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How Crazios came to be:

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Meet Crazios!

I was at a bit of an inspiration low this evening and decided to do some structured doodling…

Structured doodling is a concept I came up with or stumbled across some time ago. And this little fellow worked out so well I figured the concept is good enough to share. I know that being artistic doesn’t always mean that artists are overflowing with ideas. Sometimes we need prompting!

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Have had a bit of fun this morning, winding down from a manic tour afternoon yesterday afternoon – 4 tours in a row full of 50 odd teenage boys on a school trip. Besides, I have been neglecting Redbubble recently – most of this year actually!

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Anouncing.....

“2009 Calendars in the Round” series

I’ve had a merry couple of days putting together this set of sixteen 2009 poster calendars. … Calendars with a difference… they are round – with January 1st at the top and the year moving on in a clockwise direction.

They are very easy to read and use , especially as you can see the whole year at a glance.

View the whole collection HERE.

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Doodle: a rough drawing made absentmindedly.

Or at least that is what the dictionary calls it. But what if there is more to it? Just how absentminded do you have to be, for it to be a doodle? What if the same ‘doodle style’ is used deliberately? When does a doodle become something else?

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Have you ever taken a photo, or found an image or texture that you like, but that is washed out and a little bit flat … And you would like to make it a little more dramatic, increase the tonal depth and contrast – or, on the case of a texture, make it dark and brooding for a grungy background? Without having to mess around with histograms and curves…

Well, I was having a play with the filters yesterday, and came across a combination involving the solarize filter that quickly does just the job…

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I was walking on the beach a week or so back and found a little cuttle-fish bone. It was about 6 inches long and still had the little point on it. I have never seen a cuttle-fish bone with the little point on it before… Didn’t even know they existed. I would love to know how the bone fits into the critter.

Anyway… So there I was… huge big beach… the tide way out… wide clean un-foot-printed, slightly damp, smooth sand… and this neat little point on the cuttle-fish bone.

So you know what comes next, I just couldn’t resist! … …

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