en plein air

This is my first attempt at pleine air painting. it is acrylic on illustration board and is a view from my backyard. i first painted the background with yellow. actually I scrubbed it on with a paper towel and water with the pigment. Then I did most of the foliage work with a palette knife. the details were added with a brush. this was a practice session for vacation we are planning. i hope to paint across America.

up and running

Finally, I've gotten around to a website redo. I used Yahoo's Sitebuilder. Once i learned the software it was easy. My new site is much smaller than my original site. It is just the beginning and is not aimed at sales but to generate interest in my work.

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Just another day playing with paint. And it's fun! I've been painting for fun. Not painting with the idea that someone would buy it. life is too short. if it's bought then that's good, if not.....well, there is always need for collage paper. Since I've been painting acrylic on paper, I just paint over the stuff I don't like unlike when I painted with watercolor those mistakes could not be painted over. I really like painting with the acrylic though. I seal the paper first with a coat of gesso then i pour and splatter all over it. I've not been painting much lately due to the other demands of life. I've been rebuilding the tyoungartist.com site and that's taken a little time. I using Yahoo Sitebuilder instead of scratch building the site. The software has some features I don't know how to do from scratch yet.

I keep finding new and interesting stuff on the Internet. ZeFrnak.com has become one of my favorites. There is all kinds of stuff there.

I've started using Picasa for my online photo arrays or collections. I like it works great. It makes it possible to upload directly from the camera to the Blog. That

is unless I want to stop by an image processor to make some changes.

Nottin' special

Today was busy. i finshed two videos and uploaded them to YouTube. They weren' great, but did get the messsage across. I got the major points done. You can tweak forever. I also downloaded Picassa from Google and am giving it a go. It maybe useful. i found a greaat website with a lot of stuff. i finished the family website yesteday. tomorrow i need to start reworking tyoungartist.com 'nuff 4now!

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I have taken considerable time redesigning our family web page. I write the code and don't use an editor. This time I thought I would use the Yahoo Site Builder software. It has some nice features.
I thought it would be good to look at the page as it was made instead of always having to preview each change in the browser. So I made a dynamite homepage only to find that I could not load it up to a freebie site on Geocities but would have to purchase a "premium" site. This was not to happen. So I built another page from scratch. The content is good but the layout is not quite "artsey" enough for me. Next I have to redo the tyoungartist.com. I will use the Yahoo Site Builder for that.

I am considering putting some art work on Etsey and Cafepress. I think some of my stuff will look good on t-shirts and coffee mugs.