My Birthday in many languages

Yesterday we celebrated my birthday in a very special way. It was a coincidence my friends had one of their usual get together party, on the end we were about 35 people from different countries, what a wonderful mix of cultures and languages. We all had so much fun, eating, drinking, dancing. Oh dear, we were loud, good thing the hosting couple don't have neighbors. 

Have you ever heard the birthday song in: Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Thai?, and the best of all, the one from a little girl in a solo, I loved it! Thank you all.

Picture Taking Day!

Some people have no idea, how time consuming is to take pictures of your artwork. I have to watch out for good light, contrasting background, composition, and in the technical part, correct the white balance, adjust colors, resize the file, make some modifications if necessary. There are many steps before you can enjoy-or not, the picture of an artist's work. 

Today is a little cloudy, perfect for natural light shots. Please be patience before I can show you results, some of those are going to my Etsy store right aw

ay, it is less stressful creating compositions for them because it is better to have a busy background! sometimes all depends who is your audience .

Testing 1, 2, 3

Sorry you might see this message everywhere now. I connected my Facebook fan page with my profile, then twitter and my blog, but I overlooked there were other settings already working. I appologize for the clutter; I'll work on fixing it soon.
Meanwhile let me give you some updates:

• I'm a happy Mac owner, I love this computer, the screen and way it works is awesome.
• My art work is still going on, currently exhibiting in Expressiones in New London, CT
• There is one more semester ahead to finish my Computer Applications Certificate
• I just taught a class about blogging and my students were happy of their new blog and achivements
• Sage Green is my new favorite color
• My camera broke down and I had to run and buy a new one, I'm still learning how to use it

I have more to share but, this is only a test ;)

Brushes- city

Again painting with my itouch, this time you can see the video in a very fast version.

I got a good question

Last night I met an artist from Russia and after a nice dinner party he asked me for a link were he can see my work, and I again regretted not having my web-page ready. For now the only place I can think of is my Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/SikiuClayDesigns and actually had to upload some more pictures. Thank you for pushing me Alex, I loved your work by the way. 

Detail of one of my most recent work. New Era Coyolxauhqui 

My first Ipod brushes painting

I love this feature, it is a little tricky but I can see the potential on this way of painting.

Expressiones

The last weekend we participated in Expressiones opening. My daughter was in charge of greeting the visitors, I had a wall space for my art and Keith... well he just support us being quite and looking good LOL. My in-laws went to visit and along with many people enjoyed the show. Thank you for all your support.

I'll try this for my Itouch

I'm totally impressed how technology can make art so portable and clean!, you don't need to take your materials with you anymore. I was a little hesitant of how good this tool could be but after watching the video and watching all you can do with this fairly cheap application, I have to try it out.

 

My favorite pictures

Yesterday was my last photography class, I wish we had more time, keep learning more and more everyday.I guess what you have to do is practice and keep shooting different subjects and don't be afraid of editing if necessary. I learned about Photoshop, it seems fun and relatively easy to use, I still prefer to take a good picture and just do minimum changes. Something I reaaaally love is the Mac enviroment, oh dear, I got hooked. It is like weating new glasses, everything looks just perfect!
Some of the pictures I toke.

I need a website

I can't wait any longer... I suppose to know all the coding, making, designing by now but my classes delayed for one semester. What do I do? I want something for now, let's say for the next 6 months, then I can go and build my own from scratch or at least be knowledgeable enough to pick a good service. I don't like the freebies with a lot of ads, it too busy and cheap.