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I am lining up a new place to live. I will have more space and a small yard! I will be moving the middle of July. I am very happy about this.

I have about 950 Cranes complete. I can finish up in just a day or two anytime and may wait until I move so that the 1000 Cranes will coincide with my new home. They are in a large glass cylinder by my front door to help bring in good energy.

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I plan to have 1000 origami cranes finished by my birthday (in May). No rush. I have enjoyed making them. I imagine now that I will never forget how to fold one!

I've been browsing artwork and have seen some wonderful things. I am newly inspired and will be starting a new piece likely with some complexity to it. I'll keep it a reasonable size, probably 11" x 14". Possibly a carpet page type knotwork.

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I have close to 800 cranes complete and am aiming for 1000. I am cutting my own paper for most of them to get prettier cranes and more variety. Using gift wrap paper, scrapbooking paper as well as 6" origami paper which I cut into quarters as most my cranes are folded from 3" square paper. Also folding some from 2" and 1" square paper, the latter of course the hardest to fold but oh so cute. Mostly I love the Japanese handmade paper which has the most wonderful texture almost like cloth. Very expensive though so will have less than 200 cranes made from this.

Soon will start an illuminated letter 'B', then will probably move on to something different.

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Soon hope to catch up on my mail. Sorry if I haven't been responding or commenting on artwork. My home computer is so so slow I have to wait until I can get to the library to use a computer there to cruise artwork and read mail.

It wasn't planned but looks like I have posted the first letter of the alphabet (sketch anyway) to bring in the new year. So my first complete artpiece for 2009 will be the letter 'A'. Didn't do much this year (2008) and do hope to complete more art in 2009.

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For now I only have the center portion of this piece uploaded (titled Serpents) which shows the detail better. Of course the tails of the serpents are missing! And once it was uploaded I see I did not crop it very evenly!! Later I will upload the full piece.

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I have decided to give the cranes a home in glass containers. The largest measures 24" high and 7" wide. I guess 500 cranes will fit inside. I have about five other glass containers all a lot smaller and with various shapes from goldfish bowl to vase.

I use the fabric type finish washi paper and will keep these cranes separate in one of the smaller containers. If anyone does origami and hasn't tried this type of paper, treat yourself!! I found mine at an asian import store where they had a good variety of origami paper from 1000 crane kits (about $10 for 3") to the handmade washi which was $6 for 30 unique 3" squares. I plan to order more washi paper online to get bigger variety, though the price may not be much lower.

I don't have a digital camera, and I haven't used my old camera for many years, but maybe I will feel inspired to dig it out so I can post some photos here. I don't have a deadline so 1000 cranes will be folded just a few at a time likely finished by the new year, at the latest by next summer. I also am playing with other origami patterns, though I am not originating much.

Meanwhile 'Creatures of the Marsh Grass' continues to get some of my time, hope to have it up by the months end.

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My Dad just passed away and I haven't had much energy for anything for a few days. He was almost 80 and died while doing something he loved, golf, so all is well. And I continue slowly to finish this larger piece. So sometime in June, I think, the completed piece will get posted.

Here are links to WIP pieces in scraps:

color being added: [link]

inked: [link]

pencil sketch: [link]

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so if anyone is interested it can be found here. I did submit a bug ticket. Soon I will have another WIP image so I am not going to spend any more time with this (like trying to reupload it).

It is taking a while to complete this piece and it will be fun (ha-ha!) to piece together six scans (it is 20"x20"). I don't think I will be working this big much, if I do I may want to invest in a digital camera. Looking like late April or early May before it will be finished.

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There are 'work in progress' posts on my current project in scraps. Since I am hoping to post at least one new piece of art every month, I may also do an Easter card for March, being realistic I don't think I will have this other project complete until sometime in April.

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Perhaps some day (maybe even soon) I'll have a computer fast enough to really browse the art here the way I would like. Saw a gallery today with some wonderful jewelry, not something I usually search for but glad I stumbled upon it.

I will likely do one more art piece this year. I am slow. Seem to average one piece per month.

I would like to thank the turkey that found its way to my plate this year. And all the good friends I shared the meal with. ]]> ~windinthetrees http://windinthetrees.deviantart.com/journal/15220130/ http://windinthetrees.deviantart.com/journal/15220130/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:14:53 PDT
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

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I now have a different computer, one that works. So much nicer than one that doesn't.

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So if I'm gone for awhile I'll be back. Hoping I don't have to get a new computer system.

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Having problems with my harddrive. I think it is trying to crash and I wasn't sure Windows was going to load today, it took forever. Glad it did so I could get my letter scanned and submited. Hoping I can find a way to save my computer.

I do have friends with scanners but with the contest over in 4 days I wasn't sure I would be able to connect and I do belief I could also use Kinkos but happy, happy, happy that I my computer to run!

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But maybe I'll use green and white mostly on my next piece. Or maybe not.

I wonder which letter I will get for the Knotters illuminated letter contest.

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Downloaded UltraFractal a few days ago. Been playing with that. It has great tutorials. Don't know if I will get serious about fractal art. It is not nearly as relaxing as when I draw but maybe because I am just learning. In any case it is inspiring.

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Discovered which manual setting to play with on the scanner to get the colors to come out right (at least on this piece). And this free stitch program doesn't blur the overlapped area like PhotoStudio so I will use it until I find something better.

I kind of like the watermark dA is offering now.

So glad to finish this piece, get it stitched decently and uploaded, and now I can move on to something else. I learned a lot doing this one and not sure what I'm doing next, only not nearly so elaborate.

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In search of a free stitching program that will do a better job. Also not getting images that are as sharp as the artwork and I have to mess with settings to get the color of the original.

Hope to have the full piece up in a day or two.

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My scanner (and it is supposed to be a good one) will not give me the same colors in my artwork and it blurs things just a bit. I found that I had to turn off the auto adjustment and manually enter in for an underexposure and also add some sharpening. I played with color adjusting for about an hour and gave up. The last thing I want to do is sit in front of a computer trying to get faithfull colors for my artwork. I'd rather be doing more artwork.

The colors are not way off, but I can tell and it frustrates me, but I think most people wouldn't notice and who knows might like the scanned colors better.

The slight blur is what really bothers me. I spend a lot of time on the detail and want it to show up clearly.

Hurts my brain to try to figure this stuff out, but hope I can learn more and get better quality uploads.

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The small dA image really looks bad although the full view is decent enough.

Will also scan an unprotected version for prints tomorrow.

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I was interested in doing lots of spirals with just a simple knot. I may attempt a more complex knot next.

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Tomorrow I will start a new knotwork piece.

A friend had a birthday a few days ago. Since she is a Capricorn I made her an origami seagoat. I adapted a model meant to be a dragon. I have since made a bunch of seagoats out of junk mail. If I had a working battery in my camera I would take a picture of them and upload. But I don't.

The kitty loves my origami pieces. I let him play with the ones I make from junk mail. His favorite is a small dragon. So far he hasn't eaten it.

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It is a one strand knot.

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PhotoStudio, which contains a stitch program, came with my scanner (hooray! justifys having bought more than I needed ((who knows what I may want to do in the future))). I rescanned and stitched 'Transformation', 8"x14", after changing the coloring on the top swirl. It took me 3 or 4 times to stitch it right, but at least now I know what I'm doing.

In another day or so I'll be uploading something different, a little animal I drew in 1994. I haven't done this type of work for awhile, but may begin again. When I told my sister about my gallery here one of the first things she asked was about wildlife. Maybe I'll work some wildlife in with mandalas or knotwork. Don't really know yet.

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My scanner should arrive tomorrow. I went a little overboard on resolution but by checking the technical data this scanner should be better quality all around.

Also downloaded a demo stitch program so I can scan bigger pieces and stitch them together. They are watermarked by the program so I have to buy the real version to actually use it, but I played with it enough to see it should work well. Seeing as my finances are pretty well shot, I will first look for a free stitch program or maybe one will come in the software for my scanner.

I should have my latest piece finished in another week or so. Been so busy with other things not much time to draw.

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So, I just ordered myself a scanner that will give me the resolution I need. So by the middle of next week I'll upload my artwork again. In the meantime I'm going to 'hide' my lastest upload. It looks okay at the full view but lousy as a thumbnail.

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