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February 12th, 2007

Trading Art: Selling an Art Card

I’ve uploaded my artcard and posted it on the www.artcardswanted.com website. I like the fact that I can tell a little about the painting in the description. It makes it a personal experience. The payment page is set up using paypal which directs straight to me and I can send out the […]

By William Lehman -- 1 comment

February 12th, 2007

Trading Art: Art in your pocket

While I anxiously was looking for a paycheck from someone today, I intentionally stayed close to home to wait for the mail lady to arrive. The paycheck didn’t come, but… my artcards did.
They came in an average tannish orange, bubble-wrapped lined envelope from ArtWanted.com. Pretty much they were everything I was expecting. […]

By William Lehman -- 2 comments

February 1st, 2007

Trading Art: proof and pudding

I received my proof back from ArtCards Wanted. It took them three emails to get my order right (somehow my order got mixed up with someone else’s which happens sometimes) but thank goodness for their proofing system.
here is the email I received back from ArtCards Wanted with my proof attached. I whited out […]

By William Lehman -- 0 comments

January 30th, 2007

Trading Art: Reliving the Fascinations of Trading Cards

When I was about 9, I used to enjoy trading baseball cards. Phrases come back to me of “I’ll trade my Jose Canseco Dream Team card for your Nolan Ryan?”. I must admit I was a big fan of Nolan Ryan. Baseball fanatics today don’t know the love of the game that […]

By William Lehman -- 5 comments

January 24th, 2007

Beginning Blender: Oh, My Blue Heart

So yesterday I began trying out the open-source animation tool, Blender. I played around with blender for a few hours and came to the conclusion that there are probably some good blogs and sites about Blender. In fact they are hard to miss when they are ranked number one on blogtopsites for […]

By William Lehman -- 4 comments

January 24th, 2007

Beginning Blender: More than a kitchen appliance.

I think I wrote this on my all things new post but I’ve decided to start learning to do digital animation using the freely available (open source) tool, Blender.
Now looking at Blender for someone like me is daunting to say the least. I can usually download a tool, play with it a little and […]

By William Lehman -- 1 comment

January 23rd, 2007

The art of the reproduction

Beginning artists have always been fascinated by painting the works of a great artist. There was a time at which I would have considered this a scam and a blight in the face of the art world. To take a well-known famous painting of superior quality and transpose it by a two-bit artist […]

By William Lehman -- 0 comments

January 22nd, 2007

Playing with Fire and Fractals

This evening I was reading through some of the feeds in my feedreader and came across Cyndi’s post about fractals. Prompted by the need to try out a new art program, I downloaded Apophysis and set out to try my hand at creating something, anything, whatever…
In about 15 minutes I had a fractal art […]

By William Lehman -- 2 comments

January 14th, 2007

b5media Artists Showcase: All Things New

Now over the last few years (before October this year) I have not done a whole lot of art. I went to museums and shows but to actually get my hands dirty and all painted up, well college and career seemed to be getting in the way. So with this year just barely […]

By William Lehman -- 5 comments

December 21st, 2006

Submit your Art for a free screensaver. My Christmas gift to you!

Okay, Here goes nothing! I have been thinking about how to celebrate Christmas here on Artist Hideout. I couldn’t think of anything I could give so I figured out an idea on something I could make for everyone. The typical artists response for the week of Christmas.
Maybe this will be a […]

By William Lehman -- 4 comments