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Category Archives: creativity
Real Paintings and Photoshop Usage
On Original Artwork Well now that I’ve completed two owl paintings, it’s about time to have them scanned in a higher quality than my Android phone camera. I went about fixing up the blue owl, giving him a better background and slightly enhanced colors. (The photograph that inspired this showed a blue background, while I [...]
I made a new layout
Most websites look very similar under the hood. Here is a basic “wireframe” for both the redesign of this site (my first 100% custom WordPress theme!) and another site I’m working on. But enough about that, let’s take a look at what I did last week: Before The original Yahoo SiteBuilder template. (Screenshot doesn’t show [...]
Owl Painting Late at Night
I stayed up late on Friday night painting a blue owl with glowing yellow eyes. With only a picture from online for inspiration that I didn’t follow too closely, I dabbed on the dark shapes and textures that by themselves made no sense. Once I did get the eyes into the picture, the little guy [...]
Using Google Books to build a car
And so it begins: Meet Bob Ferry and his nice ‘ride’: a 1906 Oldsmobile Model B Runabout. You might be thinking, “Wow, for a model that’s nearly a century old, this car looks brand new.” That’s because it is brand new. Bob found old magazines and publications on mechanics with pictures, diagrams and descriptions, by searching [...]