A defense of digital art, hear, hear!
Many folks hold the view that art is partly, if not wholly, defined by its medium; that some work can’t be art because of the tools used to make it…
DetailsMany folks hold the view that art is partly, if not wholly, defined by its medium; that some work can’t be art because of the tools used to make it…
DetailsFor the last several weeks, I have been attending an excellent series of free live webinars on using Dreamweaver CS5 for design and styling web pages using CSS. CSS is the modern standard for laying out and styling web pages and everyone who is involved in the design of web sites needs to know about CSS. However, there…
DetailsAloha! We recently spent a few days on the Big Island of Hawaii at the Marriott Beach Resort on Anaeho’omalu Bay ( 19°54’57.97″N 155°53’20.17″W). There is a very nice group of beaches along the south shore of the bay that afford a wide panoramic view of the entire bay, including the resort. So I decided…
DetailsIf you have Photoshop (from 7 to CS4), theres an even easier and quicker way to to resize an image with the Fit Image command:
This season we are hosting our first annual year end sale. In order to make room for fresh art in the new year, we are offering our regular customers an opportunity to come by and find great deals on existing work. Everything in the studio will be reduced by 20-50% for this weekend only. To help take the chill…
DetailsRather than have customers tour around the studios, the Artists of Ladysmith Create decided to bring their tour downtown this year. The fun starts on Monday, December 8 at 11am and runs until 7pm on Christmas Eve. Peggy’s pottery and books will be on sale.
Thanks to everyone who came out for “Arts on the Avenue” in Ladysmith on Sunday. The weather was awesome and we think more people came through than ever before. For our part, we sold some stuff and we met a lot of very nice people, many of whom signed up for pottery classes and took printing brochures and…
DetailsI recently encountered some mysterious behaviour in Windows 7 (Home Premium 32-bit). Immediately after logging in (usually right after a reboot), the system would become almost completely non-responsive for about 15 minutes. And just as mysteriously, it would then return to normal until the next time I logged in, which could be several days later.…
DetailsPeggy will be launching her latest book The Pottery Class – Life Lessons in the Studio on November 8, 2008 at 2:00pm at the Ladysmith Public Library. All the details are on our The Pottery Class page.
We live on Vancouver Island in arguably the warmest climate in Canada. We don’t get much snow, but 2008 will probably go down as a record year. We found out today, for example, that Victoria has the deepest snowpack (41 cm) of the 50 major urban centres in Canada. We might not have quite that…
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