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2013-05-09 03:25:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A great artist and friend has opened up a class for learning digital painting . He does fantastic photo realistic work .I highly recommend the class . Not sure if it's in english . But maybe you could use Google translation if you don't speak Spanish ;-)

Rough Google Translation from the site ;" In the online course introduction to digital painting will have the opportunity for a great artist in both traditional and digital media, as is Alberto Perucha , we enter into this exciting world, sharing his experience in two fabulous master classes, and teaching us techniques and tricks to start making our first works of art from scratch . Ideal both for those who have no experience with these tools and want to start, and for those who have some knowledge but want to deepen and enhance your artistic side, learning from an artist and teacher in the middle.
Moreover, the arthis... more »

2013-03-28 18:46:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Here's Stephanie's and my pearltree.com links to all of the class info and projects . Both will be added to as we all post into the Art Class category here . You can get to Stephanie's Art Class section directly or also through my Art Class Pearltree some links are duplicated some are different . Just ask us if you can't find something here or within pearltrees .
Stephanie's Art Class pearltree http://pear.ly/bXANT

My Art Class pearltree http://pear.ly/bYdKj

2013-03-21 20:23:50 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm still a bit confused by deviantart's layout  ! I hate it ! I'm not sure how your supposed to go directly to the free stock photos . Other than a convoluted search . If anyone knows how you go directly to free stock photos there clue me in . Isn't there a group or section for it ? I know they have a separate website that has stock photos but I'm looking for their on site free stock sets .

2013-03-12 20:24:24 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thanks for the invite +Susan Sorrell ;-) Been a lot of talk recently about marketing art .Harriete Estel Berman has great marketing advice .She's a person that would be great to have here .
https://plus.google.com/106331966149937206693/posts

2013-02-23 04:02:08 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

Thanks for the invite ! ;-) My oil painting called Chivalry A Magpie like bird flirtatiously picks up a feather dropped by a Cockatoo . While another bird gets jealous .A love triangle the Magpie is trying to woo the Cockatoo . While the parrot gets all in a fuss ! ;-) The feather represents Chivalry ( like handing back a dropped handkerchief ) 
Acrylic black and white under painting with color oil over glaze .About 24x36 inches?
Bought by a professional artists wife who got tire of waiting for her husband to paint a bird picture for her ( ironic considering the story in the painting ;-) The artist was very good would have liked to see what his bird painting would have looked like in comparison to mine . The buyer had several large tropical birds . One of which she placed on my arm . A huge amazon parrot . I said something about hoping he's not a biter . She said something like... more »

2013-02-22 20:10:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Diogo Santos has been promoted to moderator ! Moderators have about the same abilities as the host or founder of the group which would be Stephanie ;-) But here we mostly make decisions as a group  . So it's best to ask around before making decisions that effect the group as a whole . At least ask Stephanie ;-) 
Moderators are picked by interactivity with the group . Whether they are here most of the time and how personable they are . How much they provide help to others. So if you are not a moderator yet it is just a matter of being helpful present and friendly ;-) 
So welcome Diogo Santos to the team ;-)

2013-02-22 01:19:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

OK, I can't wait to get my hands on this tool-  free-hand sculpting in the air, using just a large pen-shaped tool?  wow, crazy.  still some time left to get in on the kickstarter funding and get your hands on one before they're in full production.

2013-02-20 01:23:39 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

This is my steps to completion of the water image . The first step was just sketching the lines , shapes on the most predominant color blue ( inverted to orange ) . I used a grid to make it easier ( grid not shown ) no other measurements except for the size of the frame . Both the original and the final piece were the exact same size . So everything was even including the grid . The colors were taken from samples via the eyedropper selection tool . About a dozen samples . I also used more samples of color as I went . The whole thing was done in inverted color ( not seen here ) .Maybe I should have shown it that way but I thought it would just be confusing .Just imagine the first 5 steps as inverted colors ( Negative colors ) Then I inverted the image back to a positive and continued to refine the image . I think it's showing the steps in the wrong order they are marked correctly by their number though .... more »

2013-02-19 08:54:36 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Here's the original and my painting . I used 3 brush setting a regular brush nothing special then a textured brush and blend brush just to smooth things out a little . Mostly used a regular brush about 80% of the time. All done on one layer . So this could have been done with any graphics program. I used Corel Photopaint though .Took me about 10 to 12 hours . I did most of it in inverted color then inverted it back after being about 80% finished . Then did the finer details .

2013-02-15 04:13:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Happy Valentine's Day ! ;-)
Title "Eat Your Heart out ! " ;-)

2013-02-15 03:56:22 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

HAPPY Valentin's Day ! ;-)

2013-02-12 01:09:38 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Thanks for the invite ! ;-) 
My oil Painting Fish Tier  

2013-02-10 05:14:31 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Does anyone have a suggestion about where to put large photographs and masses of them . So the group can get to them . Be good if it was by password only so we can restrict access to just main group members . They would need to be in categories also . DeviantArt ? Flickr ? DropBox ? Pearltrees isn't really set up for files just links to them .
Speaking of pearltrees . They still want to talk to me about functionality on their site  . So if anyone has any input on that let me know . I've been stalling them ;-) 

2013-02-07 23:40:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

PhotoShop Tutorials list

( see Stephanie's first in " Tips & Tutorials from Stephanie " ) or
Stephanie Valentin's Tips & Tutorials pearltree main Hub 
http://pear.ly/bVcy5

pearltrees.com PhotoShop main Hub mirlen101 ( Marvin Hayes ) ;
http://pear.ly/RqTv

3 FREE Alternatives to PhotoShop ; http://pear.ly/q2yey

Beginners Guide to PS ; http://pear.ly/bVUH9

PS About Anatomy ; http://pear.ly/bVU1X

PS About Color Theory ; http://pear.ly/bVUWD

PS About Color Mixing ; http://pear.ly/bVZA9

PS About Color Pickers ; http://pear.ly/bVUDf

PS About Selection tools usage ; http://pear.ly/bWi45

PS About Brushes ; http://pear.ly/bVUCb

PS About Blending; http://pear.ly/bVUO9... more »

2013-02-07 22:51:24 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Question , does everyone think it would be useful to have a "Resource Index" category ? Instead of just a Tutorial Index category ? Because I notice that we have things we need to link here like Brushes ,Photoshop add-ons and other things that aren't Tutorials. So far we have been putting such things into the Tutorial Index .We have to be careful to use the categories wisely because we only get a few spaces . They do get used up .
BTW the Art Index is so you can put your art Links in there . I think +Stephanie Valentin  wanted that for your personal Artwork not sure about if you have artwork that you just wanted to share that someone else did .
I would like if people discussed these categories more to help define them . Because we are so limited by how many we can have . And we should be making more use of them . Especially for people who are just coming into the group .

2013-02-05 23:55:13 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Huge Resource list !
( brought to you from http://www.sycra.net/ )
Tutorials ,
Reference images,
Brushes ,
Color Wheels ,Color Theory
Online communities
Anatomy etc...

Figure Drawing Tools:
Lovecastle http://lovecastle.org/draw/ Pixelovely http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
Posemaniacs http://www.posemaniacs.com/

Photoshop Brushes:
Mathias Verhasselt (m@) http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes5.zip
Mathias Verhasselt (m@)
http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes07.zip
Goro Fujita (Goro)
http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goros_brushes.abr
Thierry Doizon (Barontieri)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cmmcv7c9517q6rv/BARONTiERi.rar
Nicolas Ferrand (Viag)
http://redwhirlpool.blogspot.com/2010/05/tradibrush-2-revenge.html
Min Yum (Bumskee)... more »

2013-02-05 18:56:05 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

A book cover I did for JZ Murdock ;-) Creepy short story about a device that can extract video from old audio tapes ;-)
I've done several book covers for JZ . He does mostly fiction Horror
and Horror Sc-Fi . Lots of short stories . Here's his sales link on amazon .
http://www.amazon.com/JZ-Murdock/e/B0040XMLNM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

2013-02-04 23:11:10 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Pencil drawing by Olga Melamory Larionova.

2013-02-02 06:45:35 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

My 3D relief painting Ode to Poe Mixed media . Epoxy,sand,clay,copper,oil paint etc. About 3 inches deep . The Raven is about an inch thick . Forced perspective optical illusion The bird is behind glass .

#FirstFridayArtWalk  +First Friday Art Walk 

2013-02-02 06:40:07 (9 comments, 11 reshares, 27 +1s)

Hi ya all ! ;-) Close up detail from my oil painting called Chivalry . 
#FirstFridayArtWalk +First Friday Art Walk 

First Friday artwalk by +Samantha Villenave and +Lena Levin thanks you two :-)

2013-02-02 05:24:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Pedro Sacristán is our latest Moderator , also host of the ARTE Community .Welcome Pedro !

2013-02-01 08:07:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Fish Tier oil painting ;
There is a black cats reflection . There's also a mans face above the cats .
The painting is like the tiers of Heaven ( Top fish ), limbo ( middle 2 fish ) and hell ( bottom 2 fish ) The cat is like Satan the man looks like Benjamin Franklin and represents God . Not that I'm religious . It's sort of a satire of pet fish demise and religious absurdity ; )

http://www.redbubble.com/people/marvinhayes/works/4278088-fish-tier?c=143757-surrealism

2013-02-01 03:15:42 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Thanks for the invite ;-) 
A sampling of my work . Oil paintings , a flat bed scanner photo of a bee . And a 3D relief painting of a Giraffe .

2013-02-01 03:08:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

ICU

2013-01-31 05:46:52 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is an example of one of my heads;-) Uh I mean 3D heads I modeled . I mean it's not my head . No I mean it is my head ;-| I mean I made this thing ! ;-/ Made using FaceGen modeler very easy to do almost anyone can produce a head quickly and painlessly ;-) The heads are able to turn in almost any direction and the facial features can be changed in just about any way imaginable . Hair is a bit more involved though . Best to go bald ;-) I did ;-) These heads can be transferred to other 3D programs .

2013-01-31 04:28:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Took me awhile but I found him ! ;-) This is the best still life photographer I've ever seen .His work is indistinguishable from the old master still life paintings . But these are photographs !

http://www.redbubble.com/people/utherpen/collections/926-old-masters-series

2013-01-31 03:40:42 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

http://youtu.be/Rw7e4Ic3S4M

2013-01-31 00:00:51 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

You guys have to see this ! It's a mind boggling PS function called Puppet Warp-tool . It turns your drawing or painting into a movable figure like a puppet ! When you see it you won't believe your eyes ! it's hard to believe what this thing can do ! Futuristic freaky !  http://www.ctrlpaint.com/puppet-warp-tool/

2013-01-30 23:54:43 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm going to speaking with pearltrees in the next couple days probably . They want me to do a conference call with them . I think they want to discuss the functionality of their site . So if anyone has a suggestion , complaint or anything they want me to pass onto them let me know . They most likely would like to know first time user experiences as much as long time members .Here's the updated Mirlen101 photoshop tutorials section
 http://pear.ly/RqTv

2013-01-30 19:52:36 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

Thanks for the invite ! This is a sample of my work . I do sculpture , painting , drawing, photography etc... I'm mostly into 3D digital modeling these days .
The peacocks are an oil painting as is the water drop , the cockatoo and portrait of a woman . The mountain is HDR photography .Most of the black background images are flatbed scanner photography . The castle is a concrete sculpture . The brass spiked object is a prototype for a sprinkler , fountain . The bee is also a scan. The raven and Giraffe are 3D paintings ( painted reliefs ) The strange butterfly is a digital fractal . The cat is composite originally done in clay then molded and painted with a single cats whisker ;-) The snake head is a clay painted staple puller ;-) The flaming wolf is a photo of a lit Jack-O_lantern I carved.
I'm also known as mirlen101 
http://www.redbubble.com/people/marvinhayes

2013-01-27 21:15:12 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I wonder where +Soriea Storm went . Last I seen her she was in pearltrees ! I wonder how many have been lost in there ! ? ;-/ I miss you Soriea Storm ! ;-) Maybe we should put a picture of her on a milk carton ! ? Or we could follow her pearls like a bread crumb trail ! ;-)

2013-01-27 22:36:48 (19 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Google+ grows to become 2nd largest social platform globally

Wow, that was quick! Like I had said before it was only a matter of time! It's also interesting to note the decline in Chinese based social media sites...

Google+, who despite being branded a failure or ghost town by large portions of the media, grew in terms of active usage by 27% to 343m users to become the number 2 social platform. Interestingly for Google, YouTube (not previously tracked by us as a social platform) comes in at number 3, demonstrating the immense opportunity of linking Google’s services through the G+ social layer. This is also a key indication of why Google+ integrated with the Google product set is so key to the future of search and the internet. We’ve got more coming on Google+ later this week as well.

Source: +GlobalWebIndex 
Link: http://goo.gl/hgU4k
#G... more »

2013-01-27 02:39:42 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

refine-mask ; cutting out fine details like hair from backgrounds . To put the subject on a new background about a 10 minute long video
Really irritating narration on this but it is really good to know this method and it does explain it in an understandable way .But the video should have been half as long ;-/

2013-01-27 02:28:00 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

My oil painting called Warhol's Lunch Grid morph , mesh distort , image wrap. The top image is my pencil drawing sketch and it's grid . I first drew the grid then had a grid on my original soup can label ( original soup label not pictured ) I used the original soup can label grid to transfer by sight to the new distorted grid . The distorted grid was produced with simple math and some guesswork . This process is similar to how reflections work . If you look at the mid areas they are fairly flat and stretched but at the edges the image is compressed . Same curve but because the edges are at an angle the image gets compressed . So not only is the images squeezed it's color contrast and intensity get more saturated . This is a bit hard to see in this image . The painting photo is particularly poor . 

2013-01-26 18:53:57 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Water and reflections ; One thing about water is it seems easiest in oil paint . Oil is partly transparent and can move in smears . Water is like any other reflection , you have an edge , a mid point and another edge ( wave or surface  ). The mid surface stretches a reflection and the edges compress the reflection . So if you look at a curved reflective surface you see sharp lines at the edge that are highly contrasted because the space that the color is in is smaller ( Compressed pushed together by the angle ) In the mid surface area the reflections get pulled apart like taffy so the colors are less intense and less contrasted more of a smear . Kind of foggy elongated clouds.The color is spread out taking up more area ( defused ) .So if you think of water as colored clay being pulled in horizontal bands stacked one on top of each other . More like your not thinking of water your just concentrating... more »

2013-01-26 00:34:40 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just a heads up to anyone asking to be on teams on pearltrees . Your better off asking here first . Because the communications from pearltrees is a bit spotty and sometimes we aren't using the same names . Also don't ask to be on teams that are high up on a tree ( pearltree ) Like if someone was on my Art section and something went wrong that might cause a problem with thousands of pearls in the art section below it . But if they were put on a team further in like "drawing noses" then the damage would only be to noses ;-) Because there are no further subdivisions inside of noses ;-) Sorry no nostril subdivision ! nostrils will be forever included with noses . So if you want nostrils you will just have to pick noses ! ;-)

2013-01-25 23:43:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looks like great info coming through here ! Thanks for the invite ;-)

2013-01-25 03:18:38 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I cheated I'm showing a reproduction of a masterpiece I did . I mean I didn't do the original which is a masterpiece I did this replica of the original masterpiece ;-) One of the hardest pieces I've done mostly because I was stupid enough to do it smaller than the original . So if you ever decide to paint a masterpiece paint really big ! 
This is only about 16 inches tall . I also did it on regular canvas I hate canvas texture I like smooth surfaces . This is oil my usual medium . The original painting was done by William-Adolphe Bouguereau a French painter . One of my favorite artists . He was a master at doing skin. Although this particular painting is not that good of an example of his skin work .This is better for looking at his cloth work which was also masterful .
I did this as a wedding present .Placed it in an awesome antique frame .

2013-01-24 22:05:19 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here's how to find the history button in pearltrees .
They moved it from where it used to be .
If a team member has done something to a teams pearltree you go to History and it will help get deleted pearls back . Sometimes it can correct most of the problem . If it doesn't notify the pearltree staff from the feedback button which is listed along with most everything else on the furthest right hand top,  that 3 horizontal line icon . It drops down a menu with most every function .
Except history ;-/

2013-01-24 21:04:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Huge Resource list !
( brought to you from http://www.sycra.net/ )
Tutorials ,
Reference images,
Brushes ,
Color Wheels ,Color Theory
Online communities
Anatomy etc...

Figure Drawing Tools:
Lovecastle http://lovecastle.org/draw/ Pixelovely http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
Posemaniacs http://www.posemaniacs.com/

Photoshop Brushes:
Mathias Verhasselt (m@) http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes5.zip
Mathias Verhasselt (m@)
http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes07.zip
Goro Fujita (Goro)
http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goros_brushes.abr
Thierry Doizon (Barontieri)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cmmcv7c9517q6rv/BARONTiERi.rar
Nicolas Ferrand (Viag)http... more »

2013-01-24 21:03:20 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Huge Resource list !
( brought to you from http://www.sycra.net/ )
Tutorials ,
Reference images,
Brushes ,
Color Wheels ,Color Theory
Online communities
Anatomy etc...

Figure Drawing Tools:
Lovecastle http://lovecastle.org/draw/ Pixelovely http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
Posemaniacs http://www.posemaniacs.com/

Photoshop Brushes:
Mathias Verhasselt (m@) http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes5.zip
Mathias Verhasselt (m@)
http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes07.zip
Goro Fujita (Goro)
http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goros_brushes.abr
Thierry Doizon (Barontieri)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cmmcv7c9517q6rv/BARONTiERi.rar
Nicolas Ferrand (Viag)http... more »

2013-01-24 20:00:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Awesome free higher education online !
Like Harvard , Berkeley , MIT !
On G+ https://plus.google.com/108235383044095082735/posts

2013-01-24 19:32:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For those that want to work in PhotoShop . This is the place to be . Stephanie provides PhotoShop help and tutorials . It's a tight group that help each other learn Digital Painting skills . I'm the co-moderator. Mostly teaching art concepts . Like Color Theory , Composition , composition flow  , art psychology etc... 

2013-01-24 01:15:32 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

My Mirlen101 Pearltrees Art Hub links .
 The Art pearltree expands into numerous art areas I will show a few here from the list .
Art How to Training ; http://pear.ly/OzvT  masses of art Tuorials and resources .
Drawing Tutorials ; http://pear.ly/OzwX masses of drawing tutorials of every type .
Painting Tutorials ; http://pear.ly/Ozw5 masses of painting tutorials of every type .
PhotoShop Tutorials ; http://pear.ly/RqTv 

3D Modeling Tutorials ; http://pear.ly/Ozwb one of the largest resources of 3D modeling tutorials anywhere .

Anatomy http://pear.ly/SIWv 

Drawing People ; http://pear.ly/R3cT  one of the largest resources of human drawing  tutorials anywhere .

Color theory and color wheels ;  http://pear.ly/OhCD 

Color ; http://pear.ly/mHF9
Ar... more »