Hey santa! bring me BIG BAGS of money so i can give to all the poor people i know and have a few bucks left for me, so i can buy a cup of that expensive coffee at StarBucks. And next year i promise to be good, may-be, and leave a cup of milk and 3 cookies for you.

I will wait for a bright sunny day. Lighting is a good thing. I will lay the drawing ( or craft ) on my living room floor near the front window where the afternoon sun comes in. I make sure the sun don’t come in the window and shine direct on the drawing. The sun is the best and cheapest lighting. Then with a digital camera  I take 4 or 5 pictures of each drawing at different angles. Later I choose one for display.

Digital cameras of today make it so easy to get a good quality image that makes you look like a professional.

Pop out the memory card of the camera, stick it into the computer and download it to your desktop. I will create a ( named file ) on my desktop so I have a place to put the downloaded image. I say put on the desktop so it is not hard to find.

Now as the image is transferred to the PC I have turned my drawing into a ( .jpg ) image file that I can attach to email or in this case move it to my web page.

Now if you don’t have a digital camera you could scan the drawing and transfer it to your PC. ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Scan-a-document-or-photo-with-Windows-Fax-and-Scan  ) Don’t know how to do any of this ask a friend to help or ask a friend to take the pictures for you.  You could scan the drawing and send me the copy via snail mail. Find the address on the Contact page.

Hope something here has helped because I really would like to post your drawings to my web pages.

Comment Please.

Big Bad Bird

 Temporary going to use this image for my Facebook profile image.

Big Cat by Linda

  - Click on image and see how Big.

Charcoal portrait from 1973 is a nice video tribute to Shirley, everyones favorite Aunt, Sister, Sister-in-law, and Friend. It was important to her to just be remembered. Thank you Shirley, for being part of our lives.

Life-Like-Heads

Discover your “inner artist” as you learn to draw life like head portraits in graphite. 

Polymer Clay Sculpting

Katherine Dewey has worked magic with this book. The instructions are clear and thorough enough that even a beginning sculptor would be able to create wonderful likenesses of the animals portrayed.

For those more familiar with the aspects of polymer clay and sculpting, this book contains valuable information and techniques that may be applied to an artist’s own work; thereby improving its strength and quality. Katherine’s use of armatures and proportion is well explained and portrayed, making this book an excellent learning resource for beginning sculptors, as well as a superb reference tool for advanced sculptors.

“Life like animals in Polymer Clay“