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'Time to renew the debate!

Hi! I've been away for a bit. Stuck out at sea without Internet... There'll be more of that over Christmas and the New Year, unfortunately. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing loads of your new artwork uploads when I get back in January. Happy Christmas everyone - and a prosperous and inspirational New Year to all!

Great! I'm looking forward to seeing those portraits!

Naughty Boy! Tell me more!!!!!!!!!!!! : (In a pm, of course!!)

Just a quick tip... You'll find if you click on "Add Reply" (at the top of the post,) rather than "Reply" (at the bottom,) you will get a text entry box that does not include a full quote of the post to which you are replying. The + / - Quote button at the bottom, is supposed to be a toggle switch, (I think?!) but it never seems to work... Hope this helps

Hi Angel312! It's good to have you on board at artfreaks.com! Although the site has been going for some time now, there aren't really that many members active in the forums, just yet. But hopefully, that will change and you'll be able to "meet" and interact with plenty of other people who are into art... Anyway, whilst we are waiting for the membership to gain a sizable and active base, there is no reason why you can't start uploading some of your art. Basically, what you need to do is to click on "My Controls," (the link only shows up when you are logged-in.) Then, in the Menu panel on the left-hand side of the screen, you click on "Invision Gallery / Your Albums." You will see an error message that says something like "You don't have any albums" Then you just click on where it says "Create your first album" You will need to give your album a title and a short description. You will also need to select a category for your album. Once your album has been created, you will see a little drop-down menu. Click on either "Upload Image," (if you only want to upload a single image) - or "Bulk Upload," if you want to upload up to 10 images at a time. That should present you with a dialogue box where you will be able to select the images that you want to upload from your computer You can create as many albums as you like and currently, (as of November, 2007,) there are no limits as to the amount of disc space that you can fill-up on my server!!! Just one little tip... You will find that if your images are to big, they will take forever to upload - or they will not upload at all... You really need to reduce your image file sizes down to less than 200Kb per image - and physical dimensions of the image should not be much more than about 1,200 X 850 pixels. Any problems, give me a shout! P.S., you should try pastels. I absolutely adore working with them!!

Bird Watching! http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=...amp;RefID=38385 Great stuff! I love it!

Hi! Thanks for your comments. I must admit, I also prefer "Tussinee - One (The Manic-Depressive Art Version!)" to "Tussinee - Two (The 4th Attempt!!)" I think version "Two" is a little bit scary!! Yeah... It's a difficult one, that - trying to paint when you are really not in the mood... When I am on leave from my job as a seaman, I tend to spend a lot of time sitting at my computers, working on websites and stuff. (I usually have two computers on the go; both using different networks, in order to be able to cope with slow and unreliable connections in the Philippines.) Anyway, sometimes I spend too much time at my computers and it wears me down. So then I take to doing a bit of painting in order to relax myself. Sometimes I find the creative process a wonderful tonic. Other times I just can't get my self in the mood and I end-up wasting a lot of expensive art materials... This can be a real dilemma... I want to paint, in order to get myself back into good spirits - but I CAN'T paint because I am feeling down!???!! I guess I should try some form of exercise or doing something totally different, in order to get me back into the right mood for painting? I might give that one a try, next time I run up against a brick wall!