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Gotta pack the bags and move into new digs over at the new Paint Outside the Frame Blog. Everything that is on this blog is archived and saved and moved over to the new spot. So it’s time to say goodbye to Blogsome and say hello to Wordpress. The blog is spiffed up with Tag Clouds and even some Amazon books floating around there recommended by me. It’s really a great new place to find all your Painter X Tutorials information and the latest on artists that use Corel Painter X. So come on over to the Paint Outside the Frame Blog and please feel free to comment there!

Barney Davey has a post on his blog Convergent Media-Is it Time to Bury Digital Art? Basically, it talks about using a new definition calling
digital art Convergent Media. This article is well worth your time to read it.
My personal thoughts are that this would mean we now have to define a new word to the public. It’s ART and
after visiting many museums and reading many blogs, etc, I think the best definition is the materials used and not
always how it was created originally.
We don’t explain from scratch, Photo Reference in the computer, then cloned, then painted, then printed, then sprayed, etc…
I prefer to just say it’s my art and it’s produced as pigment on canvas with hand embellishing and gold leafing, etc or whatever
I have added.
Too much detail might be boggling the minds of collectors that really don’t care about details, but end product instead.

Just my thoughts on it. What are yours. Comments welcome!

Where did the time go again? I’ve been too busy to think about it. And now, after a nasty battle between me, my big toe and a suitcase, I am outta commission for a while. Breaking even a little bone in a wrist requires a large bulky nasty cast and more patience than I really have. Everyone around me is paying for this. Oh yes, did I tell you the suitcase I tripped on was my own and was right where I had put it earlier that evening? Only myself to blame. So I cried and shot the cast and posted it over on my digital painting forum and all of a sudden, I’m getting virtual signing of the cast, a digital manicure and awesome virtual jewelry to die for. Stay tuned for when the cast comes off!!

With love to my friends and family….a great night together!!

If the name sounds familiar, it should. Our good friends of over twenty years, the Melendis, have suffered the worst nightmare all parents can relate to. The abduction and murder of their daughter. Shannon Melendi and my son, Ryan, shared their birthdays in the same week in October. It also happened to be the week the Professional Photographers of Miami held their annual banquet to induct new officers. Luis and I always brought the kids to the banquet and had two birthday cakes for them. We were proud parents watching them grow up.
The loss of such a lovely and vibrant life is bad enough, but to think the confessed killer could get out of prison in just a few years is shocking. Help us to keep Butch Hinton in prison for LIFE as he should be.

Here is the info to send an email to the Parole Board. It’s very important to follow the directions and speak from your heart on behalf of Luis, Yvonne and Monique Melendi.

Emails should be address to: victimservices@pap.state.ga.us

The subject line should be: GDC ID#0001201616 (Colvin C Hinton III)

The subject line is very important as it is the Georgia Department of Corrections Identification number of Hinton.

Thank you for caring and helping us keep him behind bars where he belongs.

To our good friends the Melendis, we love you and support you in this fight.

My son Ryan is writing for the Oakland Tribune and he had a huge article hit the front page. Check it out: BRIDGE FIRM HID INJURIES

It started out just like any other trip. Fly in. rent a car, get to the hotel, unpack, and get to work. And that’s exactly how it began. Flying into Newark, rent a Kia Optima, and driving out to Long Island where Marilyn taught PAINTER for the week at the Long Island Photo Workshop. Great School, Great People, Great Week. To finish off this GREAT WEEK, we were meeting Marilyn’s cousins for dinner in Manhattan, Friday night. So we drove back to Jersey, emptied out the car at the hotel we were staying at for the one night, and drove back to Manhattan. The car rental office was at the hotel in Newark, so we figured we’d just drop off the car Friday night, and take the shuttle to the airport Saturday morning.

Sounds like a good plan, right?

We parked the car in a New York City Licsensed garage on West End Ave. at 7:30pm. We went back at 11:30pm to get the car, and the attendant brought out an Audi. I told him this was not our car, so he put that one back, and brought us out a Mitsubishi……BOTTOM LINE…….NO KIA OPTIMA ANYWHERE!!!! Would you believe they gave someone else our rented car. First of all…..How STUPID do you have to be, to not know that this is NOT your car, and drive away with it? And how STUPID do you have to be, to want to give me someone elses car?…………At this point, it was only logical to call the Police…..Fast Fowarding to 1:30 in the morning…….the garage people think they know who has the car……..They paid for a cab to take us back to Jersey…..Insurance claims were made…….The car was returned to it’s rightful owner on Monday afternoon……….No damage…case closed………By the way……New Yorks Finest from the 20th precinct, Officers Soto and Vanderlingh, handled this problem with perfection…..Thank you

Michael…..

ps: from Marilyn: This was so unbelievable! Only to US would this happen!!