mellowtigger | Space Egg (Reply)

It took most of the morning, and it cost about $25 total (bus fare, scan at FedEx in downtown Minneapolis, new usb drive that I forgot to bring from home), but I made a bad scan of my old poster that is definitely showing signs of its age.

See the photo and read my review...

The scanner added some terrible rainbow streak lines in the lower third of the image. :( Plus the damage that time has wrought to the original painting. Plus the unrounded edges in the original work. Not great stuff. Maybe it's better that I didn't rush to submit this earlier in the year for that autism charity event. This isn't suitable for much of anything.

Pictured below is a smaller file I uploaded to Dreamwidth, but the much larger version (51.3MB) is here.

I need to either 1) learn how to use GIMP to fix pictures (seems like lots of effort for little reward, 2) relearn how to make these paintings (more doable and rewarding), or 3) give up on the idea of submitting this thing to the charity event.

I learned this stuff by watching a spray paint can street artist in Austin TX, which places the event in early 1998 or prior. I don't remember what year I made this particular painting, but I'm mostly sure that I was in Minnesota when I did. I made many space scenes while I learned how to do it, all intending to culminate in this image. Once I completed this one, then I stopped painting any more since I fulfilled that effort.