Are your backups safe? My latest CreativePro posting: Mac backups to the “cloud” (with Cookie Segelstein)

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This year, because Cookie is years ahead of me in backing up via offsite services (the cloud), she agreed to help me summarize the cloud-based backup services we saw Macworld. This article, now live at CreativePro, is called Cloud Backup Solutions.

The last weekend for “Delicious” show at the STUDIO Gallery #SanFrancisco

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The last weekend for “Delicious” show at the STUDIO Gallery #SanFrancisco

My “Organic Apple stack with letters…” piece is the third one included in the “Delicious” show at the STUDIO Gallery on Polk Street in San Francisco, through this weekend. To see details on how to get to the show, or to see more images if you can’t get to the show in person click here. […]

Drawings (and a digital drawing) at the AsianArtMuseum in SanFrancisco

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Drawings (and a digital drawing) at the AsianArtMuseum in SanFrancisco

Yesterday i joined my friend Laurie W at the Sketchers Meetup she runs at the Asian Art Museum. I took lots of photos, I’m looking for pattern brush inspiration… but I also did a few drawings—on paper! The first was on my iPhone with Adobe Ideas and my finger (I need a stylus if I’m […]

Hot Water Bottles: A Love Story…

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Hot Water Bottles: A Love Story…

Ok… I’m going out on a limb here… faces on cans are one thing, this is an example of the figures I see… everywhere. Hopefully you’ll see what I see, and are willing to help me figure out the “proper arrangement” (and number) of images in order to tell the optimal narrative. Part 1 of […]

My “Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6” post!

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My “Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6” post!

Are you up to date on using the latest version of Illustrator? In this post I talk about my favorite features introduced in the past few versions of Illustrator.

Another piece in the show at the STUDIO Gallery #SanFrancisco

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Another piece in the show at the STUDIO Gallery #SanFrancisco

Here is another of the small images in the STUDIO Gallery “Delicious” show. It’s just a little bit collage (digital and traditional), and mostly watercolor pencil drawing: “Organic lollipop on postcard from dad”— 4″x6” in small white frame. You can see selections from there show here.

YouTube playlist for lynda.com videos

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YouTube playlist for lynda.com videos

See all of the free movies from this course that lynda.com posted to YouTube, go to this playlist:
Sharon’s lynda.com movies

Thank you note for the Artistic Painting course…

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Thank you note for the Artistic Painting course…

Thank you to Ray Acosta for the thank you note. 🙂  

FREE 7 day trial at lynda… oh, AND you can see my Illustrator brushes course!

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FREE 7 day trial at lynda… oh, AND you can see my Illustrator brushes course!

My new course, “Artistic Painting with Illustrator: Natural Media Brushes,” is LIVE on lynda.com, and you can watch it whenever you’re ready. Although only a few of the movies are visible to non-registered visitors, with you can get a full FREE 7 days to watch anything at all that you want at lynda.com — including […]