September 29th
Beautiful miniature baby sculptures.

September 26th

Stones and Circuits-Peacock Ore and Topazz.

September 22nd
Last day in my apt. :)

September 21st
Cool singer, I listen to him while I pack.

September 19th
Fun Penguin game.

September 7th
Try to trick Darth Vader!

September 15th
I'm moving so my updates and artwork will be slow or nonexistent for awhile So Ill be adding fun links in my updates :) The first is a page full of visual illusions and a online Pictionary game.

September 912th
Perfume Bottles-My grandmother had a woman shaped bottle of perfume in her closet it was pink matte colors. Many years later, I saw a modern version in Vogue magazine. I really like all things glass and blue though I hardly ever get to indulge. Been meaning to do this quite awhile and now that it’s done I’ve added to my projects list the possibility of doing another one since it was so much fun. Original is 4000X4000 I wish to credit =Scully7491 for the use of her Magic Spiral and Lighting Effects brushes.

September 9th
Added a tutorial about a cool trick for enhancing colors.

September 7th
Melancholy Jester-I have the feeling its the king who's making her sad.

September 5th
Weapon Design Contest Entry for Guild Wars-These were made large and individually but for now I have put them all on one page.

The Axe is my Swiss cheese axe, kind of Tim Burtonish. The Mace was the idea of it being a Axe also and a ergonomic handle so you can swing either way. The shield I just wanted a smooth holy feel to it. A feeling of pure metal folded and shaped and light glinting off. For the staff I went with a idea that it was for me. I always play characters that are female, Elvin, healers. Plus personally I just like blue and sparkles and swirl’s lol The wand I had the feeling would be used by evil people with some kind of demonic runes going on. So thus, you have the evil demonic rune trying to outwit the poor evil wizard so he chained it to his wand hehe The Focus/offhand was also created the way I would like it. The handle silver and impressive looking with a kind of holy chalice theme going on and blue flashing lightening at the ends. I wanted the lightening to have a kind of edge to it so you could see it rotating. Like a 3d geometric illustration. My idea for the sword is that it’s a pierced sword with cloth braided through it. It turned out somewhat busy so I made a second version that was simpler.

September 3rd
Fractal Earring Globe Hugger-I don’t have much to say about this one. I played with it for a few hours. I had like 4 versions at the end and this is the one I decided to make the final. The swirl texture was hand painted in an alpha channel.

September 1st
Loradonna-This one started with a tiny pen doodle on a piece of paper. I ended up with the idea she is like a space captain or something. I had mucho fun with her adornments. I hope she is enjoyed. Its desktop size so if you want it for that feel free.

August 28th
Fractal Pearl Earring-Another fractal inspired digital jewelry. Took me about two hours and much of it was fiddling to get the metal colors to match. I did all the parts in the same way but for some reason the bottom half was always mismatched. I ended up zooming all the way in and grabbing a tiny brush and painting in all the shades I needed to make it match. Model is ~aria-stock .

August 27th
6 Spotted Green Tiger Beetle-A flower and a bug, was attempting photorealistic detailing.

August 23rd
Blue Fractal Pendant-One of my first digital jewelry pieces and also from fractals. This one I was going to make into a ring but it’s big for that. Course by the time I am done messing with the fractal pattern you can’t really tell it’s a fractal but if this one were to continue it would be a ring of 9 circles and each circle would be huge and each circle would have a smaller circle. This is a very zoomed in part of that pattern. I made it blue metal to look like anodized titanium.

August 20th
A sig I did for my friend Moonlighter. Since he is, a gnome is armor graphic was small and muddy so I painted him some new meaner duds!

August 18th
A sig I did for my friend Tabion.

August 16th
Atlantivoje-A painting I did from a sketch by Hocus-Pocus in the tutorial section there is a progress walkthrough for this.

August 12th
Gothic Necklace Merenthia is wearing.

August 7th
Merenthia-Photo Manipulation Collaboration with *uberbechin  using ~ liquid-venus-stock  She is so beautiful and he had such a spooky start! I painted the background and as I was going right along with her and then she started to look somewhat scary. I decided she needed to look hungry. So here is our hungry vampire. Beware Merenthia might eat you :)

August 4th
New tutorial about Memory Optimization for Photoshop. I plan to make another that includes the same information and more I have learned on the subject as well as other things you can do to make Photoshop a slick, unobtrusive program rather than the machine eating monstrosity it is when you first install it.

July 25th
Innerfire-This is the graphics I made for my site when I first started. You can see I have learned a lot about web design and composition since then hehe. Loved it because it had all the elements I enjoy like eye searing colors, tons of blue, opals and gradients.

July 12th
Apple Blossom Drops-This is just something I did for fun after being inspired by those photos that have dew drops with all the little flowers reflected in them. I used a stock photo from ~epiphany-stock.

July 6th
The priestess's Pendant-Made this is Photoshop. It is inspired by a landscape of all things. Name is the one suggested by my sister.

July 1st
Red Tourmaline Necklace-Made this in Photoshop. I had dreamed about it and wanted to make it when I woke up.

June 25th
Washing Feet- for this painting it actually started with the challenge of her pose and also the parable in the bible of Jesus washing people’s feet and having his feet washed in return. I wondered why a person would wash a person’s feet in semi-modern times and the best reason I came up with is she’s pregnant and her feet ache :) I wanted it to look like you were looking into a room a long time ago and seeing this and feeling the caring and service. Also took this opportunity to work on lighting and such. Also a older picture so many things I would change now so maybe a redo is in the works :)

June 21st
Exploding Topazz animation/avatar.

June 14th
Putting up another older work. One of my first landscapes. My sister painted an awesome portrait of her character but was having a terrible time finding any ideas for a background that would work. I’m talking like 3 weeks of no background for this gem. So I had painted this one for her as a surprise and it fit perfectly!

June 1st
Posting a Iridescent beaded Chandelier earring I made for my sister. I’ve always made jewelry for fun and we happened to open up the supplies together one day. She tried to make some simple earrings out of the long iridescent beads and couldn’t do it. I was at her house, she was cleaning and had dozens of those beaded stretchy bracelets, and one was made of those beads. She said she would kill for earrings made out of them but that she had tried and failed. I resolved to make her some and cut up the bracelet and this is what I came up with.

April 25th
This is a restoration of a picture of my dad. I love restoring old photos its very satisfying.

April 17th
This is restoration of a picture of my parents. William and Janett Schumacher. It is almost 30 years old. The sun shined on it through a window. HERE is the original and the color treated only. In my gallery is the fully restored version.

April 10th
Posting a Picture called Summoning. It is a earlier work from a screenshot but I still like it.

April 7th
Along Came a Spider-One of my first digital artworks ever. Done in a low resolution with a mouse. I was really proud of it and still am today seeing how long a ways I have come.

April 5th
I've added a few more links just check out the last 3.

April 1st
I just put up a walkthrough in tutorials for Night-Orc and 2 links to my favorite hair brush sets. While the hair brush sets aren't exactly a tutorial there is a small example and discussion of how I use them :)

March 29th
I put a few pieces of Jewelry in the Digital Jewelry gallery. I have always wanted to make jewelry but since I can't I go ahead and design them in Photoshop.

March 25th
Finished sigs and Avatars for Druideeon and Kadzim and I will post these soon. I have 3 other sig projects coming :)

March 3rd
He wanted a avatar for his guild board in WoW. The right is working size before being shrunk and the left is the SS he sent me to work from.

Feb 25th
Finally uploaded Atlantivoje as well as 2 tutorials. One is progress shots of Atlantivoje.

Feb 14th
In the Sig gallery is an example of the ones I did for my husband and myself.

Feb 5th
Just a copy of the game World of Warcraft. I am waiting for it to install and redoing the drivers like it suggests. God it takes forever lol EDIT: OMG I love this game. I am only at level 5 but already I think it might steal me from EQ lol

Feb 2nd
Didn't put up Atlantivoje yet because I've decided to reorganize my gallery page. I'm going to add a index page where you can click to go to sections, Digital Art, Sig Art, Jewelry etc. Also hoping to get rid of the place holder X's.

Jan 28th
Man I'm sick as a dog today. Just started but I already know it will be a bad flu. At least a few weeks, cry. Anyways watch this space for a NEW artwork. It's called Atlantivoje

Jan 21st
Putting up a little logo thing I did for my sister. You can see her site at Topazz Art. I love the font for this the very best :).

Jan 10th
Uploading "Indian Girl" today. This was done in Photoshop. About 15 hours off and on. Used my mouse but did not get to use my new tablet because something is wrong with my drivers. Hopefully Steve can fix it tonight. So far he is planning on reinstalling the tablet, USB and dx9 drivers. /sigh This really began with the idea that I was going to paint a simple portrait in an hour and a half. I have lost the link but there was a deviant who had a portrait painted in an hour and a half and I thought I would try the exercise myself. In interest of throwing my strokes around I started out large. Original is 2000 pixels wide. I knew I was in trouble though when I spent 30 minutes trying to get broken tablet working and another 30 taking care of my sick cat. So then I had only 30 more minutes left so decide it just did not matter anymore. Made myself a sandwich and shut off the timer and got to work Still do not really have a title. If anyone could suggest a great one I would be glad.
Her hair is the one part I don't really like cause if she is a Indian girl they mostly don't have curly hair lol. Was talking about it with my sister though and we decided she must have been taken to America and then got a perm hehe.
December 25th
Posting a Sig and desktop combo I made for Gaeadil a necro. Taking a bit of break for holidays now hehe. When I'm back I hope to continue uploading into the gallery past things I've done.

December 15th
Posted a new picture in the gallery called Where Do I Go From Here. Just a picture with some nice inspiration. Title is really how I've been feeling. Done in Photoshop on Wacom about 3 days.

< December 11th
Today I have updated the links and contact pages and plan to start work on the tutorial page in a few days!

December 6th
Working on page again a bit Be sure to check the new Harp page :)
 

December 4th
Today is the day I finally got my Java popup windows working. I am so happy I am finally done with that. The gallery hasn't had anymore work done to it but that. I will take a couple days break to work on sig requests and then I will start working on site again. Going to just take it one page and a few pictures at a time :)
I have a ridiculous amount of ideas for big pictures but not a lot of time as I am being sucked into EQ lol However I hope to start one soon. Before that I hope to complete the sig for Gaeadil a Necromancer!
Will set next update time for the 6th so well see what happens then. After putting site together a bit more I plan to link it from my gallery at Deviant Art. Please visit it here.

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