Printing on Canvas or Art paper

Fine Art America prints your paintings on Canvas or Art paper. I have not used this website before but it looks promising. There are a number of companies that print on canvas now even Walgreens Drug Store and Walmart.
Fine Art America is good site to look at if you have never thought about getting some of your work printed. Lightfast archival inks which are used in this kind of printing are normally rated at between 100 years to 200 years. Another name for this kind of printing is Giclee printing.

You can also sell your work through the site.

The picture is how my lastest painting would look on stretched canvas...

fineartamerican.com

Create your own artwork

Pat Lee's Painting "Voodoo Child"

What inspired you to paint this work?

Voodoo Child came about as the result of a Twistedbrushes competition.It was done in a style I use quite regularly when I am doodling on my digital sketch pad to get ideas for paintings. I really enjoy doing these scribbles and sometimes they turn out as the finished product as this one did. I was hesitated to post and exhibit this style for sometime as in my opinion I though that people would not appreciate the loose scribbled style but I have found this not to be the case . In fact this sketch won the competition.

With Voodoo child I think the rough scribble style actually captured the Hendricks character. I was just scribbling on the computer and noticed that the sketch resembled Jimi so I then used a number of references to hone it into the end result.

Note: The paintings by TB artists run on the blog side bar for 3 or 4 days and then the next artist has a painting run in the sidebar. Below is a link to the original painting.

"Voodoo Child"

Tutorial on using CamStudio for video recordings

I made a video tutorial on using CamStudio, a free screen capture program, for producing video tutorials with audio. This is a good program to start with if you new to making video tutorials. There are commerical screen capture programs that have more features plus built in editors for adding music, transitions etc..
I personally use CamStudio and Magix video editor when I want edit and add more to the tutorial.
The latest tutorial is:
Setting up and Using Camstudio for TwistedBrush
The tutorial is best viewed at 720HD and then full screened.

YouTube channel is up and running
My YouTube channel

Sena's Video Tutorial (Tips for Painting Tree Bark)

Sena, one of TB's experienced artist has posted an excellent tutorial on
(Tips for painting tree bark in lean on me).

More TB artist are making video tutorials with audio. This is great as it helps everyone enjoy their time painting in TwistedBrush plus learn new ways of creating their own works.

Sena's tutorial at TwistedBrush forums

Tips for painting tree bark in lean on me.

Video Tutorial on installing Video Codecs for TB

I hope this quickly put together tutorial video will help on installing Xvid or DivX Mpeg4 codecs so you can record Time-lapse videos using TwistedBrush. The video is a rush job but needed by some members of the TB community,so it is unedited and a little rough in parts. Toward the end the sounds gets a litte bit out of sync but not bad. I will edit later and repost.

http://www.xvid.org/
http://www.divx.com/

For the besting viewing choose to watch the video at 720,then "full screen" the video.
I choose a higher bitrate (1500) so the HD video quality would be better even after YouTube gets done with it...

Video Tutorial

TwistedBrush Version 18.03 Released

Blogger had some problems with users logging in so I'm late posting this update.
Version 18.03 has a number retooled tools or expanded improvements on existing features. These will help in using the already great set of brushes, mask, layers , the scratch layer really got a big boost in usability. Read all the improvements using the link below
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/forum/4-company-news/
Here are a few preview videos that Ken put together too.
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/forum/36-version-18-feature-preview/
The new version is well worth the small cost of the upgrade, check your e-mails for the upgrade discount coupon.
New to TwistedBrush? go here to get a version 18.03 trial version
Pixarra TwistedBrush

Gallery Paintings Posted

Edit: This post will have edits as new artist paintings are posted. You can look at the other full size paintings that were posted by clicking on the link to their painting posted in the TwistedBrush Gallery
Gallery link to Brindamour's painting "A Ride in the Park"
Gallery link to Tarah's painting " After the Sunday Mass"