a life on the ocean waves

**parahandy** · 20 May 2006, 03:20 PM

I'm back at the tiller lads, operation went ok, thanks for thinking of me.

**-=Drifter=-** · 20 May 2006, 03:31 PM

Steer us clear, cap'n!!!

**jamesmc** · 20 May 2006, 03:39 PM

Welcome back Norman! I hope there is no hitch in your 'get along'!

**Seagull** · 21 May 2006, 05:50 PM

Welcome back Parahandy

I will post a doodle that took me all of 10 minutes to make while talking to a customer last night. Ten minutes is about right for a doodle and about all my patience will handle right now. The sky is Xenofex small clouds plugin with a verticle transparance to let the orange square in the background show up. The lightening also comes from xenofex. The reflection in the water is Redfield craquelure 3d using the water ripple preset and also with a linear transparency. The boat........don't ask. I wanted to use one of yours or Egg's viking ship but the little rascal posted it as a jpg and it was too much work to remove the background colour so I made my own. Now...the water....yes the water which took hours and hours.....no...joking. Actually it's a photo of the north shore of the St. Lawrence river about 2 minutes walk from the house. Summer temperature averages 3 or 4 degrees celcius which give a person about a 5 minute life expectancy if your tempted to go swimming. If you look carefully I will tell you this........thar be whales in them thar waters buys....thar be whales.

**Soquili** · 21 May 2006, 06:26 PM

Very glad to see you back Norman and that everything went well.

**-=Drifter=-** · 21 May 2006, 06:45 PM

Seagull, that picture has tremendous possibilities if you would fix the boat a little.

**Seagull** · 21 May 2006, 06:56 PM

Thanks for complimenting the plugins and critizing my work. The fix for the boat is simpler than you think. Chuck that hole saw you drew into the makita drill that you also drew, put it to work around dead center of the boat and next thing you know we have bubbles......by the way, did I mention I can draw bubbles?

**-=Drifter=-** · 21 May 2006, 07:09 PM

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

**parahandy** · 21 May 2006, 08:38 PM

Thanks again lads for the good wishes and Seagull I like the plugins the boat, well! a transparent hull in a cold sea brrr! you'll see I used your plugins. your post reminded me of a parody of an old wartime song "whalemeat again don't know where don't know when" and " I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air" Thar she blows matey.

**Seagull** · 21 May 2006, 08:42 PM

Today I was hurt, wounded to the pulp you might say. Drifter didn't like my boat so I used some of his tools and tried to fix it, with mix results I might say. I call this blub, blub, blub but you may notice I am not really know for my excellent spelling. I apologize ahead of time.