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I’ve been curious about doing a contest around here for awhile, but I hate the concept of judging a contest, so I decided to open it up and let readers be the judge through the comments.
It’s progressive because I figure, the more page views, the better the prize will be (because I get paid for page views). There will be only one winner for this contest, but the prize will just get better for each level of page views.
Let’s go through the prize list* first of all.

1,000,000 page views – Nikon d40x
750,000 page views – Photoshop
500,000 Page views – …read more

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I think half of my sketchbook sometimes is what I’d consider “Concept Art”. What it really is is probably something more similar to many varied doodles or half-finished ideas that never came into being.
But it can also be a valuable tool when you are stretched for a new work.
Pull out the sketchbooks and glance through them, you may be surprised at what you find.

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This has been circling in emails for awhile now as a forward. I think there is a value to just viewing and analyzing certain things about it though.

Consisting of three colors, the illusion experience is that everything seems to move.
Try this. Concentrate in the very center and everything stops moving, but move your eyes over it, and well, everything but what you are looking at directly will move.

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I was also experimenting with image maps in blog posts here.  Links are underlined and sometimes highlighted. 

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A big Thank you to Tammy, over at Jewelry and Beading who is hosting this month. Click on the little Sun Christmas ornament above to check out the posts submitted by the rest of the channel.

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While Christmas is pretty far from most of our minds here in the US, down under, today is Christmas Eve.
July 26th is the official Christmas in July for down under.
So, I’d encourage you to check out the gallery here on Artist Hideout while you are thinking about Christmas gifts.

I have a few more artists that I’ll be adding to the gallery here over the next few days as well.
If you haven’t sent me your link to your site/store and an image yet, please do, I’d love to have your submissions.

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When I first looked at the paintings by artist Michael Story in an email he sent me, I thought they were photoshopped landscape photographs.
But of course, they are the work of an amazing artist, Michael Story. Michael’s work not only shows a beauty of the landscapes painted, but a great understanding of them as well.
Michael shares a little bit about his background below:

Art and music are rooted in my family history. My great uncle and grandmother were jazz musicians, and my grandfather, who was a professional artist, was my first teacher. From a very young age, I knew …read more

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Over the last few months, I’ve been in discussion with Brian (AKA DT, or Design Translator), over at Design Sojourn particularly over the issue of the difference between art and design, and how they interplay and work with each other in good design and good art.
Not only is DT a great designer (and actually works professionally in the field), he’s a been a great guy to work with as a friend. So, I invited him to guest post here on Artist Hideout for this discussion to give you more of the design approach to art. I hope you …read more

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Dexie, a fellow blogger over at www.sheknowsbest.com – Lifestyle Tips for Guys, who featured me last week (as per my wife’s submission) wrote in and was curious if her 9 year old son qualified as an artist?
Sure, one thing I love about children’s artwork is I love to see the progression of artwork from kids as they grow in their ability. These are the formative years and the time where they can develop skills that will last through their lives. I wish I was this proficient at photoshop when I was nine. Wait, did photoshop even …read more

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The Gallery will server two purposes, for people to submit their artwork to be sold, and also to be able to have one place where you can see a lot of artwork at once and also inquire about it or visit the artist’s blog directly. So it’s a gallery for selling, sharing and community.

Each artist is allowed one painting each for now. Maximum dimensions are 500px wide. Check out my painting in the gallery to see the format I will be using for this.

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