"Dancing silhouettes"

Some vector silhouettes of dancing people.
Author unknown. Only for personal use.
1 AI : 1,4 MB

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Working With Low Resolution Photos

Today I am working with Charlie. If you check out the image above your first instinct may be "oh wow what a great snapshot". In many ways it is a nice capture. Charlie is smiling and he seems pretty well lit. It also looks like a great day was happening and he must have had a very happy day at the beach. The only thing missing here really is resolution. This image is 148K which is terrific for sharing on the web, but not so terrific for enlarging. Check the image below to see what happens when we bump a low resolution image up in size. When you enlarge a low resolution image you are asking the computer to fill in information that is not there and the result is jagged pixelation. So my first step is always to smooth out the messy pixelation and then once I see what is left, I go in and add in missing detail.

Charlie in progress above

If you are thinking about ordering a custom pet portrait keep these things in mind:
#1 A 1mb image file or larger will result in a portrait with tons of yummy detail.
#2 Dragging a friend's photo off of facebook or Flickr will result in a low resolution image unless you can click around and find the original high resolution version.
#3 Your camera has quality settings and you need to set yours as high as possible when shooting.
#4 I will attempt to work from just about any image sent, but try to send me a high res image for best results. I can always enhance what you give me, and yet the portraits that you fall in love with in the Art Paw galleries are usually the ones that started out with great high resolution photos.
#5 Check out our photo tips page for more help and information about proper file resolution.

Video Below Of Another Low Resolution Image In progress

Alexey concept ship designs

Tons of art... karanak.deviantart.com


















Keywords: concept spaceship art design by alexey aka karanak residing in irkutsk russian sci-fi concept art

In A Sentimental Mood

Sonnet 44
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah, thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that, so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan,
Receiving nought by elements so slow,
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.

(Shakespeare)

One more thing: The bone in the film is a wishbone:

The wishbone, known in anatomy as the furcula, is a sternum bone found in birds which is shaped like the letter Y. It is used as an attachment point for the wing muscles. It is so named because of a tradition: Two people pull on each side of such a bone, and when it breaks, the one who gets the larger part is said to have a wish granted.

The mechanical sculpture in the film is by Arthur Ganson. Some of his stuff is really awe-inspiring. Check this Machine with Artichoke Petal #2



Of course, it may bring to mind other art machines (Rebecca Horn, but also manyothers), but what I really appreciate here is the simplicity. Modest art is something to be cherished. It also reminds me of some of the musical experiences by the Portuguese musician Nuno Rebelo:


Even the really simple ones are really something: Machine with Chinese Fan


Is it kitsch? I don't care.
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Concept ships on geenstijl.nl

What kind of an internet monster is geenstijl.nl? Almost twenty thousand pages on Saturday. Woah.




Keywords: concept ships featured on dutch blog geenstijl.nl founded in april 2003 attracts around 75,000 visitors each day and counts as being one of the top 10 news sites of the netherlands

Barbie Scale Guillotine Papercraft

Here is my contribution to the collection of free Halloween papercraft on the Internet this year: a guillotine! I had downloaded a 3D model of a bloody guillotine by designer "Smirnoffka" earlier this year thinking I might do a papercraft of it sometime and finally decided it would work best as a Halloween papercraft. I chose to scale the guillotine to the size of a Barbie doll because there was something just so ironic and disturbing about associating smiling Barbie with a gruesome instrument of death. :) Here are the details of the template:

Scale: 1:6
Finished Size: 12.5" (31.8 cm) height
Number of sheets: 3
Number of parts: 18
Difficulty: 3/5
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Note: No Barbies were harmed in the making of this papercraft. :)

Mosaic Monday / Dead Artists, Skulls and more

Me & Dan as Frida Kahlo & Vincent Van Gogh

It is that time of year.... Halloween and yes Halloween parties. This weekend we went to the Creative Arts Center Halloween party. We won best costume for the group category, we also had a pal with us that was Bob Ross (the guy that paints little trees). I don't know why we wanted to be such tortured artists. We are both pretty happy individuals, at least Bob was there to add some levity with his big brown afro. At any rate it was fun trying on these characters from 3 totally different eras.

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If you need some help getting in the holiday mood go on over to the Skull A Day Blog and search for Skull Mosaics. You will find some pretty cool stuff.

"Cherry Blossoms" By Mystic Mosaics
© the artist Cindy Sbrissa

Check out the terrific Day of The Dead photo set by Cindy over at Flickr. Cindy has some lovely work posted there, including a pretty pup or two.

Other Fun Links of Interest:
http://www.halloweenartexhibit.com
http://www.halloweenartgallery.com/
Halloween Art Guild at Ning
http://mexicansugarskull.com/
http://www.mexic-artemuseum.org/