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Over the Edge 2007-07-30 20:54:49 You guys have pushed me over the edge to do different things and this is coming out … who IS this person? Although I am concerned that I may need to change my slogan and whole business plan and orientation, actually I am pretty excited about these last several digital paintings I have done. I am having mucho fun playing! Are these uplifting at all?
Bad Day at the Office, Digital © Diane Clancy
Who knows - these may be the images that some licensing company want to produce. That would be an irony - no? Sigh … “they” say that you are supposed to choose a style and stick with it to succeed. But I like to do different things - even if it means I am not as financially successful. Maybe posthumously my daughter will get rich from my work - that’s good enough. Or maybe they will all go in the trash heap!
Needed to work today on paperwork - you know the offline kind - physical paper and pen - remember the old days? Also, trying to get things finalize Awe image 2007-08-03 20:04:08 You asked for it - you got it!! Here is the window of my work in the last AWE (Artists Window Exhibit). Susan will probably take pictures of the 2 places I am currently up at. Those are my images in the windows with lots of street reflections.
Diane AWE Window 7/07 © Susan Elkin
Luckily I had most of this written already a few days ago before the great Thoughtful Blogger Award came. Right now it is thundering and lightening and my connection is not working. But the downstairs connection is so I am doing this quick post.
Hate to post and run but .. don’t want to impose on my neighbors! Please let me know how you are!!
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: AWE, Thoughtful Blogger Award Bestowing Awards! 2007-08-02 15:17:55 Since I was bestowed with the Thoughtful Blogger Award yesterday, now it is MY turn to pass on the honor. Please check out the Writer’s Review where you will find the rules, see how to on this gift and also pick up a banner to display on your site. Being a Thoughtful Blogger I chose the more subtle colors so it wouldn’t scream at you … ok, ok, it didn’t go with my design sense either.
It’s Time!, Digital © Diane Clancy
Drum Rolls ….. It’s Time!
First, The Courageous Blogger Award is bestowed upon “those bloggers who are battling or have battled with physical and mental illness, those who are survivors of abuse, poverty, or who have overcome other challenges in life. Those who serve in the military or work/volunteer in dangerous situations in order to provide a service or to help others. This award is for the strong, the brave, and the courageous.” This award goes to Susan Elkin at her photography blog.
The Thoughtful Blogger Read more: Awards
I Got Bestowed!! 2007-08-01 20:34:59 Neda Doany of Papiers Collés has bestowed upon me The Thoughtful Blogger Award - which goes to “those who answer blog comments, emails, and make their visitors feel at home on their blogs. For the people who take others feelings into consideration before speaking out and who are kind and courteous. Also for all of those bloggers who spend so much of their time helping others bloggers design, improve, and fix their sites. This award is for those generous bloggers who think of others.” Neda, thank you for your generosity!
Who Me?, Digital © Diane Clancy
The award is part of the Writer’s Reviews and the brainchild of Christy Z. It is a pretty incredible and kind idea - and I am sure Christy deserves all 5 kinds of awards! I will bestow my 5 awards tomorrow - some of the people have already gotten one award and deserve yet another!
Thoughtful Blogger Award
Tomorrow you will find out who I have chosen! Thank you again, Neda for thinking of me!
~ Diane Clancy
Te CafePress Shop Almost Ready! 2007-08-05 19:01:21 My CafePress Shop is almost ready for business! I have only a few items up so far but I made decisions about the “look” of the shop. I upgraded to premium - a fairly reasonable $60/year. The other way was just not going to work for me. If you want to take a peek, check out www.cafepress.com/dianeclancy. It will be different (meaning more choices) within a few days.
Salmon Liquid Light, Digital © Diane Clancy
It is odd … they give you templates to choose from - which many online blogs, stores, etc now do. You can make changes to the templates and also make your own. But in many way hacking someone else’s template is a LOT of work.
They say you can make your own, but there is a whole lot that is a given … not surprising!! But difficult to work with. So I spent hours getting this far … but I pretty much like it. I wanted to try a real light gray for the background of the page … but that didn’t work when I put it in … Read more: Almost
Changing Colors 2007-08-04 20:10:59 Colors on computer are so complex and just plain weird. Tonight I have used this image in 4 different programs. I created the image in Studio Artist, added an adjustment layer in Adobe Photoshop to change the hue, looked at this and several other versions in Adobe Bridge and then finally working on this post in Firefox.
Coral Liquid Light, Digital © Diane Clancy
The reddish/orange hue in the Bridge looked very very orange and extremely elegant! Then when I was resizing it in Photoshop, all of a sudden it looks much pinker than orange. Hence the name “coral.”
I remember looking at a post in Lisa Call’s quilting blog and she was writing about being very distressed because the color didn’t come out right on a photograph she was putting on the web. I think I must have had 2 browsers open - Firefox and also Safari - probably to look at the image and post in one browser and comment in the other. The color difference was amazing - like 2 different pieces. So I Read more: Changing
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2007-08-09 16:42:22 It is amazing to me, but yesterday’s post is the same image with the color hue changed. Color makes such a difference!! I would love to hear your thoughts.
Underwater, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: color The Name says it All 2007-08-08 19:02:12 The name of this digital painting says it all - “Overload”! I created and named this yesterday and it didn’t feel very personal, but now it does … so here is the painting! In the next town over - Turners Falls - we are going to put up yet another window show in the morning unexpectedly … that is part of the extra today I hadn’t planned on.
Overload, Digital © Diane Clancy
And I hope you will take time to look at yesterday’s post - I thought my questions about creativity would get people commenting … but maybe you will today.
~ Diane Clancy Hard to Believe 2007-08-07 19:20:39 This is a painting that I find hard to believe is digital! To me this is luscious and luxurious. And why am I so bold to sit here and say that about something I created? Because it doesn’t feel like I created it - I was just the vehicle.
Liquid Elegance, Digital © Diane Clancy
Often when I am painting (and writing) it feels if something much greater than Diane the personality - my muse? my spirit? the life force? something else? - is the one who is doing the creating.
What do you think? How is it for you creating? Do you get different results when you are in that kind of flow or not? Please share your own thoughts and experiences.
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: digital painting, flow, muse, creative process Safe to Check Out CafePress 2007-08-06 21:45:48 Check out my CafePress Shop if you want … I have only a few items up so far but I put out several items today. Obviously, if someone wanted, say a tote bag, in an image not there, I would be absolutely delighted to do it up! If you want to take a peek, check out www.cafepress.com/dianeclancy. It will continue to get refined as the next couple of weeks are moving along …
Wired and Watching, Digital © Diane Clancy
One thing I realized tonight that I am pretty happy about … in my first business plan, back in 1997 that I made all on my own (with the help of books), a key component was selling items (merchandise) with my images on them. This was to make my work affordable and accessible to people of all income brackets. I am pretty pleased that I have taken these steps to implement this core mission!
Please let me know what it happening … By the way, there is activity again over at Susan’s blog … and she is asking for stories of yours &hell Read more: Check
Rima's Second Challenge 2007-08-11 10:59:35 Rima Koleilat has issued another challenge for anyone to play the game of changing an image. Details are here. So I have taken up playing this game too. Here is my first image - with a tip of the hat to Aldous Huxley (who wrote “Doors of Perception”).
Doors of Reflection, Digital © Diane Clancy
Part of the game is sharing how you got from the original (see Rima’s post) to the final image. I decided to start out in Studio Artist. As before, I started with Translating the image - which moves it in the direction you pull and then doubles as one moves. Because I wanted to keep a sense of realism, while adding mystery and a sense of otherworldliness at the same time, I only pulled in one direction at a time.
After pulling left to right horizontally, I Translated downward vertically. I wanted to continue this process but as I tried it, I was losing the main elements of the image that I wanted to keep. So I used Scale Uniform to just make everything smaller to give m Read more: Second
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Owl Mask Watching Over 2007-08-10 17:16:50 I am leaving this Owl Mask to watch over things … so please be respectful of the wise owls …
The Owl Mask, Digital © Diane Clancy
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It is amazing to me, but 2007-08-09 16:42:22 It is amazing to me, but yesterday’s post is the same image with the color hue changed. Color makes such a difference!! I would love to hear your thoughts.
Underwater, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: color Lying the Meadow 2007-08-14 17:32:51 Elegant, lush, luscious grapes … oozing the juices of nature … spilling over the green meadow … grape juice filling up and enlivening and revitalizing as we are lying in the deep meadow … enjoying life … thanks for joining me!
Liquid Violet, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Read more: Lying
, Meadow
Sunflowers in August 2007-08-13 20:14:25 Long hot summer days (in the northern hemisphere) … lazy (I wish), lying in the fields, watching the bright yellow and orange sunflowers against the piercing blue sky. The heat melting everything in sight …
Liquid Sunflowers
, Digital © Diane Clancy
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I Come From Boston 2007-08-12 19:25:00 In Boston
we tend to add r’s where they don’t belong and subtract them where they do. Some of you may have heard of “Pahk youh Cah in Hahvahd Yahd” for “Park your Car in Harvard Yard.” (Never been to Harvard Yard myself. Also we tend to add them where there are none. Like that is a good “idear” (instead of idea.)
Raspberry Sherbet, Digital © Diane Clancy
I grow up semi-rural outside of Boston but I still had the accent. And I have lived out in the western part of Massachusetts (try spelling that for a state as a kid) for over 35 years. But I still have a slight Boston accent.
I decided to change the name of this from “Raspberry Light” to “Raspberry Sherbet” - except I spelled it “Sherbert” - you know, the way it sounds in Boston. Luckily spell-checker alerted me to a problem so I wouldn’t spell it the way I pronounce it!
Now you know one of my quirks …
~ Diane Clancy Such Great Comments! 2007-08-19 21:29:24 This image title is a tip of the hat to Harry Potter - actually Mad-Eye Moody. I stayed up way too late last night reading the new book. And no spoilers allowed!! I will have to catch up on your blogs tomorrow.
How delightful to find all these comments - I love it when it seems we are truly connected are caring - it just makes my heart sing! I hope no one minds I am just appreciating and acknowledging those who have posted.
Being Watched, Digital © Diane Clancy
Welcome, welcome home, Neda!! It is so wonderful to have you back where you are safer on a a consistent basis … and have good internet connection. I know when I visit my Dad and have to go sit on the neighbors’ steps to “borrow” their wireless, I feel less connected.
Rima, yes, I am using the web more and more to research things. Also to find info by asking people - so many people are incredibly generous with their experience and expertise - it starts to feel like a good part of a world community. Read more: Great
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Back Online 2007-08-18 12:51:21 As you can see, I am back online. The silver lining was the people who commented - thank you so much! All night I was dreaming of dsl modems working correctly. So grateful when I woke up to find it a reality!!
Well of Dreams, Digital © Diane Clancy
This well is so much clearer than my mind. At last today there are lots of projects that I can do but nothing is totally breathing down my neck. I was a little panicked about not having internet connection - partly because I have run into a technical glitch with a project - and online is where I know how to find answers.
But it is a little shocking to me how much I depend on the web now. Socially, artistically, technically, for research - that’s what comes to mind immediately. And I am not in my 20’s … or 30’s … or …. But it has become so much part of my life and my business. I have friends offline … but this too is important to me. And finding info is SO much easier online!!
It is a very d No Internet Connection … Again! 2007-08-17 18:50:11 You have seen this before … those of you who have been here since the beginning. But this is the second Friday in row that I have had time to catch up on my blogging … and I have no internet connection … rather frustrating! I had started to put a new painting in post earlier, but got interrupted … so that is why you have seen this before. And that is why you have not received a response from your email.
Freckles in Flowers I, Digital © Diane Clancy
I am down at the neighbors to write you … but I can only impose so much. And if I call Verizon support, it will take hours and hours … and crawling all around under things. So at least I can say “Hi!” Please surprise me with lots of comments when I can on again. Hope you are all doing well!
~ Diane Clancy Read more: Internet
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Looking Everywhere 2007-08-16 20:30:16 What is that saying? “Looking everywhere but the right places” … is that right? I believe it is meant originally about looking for love in all the wrong places. How about looking for serenity and being in the flow? That is what I am looking everywhere for. How about you?
Looking Everywhere, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Listed in Susan Borgas’ Carnival 2007-08-15 20:14:00 Periodically Susan
Borgas of Arts & Stuff blog has a Carnival
post where she features links to different artists’ significant blog articles. This time this blog was listed in this Carnival!! Different blogs have this feature and I am very excited that an article from this blog was chosen!! Thank you, Susan. I encourage you to go check out the interesting Carnival Susan has. Thank you to all of you who have asked me to write about things ~ you share in this honor!
Coming in for a Landing, Digital © Diane Clancy
As we have moved to late summer (or late winter in the southern hemisphere), change is in the air. It is time for shifting gears and beginning to land. Please share your thoughts!
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: Susan Borgas, Carnival How I have been Creating 2007-08-22 17:48:58 It is delightful that we are talking with each other about these issues of creativity and supporting each other as artists. For me, it is much different doing things digitally than with paper or canvas and paint. Lately I have been sitting down with an image and just saying - “go ahead and change it.”
Here We Are, Digital © Diane Clancy
First, actually I cruise a bunch of images and see who speaks to me. Someone jumps out and yells, “me, me me!” So I say, “OK.” I don’t have anything in mind … I work from the process before me with the Studio Artist program. That is how I have made most of these images lately … and often gone into Photoshop for while too.
It is much scarier for me with paper and paint. Though I used a similar technique for using paper and tempera for awhile and 2 of those images are very popular ones of mine. With paint I feel I have to create something “special” to justify using resources and s Read more: Creating
Following the Crowd 2007-08-21 16:42:49 Sometimes it is tempting to try to do what everyone else is doing rather than think for oneself … I am sure there are times that we have all been tempted and probably succumbed … whether it be what we are reading, dressing or even creating art. Anyone have stories to tell?
Following
the Leader, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Creating Digital Images 2007-08-20 19:12:03 Some of you have been asking how I come up with these digital paintings. I start with something and twist and turn and play … constantly ready to “undo” the last action. The undo’s happen frequently - because each step feels like it is moving me in a direction that nourishes me … or it pulls at me in a negative way - in which case I immediately “undo.”
Above the Expressway, Digital
© Diane Clancy
The other part that I keep a careful eye on is a lot of “saves” … often things look sort of interesting but not complete … so I save them and then continue on with my journey. I learned this part the hard way by having images I really liked, pushing on, and then losing anything good. Just being left with so-so stuff.
I have never had such a long run before on creating so many paintings out of one image. But it feels excellent! People here pushed me to go another level and that next step opened a whole lot of doors with m Read more: Creating
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At the Beach 2007-08-26 19:44:48 Today I wrote lots in response to your comments … as comments on the posts. I now have the two bug projects I have been working on in pretty good shape … so I can start to catch up with life … hopefully! So I am taking a day off to visit this painting.
At the Beach
, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Look at this Eye and Meditate 2007-08-25 19:51:28 If you look at this eye and meditate, you will hear and see all the answers from your recent comments and questions (keep them coming, please!) If this painting doesn’t reveal it all to you, you will have to wait until tomorrow to hear it from my own fingers …. Fantastic comments!!
The Eye, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Working on my CafePress 2007-08-24 20:33:30 I have been hard at work on my CafePress shop (www.cafepress.com/dianeclancy)! I found out that a particular file format was the best one to use for the brightest, clearest images. So I am changing them all. Also I am beginning to understand the importance of a story with a painting to draw people in … so I have been busy.
On Air, Digital © Diane Clancy
As I checked my email, I saw that Neda has been very busy here commenting and asking good questions … I will answer soon - to the best of my ability. Thank you so much to all of you who have been commenting .. tomorrow I will be here more. I am delighted that some of you are taking the time to comment - thank you!!
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: Neda Being Silly 2007-08-23 15:43:44 One of the things I am particularly enjoying about this process of digital painting is my sense of being silly and having fun. Sometimes my silliness gets separated from my painting because I want to make sure I am reverent. But with the digital, somehow it seems ok to just be silly with the paintings and with the names.
Deadlines Looming, Digital © Diane Clancy
Many of this last series of images the last month or two, I would never do in paper or canvas and paint. For me, there is something about this medium … partly the immediacy with the tools I am using … that really bring out my silliness.
So many of them look like silly little creatures. Sue O’Kieffe also had mentioned a quote from a famous person about painting from the unconscious (or subconscious) caused figures to emerge. Somehow that also helps me feel good about these silly little beings that are emerging.
How about you? What happens when you let yourself be silly when creating?
~ Diane Clancy
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Excellence in Play 2007-08-30 16:46:30 This post tonight is honor of excellence in play. Something that I strive for as an artist. Cirque du Soleil is incredible! (the people not my painting) And I am working to be more in joy more often again! What do you say?
Cirque du Soleil, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Read more: Excellence
Watching Again 2007-08-29 16:48:50 I am here watching you … and soon I will reply …
Watching
Again
, Digital © Diane Clancy
Much of the action is in the comments anyway … and tomorrow I will catch up again …
~ Diane Clancy
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