Kassandra, SaltwaterWitch pre

The problem of too many options

There's the problem of finding apples at the grocery store with twenty-two varieties available, all looking equally tasty, or canned soups--you've seen what the canned soup aisle in the store has become. It's like something out of Aliens, if the aliens had abandoned their interest in planting eggs in humans, shifting the whole operation into soup and just went nuts with food storage and cylindrical tin. These crazy looping plastic rails dispensing soups and stews. And that's not getting into the cup-o-soups, soup mixes in bags, and microwave entrees.

It's like that with drawing an painting nowadays. Used to be, you got out your beat-up old notebook and some stubby pencils and went to work. Now, you still have the notebook, but you also have your computer, netbook, iPad, iPhone, with multiple painting apps on each of them, and they all do something really well. Each works a little different, but there's that blending tool in Paint Shop Pro which has always seemed to work a little better than anything else you've ever seen. There's a million brush plugins in Photoshop, and line drawing tools in Painters, and that wild ass palette knife in Art Rage. What's an artist to do?

...paint something, I guess.

I handed over the iPad to my son Christopher for a couple hours while I painted a couple scenes for the next set of Saltwater Witch. Here's a preview.

Saltwater Witch Graphic Novel:
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