April 22, 2002
by Julie • About Creativity, Graphics
I was going through some of my favorite Photoshop sites today, and something occured to me – unless you are up in the Deke McCelland/Kai Krause guru/master level of photoshop godhood, you just aren’t going to be able to perfectly duplicate natural surfaces and textures. By this I mean creating from scratch a surface/shape/texture that [...]
February 25, 2002
by Julie • About Creativity
Ahhh…. I have been without a sketchbook for the last week (filled up the last one) and I didn’t realize how much I was missing sketching until I picked a new one up tonight and started playing with those lovely blank sheets of paper. I still can’t over the convenience of living near a large [...]
February 4, 2002
by Julie • About Creativity
Current project – playing with my camera. The really nice 35mm one my mom got me for christmas over a year ago and which (until recently) had been gathering dust in my closet as I attended to the thousand and one other projects I had going. Lessons learned so far: 1. The inside of my [...]
December 11, 2001
by Julie • About Creativity
“The children of artists don’t grow up with a lot of romantic notions about the role of the artist.” – Would you believe I didn’t write that line? Jane St. Claire did. Damn true though. You have no idea.