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Last post by Transmute Jun 16 Sep 2007 15:35
Okay as promised, here are some pics I painted when I was a Tweenie.
When I found these pics, during the clean up from my flood, I remembered taking a Summer Art Programme.
It looks like the Groundhog/gopher was my first attempt
Then maybe the Bird on the Post.
After that I am not sure.
I can not get it to attatch.
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, I see I can only attatch things that are 500 KB
Mine are larger than that. So how do I reduce the size of a JPEG?
The fun of exploring computers.
Here, CD... try this website to shrink your piccies...
http://www3.blibs.com/animation-factory/
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 15:08
Thank you Springie, will try that now.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 15:15
Springie. When you scan an image what size do your files have?
Did I ask that right?
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 15:17
Originally posted by Springie Here, CD... try this website to shrink your piccies...I get an error message when I try this site. File to big or not uploaded correctly.
I got it.
Here is my Groundhog/gopher
Bird on a Post
Ebonyswanne
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 16:22
CD I got all wrong when I first started to attach pic in here.
All you do is make a post the go back into Edit post and it will have edit attachment and then you add the piccie...but I see you have already got it!!!
I use Adobe Photoshop to reduce the size of the picture
Image/image size and then I reduce the pixel count to about 200 or 250 pixels.
I'm learning to use the program now to colour piccies...
Cloudy you have some good use of colour in your picture!
I like texture in a piccie
Thank you for the advice Ebony.
It is very slow going, but I am getting there.
Next we have Winter Boat
and my favourite Seagull.
All these pics appear to be oil paints done on canvass.
These last two pics are my attempt at using water colour pencils.
I did these, 2 years ago in an Art course I took for school, "Teaching the Elements of Art to Students"
These are all very nice, CD! You have some artistic talent, there!! I am especially impressed with your paintings, because I learned how hard it is last year, when I took my first painting class. So much fun, but very challenging! 
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 9 Sep 2007 18:23
Those are wonderful! I think my favourite is the boat on the water, and then the bird on the post.
You are very talented!!!! 
Ebonyswanne
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 18:44
CD you just have to keep doing them! Painting is hard to get right but you have the ability there thats for sure!
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 9 Sep 2007 19:01
ITA.... CD has a lot of ability! I'm getting the feeling she just needs a bit of Ego-boosting... she's so good at her paintings, and her fics (from what I have seen so far) and just need encouragement.
Go CD!!! Whoo hoo!!!! 
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 19:03
I love drawing landscapes and animals
People on the other hand I have great difficulty with.
Seeing all your and Springies work makes me want to continue trying Watercolours.
I nearly bought a set of Watercolour pencils yesterday while at an Art store. Then stopped myself. Not sure if I can focus on school/work, writing, construction and drawing all at the same time.
Let me get the construction out of the way and feel comfortable with my writing, then maybe I will move into the drawing. 
I know I'm not an artists in any way shape or form, but it seems to me that if you have a pencil you can draw.... you don't necessarily need the fancy supplies... right?
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 9 Sep 2007 19:18
Right again TJ.
besides, probably better to practice with a pencil first, then move to the fancy gagets when, and if, I feel I am good enough.
I can always colour in with the crayons, markers or pencil crayons from school. hahahaha
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 9 Sep 2007 20:52
Hey, I think Springie was using crayons for awhile.... 
Wow, nice pics there CD. Have you used oil based colors?
Ebonyswanne
Gatchamaniac
posted 10 Sep 2007 03:21
Originally posted by Transmute Jun I know I'm not an artists in any way shape or form, but it seems to me that if you have a pencil you can draw.... you don't necessarily need the fancy supplies... right?I'm with you on that one Springie! Drawing has it's own muse just like writing does! I love to blend colours though...I'm teaching a ten year old girl to do some drawing at the moment (not that I am that good, but I know a few basics.) It is rewarding though and I can see why you guys enjoy teaching for a living!!!
Cd these pics are wonderful.
I agree with the others that is quite some talent you have there.
Look forward to you sharing more pics with us 
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 10 Sep 2007 07:43
Originally posted by amyltrer Wow, nice pics there CD. Have you used oil based colors?I believe the first 4 pics are in oil paints. Not sure though, it was so long ago that I did them. I have a few pencil.pen drawings to scan in tonight that I doodled during University, while the prof. was going on, and on, and on, and on, and......
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 10 Sep 2007 08:13
Gee... no one listens to the university profs.... is it any wonder I have to write fanfic to be appreciated????
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 10 Sep 2007 10:10
We spent all our time listening in Grade school, we think we know everything in Year one of Uni. It is not until year two that I realized "I" did not know everything.
Besides my year one classes had 500+ students in them. The prof did not notice if you were not paying attention. That is probably why I failed psych and had to take it a second time, to get my average up.
*Psych and philosophy two courses that meant aboslutely nothing to me.*
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 10 Sep 2007 10:19
I admit to not being too interested in some of my courses as a student either. Interestingly enough, the ones I felt were most useless were the Organizational Behaviour ones (basically psychology of business).
Now, as a prof, if I see people not listening I let them continue, as long as they are not disturbing the class. If they want to fail, that's their prerogative. 
Interestingly enough, the ones I felt were most useless were the Organizational Behaviour ones (basically psychology of business).
Now, as a prof, if I see people not listening I let them continue, as long as they are not disturbing the class. If they want to fail, that's their prerogative.
CricketBeautiful
Forum God
posted 10 Sep 2007 10:35
What I loved about Organizational Behaviour was when some of my lab partners were taking it, and going on and on about X and Y personality types, I just labeled them according to camp leaders I'd worked with (in this case, ones needing to get with the program) and got on with the job of assigning parts of the lab report. It's one of those subjects that is best learned through lots of real world experience, supplemented with the odd pop-psychology book, not the traditional lecture/textbook approach.
I see it in all subjects. TPTB set the curriculum based on what you'll need to understand next year's work, even if you're only taking one year of it. You learn definitions and theorems and famous names, but nothing that's going to be of any use to you in the real world. If you do continue on, that stuff will be very useful, but meanwhile?
I'd love to see an Organizational Behaviour pr psych class that's actually a survey of the current pop on the subject. Show the similarities and differences and fallacies. Use their descriptions, then add the academic interpretation / definition / understanding.
And, grocery time!
Here is another pic I found.
I did this one last year, using primary acrylic paints, we could mix colours.
The assisgnment was to use geometric and organic shapes.
Got it that time.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 10 Sep 2007 18:30
I like that one! I'm a sucker for bright colors, and i love the way the vines define the shapes.
CD that last picture is amazing I love bright colours and the way you have combined the shapes
Sorry I haven't posted much lately...I'm having trouble keeping up with you guys these days!
CD, that piccie is beautiful...I love the colors you chose, too!! Way to go!! 
Ebonyswanne
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 03:33
Very modern looking CD! The bright colours are great...it would look good in a sun room....or a room that need brightening up!
Hmm, CD, definitely has talent. Swans let's bug her to paint Gatch art
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 11 Sep 2007 06:21
Gatch art! Gatch art! Gatch art!!!!!! 
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 09:17
I have never drawn any gatch art.
Actually I lie. The only thing I remember drawing was Mark's Bomerang. I will have to see if one of those drawings still exists.
Cd I am sure you can do wonderful Gatch art!
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 10:26
NOt so sure.
When I draw people, they tend to be stick people.
Even my students laugh about that.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 11 Sep 2007 16:10
ROTFL!!!!!! I'm a stick person drawer too. But I've never done anything half as good as the pictures you've shown, CD!
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 16:22
But those are not people.
Plants and animals are different for me somehow.
People I can never get to look right. shrugs
Don't ask me why.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 16:32
BTW, Now that I have posted some Art work,
And I am almost ready to post my story,
Perhaps someone could suggest the best way, to post my story, for all to view.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 11 Sep 2007 16:52
I would suggest the Clubhouse, with a link posted here.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 11 Sep 2007 17:09
That is what I wondered too.
I guess I had better post my fragment over there first then.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 11 Sep 2007 17:15
LOL.... I would just say post it here, but there are all of these formatting issues... sometimes the posts can look like gobbeldygook if you copy and paste from a word processor.
I am looking forward to seeing it!
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 11 Sep 2007 20:07
Yes, you get this when you copy and paste from heavily formatted Word that you get that.
But on this site the quotation marks. apostrophes and ... s have weird squares instead of the proper characters.
So what is the best way to post TJ?
P.s that is both here and the clubhouse
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 07:02
Sorry FB I used an example from one of your stories.
It was the first one I found like that.
Please forgive me. 
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 07:18
Originally posted by Firebird So what is the best way to post TJ? P.s that is both here and the clubhouseI got that stuff too when I copied and pasted from my formatted Word doc. For example, I got that when I tried to post my formatted version of Nice (with the song lyrics highlighted). But when I copy from a plain Word doc (with no fancy formatting) it seems okay. Although two sentences got messed up in one part... don't know what happened there. It seems to work fine when I copy from a text file. So generally I have two versions: one in Word and one I copy into a text file. The Word file with the fancy formatting is what I use to upload to ff.net later on, and then the ff.net version has to be copied and pasted to post on the new Fanfic Archives. I also use the formatted Word doc for uploading here, to the fic library.
Cd dont worry about it
It drives me nuts when it does that lol
It drives me nuts when it does that lol
Originally posted by Transmute Junno problem will endeavour to remember to post into wordpad before postingOriginally posted by Firebird So what is the best way to post TJ? P.s that is both here and the clubhouseI got that stuff too when I copied and pasted from my formatted Word doc. For example, I got that when I tried to post my formatted version of Nice (with the song lyrics highlighted). But when I copy from a plain Word doc (with no fancy formatting) it seems okay. Although two sentences got messed up in one part... don't know what happened there. It seems to work fine when I copy from a text file. So generally I have two versions: one in Word and one I copy into a text file. The Word file with the fancy formatting is what I use to upload to ff.net later on, and then the ff.net version has to be copied and pasted to post on the new Fanfic Archives. I also use the formatted Word doc for uploading here, to the fic library.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 09:27
Give it a shot anyway. You never know which weird system isn't going to like whatever you've done... sigh...
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 10:15
I will remember all this advice when I go to post.
And see which I can make work.
Thank you TJ.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 13:04
Just don't use this as an excuse not to post at all... 
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 14:16
No, no, no.
TJ don't worry. My friend is giving me great advice and encouragement too. With her, and you guys, I am really starting to WANT to post my story.
I want to see what you have to say.
(I can't believe I have come so far, that I am actually admitting I want to post something so personal.)
I know I am keeping you waiting for my story, but please bare with me. I spoke to my friend today and I hope she gets my story back to me tomorrow. I mentioned to her, if I do not post soon you would be booting me off the board for making false claims. 
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 14:24
We would never boot you off the board, CD!
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 14:34
Oh I KNOW that,
but she doesn't. haaaa haaa
Besides, even with all the corupting you are doing you probably couldn't get me to leave if you tried.
Well...... I might leave if you guys decided to give me some bad news about my story.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 14:39
I guess we'll just have to love it, then!
Awwww
More kind words from TJ.
You really knows how to encourage a gal.
*I know, you are only doing it to get my story*
After my story is posted you will stop.
Until I tell you I am writing more, from another prespective. Adding a bit of background with it.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 14:58
Originally posted by clouddancerAre you saying that I am fickle and shallow?
Until I tell you I am writing more, from another prespective. Adding a bit of background with it.Yay!!!!!!!! FTR, CD, I like having you around the boards no matter what. But having more fics to read just makes me oh so excited!
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 15:13
Originally posted by Transmute Jun Are you saying that I am fickle and shallow?Please, TJ I hope you know I don't mean that. I would
if I really thought you did.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 15:43
Originally posted by clouddancerI know you don't... I was j/k....Originally posted by Transmute Jun Are you saying that I am fickle and shallow?Please, TJ I hope you know I don't mean that. I would
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 17:45
Cloud gives a dramatic big sigh. 
I would never want to upset the person who has been spending so much time boosting my ego.
And writing such nice smuty and angsty stories. giggle
I would never want to upset the person who has been spending so much time boosting my ego.
And writing such nice smuty and angsty stories. giggle
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 18:27
Originally posted by clouddancer Cloud gives a dramatic big sigh.Awwwww.....
I guess I'll just have to keep writing those smutty and angsty stories, then.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 19:21
Keep it up TJ, then I can keep praising your writing. 
BTW I enjoyed today's three chapters of Nice.
I like how you use the flash backs to deepen the angst.
BTW I enjoyed today's three chapters of Nice.
I like how you use the flash backs to deepen the angst.
Originally posted by clouddancer Keep it up TJ, then I can keep praising your writing.Well, as you say, that's good motivation...
BTW I enjoyed today's three chapters of Nice. I like how you use the flash backs to deepen the angst.Anything to deepen the angst...
Don't worry, tomorrow the angst will begin anew... As if it ever really stopped. Can you see now why this one took so long to write?
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 12 Sep 2007 19:47
That and the fact that your stories are much longer than mine.
Many, many pages longer than mine.
But, maybe mine will get longer the more I write.
Or maybe me being an Owl of few words will keep my stories shorter.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 12 Sep 2007 20:50
LOL... I have a problem with brevity. I can't just write a scene, I have to have all of the setup and everything that goes with it... it can take awhile. Just look at Springie is in the Air. That was supposed to be Ken/Jun PWP... and I spent 10 pages just setting up the smut!!!
It's a sickness, I tell you...
Originally posted by Transmute Jun It's a sickness, I tell you...An incurable one I hope as I love your fics
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 13 Sep 2007 06:30
Originally posted by FirebirdAnd they do tend to go on and on and on and on...Originally posted by Transmute Jun It's a sickness, I tell you...An incurable one I hope as I love your fics
but you use words so well.
The stories do not feel like they are going on and on.
ITA Cd they dont have that feel, in fact they leave you wanting to know what happens next!"
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 13 Sep 2007 10:49
Or wanting more........
Ebonyswanne
Gatchamaniac
posted 13 Sep 2007 14:49
Originally posted by clouddancer That and the fact that your stories are much longer than mine. Many, many pages longer than mine. But, maybe mine will get longer the more I write. Or maybe me being an Owl of few words will keep my stories shorter.It's good to start with a few short ones! I guess it just depends on the story. I like flashbacks in a story at times, it deepens the plot and the content of the story...
Yup, CD, short stories are much more easier to write, and you don't need a whole plot and the action can spin around a small event.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 13 Sep 2007 15:30
I have started writing a continuation of the story I will post. Or another point of view. It gives some background to my world in it. It is not really a flashback, not as I think of them anyway, just the Chief talking to Cronus and bringing up information in conversation.
He has revealed a lot of information but I can not get the story to where I want it, or to where I thought it was going. So am now trying to decide if I should leave it for a bit, try to force it to where I want it, or let it take its own course.
I am going to look at it later tonight and then see what I decide.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 13 Sep 2007 20:34
Let it go where you feel most comfortable CD. You don't want to force anything.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 13 Sep 2007 20:37
Originally posted by Firebird ITA Cd they dont have that feel, in fact they leave you wanting to know what happens next!"
Originally posted by Cloud Dancer Or wanting more........You guys are so sweet! And because you are, I posted more...
Okay, I would have posted more anyhow, but it makes me feel wonderful to know that you are reading it and enjoying it!
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 14 Sep 2007 08:39
No I do not want to force it. But I do want to make it go where I want to.
I know how I want it to end. It is taking that last step to get there that is the problem.
I know what Anderson and Cronus finish up saying, it is how I get the conversation there that I am having problems with.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 14 Sep 2007 09:04
Hmmm.... why don't you RP it? Have someone else who knows the story take on one of the roles and you could try to RP a conversation to make it sound more real.
That is a good idea TJ... It is actually something I miss from the old days where we would all log into chat on KKK and Just do an impromptu RP session.
Was very amusing at times. I wish I still had the logs.
*Curses loss of disc with old fics and rp logs on*
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 14 Sep 2007 10:23
Then I would have to find someone who knew the character not just played the character.
Hmmmm......but I will think about it.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 14 Sep 2007 10:42
Springie and I did one once, for a fic that never materialized. I still have the log. It's actually quite amusing, as we did it off the tops of our heads...
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 14 Sep 2007 17:47
Things off the top of your head tend to be better, more fun, than things that are thought out and planned.
I am sure the Condor can confirm that.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 14 Sep 2007 19:01
Definitely... the Condor likes to be spontaneous... 
So, it sounds like you should go with the RP then...
So, it sounds like you should go with the RP then...
Some of the best situations come from spontaneity, I mean thats how the swallow gets into trouble so often.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 15 Sep 2007 08:37
Exactly, FB!
Say she who comes up with such marvellous work which appears to be very spontaneous!
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 15 Sep 2007 12:55
Originally posted by Firebird Say she who comes up with such marvellous work which appears to be very spontaneous!Sooooo spontaneous that it takes me ages to write it...
Does not seem that way sometimes TJ. There are times it seems to flow quite easily.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 16 Sep 2007 07:30
Originally posted by Firebird Does not seem that way sometimes TJ. There are times it seems to flow quite easily.I appreciate that, FB, but it's only because you are looking at the finished product. Or perhaps you're just looking at the parts that DID flow easily... like the humorous stuff. Somehow, those things always seem to go faster: like the first 20 pages or so of Prom Night which I wrote by hand really quickly while on vacation with Springie. Perhaps she was inspiring me...
But Nice... ugh... I would struggle for a whole day on that and only come up with 3 pages... more often than not.
Nevermind TJ just shows how human you are and that we all struggle sometimes.
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 16 Sep 2007 10:19
Originally posted by FirebirdIt's just that my struggles are all fic-related!
Anyhow, it's all worth it knowing that other people like what I've done.
clouddancer
Gatchamaniac
posted 16 Sep 2007 11:23
And we do like, we really do. 
Oh yes, we do!!!
Transmute Jun
Queen of the Bird Missiles
posted 16 Sep 2007 15:35
Originally posted by clouddancer And we do like, we really do.
Originally posted by Springie
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