Artist Hideout

After spending about 45 minutes getting ice off the car we pushed it free from its bed of ice this morning. It’s been a fun morning battling the ice and snow. I enjoyed getting out and taking a few images of the ice covered bush near our apartment though. I have found that taking loads of pictures is a good way to work with composition without actually getting the paints out. You can do it on the fly and make yourself a better artist through practice.
You might even become a better photographer in the meantime. …read more

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My wife feeds a stray cat we have around here. A little pretty calico that we both like. She is usually pretty hungry.
Well, this morning as we were going out the door, Rebecca noticed some strange prints leading to the bowl, which upon realizing there wasn’t any food, turn around and walk off.
We thought it was kinda funny. Here’s a picture that tells the story.

apparently the birds are hungry too…

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Though this was done completely digital in Paint Shop Pro, I thought I’d share it.
This is an image of my grandfather when he was in the second world war. There is some serious distortion of the image from folding over the years.

Using cloning techniques and some elements of art (face of the other guy, buttons, belt, uniform and trees) I was able to clear up the image significantly. I may do a little more work on this in the future though I am happy with it now.

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It got a little cold here last night. I snapped this before the sun melted the ice on the inside of the window.

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My wife and I went for a nice little drive yesterday evening. Just on some local back roads of central Ohio. Saw a few deer and spotted some clouds. I thought I’d share. I did a little editing in Picasa to these.

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This morning, my wife and I went to go see the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”.
To say it was frightening is one thing, but to say that it was sheer inhumane might be closer to the mark. Granted, it was a war-time era. Bad things did happen. Good people died, and people were tortured for no reason. But besides all that and the critical analysis… I must come to the look and feel of this film.
Labyrinth exposed the beauty of film-making not so much as a two hour adventure in Ophelia’s world of horrors, but as …read more

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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 begun, I am challenging myself… no forcing myself to learn some new stuff. So here is my list of new things to try or work with in the coming year:

To learn to work with Blender and accomplish small animations: No this isn’t some …read more

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Digital painting of photographs has really taken a leap in the last few years thanks to artists like Scott Engel.

Scott says this about this particular piece. “Fly By Night”

I was out photographing in Simmons Woods Park, in Pewaukee, Wisconsin around Halloween last year, when I was inspired by the near-dusk flight of some geese. Having taken notice of the moon, I wondered what it would be like to see those geese flying across the face of the moon. So I photographed the geese and the tree, then followed it up with the picture of the moon. In Photoshop, I enlarged …read more

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you can tell which cat enjoys getting their picture taken can’t you?

Tags: cat, photography, cute, kitten

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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 continual type of thing that I’ll do every now and then. I am not too sure on the specifics yet on how this will work. It is up to you, the readers, to help out.

Here is the way it will work. …read more

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