carry on shopping

a humorous look at myself and my shopping habits especially when I am in thailand ha

Mmmm!

a doodle from my sketchbook finished off in photoshop

available from redbubble as cards prints and posters

cheep cheep

my little doodle from my journal now photoshopped these are available as

cards,posters or framed prints thru redbubble

a great xmas item for the kids room

Old Docs Soda Shop

My original illustration was done in blue ink and coloured was added via photoshop

I am selling prints of this artwork through my made it store

Can u remember the days when u used to pop into a milk bar  and order the best milkshakes

 Caramel was my favorite and I used to drink it straight from those aluminum Cups

lets hope I don't get Alzheimer's drinking from those things!

cheers kim x

Lets see you pick the eyes out of this one!

digital collage

using lasso tool to capture the eyes of a picture of a doll and copying and pasting to image of black bird with flower and pasting them into the flower heads

then used a brush to add stems and leaves

and paint bucket to drop in colour here and there

cheers kim x

Photo Manipulation

check out this link very funny

http://www.funspill.com/photo-manipulations-erik-johansson/

been away

Just got back on Friday from Thailand saw lots of amazing things checked out lots of art  and while at the Bangkok art gallery saw these miniature shops they had perspex over the top and were a little hard to photograph as they had lights and were behind a shop window they were for sale only a few hundred baht each just thought would share with u for the current project  cheers kim x

minature shops tiny plates of food and furniture

feel thirsty grab a pepsi from the corner store

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a doodle from my journal now photoshoped

you can buy prints or cards over at my redbubble site

just click on the link above and it will take u there

on another note

won't be around for a couple of weeks as I am heading out to Thailand for a break

and some much needed sun I am soooo cold

so catch yas when I get back

cheers kim x

shit that was lucky!

I created this one in my journal with textas and then took to it into photoshop.

 I mainly used the colour picker and paint bucket to go over the top of my texta colour which has created a lovely textured look

this cartoon reminds me of the time I worked for yarra trams one of my colleagues ducked up a lane in the city of Melbourne to have a quick ciggy and as he leant up against the brick wall a pigeon did a big poop all down his back it was hilarious!

Topairy elephants

while visiting Thailand last year took this photo of topairy elephants in the summer palace gardens in Bangkok

the bottom pic shows the original photo

and the top pic shows my photoshop editing I took out the ground light & the lamp behind the elephant using the clone tool

& I used the dodge tool to lighten the trees in the background and I made some more adjustments using Image/Levels (Control L)
Prints of this are available in my store
http://www.madeit.com.au/bluedogstudio

altered photo

original photo

LInks that I like

art resources

downloadable images for digital art
http://www.deviantscrap.com/

how to art
http://wm9om.th8.us/

free twitter buttons to add to your blog
http://www.twitterbuttons.co.uk/index.html


artists who inspire me

danny brito
http://danny-brito.tumblr.com/

greg
http://www.youtube.com/user/Brdlee

orit
http://recycleartanimals.blogspot.com/


something to tweet about

colorado artist
http://twitter.com/coloradoartist1

artsocialnet
http://twitter.com/artsocialnet

graham knuttel
http://twitter.com/grahamknuttel


Facebookers

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Art lovers
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Janine Can't decide

My original doodle on the back of an old bill (not the ones on telly)

now photoshopped below

Turtle

This little guy below lives in Bangkok, in the fish pond of the hotel I stayed in last year.

 Everyday he climbs out of the tank roams around the hotel gets heaps of attention from the hotel guests and then at night he climbs back up into the tank

I don't know what breed of turtle he is but those red eyes are striking though, and below is my original doodle of a turtle and below him is the same image photoshoped its available for sale in my

Art Store 

Blue Dog Studio

 as a Print

oh so retail

this weeks effort I chose a picture from Creative Commons on Flickr that is one of my favorite pastimes the original picture is below

and this is it  after I had a play with it I added layers used the pen tool added some patterns used the eraser tool and more.........

I am semi happy with the result and maybe I will play more with it and see what other designs I can come up with

cheers kim

Forever

this is a doodle that I did ages ago on the back of an old bill and below it has been photoshopped I played around with this one today during class Yes Anthony after I did my assigned task ha!

still would like to work on it some more but I don't have PS at home will have to wait till next week

Me in the garden & Sum Random Ankle Biter

taking my pop portrait from last week  and merging layers and using blending modes I placed a photo under neath my portrait changed the opacity and stuff it looks like I am somewhere tropical in a beautiful garden mmmm maybe Thailand I wish!

Pop Portraits

 

Andy Warhol eat your heart out

this weeks lesson to create a pop style portrait using a photo of myself

Using Pen tool I have created several images out of the one photo

which has been fun and colourful at the same time

Things That Go Click !

This Class was all about making buttons Buttons,Banners & Tiling Images

and making them link to other web sites you may have if you click on all these images you will find they will take you to my other web sites

My Website

My Craft Store

My Original Art Blog

My Ebay Store

Jim Thompson Used to Live Here

Once again while in Thailand I went to visit Jim Thompson's

house he was the founder of the Thai Silk Industry but he mysteriously disappeared while visiting Malaysia

his house sat idle for some time before the Thais took it over and opened it to the public its a beautiful Thai teak house and the gardens are lovely and it backs onto Bangkok's klongs (little canals where the river runs)

below is the original photo of the house taken by me

An elephant visits a temple

for those of you that know me

Thailand is my favorite destination so much so I go there every year to visit

The class task once again was to take a photo and make some changes

I took this photo last holiday while visiting Autthaya Its the Old City of Thailand once the Capitol but nowadays Bangkok is the capital any how after a few battles this place had suffered some damage but it is now under World Heritage Protection its an amazing place and I had the best day visiting there with my guide Warren

I took the photo and over the top I laid my original doodle then I took to adding some colour to it

I have made this piece another time the doodle has been made into a painting as well which has been sold