MEL's Got An Idea!

HAPPY 4th of JULY !!!

2009-07-03T23:06:00.002-04:00

Original Photoshop Houses & Fences & Stairs

2008-12-17T22:18:00.003-05:00

Yet More of My "From Scratch" Original Photoshop Creations

2008-12-17T22:04:00.004-05:00

More of my original digital paintings

2008-12-17T21:43:00.002-05:00

HALLOWEEN

2008-10-30T22:26:00.005-04:00

HALLOWEEN! This image a combination of my original photograph of a ramshackle Victorian mansion and some Photoshop work to make the picture even more spooky.

MEL's EYE VIEW STUDIO LOGO

2008-08-12T00:01:00.004-04:00

I decided I need a name and logo for my work . I AM MEL'S EYE VIEW STUDIO. I got the idea for the name when I was on an outing in the country and saw a road called "Hawk's Roost View Road". I am very far-sighted and had, in my youth, raptor-like vision. So I combined a digital picture of my own eyes to make a logo for "MEL'S EYE VIEW."

Happy 4th of July

2008-07-03T23:26:00.004-04:00

Have a wonderful 4th of July!
This image is my original digital photo of a garage off Pouncey Tract Road in Short Pump, Henrico, Co., Virginia. The flag was painted onto the garage by the owner of that garage.
I enhanced and framed my photo in Photoshop.
To me, this image is very American and is a good image for a 4th of July greetinga!

A Snowscape

2008-01-19T23:42:00.001-05:00

Another 'from scratch' Photoshop image.

Another mountain view

2008-01-19T23:33:00.000-05:00

Another "From Scratch" Photoshop image

Two Lightning Scenes

2008-01-19T23:20:00.000-05:00

Here are two more 'from scratch' Photoshop scenes.

Christmas Window

2007-12-22T21:57:00.001-05:00

I wish this was the scene I would see looking from my window on Christmas morning! I am snow deprived!
(This original image was done by me 'from scratch' using only Adobe PhotoshopCS3 & certain 3rd party filters & brushes. No photos were used as reference or manipulated to make this image.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2007-12-20T17:55:00.000-05:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

Happy Thanksgiving

2007-11-22T16:01:00.000-05:00

Here's my 2007 greeting. It features a digital photo montage of my beautiful, sweet kitty, Lily and of the woods on the wonderful Rails-to-Trails trail in Palmyra, VA, just above the Rivanna River. The verse on the montage is by Mary Maude Daniels and was found on Beliefnet's Prayer of the Day.

Old Stone Bridge

2007-11-16T17:08:00.001-05:00

Another original Photoshopped image.

Garden Scenes

2007-11-16T17:02:00.000-05:00

Some more projects coming only from my imagination and Adobe Photoshop and various filters and brushes.

Two more landscapes

2007-11-04T01:50:00.000-04:00

Two more of my from-scratch Photoshopped landscapes.

Western mountains

2007-10-04T00:21:00.000-04:00

This image comes entirely from my imagination and Adobe Photoshop. I used no reference pictures nor did I manipulate any photos.

Arizona landscape

2007-10-01T20:37:00.000-04:00

Another from-scratch Photoshop landscape influenced by the incredible photography over at Arizona Highways.

Pimp My Desktop Challenge

2007-10-01T17:44:00.000-04:00

Okay, Here's my desktop screenshot!

An imaginary Arizona landscape

2007-09-30T20:58:00.000-04:00

I got the idea for this from-scratch Photoshopped image from the gorgeous photos I found on the wonderful Arizona Highways magazine site.
This image is not a manipulated photograph only my vision of a photograph.

Lonely Tree

2007-09-30T20:53:00.001-04:00

Another from-scratch Photoshopped image.

Fantasy Landscape

2007-09-30T00:23:00.000-04:00

This fantasy landscape was done from scratch in Photoshop CS3.

Fantasy Golf Course

2007-09-16T19:32:00.000-04:00

Tiger Woods' tour wins inspired me to do a 'from-scratch' Photoshop image of a golf course!

Several nightscapes

2007-09-09T01:24:00.000-04:00

These nightscapes were done 'from-scratch' in Photoshop CS3.

It was a dark and stormy night!

2007-07-26T00:47:00.000-04:00

Another PS creation.

Asian Landscape

2007-07-09T20:55:00.000-04:00

I love and am somewhat influenced by Asian landscape artists. Here's my original, from-scratch Photoshopped Asian landscape painting.

Mountain Scape in Frame

2007-07-08T18:48:00.000-04:00

This mountainscape was created entirely from my imagination and Adobe Photoshop.

CAN U GAS?

2007-06-10T01:25:00.000-04:00

Just like you & me, Verizon Guy ain't made of money & good old VG thinks ga$ price$ are too damn high!

Cinco de Mayo!

2007-05-05T00:12:00.000-04:00

Happy Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May to Anglos.) !
No offense to those Latinos celebrating the actual holiday, but here is my visual 'punny' tribute to the Americanized pronunciation or "Sink-o-de-Mayo" .

NAPP

2007-04-15T23:04:00.000-04:00

I'm a NAPP member.
Last Wednesday I attended an awesome all-day Photoshop seminar delivered by PSer extraordinaire Dave Cross. The seminar was part of NAPP's Power Tour.
Visit NAPP for great professional PS resources.

Room with a view

2006-10-30T00:50:00.000-05:00

This picture was drawn & painted 'from scratch' using Photoshop & various plug-ins.

A couple of more landscapes

2006-10-21T17:17:00.000-04:00

Another Color Field "Painting"

2006-10-21T17:03:00.000-04:00

Color Field Paintings

2006-10-18T23:08:00.001-04:00

2006-10-12T00:20:00.000-04:00

"We are all driving our lives.
Faith is the highway to heaven,
hearth is the driver,
mind is the engine,
act is the tire,
soul is the vehicle...
Drive safely always till you reach God's kingdom."

2006-09-22T19:14:00.000-04:00

Click on the below link for ideas on how to share ONEWEB DAY, Friday, 09/22/06, with your friends, online and off. This day also features the New Moon and a Solar Eclipse.
http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-OneWebDay

If you'd like to make some of these cool labels for your site or blog or graphics, visit Acme Label Maker and make free .gif labels.

http://www.acme.com/labelmaker/

MEL's Got An Idea

2006-09-11T17:25:00.000-04:00

First Blog

2006-07-10T00:20:00.000-04:00

The first recorded use of a blog dates back to 1774, when Samuel Adams detailed his account of the Boston Tea Party in a little known journal which he titled "The Boston Log." Amongst friends and colleagues he would refer to it as his "blog."

~ from Gullible.info, a trivia ezine.

2006-06-14T01:30:00.000-04:00

"How important are the visual arts in our society?
I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance.
Of course I could be prejudiced.
I am a visual art. "
Kermit the Frog tm

Two cool sites I love!

2006-05-13T01:36:00.000-04:00

American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD features American outsider, visionary and folk art. I've visited the AVAM several times. I try to go every time I go to Baltimore. If you take the fun Baltimore Harbor water taxi to AVAM, the taxi service will give you discount tickets to AVAM.
AVAM also gives student & senior citizen discounts.
Thrift Store Art is an online gallery (and sometimes offline) of quirky thrift store art finds.

Two Graphics Spots I'm Loving

2006-02-21T00:19:00.000-05:00

Two great graphics fun sites I'm loving now:

http://www.sketchswap.com/
It helps if you have a graphics pad and pen and have done some gesture drawing.
Drawing with a mouse is like trying to draw with a brick.

And on the morbid side of fun, Tombstone generator:
Use this page to generate your own tombstone in .jpeg format!
http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/

Why Didn't Anyone EverTell Me That I Am A Cat?

2006-01-09T01:00:00.000-05:00

I don't know why no one ever bothered to let me know that I am actually a cat.
The signs have been there all along:
1. I am mostly crepusucular and nocturnal.
2. I am far-sighted and have awesome night and peripheral vision.
3. I am always one rest away from another nap.
4. I like to nap in the sun.
5.I like a good lap and a good back scratch.
6. My house is filled with various cat figurines, otherwise known as Bastet idols.
7. My motives are mostly selfish, but not cruel. I am a creature of comfort and a total stranger to Protestant guilt.
8. I am somewhat solitary and like company only on my terms.
9. I don't have much use for the opposite sex except as a mate or to buy groceries.
10. I am adorable.
11. I am a Leo, born in the Chinese year of the Tiger and under the Celtic sign of the Cat and the Native American sign of the Cougar.

More Points to Ponder

2005-12-04T18:06:00.000-05:00

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
~ Zeno
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
~ Anne Frank
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much."
~ Bessie A. Stanley
"Happiness is making the most of what you have."
~Rosamunde Pilcher

Some Thoughts to Ponder

2005-12-01T01:42:00.000-05:00

"If you want to achieve the impossible, you've got to be able to see the invisible."
~ Dr. Dominick Prolifone

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
~ Gerry Spence

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience."
~ George Santayana

2005-11-26T01:04:00.000-05:00

"Memories accumulate. Recent ones float on top, others float away."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Quote of the day!

2005-11-23T22:16:00.000-05:00

God created you unique and special.... Just like everybody else.

A Site You Might Enjoy

2005-11-11T01:23:00.000-05:00

If you dig Verizon Guy you probably like visual humor and puzzles.
Here's a site with tons of sight gags, puzzles and other such intriguing material.
PlanetPerplex

Goethe speaks

2005-11-05T00:00:00.000-05:00

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe

2005-11-04T00:22:00.000-05:00

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
- Groucho Marx

Love

2005-11-03T21:27:00.000-05:00

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Einstein's Idea

2005-10-31T21:23:00.000-05:00

"Problems can never be solved using the same pattern of thought that created them."
- Albert Einstein

NOTICE!!!

2005-10-31T15:34:00.000-05:00

SPAMMERS GO AWAY!!!
DO NOT use my blog comment section or any blog other than your own to SPAM!!! That is unethical and not allowed by blogger.com. How would you like it if I started posting ads on YOUR blog or website? You have been warned!
I will delete any comment that is SPAM and will report you to blogger!
However, I will publish links to websites relevant to this blog or personal websites of commenters.
I always welcome discussion and comments as long as posters maintain a civil attitude. Controversial opinions and spirited disagreements are fine. Being rude and disrespectful of this blogger or other commenters is not fine.
Gratuitous cursing will be deleted. Sometimes cursing helps make a point, but other times it is just trash mouthed venting. Potty mouths should wash their pieholes out with soap before posting comments here. Flamers will be deleted.

Slow down!!!

2005-10-31T15:25:00.000-05:00

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
- Eddie Cantor

Some Quotes That Sum Up My Personal Philosophy

2005-10-31T00:14:00.000-05:00

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time!"
- Betrand Russell

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e. e. cummings

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
- Henry VanDyke

I've got an idea?

2005-10-17T15:04:00.000-04:00

I just started this, so I'll get back to it later. Maybe it will come to something, maybe not. MEL

2005-10-17T00:41:00.000-04:00

Nyah, Nyah, Nyah
MEL810