Happy Halloween

I hope everyone’s ready for the little goblins that will be knocking on our doors for treats. We don’t usually have a lot of children coming around, but it picked up last year. It makes it hard to know how much candy to buy and we are often left with more than we need to be eating. I tried to avoid eating the extras as much as possible but it’s hard to resist. Fortunately, my son’s sweet tooth takes care of it.

I have been creating textured papers with the CitraSolv® process that I wrote about in my eBook. (Sale ends tomorrow night, October 31) I scan them into the computer and use them with my digital art as well as my mixed media pieces. Currently the artist in the Digital Art Academy Facebook group have been painting pumpkins. Above is a piece I created using one of my digital papers as the background.

CitraSolv® Artist Kathy Ganong

Indian Maiden

  Copyrighted by Kathi Ganong

When I first introduced my friend Kathi Ganong to CitraSolv® I had no idea how wonderfully creative she would be with the pages she created with the solvent. Kathi is super digital artist that paints pet portraits professionally. You can see some of pet portraits on her webpage at http://www.kathiganong.com/

Kathi uses Painter 15 and Adobe Photoshop to create her digital paintings on the CitraSolv® backgrounds. I am thrilled that she has done so well with the CitraSolv® techniques that she learned from my eBook “Dissolve It~Resolve It” and incorporated them in her digital art. Bravo Kathi!

Autumn Begins Today!

Autumn begins today and the weather has been wonderful lately. I was able to spend an afternoon last week playing with a 2014 National Geographic magazine and I was very pleased with the results. I thought I would post one of the pieces I did with the pages I created. I have been working on a series to promote my eBook, “Dissolve It ~Resolve It”. I have been using a lot of transfers (the technique described in the eBook). I experimented with different types of papers and I wanted to have some transparency of the paper, but maintain the transferred image. The transfer of the Maple leaf on the page is the result of this technique. The distorted fonts you see on the page were left when the CitraSolv® dissolved the ink. I have no idea what it said but it reminded me of the word October. I am sure that was not what it was. However, it motivated me to use a leaf as part of the composition. That’s the fun part of using this CitraSolv® technique you never know what will appear on the page to motivate your creativity. If you have not done so, why not buy my eBook before the sale ends October 31 and try some of the techniques. It may open a completely new world of creativity for you!

Artsy Fartsy Newsletter Rocks!

Here’s a toast to Robert Burridge’s newsletter, and his super wife and marketing manager Kate, for promoting my eBook, Dissolve It ~Resolve It  If you do not subscribe to it now I highly suggest you do if you love great tips and short tutorials. This issue features painting a wine bottle with three easy brushstrokes to start. Check it out here http://www.robertburridge.com/newsletter/artsyfartsy_augsept14/index.html

Also, check out Bob’s website http://www.robertburridge.com/ to view his fantastic paintings!

So what does this mean for my eBook? Good stuff! It also means a follow-up e-book is in the making. Who would have thought that I would become an author in my old age? Too bad I didn't major in English, but the art major has been the foundation of it all and I have few regrets. My paintings supported me for many years.

Thank You!

Magic Mountain Falls

I am so grateful for all of you that purchased my EBook Dissolve It~Resolve It  and I really appreciate the nice comments you sent me as well. Thank, thank you!

“I love the book already--such great ideas!” - Melissa Kennedy

“I gladly paid what I did, and the book was worth it. I just got handed a gold mine of National Geos. This technique has opened up a whole new series of art for me.”- Sue Brassel - Mixed Media Artist

“I've read your book cover to cover already. Tomorrow I'm going to Office Depot and having it bound so I can really delve into it.” Dean A. Robinson

“..your book is worth every penny I paid for it!” - Bea Pappas

“The book is great..... I can't wait to try out some of your techniques” Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz -author of Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art with Your Photography                                                                        "....the book is terrific... so much information and over a hundred pages!!!    Thank you for making this...  I can tell a ton of work went into this project."- Marsha Carlton

You can purchase my eBook here www.artistebooks.blogspot.com