Art, Poetry and Life

Thanks Carol, Dirk and Linda.

Yeah, those two by Evanesance are sad but she is such a good and powerful singer and I love the videos. I added two more videos.

derWandersmann, Darko and Claude: Thank you.

Allan, Leazz, Graham, Clance and Andy thank you. Sorry the cake melted from all the candles. What was left looked like pudding so I ate it with a spoon.

Thanks Ed. I love that commercial. It's one of the few I sit and watch. Wonderfully done on their part.

Thank you Jill.

dW: I'm not sure if I'd feel lucky being a diabetic..... but I don't have sweets often. In fact, there was no cake at all. But every once in a while I drive five miles to this little place that has the best chocolate cake ever. I just might do that today after brunch with family.

Slipping in for a few minutes, then the pc goes off again.

dW: I ended up have a small chocalate brownie w/ pecans.

Issy: Thank you!

Scott: Thanks! I know! That's the thing with self portraits. What artist has a smile on their face when they are concentrating? At least I wasn't gritting my teeth.

Carlos: Thanks! I didn't want to put up a happy birthday to ME post.

Zulia: Thanks!. Ooooh, thanks for the link. Will have to check it out more in depth when I'm on here more than five minutes. In fact, I'm past my time slot anyway. I better pick it up a bit....type faster.

Nic and Nevin: No need to be sorry! Thank you. I'm late lots of times.

I'm outta here now. Am past my five minutes. Off goes the pc. Will tell you all sometime what I'm working so hard on that keeps me from the pc. It's good in more ways than one though. I'm not sitting so much.

Thanks Naomi. Wish I still looked like that!

Thank you very much Shaunak and thanks for visiting.

MJ was the ultimate performer.

Thank you Pfelelep. Actually, it is done in graphite. The original is 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches so it was small enough to fit in my scanner. When I scanned it in, it did not show up well. Doing a 'quick fix' darkened it and now it looks like charcoal. Try as I might, I could not get the right 'fix' in between so that it was a bit darker but still looked like pencil.

Thanks. As assignments when I was going to school, we had to do 'master drawings', literally copy them, ten each semester. Quite a few of my studies were of Michelangelo's work. I probably have 40 or 50 of these small copies.

They are all 8 1/2 x 11 and I'll periodically scan them and do a post about them.

Doing these copies, I think, taught me more than one or two of the teachers at the colleges.

Ah dW, never thought of that. However, I'm not even sure if I have that. I have Corel X....I think. I tend to putz around with it, not really knowing what I'm doing. I try to always save the original scanned one, then make several experiments trying to get what I want but usually end up deleting them. There is much I've never used.

Working with a program is where I wouldn't mind having someone standing behind me saying: do this, now that, click here, etc.