but it, too, was too large. I am currently using the bottom image since it does not distract from the image it explains. I like the first image very much and hope I can find a suitable use for it. Actually I think that it will appear as a banner on this site (stay tuned).
Lately I have been switching between iPad art applications to capture the best feature of each. It is becoming more important to explain that three different art apps and photoshop were used in the same way I frequently need to explain that I sketched an image on paper and perfected it in Photoshop. Digital mixed media can involve many stages and tools that are fun to switch between. On my iPad I have ArtStudio, Brushes, CPencils, ArtRage, SketchBook, Adobe Ideas, Quill, Zen Brush, iDraw, ASKetch, Sketch Club (my latest favorite), neu.Draw, Inspire Pro, Paint Studio, Procreate, Sketchbook...and there are more. This is why it is impossible to be without inspiration in the world of developing digital design.
The need for design organization is further required due to a marvelous phenomenon - the generosity of the online design world and the need to give credit to people when they allow the use of their textures, styles and fonts.
The typeface used in the designs above, Alt Lautus, was created by Andreas Leonidou at Behance, a great motivational design portfolio site. Check out Andreas' work there, and Alt Lautus can be downloaded at http://www.mediafire.com/?g58yah2olp265f4.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:16PM
Today's bouquet in the field was red top clover. The red is an exquisite shade that almost sparkles. The clover made a beautiful addition to dinner and matched the red chairs in my dining room.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 05:26PM Smashing Magazine published a thought provoking article entitled "Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction" by Thomas Giannattasio, Art Director at nclud. Read it and think.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 01:21PM 
A fresh and lovely, though unfinished font, SpecialK, was designed by ficod (http://ficod.deviantart.com/). You’d better not need a comma.
