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  • Skull with Veins

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    I wanted to do a simple cracked skull. It didn’t work so I painted the cracks with blood and added a bloody artist mark. (InkScape, GIMP2)

  • Volcano Finger

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    Today’s art started as a finger painting in black and white. The image is a volcano exploding into a hand with the middle finger raised. Smoke rises from the hand. The hand also has a disapproving face on it. The second image is an embellished and colorized version of the same elements with the small…

  • What is water?

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    Today’s art is called “What is water?” The water which was done first is blue grey swoops and dips on a blue green background. The primary element is the tracing in white of a page sized ampersand. The lower half of the ampersand is flattened to create a fish’s body. The upper half is a…

  • Troll

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    Today’s art is a sitting troll. The outer lines are in khaki, the body is a reddish brown, and the hair and inner features are a lighter brown. The horns are black, the lips are orange, and the eyes and fangs are white. The background is a pattern of black swirls on a very dark…

  • Cat

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    Todays art is an orange cat sitting out side in front of a hill. The cat itself is mostly straight lines and ovals made in Open Office. I have no idea how I created the framing but I will probably try to figure that out for future pieces. I moved the file to GIMP2 to…

  • A Message from the Past

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    Today’s art starts with a gold toilet paper palate on GIMP2. The upper portion has the words in purple Gothic Script “Is this thing on? I have a message from the past. We did the best we could. Now it’s all up to you. Forsooth and Anon.” Beneath that is a crude little snail dressed…

  • Bloody Eye

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    Yesterday I did the dripping blood as a transparency on GIMP2. Today I did the eye as a transparency on InkScape and moved it back to GIMP2 where I combined it with the blood as added an artist mark with a little extra flourish. Remember the artists mark is usually part of the art nowadays.

  • Platemail

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    As a teenager I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. Paladins in platemail were my favorite. Today’s art is an attempt to recreate the wonder and magic in those suits of armor. I have actually seen medieval armor since then but the fantasy images remain in my head. The platemail in this image is…

  • Green Leaf on Gold

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    The foreground is a stylized green leaf made in InkScape with pen and nodes. It has a small stem on the bottom and three large points at the top. Inside there are alternating frames that become simple and simpler. The frames have bands of darker green half ovals. I created a background on GIMP2 of…

  • Royal Robot

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    Pen, nodes, and ovals in InkScape with yellow, purple and white to form a jagged body and eyes. Transferred to a confetti background on GIMP2 with an artist mark.