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White knight of bright morning
Garden
Claws in the night
A dream of grace
Tam Lin – The faery host
Tales through time
Queen of spades sends her regards
Transformative nature of music
Sultana Lena’s gift
Conversations in the woods
Sun worship
Potential
Queen of the cats
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Fantastic illustrations by Robin Olausson
Far away
Heavens devils
Holy shit
Wreckage
Mech assault
Skull valley
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A few beautiful illustrations by Sam Burley
Gorge Wurm
Volcanic Orrex
Cultures of Nerath
Water Temple
Ancient Threshold
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Describing the art work of Shashank Uchil (photos), Stian Dahlslett (paintings) and Seth Engstrom (paintings).
I should really write something about http://512×512.com/. If only to show you his cool URL.
shashank uchil | _shank | oslo (level designer | wannabe photographer | living in oslo) is a photo blog.
This seems to be one of those people who is always carrying his camera with him so he can shoot everything that catches his eye. Some of his pictures are of beautiful things. Most are about people going about there business. All in all the blog gives a nice picture of life in Oslo.
People…think. from Shashank Uchil
As a long time fan of everything sci-fi and fantasy my eye was caught by the site of Stian Dahlslett.
Stian Dahlslett paints sci-fi landscapes and vehicles and monsters.
(Be sure to scroll to the right otherwise you’ll miss a lot of nice paintings.)
Painting by Stian Dahlslett
Scrolling down this painting and drawings blog I at first thought that the blog should be called Freeways and Overpasses. I never would have thought that it was possible to paint a nice picture of a freeway. But with his first 40 or 50 paintings Seth Engstrom proofs me wrong.
Painting by Seth Engstrom
Scrolling down I found that he also paints a lot of pictures of dark mysterious buildings and of beautiful women.
Sinbad- Medusa’s Lair by Seth Engstrom
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This idea of drawing a color fountain is proving harder than I expected.
When I made the first drawing using an eraser I felt the technique was reminiscence of a technique I used for a drawing years ago. It seemed like a good idea to try to replicate that technique using pencils and a eraser. The problem is that I didn’t use pencil and an eraser on that earlier drawing. I used crayons and it is becoming very clear that it is impossible to use the technique with pencil.
Although I won’t be using this technique here, it is a very easy way to make nice looking drawings. I’ll describe the technique:
Using (wax) crayons you make colored patches like I did in this drawing. Or if you like you can make more rounded shapes or triangular. There’re loads of possibilities.
Most important is that you cover the sheet. Don’t have any white shining through. Nice bright colors probably work better than darker colors but you can experiment.
Then you take your black crayon and cover the whole sheet. Cover all the colors you just put on the paper. You’re finished with the black crayon when none of the colors are shining through.
Next you take some sharp implement and scrape the black of the paper. Not all of it but in the shape of a…. Use your imagination. You can keep it simple and scrape the shape of a house or more complicated and scrape the shape of a flower.
The possibilities are endless.
As a last attempt at drawing the color fountain I drew this.
Devide
After I made this drawing I felt it didn’t look like a color fountain but like a “devide”.
My dictionary doesn’t know what a devide is neither does Google but I’m still sure that it’s the right word. And since I’m the artist… 
In general but especially when you’re doing a drawing like I describe here, I would recommend using thick paper. When using printer paper to make this drawing you’ll find that it crumples very easily especially when you’re working the edges.
Paper that’s about twice as thick works a lot easier.
Characterdesign seems to be a kind of showroom for people who design characters to illustrate books. It’s a very long page but it has very nice artwork and is well wurth scrolling all the way down.
They not only show the artwork but they also have interviews with the designers.
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A few weeks ago I worked a while on a drawing I wanted to call “Nova”. But I couldn’t figure out how I should translate the shape in my mind to a color drawing.
This morning while I was working on my SEO I recognized that it should be possible to use the technique I used in Garbage draw to draw the picture of the Nova.
I’m not there jet. This is not the picture I had in my mind, but I know what I’m going to try next.
Corona
SEO. Sounds like a chore doesn’t it? Well it kind of is.
A while back I told you that I want to reach a point where I can live from this site. That means that I need a lot more visitors then I have right now. My former website (about child abuse got about 2 visitors a week and I was very pleased with that. However to live from a site means that you have to get several thousand visitors a week. At the moment I get about 30 visitors a week who look at some 50 to 60 pages. Fifty to sixty pageviews per week on a site that has only been operational for a few months is nice, but not enough.
My stats counter tells me that I get about one third of my traffic via search engines (mainly Google) and a third via social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. The remaining third are people who have me bookmarked. Thank you for the bookmarks!
To get more traffic I have to work on my SEO. Which in my case means that I have to tell search engines what my site is about and I have to tell social bookmarking sites about the range of articles I’ve posted.
Luckely WordPress has a lot of plugins that can help you with that task. Basically after I’ve written an article I have to gather a collection of keywords for search engine spiders and I have to post a link at several bookmarking sites.
In it selves that isn’t very much work. The only thing is that by the time I though of this I had already written about 50 articles. Right now I’m working my way through the backlog and that is a bit of a chore.
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My father called a weeks ago to tell me that he had been ill for two weeks; nausea, diarrhoea, tired. Probebly some virus that is going round. He has gotten some pills from his docter and things were going better.
Last Friday I called him for some problem but before I got the change to talk about it he told me that he was still sick. This is the third week of the two week flu. It has me a bit worried.
Probebly everything is alright but he is 76 (or 78 I keep forgetting) and although he is generaly in good health he isn’t fit. He Couldn’t run the 100 metres if his live depended on it.
Every now and then I think about what would happen if my father would die.
Hole in the world
I would lose all my ties with the family. My mother and sister died 18 years ago. I have some cousins but I have hardly any contact with them. My father has. So if something happens in the family I hear it via my father.
In some sence I would also lose contact with the world.
I don’t have a great need for contact with people. So I don’t make many friends. I talk to my colleagues and up till a few days ago I talked to the people in my pub. But they aren’t my friends.
After the fight in my pub I did some thinking about why I go there. I feel like I have a limited dose of energie to spent in talking with people. If I spent it talking to people I don’t like I won’t have anything left to talk with people I do like.
I’ve decide not to go to this pub anymore. Hopefully it will give me the need to talk with people I do like.
But for the moment that means that apart from my father I don’t have any contact with people I like.
So if my father would die in the next couple of weeks I would lose all my ties with the world.
And then there is the financial problem. Doing unskilled labor I don’t make very much money. So when I’m in a jam I go to my father.
When he dies I inherit a lot of money. So I’ld have to manage that money or find someone to do that for me.
But going to some finacial adviser when you’re in a jam isn’t the same as calling your father.
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