Oh no… an ad!
This week I wrote a book, well a training manual actually. It was as a result of learning to use wordpress.com. This site is a free website hosting service. It is great with enough freedom to express your individuality online. Creativity is free! take advantage of this situation.
However… it is not a simple matter for anyone who is not technical, patient and good-looking. ( I am not sure about that last requirement). So after a lot of experience from studying the system and putting sites online. I decided to write a manual about it.
That was this weeks creative project. I really believe in this product… after all it is genuinely free. All you need is an email address and an internet connection and you can be online.
Get ready here comes the ad… My manual is like a road map to make your first website very easy to publish. All you have to do is follow the instructions and before you know it, you're online.Then you can have as many sites and as many pages as your secret fantasies yearn for. All for no money and a little effort – not a bad deal!
I look at it this way. If I told you that there is a town over there through the jungle that has free beer. Many people would want to buy my map to get there. That's what I've done with my manual. There is a place on the internet where it is all free. Buy my map and I'll show you how to get some.
It's simple, I did the brain work, you do the creative work. Now put yourself out there for the digital world to visit. If you would like more information, and I can't see who wouldn't, go here!!!
1 Week – 100 Portraits – Done
At last! It was a very demanding and tiring task but it is complete now. I have achieved what I wanted, the ability to do beautiful pastel portraits.
The change in style and quality is obvious as I progressed. For the first 50 or so I was mainly interested in finding a style and method. After I became comfortable with that I refined the accuracy of the work.
I only drew 1 portrait live, my wife felt sorry for me and posed. Every other portrait was drawn from random photos. You will see a lot of repeats in the subjects. When I got bored with the same photos I would go to the web and grab another random photo or two. I mainly drew children. This was to force me to be sensitive in my work.
you can watch the short movie on my blog site – thecreativeartist and you are welcome to add comments.
Just finished 76
100 portraits takes a long time, a lot of patience and heaps of perseverance.
Through night and day it seems all I do is portraits, breathe, portraits, eat, portraits, sleep, portraits… on and on.
Here is a preview of where I am at the moment. Should be finished on time and have the completed movie showing the progress through the 100, next week.
Creative Blogs
Fine Art America
Other Links
