Welcome Aboard. Herein lies the tales of my creative process: my travels and travails, my struggles and my successes. I will share creative food for thought gained from fellow artists through workshops, readings and creative gatherings. I will invite you into my classroom where I teach watercolor, watermedia and collage. And at times, I will share the process of my work and some of the techniques that I employ. For a look at completed art works visit my website: lindajamesartworks.com
New Web Site: LindaJamesArtWorks.com
"Take 1" Wind Blowing Art
September 1, 2009 = The day that my new website is launched. Lindajamesartworks.com is finally up and running.
Rachel Smith designed it for me but I did have to put in a number of hours. She, of course, could not write my text nor choose my photos. It became my job to provide the content and thus, I ended up having to learn more about technology than I had anticipated. It turned out to be the push that I needed to work on the “business” end of being an artist. I did, however, say to myself many times each day…”I’d rather be in the studio”
In order to provide images of my art, I finally learned how to do my own photographing. I set up an easel outside and took pictures of the art that I had in the studio. Then I had to “manipulate” them. So using Picasa, I learned how to straighten them (my angles were always wrong), then cropped them removing the background of trees and my studio and then I even learned how to “correct” the colors so that the bright sunlight effect in the photo was toned down so the image matched more closely the art work that I had next to me. See ” Take1″, when the wind blew the art; then “Take 2″ and, for Take 3…to see the final cropped and “corrected” piece, go to my website and look for “Bird of Paradise”. I am quite proud of myself.
"Take 2"
