Before and After

If I'm coming up short on ideas, here's what I do: draw a small appliance. Though I'd love to create a whole kitchen scene with a countertop bursting with culinary delights, full mise en place and a bounty of bowls and such, those things take a lot of time to create, and I'm not being commissioned to do it for a huge pile of money...I'm selling t-shirts and notecards, for goodness' sake.

I love, love, love the look of watercolors - if it was up to me, everything would be painted up in Photoshop, but I'm not currently a wizard at it, so I experiment when I can, and this blender turned out great!

When I do stuff in Photoshop, I never save the file, only the resulting graphic - that means I can't really duplicate what I did, which is my way of being...artistic, I suppose. I mean, if I painted it with a brush on paper, I couldn't ever repeat it exactly. Not that I would go back. Most of the time after a piece is done, I just walk away, and it is what it is.

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