a life on the ocean waves

**parahandy** · 09 July 2006, 08:16 PM

Back to sea again. AArrGH Jim lad we'll bury the treasure here

**-=Drifter=-** · 09 July 2006, 08:20 PM

Beautiful Norm! And i really needed to see a picture like that today --- it's 90 degrees and total humidity!!!! I'm just one big blob of sweat.

**ankhor** · 09 July 2006, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-

Beautiful Norm! And i really needed to see a picture like that today --- it's 90 degrees and total humidity!!!! I'm just one big blob of sweat.

I know how you feel, and same goes here. I feel like one of those
fountains.

And a nice job again from para ofcourse, Thank god I didn`t find popeye
in it

**parahandy** · 09 July 2006, 10:40 PM

Thanks Lads Temp here about 12-15 Centigrade really cool in the old fashioned terms. For those interested Italy won the world cup on penalty shoot out

**TwidderBird** · 10 July 2006, 05:38 PM

hey Norm, really fancy painting! I do like it. how'd you do it?

**parahandy** · 10 July 2006, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by TwidderBird

hey Norm, really fancy painting! I do like it. how'd you do it?

The background I painted using a program called Twisted Brush.
The objects were drawn using Xtreme. I tried to zip the file to make it smaller I even shrank the original picture to half it's original size but it remained much about the same 340 odd kbs so I removed the background and sending the .xar file which is still pretty large to let you pull it apart.

Norman

**remi** · 10 July 2006, 10:22 PM

Hello Norman,

your pirate picture is great.

Do you know ArtRage2? It's a oil painting program. There is a free and a commercial version of ArtRage2 available and it's fun to paint with it.

Remi

**parahandy** · 10 July 2006, 10:43 PM

Thank you Remi , yes I have Art Rage somewhere on one of my computers.
The Twisted Brush does an awful lot more but it was quite expensive.
I liked your first animation, very good. From your drawings you seem to have some formal art training, mine are just self taught and copying the tecniques of the experts on the forum, yours included.