drAnn's Art

My Cartoon: Put the Cheese Down!

Can You Guess What This Is?

It looks like art to me!

HINTS: 

1.  It waters your plants for you when you are away.
2)  It has no batteries or other parts to replace.
3)  It is easy to clean.
4)  It is made from hand blown glass.
5)  It is available in several different pretty colors.

I wrote a review for this product here:

http://www.reviewstream.com/reviews/?p=32706

It is an Aqua Globe .  Aqua  Globes are cool!

Another photo is HERE

Thistle in the Guise of a Wood Faery

Next I shall have to draw her a habitat!

Perhaps an elfin kitty is in order, too.

I Get Lonesome for My Drawing Table

Sometimes I get busy and cannot draw for a few days, but while I'm working at the computer, this thought is in the back of my mind, "I should be drawing!" and it wants to take over, so I keep a few in-progress photos of different things around on the computer desktop just to glance at from time to time and that makes me feel better.   

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Which Colors Work Best Here?

Send Someone Flowers!

 

            

   

In Progress

Here is a line sketch of my next drawing:

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About Copy Protecting Photos Online

I bought Watermark Factory's brilliant intuitive software last night and made my first protected JPEG this morning:

I used an image you have already seen, to make the comparison easy. 

The settings here are simple, as I'm just starting out.  I used emboss and a little reduction in opacity.  There are many watermark programs on the market and I tried several before deciding to buy this one.  The deciding factors were power and ease of use.  I found that with some other programs that were not this easy, I had a tendency to skip the process altogether. 

This one makes it so easy, it will be hard to shirk.

Another great photo resource I've found recently is PhotoCamel:

http://photocamel.com/forum/ 

A really friendly free membership forum that offers unlimited gallery space for photographs taken by members.  They don't seem to mind that I'm not only not a professional photographer, but mostly just take pictures of my own art.  Of course, if they keep being so nice, I might start taking more pictures.  Move over, Ansel Adams!  

Update:  An acquaintance has commented more than once that he thinks my watermarks should be more subdued, and so I tried making a few less obvious.  The result was that one image I submitted for publication was rejected because the site though it was in their own words "Too good to be true."  Now that is a fine compliment, but from now on I'm not being understated about my copyright.  It is my work and it is going to have my name on it--like John Hancock if need be. 

Today's Drawing

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When I'm not drawing or painting I may be working on my new blog:

http://drann.typepad.com/the_empty_cabinets_of_my_/2008/01/why-does-everyo.html