"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"