Tutorial: Framing and Matting Your Art
To tell you the truth I don’t know too much about framing. But over the past few months I’ve been framing my art and I’ve realized that what once was merely a ‘neat’ piece of work suddenly becomes an ‘Amazing’ piece of Art once framed properly. I first started out just buying frames from the local [...]
Continue ReadingArtist of the Week Martin Klimas
Normally I don’t check out much photography, but I’ve always loved high-speed photography. The reason? It’s awesome! The reason I chose the photographs of Martin Klimas this time was simple… you can take high-speed photographs of anything and its awesome, but when you take pictures of porcelain fighters it turns into [...]
Continue ReadingDo You Want A Free Giclee Print?
Want Free Giclee Prints? Do one of these 1. Write a post about me and my art in your blog (blogger, wordpress, etc.), link to my store and portfolio. Facebook posts and tweets (etc.), do not count. Only one print per blog. 2. Get a tattoo of any of my art. Email me pics of it so I can post them in my blog. 3. Critique which ever drawing [...]
Continue ReadingWhatever Suits You
Those of you who follow me on twitter already know this, but I went and bought some sculpey clay the other day and decided to see what I could whip up.I’m not much of a sculptor, so by no means am I boasting about my abilities, but I rather like my new toy. I knew going into this that I wanted to create little monsters, but I had no [...]
Continue ReadingIntroduction to the Gaea Project
I know many of you have already seen me post pics on twitter and facebook about this project, but I never properly introduced it to everyone. I have story line you see that involves Gaea, the spirit of nature, Mother Earth, whatever it is that you want to consider her. It’s really a short story, very short, primarily inllustrated with [...]
Continue ReadingDo You Want a Free Limited Edition Print of My Work?
I’ve been organizing my website a lot lately. This has lead me a particular revelation — My art website is not the primary place in which I display my art… That’s sad considering my name is the domain name. So, I have a plan to make it the primary place: I’m Going to Give Away Free Limited Edition Prints It’s [...]
Continue ReadingArtist of the Week Andrew Millist
Normally when I do an artist-of-the-week post I talk about an artist that I’ve been really digging for the past week and have checked out most of their stuff and feel that I have been influenced, so much so that my art, for that week, has been affected. Well nothing is different this week except the fact that I only recently discovered [...]
Continue ReadingArt History: Watercolor
Earlier today I posted a tutorial on Spit Shading and explained the principle behind what I do and what most spit shaders do. Well, it left me wondering a bit about the history of watercolor in general. So, here it goes. Once again I can say that Cavemen invented it and it be true. Truly these guys were rocket scientists and invented everything… [...]
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