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Got another card for the kennel Club Deck, the Brittany Spaniel. I used to groom a few of them back when I worked at a grooming shop, very sweet dogs..a few of them had a very proud/haughty demeanor..but I liked them for that.

Also finished or rather/almost finished the leopard painting and planning another painting, not sure of what just yet.

OOH and does anyone know of a good place where I can buy cheaply priced but good quality mat board?? I need to start matting pieces for AC and I really don't want to pay the outrageous prices of mat board at Michaels. So if anyone has websites or good places to go in Washington state, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Brittany Spaniel winning best in show..he looks rather proud. Came up with that sketch at 3 am this morning..

The finished leopard piece..the photo desaturated some of the colors..but I shall take better pictures tomorrow and tweak things that are bugging me. Piece will be called 'I Will Protect you'..roughly 10.5 x 13 inches

And an ambigram concept for the back of the kennel club deck..they will likely not use it but I had fun designing it nonetheless. Hopefully you can read that it says 'TheKennelClub'

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Ooooh, those are both pretty awesome! You do such awesome work. You should be really proud of your work, because you're definitely a professional quality artist. With the work you do with your characters and backgrounds and the architecture of the buildings that show up now and then . . . you could definitely be a graphics artist for computer games (there is some really stunning stuff done in newer games), or in other areas too.

I can't help you with mats . . . but for colors in your scans and pictures, I have an idea. I've got a friend who just started using one of these with his digital camera, and says that it does wonders for the colors. The plug-in for JPEG cameras (and JPEG scans if you scan to JPEG - ugh) is free and for RAW images and scanner scans, you can still use Photoshop to fix up the image yourself without having to buy the third party plug in. Apparently its pretty easy to make up a macro once you tweak the curve to apply the tweak to everything taken at the same time (or everything that comes off your scanner). If you're interested and think it might help with your color issues, let me know. I've got a friend who knows someone who can hook me up cheap. ;)

as always thank ya!!! *ligress nuzzle*..I know I still have a lot of room to grow with real media and my biggest handi cap so far is using such small sized illustration boards..I need to start working bigger and playing with different paint mediums..ie to slow down dry time and whatnot..but thus far I'm just having fun painting ....AND might I add

bagheera got me caught on leopards..he can be blamed for the leopard bug. Mmkay so I think I caught it too..and I am dastardly afraid its terminal...woooeee is me!

As for the WhiBal...I need to sit down and actually read the page thoroughly but from what little I did manage to pick up that sounds AWESOME!..soo yes I may bug ya about it ;)..or threaten you with white bunnies of mortal peril!

Hmph. The leopard bug is most certainly not terminal, unless you or people who see your art happen to die of shear joy. There are worse ways to go for sure. ;)

No! Not the white bunnies of mortal peril! I gave the holy handgrenade back . . . and I don't especially feel like having rabbit for dinner for who knows how many nights on end to eat up the little buggers later. ;P

Just poke me if you decide about the WhiBal. I know you have griped about what your camera and your scanner do to colors in the past, and it seemed like something that could help. With video, white balance can make a huge difference between crap and good, so it makes sense that cameras and scanners are the same.

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