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  • 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.

  • Moon and Stars

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    Simple and fun drawing and bucket fills on GIMP2. The principal image is a large outline of crescent moon with a smaller star outline in the arms of the crescent on a black background. The interior of the crescent is a regular series of smaller versions of the crescent, and the interior of the star…

  • 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…

  • The Power of Gold

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    Simple, fun, GIMP2

  • Black Cat on Gold

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    The cat is made from single element strokes in InkScape for a linear feel and the background and artist mark are broad brushing in GIMP2 to provide a contrast to the solidity of the cat.

  • Face of the Day

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    A face in purple and gold with one pixel lines. GIMP2

  • Flowered Stars

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    A few swirls of color to make flowers and stars. Gold on Black. GIMP2

  • Purple Robed Alien

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    My wife got a new purple gown. I embellished the gown from the image in my mind. It turned out well but it needed a wearer. I said “Alien?” to Stephanie and she gave it the thumbs up. He’s a little fat and lopsided, but aren’t we all? The stock art is available here: Purple…

  • Dragon 8 18 24

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    This is an InkScape dragon. The trick here is to imagine entire shape at once and move along the broad image to outline it without lifting the pen. InkScape makes designs in this style relatively easy to execute but obviously the final piece of art has some hard limits to what can be done in…

  • Chalice July 14

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    Today’s art is a relatively simple chalice. It took three canvases in GIMP2 and one in InkScape to create the effect I wanted. The elliptical and rectangular portions are possible with some work in the former, but the latter was needed to create precision gemstones. The purple backdrop is intended to highlight the gold and…