Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

-Pablo Picasso

Sometime during his early years, Pablo Picasso went to Africa. While he was there, he looked at examples of native African art. What he saw was to affect the way he made art for the rest of his life and to have a huge impact on the development of Cubism as an artistic movement. (more…)

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O’Keefe

What I am looking for… is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term “mute music”

Joan Miro

I’ve never been big on graveyards. I’m not sure what it is. (more…)

Kia ora tatou:

If you use Photoshop, then you probably know all about actions, those cute little macros that automate common ( and not-so-common) tasks for you. If you do then you probably write your own.

You don’t have to. (more…)

Kia ora tatou:

Watching the posts on the Perfectly Clear post I noticed that the debate was veering (yet again) towards the old film vs digital thing. So let me pull the pin on this one! I believe film still has a lot going for it. (more…)

Kia ora tatou:

The little guy to the right is my IT avatar, not, as Garry so unkindly puts it, a self-portrait. Anyway, I don’t own a pocket-protector…

A number of people have raised the question of whether to buy PhotoShop or Lightroom. Matt Kloskowski, over at InformitIT Photoshop, has a largish video on the subject, you may want to download, before making that call.

What with Lightroom, CS3, DXOptics and Bibble, we are spoiled for choice…