2 ans deja? Ca passe vite quand on est heureux.
It's our anniversary today. 2 years already...Time flies like the wind when one is happy.
Robert Duckie lived in Kentucky
Poor poor Robert Duckie
Cauz' in Kentucky there is no Sea
Poor poor Robert Duckie
Robert Duckie wanted to see the sea
So he went to New Jersey
The sea is cold but he's happy
Sweet yellow Robert Duckie
Oh yeah
Des fois y'a des coupines elles laissent des trucs dans les com' je peux pas faire autrement que de le dessiner tutsuit' alors que j'ai des tonnes de choses a faire...C'est comme ca
My baby first word, after Papa and Maaaah Maaaaah is "bunny".I don't know why.
(the quote is from Amelie)
Apres Papa et Maah Maaaah, le premier mot de mon fils c'est "lapin".
Je me demande ou il a ete chercher ca.
La citaton est extraite du film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain.
Translation:
I we made bimbos believe that golbal warming is going to kill the golden retrievers, I'm quite sure it would have more impact than talking about saving the seals. Arf.
Save the golden retrievers!!!
I know it's so not funny at all.
Heehee.
Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007
"house warming" veut dire "pendaison de cremaillere" en Anglais.
Comme d'habitude, je vais avoir besoin de votre aide pour la traduction Francaise des termes Adobe? Merciii
I already made a tutorial about Photopaint, but this one is far more simple. Some people were not able to read the animation so I added a few pictures to help. Just click on the icons to see them.
For this tutorial you will need Photoshop ( any version ). You also need to be a bit of a Photoshop artist.
You also need to know how to use : layers, pattern stamp tool , and the filter average.
If you don't know how to, please check the Photoshop Help!
1.First of all, pick a photo. It's always easier with a large picture. Crop it if you like, but from now don't resize or crop it anymore.
2. Select> All , then Edit>Define Pattern.
3.Duplicate Background layer
4.Apply Filter>Blur>Average. This will fill your layer with one color. Make a nice background for your picture. This color is the mix of all the colors of your picture. If your picture is well balanced between light and dark and colors, you'll get a gray. Usually it's a brown. Don't worry about this. You will get a background color that will most likely fit your painting.
5.Make this layer a bit transparent until you can see the photo, but not too much or it will make your work uneasy.
6.Choose the pattern stamp tool. Use your photo as the pattern.Click on the arrow near the tiny icon representing the patterns to choose your photo from the library. Click the options : aligned, and impressionist.
7. Right click, pick a nice brush. The key thing is to use a brush with scattering . You can download here a brush I find fun to work with:
8. Create a new transparent layer.
9. Paint. Begin with a large brush and paint the shapes of you photo. Faces, house, tree etc. If it a portrait, define the surface of cheeks, hair, etc. It's messy, a bit gooey, don't worry. Follow with the brush the forms of the surface (as in : if it's round, make circle movements).
10. Use a smaller brush and paint details, following them more closely. At this point, getting tired of the process, I created a new layer under my painting layer and with the tool brush (not the pattern) and I painted a background with large strokes.Then, I came back to the paint layer.
11.Continue to paint with a smaller brush. Zoom, unzoom, look at the details closely. Hair and small lines like a baby mouth are hard to catch. Click on the visibility icon of your larger to check with the original photo under it from time to time. At this point, creating a group of your layers above the photo could be a good idea.
Tip: if you are afraid of loosing effects you like, create new layers each time you make a new step in details.
12.This is far the most difficult part. You need to be able to draw a bit.
Make the underground layer with only one color 100% visible. Then create a layer on top of your painting. Getting back to the brush tool, with a fine brush and picking the colors where necessary, define light in the eyes, repaint strokes of hair (painting flesh on it and redrawing if necessary) and all the tiny details you couldn't get. It won't be perfect. It won't look exactly like the picture. But it will look like something you've made, and this is good.
The key of this tutorial is to adapt painting technique to Photopaints. I learned Academic painting when I was a young student, and I've been taught 2 very important things:
-Going from generic to details. Structure is an important thing.
-Following perspective and shape with strokes.
Then I learned this all by myself: Have fun. If I don't, it's crap.
Et voila! Happy little bushes! I hope you will enjoy this technique. Try it for some scrapbooking!
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Today began as usual. Five in the morning, baby teething, where is my coffee cup. We played. We are not very good at whining so we play and laugh if possible even if it's five and it's just a little bit difficult because I'm not a morning person. But today I put on my magic pink sneakers and it made the day a little bit special. Or maybe seeing my baby trying to catch a beam of sunlight brightened the day forever.
After lunch the baby couldn't sleep because you see it will be Fleet day Sunday. The Blue Angels are practicing and they flew so close up our tiny home that it opened the back door wide open. I almost had a panic attack. But I was too busy to make a proper one: by the second I could hear them I was running for the baby. I learned to listen if they were coming close or not, and run to be there to put my hand over my baby's ears before they arrive, quick quick 1, 2, 3 seconds. I always made it. My eardrums are quite OK. What? Can you repeat?
But I won't complain about it because I used to enjoy Fleet day a lot, climbing on the roof and all to see it.
Then I had this crazy idea to check if the garden behind the long white wall is open to the public, the one looking so bushy with gorgeous vines showing up the wall. Most of the time it's closed and I can see only a tiny bit of it if I walk quick at constant speed to see between the fence's planks...Yes it's opened to public and yes it was magic. A garden to my taste exactly, messy and full of my favourite plants. One of the gardeners was here . He was very kind , we had a nice conversation about these big spiders and how to plant bamboos...I jumped from flower to fruit showing and naming everything I could to my baby and he was as happy as I was. We both have a huge love for all things green and untidy, I never had to teach him.
I came back home with a precious gift of a tomatoes and squashes we ate for dinner. The sky was blue. We had a lovely lovely time. I promised myself I will come back and help. I love this idea of community gardens. Love it love it love it. I wish I had just a little bit more time to garden.
When I came back home everybody was sending me this link to the new Sony add. I was waiting for it for a very long time since I read an article about it. I love advertising when it's clever.
And then to make it a day I found a new way to make my baby giggle with silly songs.
A bright day.
(all pictures painted in less than 4 minutes)
desolee pas de traduction aujourd'hui
This is a photopaint. It was made not from a photo, but with a photo, using the photo as a tool. You can recognize easily a photopaint because it keeps the weird perspective of our modern 32mm camera lenses. Just look at an icon size of the picture. Looks exactly like a photo? It's a photo. An artist copying from a photo will unconsciously correct a few ugly perspective details.
Durer used some device. Vermeer painted with the help of a camera obscura and Gustave Caillebotte used the first wide angle photo cameras to help him.
The important thing is not painting reality with realistic details. The important thing is what you say with your picture. Durer depicting a large turf, Vermeer showing a woman reading a letter and Caillebotte depicting the new Paris as transformed by Haussmann are saying very different things. What is important is what they say, if it touches you or not. The dexterity of their technique? I'm not sure. Technnique is a part of art, not art itself.
I'd rather paint, but photopaint is fun from time to time. Would you like me to make a tutorial?
And the dog ate my homework.
(j'etais en train de faire cette illu et je me suis endormie sur mon clavier)
Et le chien a mange mes devoirs *
*Excuse Americaine classique. Aussi enigmatique que " les ours font caca dans la foret" que j'ai croise tout aussi souvent, mais la je ne sais toujours pas comment l'utiliser. C'est beau d'apprendre une langue.
Today you can dowload my small pixel painty patterns. They are so small 
I made a file to download.You can use them for your personal art and website. No commercial use , no redistribution thanks. Please rememberthis file too is copyrighted.
Voili voilou les petits patterns. J'ai eu envie de travailler tout petit,d'abord pour que vous puissiez orner vos sites avec des fichiers legers..et puis ca me rappelle des souvenirs d'enfance, quand les ordinateurs etaient tout petits et qu'une souris c'etait du luxe! Ne redistribuez pas, utilisez seulement pour des travaux personnels, rappellez-vous du copyright...Et pas d'utilisation commerciale, ce qui veut dire aussi pas d'utilisation pour des sites qui vendent quoique ce soit, de la bicyclette au fer a friser, merci!
C'est toujours la meme chose avec la 3D. Tu commences a faire joujou dix minutes a l'heure du cafe et paf c'est l'heure du the. Du coup pour ne pas finir a l'heure du bouillon, la valise a patterns, on l'ouvrira demain. Cette valise est en 3D. C'est pas parceque j'en fait depuis heu longtemps que ca doit vous empecher d'aller voir le programme gratuit (Sketchup ici) que j'ai utilise, qui permet de faire des trucs rigolos comme tout sans se casser la tete. Traduction du dessin (non Blanche je n'oublie pas) :
"Je voulais faire une petite valise pour mettre mes motifs, je veux dire : pour mettre mes motifs DEDANS. Ha flute encore rate"
Je veux bien une valise comme ca pour de vrai remarquez.
The more I use Sketchup the more I'm having fun. I've been doing 3D for 15 years and now I want to have fun. Learn more about Sketchup here, and download it for free!I thought I would work on this only a few minutes and now my tea is dead cold. I'm going to brew some more and maybe get some sleep, so we will see the inside of the suitcase tomorrow.
I want a tiny suitcase excatly like this one.
Petit emballement de la machine a cute...Demain si vous etes sages je vous file les mini patterns.
I got crazy on pixel art! Tomorrow I'll give you the patterns. I think this is my longest post ever, heehee.
C'est long comme post hein? Huhu