Month: February 2012
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A Brief Note 26FEB2012
Hello Peoples! YouTube needs a Visual Arts category!  +Merrill Kazanjian has a thread going about how YouTube needs a visual arts category. How many of you have uploaded a video of your art, or searched for something art related only to be surprised that after all this time, YouTube STILL does NOT have a visual arts…
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Tips & Tricks 26FEB2012
This week’s tip is actually a quote from Bertrand Russell: One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all…
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Evil Gall Bladder Is Evil!
A couple of weeks ago my beautiful, young bride’s gall bladder decided to ASPLODE! OK, it didn’t really blow up, but it did end us up in the hospital for an emergency gall bladder… ectomy? Â Anyway, it’s gone now and she has fully recovered. Â But we still did a page and a video…
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Daddy-Daughter Breakfast 25FEB2012
Wholly Crap did we have breakfast early that morning! Â Girl2 had her first soccer game of the season at 9AM Saturday, and the fields are an hour away. Â That means we had to go to breakfast and get back before 7am so we could get changed and leave by 7:45. Â So at 6:15 we were…
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The Classroom 21FEB2012
This week I discuss the process I go through when planning a painting composition. I touch on the golden mean, then quickly reduced it to the rule of thirds. I talk about cropping out uneccesary stuff and then how to break the rules for emphasis. Click Here to watch the recording of the class. You’ll…