Bouton's stuff, Volume 2

[Gare]

Nice image but, I suspect, a digestive challenge. ;)

Barfing out loud!

(BOF!)?

Thanks!

Here is one that is only partially mine. I discovered the original, scanned at 1 bit per pixel, too small for just about anything. There is no copyright; I offer the Xara version freely as a gift to the community.



For anyone who is into the origins of symbology, this piece, very sdimilar to the eye in a pyramid on the back of U.S. currency, is an early Christian symbol, not a demonish one as suggested by the superstitious.

The eye is the all-seeing eye of God. The pyramid is actually a triangle representing the 3 expressions of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.


I'm not inclined to revel or attach any super significance to symbols, precisely because they are symbols, representations, icons of something that is often intangible.

Anyhow, I like this particular, woodcuttish version, as a nice design.

Please help yourself.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Hey,

Our new neighbors next door have a tot that they casually referred to as "The Little Monster".

Nice, huh?

Anyhow, I created an image, mostly inspired by the Pixar film Monsters Inc. the parents could use as an iron-in decal for the little monster's t-shirt.




The paint strokes/shmutz around the picture was added using Painter after I'd exported the drawing to bitmap.

Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

Barfing out loud!

(BOF!)?

Thanks!

Here is one that is only partially mine. I discovered the original, scanned at 1 bit per pixel, too small for just about anything. There is no copyright; I offer the Xara version freely as a gift to the community.



For anyone who is into the origins of symbology, this piece, very sdimilar to the eye in a pyramid on the back of U.S. currency, is an early Christian symbol, not a demonish one as suggested by the superstitious.

The eye is the all-seeing eye of God. The pyramid is actually a triangle representing the 3 expressions of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.


I'm not inclined to revel or attach any super significance to symbols, precisely because they are symbols, representations, icons of something that is often intangible.

Anyhow, I like this particular, woodcuttish version, as a nice design.

Please help yourself.

My Best,

Gary

Thanks for that information Gare.

[Gare]

I asked The Admin whether I could start a blog on tg.

She said no.

So instead, when I have content to share, I'll post it on a new Xara Art Gallery of mine, along with the piece.


Bouton's new test site. Volume III

If I get high score for most hits, Kate tells me I'll get a prize.

I'm kidding: She told me it I get any more thousands of hits, I'll get to pay the host bill monthly.

I'm lying about most things above.

Cheers!

Gary



I did this at about the same time I wrote the book on Xara. One was published and I gave away the XAR drawing, and this one I didn't. It's almost entirely Extruded I later traced off so I could export it and stuff.

[Gare]

I have very little idea why PANTONE skipped right past the year 2021, and went straight to Spring/Summer 2022.

Whatever; Here are most of the colors in a XAR file.

And as a little bonus, I hand traced these paint strokes.

Use 'em in good health, but you MUST use PANTONE colors on them.




And as usual, I'm kidding.


My Best,

Gary

[Boy]

Thanks, Gare. They're nice colors albeit a bit pale, faded.

[Gare]

Oh, I agree. It was my way of giving our the paint strokes, if truth be known. Someone didn't understand what an EPS file is, a long time ago, so what I did was use P'shop to write it out as a standard bitmap collection of strokes, auto-taced it and did some hand noodling.

As far as color palettes go, Barbara recently repainted my office a specific shade of green.






We got the color out of a Valspar (TM) paint catalogue, and I fell so in love with the samples I photographed the chips and am in the process of making a color palette for Xara out of them.





Not thinking about colors in a piece of art is like using Arial for al your text needs.


TEDIOUS!

-g

[Boy]

As far as color palettes go, Barbara recently repainted my office a specific shade of green.

You could almost use that green wall to chromakey videos.