Great Photoshop Brush Tools!

August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Hi friends, haven't been active since Sunday and guess you know why! Yes! its the Olympics! enjoyed all the excitement and competitions going on, especially in the Swimming Events! Managed to have a bit of time and so would love to share some very useful Photoshop Tools (FREE) with you.

I love Art and Artistic people! Emma Alvarez is a very creative and artistic person and these Free Photoshop Brushes are made by her and she is so generous to share them with us! I use Photoshop a bit but my knowledge of Photoshop is elementary. I do use some of the default brushes but Emma has designed some very beautiful 'Brushes" which in the hands of artistic people can do wonders! so if anyone of you are interested do visit Emma and download the Brushes! Just a word of caution, do read Emma's Instructions for the downloads and respect those conditions laid out, its only fair I think. Here are some samples of the Art that can be created with Emma's Brushes!

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Japanese Art “Butoh”

August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Sometime back I shared about our youngest daughter Dawn did a month long study of the Japanese Art Form 'Butoh' and she did her Solo Performance titled OLIN which is basically a Butoh Performance. Received this Review on her Solo Work and sure made us proud of a job well done. Here is a copy of the Review of Dawn's Solo Performance.

Go Solo 2008 Created and performed by the graduands of Toi Whakaari | NZ Drama School Directed by Jade Eriksen, Annie Ruth and Sophie Roberts at Te Whaea - SEEyD Space, Wellington From 21 Jul 2008 to 3 Aug 2008 [1hr 20 minutes approx per group, no interval] Reviewed by Thomas LaHood, 28 Jul 2008

Group C begins with Dawn Cheong's OLIN, an impressively choreographed, Buto influenced visitation from an insectoid god. Cheong's emergence from the chrysalis is a powerful opener and her mesmerising movements are well supported by dramatic lighting states and elemental sound effects.

For many of these young actors, this season is the first time they will present theatre that truly originates from them as an individual; for some it will also be the last. It is a tribute to the calibre of Toi Whakaari as an institution that in this season, as in last year's, we are able to see such diversity of thought and expression presented with such flair and confidence.

For those who wants to know what is 'Butoh' you can watch a Youtube video of the origins of Butoh whose founder was Hijikata Tatsumi.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8o0S1OMVqOM

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Scrapbooking

May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Heard of Scrapbooking anyone? Hey this is a growing hobby and now there are lots of people into scrapbooking. If you are into this great hobby you will need some resources and I come across this website Fontwerks.com which is Canadian based and they have quite an interesting range of products to offer to scrapbookers! I happen to know the owner of Fontwerks.com! Well, she's a pretty girl from Kuala Lumpur, now married and a work from home mom with three children in British Columbia. She has a team of very creative artists with her and the fonts and patterns on her rubber stamps, acrylic stamps are pretty impressive.

Displayed here are are few samples of their beautiful stamps. Other products are Mini-Mounteds, Stamps on Sentiments and Doodles, Alpha Numeric Stamps, Papers etc. If you are into scrapbooking thats one great site to visit. Cheers!

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Fruit & Veges Art

April 29, 2007 | 2 Comments

I received these pictures from my son-in-law and I find them rather creative. Using fruits & vegetables and carved them into cute animals! Don't know who's the artist but I do admire the creativity, patience and time to do such things. I am sure you folks will appreciate them.