Computer paint program

When you dont have anything else to do, there is a simple program in windows that I think the world of. Its Paint.You can do many things if you just mess around with this program.

I have goofed off with it and come up with a few differnt uses.

At any rate, it is fun and another form of art. 

So I will share with you some of the things I have done with Paint.

The first one is Gini. This is just me being silly. I am not sure if the smoke is going from the puter to her head or from her head to the puter? I think its out of computer into her head. Because that is the way information tends to travel around here.

Next is........ Wierdo. 

This is just what the title says. I used the spray option and just worked it. 

The next one is graphic but not too bad. I only encluded it because it shows when you are having a bad day you can express it anyway you want in art. I usually try to stay away from negitivity but somedays are harder than others. I like to take my anger and shove it in to some form of art.

And last but not least I have                   "I'm a little tea pot"

My fav. This is just a fun little piece that well.... is just fun and funny to me. 

I think that any thing you can do to let the art in you flow. Is good for your body and soul. SO I say let it out. Let yourself go.  Any thing you want to say can be said with art. 

Rock and Roll on people.

ART.

It is in the eye of the beholder.

I know this is true because everything I call "ART" is not hanging in an artist gallery being admired by rich people that have nothing more to do with their money than spend it on crap I call art.

So with that said....

Here is what I would call ART.

This is a temporary tatto on my wrist.

This is from a coloring book of my daughters. She was 5 at the time.

This one is me goofing around with windows paint program.





This is some pencil drawing that I never finished.



















So that is just a little sample of Art. Well, what I call ART.



Feel free to comment about any one of these items.



So any way on to the story. I started with crayons and then when my mom felt that it was safe she let me have felt tip markers. Then when I was older and in school I was always told to use a number 2 pencil. But I found that that number 2 was too hard to draw with. I went insearch of the better pencil. I found that any other pencil than a number 2 is better.



So I was drawing and drawing and never really thought that I was any good at it. Nothing looked real. I had an ipifiny. (Spelling was never easy for me)

The big bang idea that I had was that on real everyday items there is no out line. Wow my brain is now kicking in and my drawing got a lot better. But not to the real stage. I had to find out the difference between the was I was drawing and the way real things look.



That is what I did. I looked at things as they really are and started drawing only what I saw. Or more to the point I didnt draw what I didnt see. Here is an example. Maybe not a great example but its a quick draw that I just did. 5 min. max.



It shows what I'm talking about. The dark lines in the first example are not nessesary. There are accents and shading on the second mailbox. See how if you squint at the second one it almost looks real?



Well that is my tip for this blog.

Look at things like they are real and dont make any hard outlines untill you really look at what any thing is.



There is a Life lesson in there somewhere.



Stay tuned.

FIRST THING NEXT

When it comes to crafts... I have tried them all. When it comes to hobbies... I have atempted them all. The crafty thing started with simple things like paper and glue at x-mass time. I made the little paper chains that most of us made as kids. Except my chain was 40 foot long and had lights incorporated into it. My mom thought that I had been working to hard and told me to take a break. ( I think she just didnt know what to do with all that chain.) Then as I got older I started to draw. I would get napkins when we went out and draw funny little cartoons and entertain my family. Then I got a roll of butcher paper and made longer larger cartoons. And when I drew all over my bedroom walls my mom smiled and asked me why I didnt ask for more paper? She then introduced me to paint. We painted the walls of my room first. So now knowing a little about my early childhood I would like to share with you every week a new craft. Well at least a story or idea about a differnt or new craft every week. Those of you who are interested in crafts will appreciate my blog for the technical side that I hope to bring you and those that dont have the crafty bug will hopefully get a kick out of the stories. Just remember if you have a kid that is over active in the art department, try to find some understanding and help support that drive because it will flow into some amazing places if alowed to flow freely.



Thanks and stay tuned.