Decorating With Your Own Photos

Make your home beautiful by making your personal photo's into your own gallery. Restoring old photos that are tucked away in a drawer can be hung on the wall to decorate your home. Your home is your palace so make it unique by hanging up personal photos that look like an expert photographer took. Preserve your legacy and decorate your home at the same time.

With all the new technology the sky is the limit. There are many companies that will revive these memories and you can actually turn your old photos into works of art that becomes apart of the decor for your home. Being an artist I have photos that are aging and just sitting around dwindling to nothing. Not anymore!

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Spring Sunset in Kansas

April 5th, 2011 Sunset in Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographic Leave Manipulation

Having some fun for no reason at all! 

 

Samson-Our Best Friend

Drawing animals is something I throughly enjoy and drawing my friends families animals from photographs. I have made an effort to capture the beauty of "man's best friend" as well as their unique personalities. No two dogs are the same and any dog lover knows this very well. This drawing of my dog Samson is something we cherish deeply. We found Samson from an ad in the newspaper. His father was so ferocious we could not see him but boy did we hear him. Out of a litter of 8 pups this dog seemed to walk right into our hearts. He was Shepard/Malamute mix according to the owners. He turned out to be a very gentle dog but his name fit him perfectly. He played with kids never harming anyone. He also was very smart and was easily trained. We had rescued a blind tan chow that was blind from the animal shelter just before we found Samson. She was about to be put down and I was not going to let this happen. The reason I am telling you about Harry is because she and Samson became our family in rapid succession. We initially went to the shelter looking for a German Shepard  but when we saw this sad blind, chow with mangled hair that no one wanted and had maxed out her time we brought her home. She was so happy to get out of the pen we quickly fell in love with her. Being a true dog lover I still wanted a Shepard and we felt that she should have a companion. They took to each other like bread and butter. They will both live in our memories and these hand drawn pictures remind us of their unconditional love they shared with us.

My First Resume

Welder-The Medium of Using Steel to Create Works of Art

Photography is exciting especially trying to get action shots like these. To catch the sparks and using black and white film added to the drama of the welder. This welder was creating the beautiful iron tables with copper tops and I caught him in the process. I highly recommend the use of any Adobe products for designers or photography. The creative possibilities are limitless with computer tools.
Adobe Photoshop CS5

Adobe Illustrator CS5

Hand Embossed Calender

Assignment: To make a unique calender using any method you desire.
Brainstorming: Wrote down many different ideas, doodled and then felt that this was the strongest of idea. Now to decide on what mediums to do.
Conception of design: I liked using water color paper and embossing designs. My idea was to show the phases of birds and the tree throughout the different months. February; the mother making the nest, March; the eggs and flowers blooming, April the birds hatching, May was the baby birds feeding and growing and so on to the empty nest in December.
Design Phase: First I did all the embossing using watercolor paper and different objects to get the desired shapes letting each one dry before applying the next layer. After creating all the separate months I photographed them, scanned into PhotoShop, manipulated photos and added day and year. Using natural twine I attached them together. Most of all I had a lot of fun just being creative. Embossing is expensive on a large scale but can sell an idea.
*Saving your old designs could be beneficial to utilize these techniques for new jobs for future designs. I call this my "Inspiration Box and it contains old drawings, layouts and ideas that did not work at the time.