Category Archives: painting

Mustek Scanner with Macbook

By Nistha | Published: April 20, 2010

UPDATE: I reinstalled this scanner to use on my new Mac Air running OS Lion and Photoshop CS4 and the process was much faster this time. All you need is installing the driver and then the optional Photoshop plugin on this page - http://www.mustek.de/11/index.php/en/service-a-drivers-2/treiber-a-software/231-scanner/scanexpress/a3-usb-1200-pro As soon as I did this and restarted Photoshop, it started showing File/import/Scanexpress [...]

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Painting Inspiration

By Nistha | Published: April 4, 2010

Ok, this is what a powerful oil painting should look like. I dont like overtly realistic paintings or high degree of impressionism. This one reflects strong imagination, bold use of colors and terrific blending. This is what I would like to achieve in my projects. The artist has provided full demo if you are interested. [...]

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iPhone art

By Nistha | Published: March 27, 2009

Jorge Colombo’s iPhone sketches The Portuguese artist could be a big booster for sales of the ‘brushes’ app using which he created the pictures. Googling, there’s a more detailed blog on the topic – PatrickJ’s new post and old post. One more reason to liking your iPhone or one less for grumbling over it? 0 [...]

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watercolors finally

By Nistha | Published: July 28, 2008

first hurdle crossed 0   Liked this article? Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe by Email.

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And you thought watercolors were for kids

By Nistha | Published: July 1, 2008

I completely ruined my first watercolor attempt because I underestimated the wickedness of water colors (nah, to be fair, I thought I was too smart). But then, did not take me long enough to realize that it would take good amount of practice to conquer the supposedly simplest medium for painting. Oil is deemed to [...]

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