Hi all, I’m just sharing my intentions with you. Normally my art involves very little planning. I just play till something nice appears. Today I want to actually plan a picture and share the entire process with you. As I want to challenge myself on a few things, this will take a few weeks. My goals with the picture are: to have dramatic lighting (think Caravaggio or Film Noir) to
Hi, This is a new picture that I have created with DAZ Studio. I call it Seduction. It came about accidentally. I was actually just playing with having multiple different coloured spotlights hitting different figures (so each figure here has about three lights hitting it)
At the age of 13 I was told that I would be blind by 21. That was in 1977 and obviously I can still see. Well
OK folks, this is a book review. Context 1: Me Back in the mid-1970s one of my mother’s boyfriends took me to a rundown cinema and introduced me to the joy of Godzilla. Later he disappeared from my life, but Godzilla never did. I loved the concept of some giant monster stomping across the horizon. It is a passion that I have carried with me through the various incarnations of
When I look in the mirror I can plainly see the impact that life has had upon me. I’m a little flabby and worn around the edges. A few more wrinkles, especially around the eyes and forehead. Signs of bags under the eyes. No, no – don’t take that vision of perfection at the top of this post as gospel. I am not as gorgeous in reality as that picture
I was sick today and spent most of it on a sofa either spluttering or snoozing. However this afternoon my 10 year old daughter was telling me how she was learning the origins of the names for the days of the week. Obviously only the English versions. She wanted my help. So sick or not I decided to help her. Me being me, I helped by making a PowerPoint presentation
So I’ve told you that I intend to write a short story for an anthology and that this is set in a cemetery where the gravestones whisper to a sorcerer-like character called Verdant. Also that the cemetery is situated just before his home. You also know that the last story I wrote was done so in a Lovecraftian style. Well, I’ve spent the past few days trying to make some
In my last post I mentioned that I was working on a picture of my character Pari Azar. As is normally the case I was experimenting with a few new things. The first two were a couple of plant models from www.xfrog.com. One was a Chestnut and the other a Giant Sea Fan. The second thing was a Grass Shader for DAZ Studio that promised a real sense of grass
First a big thanks to those people who liked and commented upon my last post about submitting my first story to an anthology. It’s all very exciting and nervous. I think that the best thing to come out of that experience was getting to know my villain better. But I have no intentions of sitting still for a month an a half awaiting news of success or failure. Time keeps
Well folks, today I submitted my story “Tears of a Blue Priestess” to Grey Matter Press in the hope that they will include it in their upcoming anthology “Monsters”. Judging from their Facebook page they have received a lot of submissions. I guess that you have to be in it to win it. So let’s see how it pans out. It’s funny how I feel – so very nervous. Fancy
