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Color Shifting 2007-08-28 17:40:45 This painting is also a tip of the hat to Harry Potter. It took me about 10 tries before I got the “eye” how I wanted it. It is amazing to me how the name of an image can change the whole way I look at it.
Behind the Mirror, Digital © Diane Clancy
Answering some comments from previous posts … Sue O’Kieffe, to answer your question, I am looking at the blog (and particularly the paintings) on my CRT monitor, and I see a bit of a color difference, but not much at all. With all my files they are a little different on the large monitor upstairs versus my laptop. Mac vs PC can come into it too.
I am ready to print “In the Cathedral” but waiting for Susan to come home to put her image into the file too to save paper … but it looks good on the screen and usually it prints pretty closely … except the purples are usually too reddish when printed from Photoshop files … so I may need to work on that … We shall see!
Sue, it is neat Read more: Color
, Shifting
Time to Look Upward 2007-08-27 17:07:05 Time to look upward and be inspired! Day to day can result in so much getting lost in the details … and then there is stepping back and looking at the big picture. I figure a cathedral that was designed and built to direct our attention to the lofty and to the uplifting was a good place to start. So here is my offer to help each of us be reminded of the whole awesome the whole life force truly is.
In the Cathedral, Digital © Diane Clancy
In answer to your question … I heard it out there in the stratosphere … I usually start by working with the image itself (particularly in digital) and then ask the painting what it is wanting to communicate. I listen the best I can and then give it a name to call attention to the purpose it was letting me know about. I am directing attention to what I hear the image is expressing.
Any thoughts on any of this?
~ Diane Clancy More Items at CafePress 2007-09-02 18:53:49 The shop at CafePress is getting more and more ready! You can visit it here. (www.cafepress.com/dianeclancy). I am pretty excited and I hope lots of other people end being delighted too. I spent all day preparing and adding items - particularly in the “Fanciful Animal Images” section.
Down the Aisle, Digital © Diane Clancy
Many of you like my paintings and I welcome your looking here and at my website (www.dianeclancy.com) and let me know if there are any images you would like in the shop. Also, please let me know what kind of merchandise you might like. Thank you for your help!
Hope you are enjoying the weekend!
~ Diane Clancy
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Goddess Mask 2007-09-01 20:18:53 This goddess says it all! Would you care to share what you hear her saying? She is hoping that you paying attention to her!
Goddess
Mask, Digital © Diane Clancy
As you start to think about the holidays … let me know if there are any of my images you would as cards, prints, mugs, totes and such. I would be delighted to make any of my images into merchandise at CafePress and I make cards and prints myself. Please let me know.
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: holidays, merchandise, CafePress Another Evolution 2007-08-31 19:50:15 This painting is practicing Wabi-Sabi as is talked about in Neda Doany’s blog here and here again. Irene commented on the progression on this image over the last couple of days as being related to the idea of change and impermanence being part of life.
Cirque du Soleil Dancers, Digital © Diane Clancy
I feel very delighted that Irene would think that “apparently you have no angst of becoming in the process of growing into some more.” Not true but perhaps I am making progress on my own self and being and creating. This blog, the blogosphere and the support of you fantastic bloggers has moved me ahead in my own creative process to take more risks and be more relaxed in showing work that I haven’t honed and tweaked within an inch of its life.
It is nurturing a playfulness and enjoyment and sharing with others that hasn’t always been true for me around art. In the several art classes I took years ago it was more true for me - we had to produce, produce and Read more: Evolution
Will Catch Up Tomorrow 2007-09-27 18:28:20 I don’t drink even drink coffee, but when I saw this image, it sure looks like people feel on “too much coffee”! Feeling a little like this myself and going to take Neda’s suggestion to take another day of blog rest … hopefully will catch up tomorrow with YOUR blogs!! I would love to hear about you!
Too Much Coffee?, Digital © Diane Clancy
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Post of Rest 2007-09-26 19:16:41 I figure we all deserve a day of rest … or a post of rest anyway, after that long series on Cluster Maps. I am delighted to hear about you!
Peeking Down, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Cluster Maps for Websites 2007-09-25 16:10:30 This week we have been working on helping you get Cluster Maps onto your blog and/or site. Look back over the last several days for details. You may have noticed that Blogger and the WordPress widgets functioned very much alike - you don’t need to touch the code very much at all! On the other hand, not using widgets in WordPress makes it much more similar to adding a Cluster Map to a website - which we will do right now.
You will probably be glad to know that this will be the end to this Cluster Maps series of tutorials. When we work with other statistics tools - exciting little toys - in the future, I will be referring you back to these technical details so we won’t have to go through them again!! Did I just hear a sigh of relief?
When Was It Due?, Digital © Diane Clancy
Now on to putting Cluster Maps into a website. You will want to have signed up for Cluster Maps and have the code ready to be pasted in. Look at this post again if you need help with this part.
I am m Read more: Websites
WordPress Sidebars - Cluster Maps 2007-09-24 19:24:00 Now it is time to do more work on the WordPress blogs for Cluster Maps. For an overview of Cluster Maps read my post from a few days ago. Another post starts the process of signing up for Cluster Maps and shares how to install a Cluster map on Blogger. Then we worked with putting Cluster Maps in WordPress widgets. Today we will work with WordPress for those who do not use widgets.
Camelot, Digital © Diane Clancy
You will want to have signed up for Cluster Maps and have the code ready to be pasted in. Look at this post again if you need help with this part.
In the post the other day, we put the code into a widget. Many people are now using widgets - but not all of us! There are 2 basic ways to access your sidebar without a widget. One is working on your desktop and then uploading it and the other way it to edit the sidebar as it is on your server. Have I lost you yet? I hope not!
If you work on your blog code on your computer and then upload it to your blog, we will add the co Happy Weekend! 2007-09-23 18:25:23 Today I am going to give us all a break from Cluster Maps and just hope that everyone had a good weekend. Please feel free to share here … and thank you for stopping by!
At the Opera, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Read more: Happy
, Weekend
Cluster Maps for WordPress 2007-09-22 20:23:33 Would you like to learn more about Cluster Maps? Would you like a Cluster Map on your site or blog? For an overview of Cluster Maps read my post from a few days ago. Yesterday’s post starts the process of signing up for Cluster Maps and shares how to install a Cluster map on Blogger. Today we will work with WordPress widgets. Tomorrow we will work with WordPress for those who do not use widgets and perhaps we will finish and work with regular websites too.
The Duchess, Digital © Diane Clancy
Hopefully you have read yesterday’s post and have already copied the code you need for the Cluster Map. If you need to, go back and get the code from the Cluster Maps site. For most cases option A is just fine.
If you use widgets, login to your admin panel. Then go to “Presentation” to “Widgets.” Widgets will be on the line underneath Presentations after you choose Presentations.
Look to see if you have a “text” widget under “Available Widge Would you Like a Cluster Map? 2007-09-21 21:06:12 So you would like a Cluster Map? Follow along and we will get you set up! (A warning - The post got long so I am going to start everyone tonight and finish Blogger. Tomorrow we will look at the different ways you would put it into WordPress.)
The Peacock Queen, Digital © Diane Clancy
First you may want to reread my post with the overview of Cluster Maps. Next click on the Cluster Map on the bottom of my sidebar (the map with all the little red dots). You may want to open it in a new tab or window so that you can read and do this at the same time. Alternatively, use this link to open up to this same step. (http://clustrmaps.com/getone.php)
One this page click on “Register Here” and you will come to another page. I chose the regular (the default) - which is free. Starting with “http://” put in the name of your blog or site. You need to enter your email twice for confirmation of the right email. Then read the “terms of service” and check that you Behind the Screen 2007-09-20 17:19:23 Some days there seems to be silence … but there is much going on behind the screen. I am glad to hear about you.
Behind the Screen, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Cluster Maps 2007-09-19 19:43:03 Cluster Maps are a free tool that anyone with a blog or site can use. I think they are an incredibly exciting tool! If you go way down to the bottom of the sidebar here, you can see the Cluster Map. It is a map of the world with little red dots. The smallest dots represent 1 - 9 visits of people to this blog. The next size up is for 10 - 99 visits to the blog.
Turtle Batik, Digital © Diane Clancy
After that size, the larger one is for 100 - 999 visits to the blog. Are you getting excited yet? The largest red dots represent 1000 or more separate visits to this blog (or any other blog or site). When you first get a Cluster Map, you start with a blank map of the world. According to some formula, the Cluster Map gets updated regularly.
It is such a great experience to watch the map accumulate red dots - these are PEOPLE - real, live people who have taken the time to come and visit!!! If you look at the map (at the bottom of the sidebar), you can click on the map and it will show you a Local Cultural Council Grants 2007-09-18 20:23:00 Maps and such will come tomorrow. I did learn about the Local
Cultural
Council
grants. I have never applied for a grant before and am excited. But it took a lot of energy. If I don’t get to bed, this painting is what I will be like tomorrow …. I am delighted to hear what you have to say.
Turtle Man, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: Local Cultural Council, grants Kaleidoscpopes 2007-10-01 19:36:02 Sue O’Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas created some absolutely gorgeous mandalas or kaleidoscopes that she is featuring tonight. Sue created them from my paintings!! You can see these wonderful images in this post. Wow! And she also said some very generous things about me. Thank you, Sue!!
You Said What?, Digital © Diane Clancy
Thank you for your good wishes for us! What do you think about this silly painting? I would be delighted to hear about you.
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: Sue O’Kieffe, Sacred Circle Mandalas, mandalas, kaleidoscopes Thank You, Our Friends 2007-09-30 16:02:26 I want to appreciate our friends for being with us in a health crisis for Susan that we are currently undergoing. Neda Doany and Sue O’Kieffe have both made creations in support of Susan Elkin. Many others have sent healing energy and prayers. We are both greatly appreciative of all your help!!
“Fear and Loathing” Collage © Neda Doany
The OTHER
Easily dismissed
Feared or loathed
Unknown entity
Dissected
Rejected
Ignored
Boxed and
Labelled
As other or worse
I am the other
I speak your language
But you don’t know mine
Open your eyes
For you are
also
the
Other
To
me.
© NKD Sept 23, 2007
Dear Neda, thank you so much for this moving image and incredible poem that you have created to reflect and support us through what we are dealing with! Neda’s blog is Papiers Collés (this is linked to this post). Papiers Collés is a very interesting blog I visit every day. Sue’s inspiring mandalas always delight me!
Vessel of Hope Mandala - (Circles of Light se Read more: Thank
, Friends
Friends Making Mandalas 2007-09-29 17:50:59 Are you getting ready for Blog Action Day? I hope you will participate in some way! This painting is in honor of the earth … it looks like a formal garden to me - from above … with all the exciting paths and mysteries that the Victorian formal gardens used to have.
Above the Formal Garden, Digital © Diane Clancy
Bobbie at her blog gives an outstanding lesson on Making Mandalas today. And Frances has taken Bobbie’s lessons to heart and has quite a mandala exhibit here! These incredible displays of technical and artistic skill have been inspired by Sue O’Kieffe’s Sacred Circle Mandalas blog. Sue has been creating her mandalas filled with light for quite some time and has inspired many of us by the beauty of her creations!!
~ Diane Clancy
Technorati Tags: earth, Bobbie, Frances, mandala, Sue O’Kieffe, Sacred Circle Mandalas Read more: Friends
Environmental Challenge and Invitation 2007-09-28 17:34:12 Rima Koleilat and Neda Doany have issued a great challenge and invitation in honor of BLOG ACTION DAY, which will take place on October 15!! Everyone is welcome to participate - young and old - and middle-age too - bloggers and non-bloggers - artists and non-artists. So everyone!
Above the Earth, Digital © Diane Clancy
These rules (and more) are copied from their sites:
Rules are simple for this Action Day Challenge
:
Come up with some image to promote the environmental cause of your choice.
Write one line of text to accompany your image.
Any artistic medium can be used: you can do a painting, a collage, a photomontage, photo, fabric piece, crayons, drawing … anything that you feel comfortable with. These are only suggestions, not guidelines.
Submit only ONE entry please. Seriously, they mean it this time. Here’s why:
Rima and Neda have decided to dedicate a whole section to this project on their online Maraya Galleries. Once an entry is received, it wi Read more: Invitation
Community for the Environment 2007-10-13 19:48:20 Want to feel better? Here is one way to help yourself and others. Making connections with each other is good for the earth. If we know each other and build relationships, we are more likely to live in harmony with each other. Living in harmony with each other is much more likely to result in living in harmony with the earth. And also - very importantly - living in harmony with ourselves!!
The Baby Carriage Derby, Digital © Diane Clancy
A sense of community and connection means we care more for each other .. we care if someone else has enough food to eat, if they are ok, if they are having the health care that their family needs. It is inspiring to me, how locally people will often pitch in when a family has medical bills that aren’t covered ~ when a specific circumstance gets publicity.
Community is a win/win situation and tactic. Of course, I am talking about real community - not people sitting around judging each other. Connection is life-saving for all of us. Sometimes it Read more: Environment
Shall We Dance? 2007-10-12 18:10:38 Would you like to dance? Here … let’s dance in this … … dancing painting … How are each of you today? Let’s dance tonight!
Dance
of the Plums, Digital © Diane Clancy
~ Diane Clancy Grant Application Revisted 2007-10-11 18:11:31 Some of you have asked me to elaborate on the grant application I have been writing - so I am! We have been having AWE - Artists Window Exhibits - in our town lately. We have had shows in July, August and again in mid-Sept - mid-Oct (yes, now). I have put in a grant application requesting some money to coordinate this project in 2008. It is in the mail!!!
Joe Landry at Rooney’s, AWE, Photography © Susan Elkin
Some of us visual artists started meeting over a year ago to connect, build the local economy, and in general figure out how to further our careers as artists. We have a fantastic area full of artists … we are rural and there is a economy rich in agriculture and not money. That is, we are one of the lowest income areas of the whole state (Massachusetts, US). So we need to build the creative economy here.
When tourists come here, they can’t believe how inexpensive the art is. But many local people say the prices are way too high. So we are working to get this Read more: Grant
, Application
My Contribution to Maraya Galleries 2007-10-10 18:30:51 Many of you know Action Blog Day is coming up Monday, October 15, 2007 - to help promote awareness and action around the environment. Rima and Neda are showcasing art on their gallery Maraya Galleries
. This art can be for any of the dozens of ways to support the environment. I chose peace! My line to go with this painting is “Peace is Necessary for All Living Beings ~ Humans, Animals ~ and the Earth.”
Peace, Digital © Diane Clancy
Peace is Necessary for All Living Beings ~ Humans, Animals ~ and the Earth
Not only is war tragic and destructive to people and animals, it is also terrible for the earth. Of course, bombing is awful for people and the earth. And then there are all the active ammunition that is lying around that explodes when people and animal step on it.
But the other piece about war and the environment ~ the amount of resources that go into war is criminal, in my opinion. Besides the human cost, there is the environmental cost. Jet planes, bombs, transporti Read more: Contribution
Grant Application 2007-10-09 21:27:25 How many of you have applied for grants? Some of you may remember that I am applying for a local grant to coordinate the AWE project - Artists Windows Exhibit. It was quite a long process putting together a resume (that I should have done years ago). I was surprised that it didn’t sound half-bad. And then writing my very first grant application.
Bryant Stewart at Opus, Photography © Susan Elkin
I have put together quite a but of supporting materials including my own Artist Statement and Artist Biography. But also other artists were generous enough to let me include their bios - thank you!. I am going to be getting a letter of support from someone who works at building the creative economy. That is the last piece I need to put together.
Luckily, I have the press release from the current AWE project. And the maps that they have given out to show stores that were involved in the downtown celebration. And, last but not least, BEAUTIFUL photographs by Susan of 8 of the stores wind Read more: Grant
, Application
Can This Be My Earth Painting? 2007-10-08 22:28:26 I will catch up … again! I have almost finished with the grant application (my very first ever) and it is time for rest. So you are left with promises - for your comments and your posts. I am still so grateful at the support you have been giving me as I move into the next steps of my creative state!
God of the Elements, Digital © Diane Clancy
Do you think this picture looks like an environmental day painting? It can be the god side of Gaia who will straighten us up if we do not correct things ourselves. Gaia is the earth seen as an organism comprised of both living and non-living parts.
~ Diane Clancy
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, Painting
World Card Making Day 2007-10-07 20:31:20 I am very moved by the outpouring of kindness and understanding that you have given me in your comments! You have touched me in a deep place in my soul with your connecting to me … and letting me know about it! This is an added bonus I did not expect when I started blogging!
Happy Dog, ACEO © Diane Clancy
I promised I would give you the link to the World
Card Making Day (WCMD)- which was yesterday, October 6, 2007. If I had known earlier, I would have shared this so all of you could have the chance to play too. It is a little like Rima’s challenges … different blogs set up a kind of card to make and then details were posted during different times of the day and then people went to town creating cards!
ACEO (Art Card Editions and Originals) and ATC ( Art Trading Cards) are 2.5 x 3.5″ cards (made of many different materials) that people trade and collect. They are the same size as a baseball card (at least baseball cards in the US - I don’t know about Wow! and Thank you! 2007-10-06 21:59:58 I am very awed and humbled by the generous outpouring of kindness you have given me in the last 24 hours!! I will write more about the details of things, but today I will just give you broad strokes since I am still working.
Heart of Life, ACEO © Diane Clancy
Last night after writing the post, I found out that today is World Card Making Day - tomorrow I will do the link. I decided that it was a good excuse to dive in without worrying too too much. I want to do the Environmental Blog Day painting more carefully!
It was quite a ride for me for several hours. I hadn’t painted with a brush for a couple of years, I hadn’t done any cards for quite a bit longer and I had never done ACEO or ATC - more tomorrow on them. It was quite hard for several hours. But after awhile, things started to gel for me.
I am done creating for today, but I am still uploading ACEOs for the challenge. You can check out what I have posted so far at my other blogs here and here. There are no duplica Read more: Thank
A Confession and Appreciation 2007-10-05 20:01:18 One thing that has been great for me in blogging is getting back into creating paintings again. I had gone on quite a digital image binge a couple of years ago and then slowed way down (except for animal pictures). I have not done that much new painting with traditional materials except for working on a couple of series that I knew I wanted to work out to four in each series. And I have spent a lot of time marketing and doing graphic design and web design for clients.
Above the Race Track, Digital © Diane Clancy
Coming here and having you want a new painting every day, I worried if I would have enough. I am sure I had enough for maybe a year (or 2 depending on what I use), but I am very conservative in a certain way (not politically), and I didn’t want to use up all my paintings.
So I started creating new digital ones to hopefully delight you. And it has been great - because you have helped me go past what I was doing before in working with Studio Artist. In Photoshop I am Great Comments! 2007-10-04 17:25:22 It was great to hear everyone’s comments about CAPTCHA!! I love it when people talk together about things … Each of you shared such thoughtful comments - thank you! What would you like to talk about next?
The Queen is in a Snit!, Digital © Diane Clancy
I worked hard most of the day with a client and made some real progress - always satisfying! And another job came in for another client so I have to say HI and … Bye! Thank you so much for stopping by!! And I am serious that I would love to hear from you what you would like to discuss.
I thought this image looked like a queen … but with a bee in her bonnet … maybe from Alice in Wonderland’s world ….
~ Diane Clancy Read more: Great
, Comments
Blog Action Day Wrap-Up 2007-10-18 20:29:23 Blog Action
Day has a great wrap-up. Over 2o,6oo blogs participated with over 14,000,000 (yes, 14 millions) RSS readers - which translates into many more readers than that. I know from looking at my own stats, there are far more readers and visitors than the recorded rss feeds. Apparently the number of posts about the environment went through the roof on Oct 15. So ya!! for all of us … and the earth!
Baroque Pineapple, Digital © Diane Clancy
Neda created some beautiful awards for those of us who took part on the gallery exhibit at Maraya Galleries. You can see mine at the bottom of the sidebar. Thank you, Neda and they are great! I can also give them away - so let me know if you see a blog I should look at - thank you.
Another Artist for Peace ©Neda Doany
Tomorrow I am going to do the Biodiversity of Species Part #2. So hope to see you then. Of course, I would like to hear about you!
Global Artist ©Neda Doany
~ Diane Clancy
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