Art of the Day: John Osgood
John Osgood—Urban Contemporary Artist John Osgood’s artwork has a street style feel with an urban design and is inspired by street art, as well as Picasso’s cubist period, Basquiat and Pollock. John is a painter, muralist and illustrator. His studio is located inside Bherd Studios Gallery located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. John also […]
Creating vector graphics from image files with Adobe Illustrator and Live trace
There is a process for creating a vector file from a pixel based image or drawing. There are two methods. One is to completely recreate the image, tracing over it in Adobe Illustrator. The other method is to start with as clean an image as possible. First the image is cleaned up in Photoshop, then […]
Photography: Shirrstone Shelter Dolls
Photography: Shirrstone Shelter Dolls Here is an example of our sculpture/3D photography. These are shots from a photo shoot we did for Shirrstone Shelter Dolls and Krabjab Studio in Seattle. ShirrStone Shelter dolls are created with features and proportions that are intentionally changed to create a surreal effect. Olga and Nikolay glorify female beauty, smooth […]
Art of the Day by Eric Boston
Eric Boston’s work incorporates a unique impasto style technique that creates paintings with extreme depth and texture. After graduating from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Eric entered the graphic design world and put that logo fetish and art training to work. And then somewhere around 2006,he felt the urge […]
Art Scan of the Day by Marc Bohne
We had the pleasure of scanning this fine piece by Marc Bohne. This one is 48″ x 60″, oil on panel. Marc says of his work “I treat my landscapes more like portraits than snapshots of a place. Portraits contain both subject and observer, and good portraits show some evidence of that intimacy. The places […]