http://phos.gfxartist.com/profile Copyright 2000-2008 GFXartist network / Brothersinart http://www.gfxartist.com http://images.gfxartist.com/gfx/GFXartist_64.png support@gfxartist.com en-us GFXartist Engine 1.0 0 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:08:07 EST Phos Photography / Uncategorized The goal of this capture was the design effects of the sailboat masts and spare riggings against the fading light. I wanted to try and push the limits of the light to get a silhouette-like look. there was a good amount of haze-- pollution--present. This is a marina of Puget Sound in the... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/165795 Phos Exposition sandpaper effect? blue-green watercolor wash followed by a layer of mauve chalk and another layer of black liquid ink I sanded only on the layer of ink, but as you can see, you can sand as little or as much as you desire and all layers are effected http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/165458 Phos Photography / Uncategorized Greetings GFXartist's here is my first submission of a photo--no manipulation while I've taken enuf photos to become aquainted with my camera's weakness, I still have gobs to learn in using it and photography in general. I'm still without a tripod. this one was processed... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/156923 Phos Photo Manipulation / Light Greetings GFX artist's This piece is a collection of art-forms. I purchased individually silk flowers and made my first-ever arrangement. The goal was for the arrangement to appear as cut flowers in a vase. Then I did a shooting session 'study' with the arrangement setup in... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/156447 Phos Exposition Hi guys... well, dove has completed her recovery for her knee surgery. her recovery was a complete success! during the recovery process she was above average in healing; the vets attribute this to dogs who have surgery done very soon after the injury. we were very fortunate that they... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/156509 Phos Personal and here is the final result. TPLO= Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy. the section of bone that is cut is rotated and secured in place with a plate and screws. there is a portion of the bone not cut that leaves a sharp point 'upwards' but apparently this causes no problem. the... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/152047 Phos Personal so dove had a TPLO surgery done. this is believed by many surgeons to be the most successful repair of a ruptured ACL in canines. now for people a ruptured ACL is most often thot of as a sport injury and indeed is usually an acute injury for humans. BUT, no so for canines. for dogs that... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/152046 Phos Personal is this a chicken drum-stick?? noope....it is a sketchy outline of dove's left-hind leg bone called the Tibia. unfortunately the sketch is too high on the 'paper' but sorry folks I'm in no mood to redo it. this is a normal tibial bone for canines. the ACL, surprisingly... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/152045 Phos Photo Manipulation / Light from original photo of mine -photo was taken in broad daylight. I then cropped it and enhanced significantly saturation, brightness, contrast. the photo then was in a black stage-- all the lights and white here were black. I used a vector draw-crop to try to relieve the exteranious background... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/151501 Phos Exposition in preparation for her surgery, dove's left hind leg got a 'poodle cut'. all the fur on this leg was shaved on both the outside and inside all the way up to her hip. they leave this fur on the foot which I have aptly named a fur-sock. by itself I think it is rather cute and... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/151365 Phos Exposition well here is a look at dove's incision 3 days after surgery. I put the keys in there to give you a reference for the length. the incision is looking really good and beginning today the swelling began to diminish significantly which has made me very happy. she's already putting some... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/151364 Phos Work in progress dove eyes. recent circumstances have been exhausting. while dear dove is healing, I too am mending....... so as friends and family follow these dog blogs (here on "Blog Phos" ), the gfx-community is invited as well "Exhaustion" have you... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/151272 Phos Work in progress 6-19-07 as I was working on this an idea popped into my little head and this is the direction it took-- not originally in the plan and becoming more complex in concept. the size of this is unfortunate as you are unable to see key details as to what this is about. until I get my regular... http://phos.gfxartist.com/blog/151056 Phos Photo Manipulation / Composite THE NEW VERSION OF "GATE (original)" IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE I have learned that since I made significant changes to this first piece I published, that this work should still be published. this is the work on which "danheacock" made the suggestion of... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/150957 Phos Photo Manipulation / Composite this current image has been adjusted according to danheacock's suggestions and republished. the following descripton applys to the original image...the current one simply has many more photo layers which creat a path with continuity of transition rather than a path of step-like transition... http://phos.gfxartist.com/artworks/150929