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Started this discussion. Last reply by james barnhill Aug. 20, 2008.

Started Aug. 13, 2008

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What was your inspiration for becoming an artist?: When I was eight or nine years old, we lived on top of a small mountain in Southeast Missouri. One year we got snowed in for three months. Once a week or so my father and I would walk down to town to pick up supplies. On one of these trips we picked up art supplies for my Mother. She let me use some paper and a pencil and I started drawing Disney characters. Not much more you can do when you are stranding in a cabin in the dead of winter. :) Anyway, I latched on to it and never stopped.

Do you have a personal website or blog that you would like to share?: http://real-world-of-art.blogspot.com/

Tell us a little about yourself.: 44 years old.
Live in a small motorhome with my wonderful wife and 2 cats.
Have been traveling the country now for 4 1/2 years.
I love creativity. Anything that I can do to create I am hooked on.
I have worked with colored pencils for years and I am starting to experiment with watercolor. Living in a small space like a motorhome really limits the media that you can work with, so more traditional painting methods are right out.

At 7:25pm on August 19, 2008, james barnhill said…: OK I HAVE SOME PICS UP, BUT IM GOING TO NEED A SLIDE SHOW, WHERE DO I GET THE APP.? oopss sorry about the caps lol

At 6:45pm on August 19, 2008, Brent Chumley said…: How do I post pictures (of art) on here?

At 5:55pm on August 19, 2008, james barnhill said…: do you still have that girl tat on your leg?

At 5:53pm on August 19, 2008, james barnhill said…: hello my old friend. what curves life throws. im so glad to have whom i consider my truest friend of all back with me.

At 9:42am on August 13, 2008, Brent Chumley said…: I used to use Corel Painter as well as Adobe Photoshop. Anymore though I use Photoshop all of the time. The only reason is that I had a bad scare once (on a deadline of course) where when I imported the painting from Painter into Photoshop the colors completely changed and I had to rework a lot of the painting to make it back to being correct. I never did find out (even with tech support) what happened. Ever since then I just went back to using nothing but Photoshop because I never have had any problems with it.

At 4:06pm on August 12, 2008, Brent Chumley said…: Yeah I would post this to the MAFIA group. I do have a couple of other artist friends in this area that would probably want to join. I will let them know about it! Thanks.