The Artistic Biker is me, Jonathan "Blade" Manning. A treasure troll of a man, with hobbit feet and a sharp pointy head. You may see me traveling up and down the highways of Oklahoma looking for the next place to sketch, paint, sing, dance, write, photograph or simply meditate. I have begun a journey that once set upon, there is no turning back. You can share in my blunt force journey through the art world on my weekly U-stream broadcast The Artistic Biker Live! Thursdays from 6-8p central
This week, I continued playing around with my spray bottle backgrounds, and using spray paints and junk mail to make paper dolls and cutouts for my journal. I like the crisp definition a cutout brings to the image. I also like the 3-D pop-out effects like with the flower. I want to experiment more with pop-ups. I would like to try my hand at a dinosaur or dragon. For now, I’m just playing around with flaps.
As you can see, in this entry a fairy princess is hiding inside a flower. This gives me all sorts of ideas for spring entries or even a painting or two. For now, however, I am content to continue working in my journal and creating youtube videos.
I bought another webcam and downloaded software that lets me film Picture-in-Picture! I will have to work on a better way to mount the cameras, though. For now, they are hanging by wire hangers and guitar strings. I will continue to make improvements to my video studio because that is the area that I’m most interested in right now. I would like to create and sell a series of How To videos based on the classes I am teaching at the local trade school. I will probably have the first of those online after the first of the year. In the meantime, I will continue to learn this new medium! You can see the video of this week’s journal entry at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R3w_i1y6s or watch it in the embedded viewer below:
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This is one of my favorite pages…such a neat idea. and I love that baby!!!