Purple Paintbrush is on Twitter!

FINALLY!!!!

So as a part of my attempt at building my online presence, Purple Paintbrush now has a Twitter page! Actually, I've had it for maybe about a week. It's just now ready to be shown, haha. After MUCH trial and error and a Google search that lead me to this link, I now have a background design that actually is consistent with the look of the blog. I don't have a proper Facebook name yet, but I will as soon as I get at least 25 "likes" so Like away! At this point I think the address is something like facebook.com/purple-paintbrush3412357blahblahyousuck or something weird like that. haha...DEFINITELY not worth putting out there! So hopefully I can change that soon...

The Purple Paintbrush twitter page is just another way to find out about blog postings, see what I'm up to, share resources, get and give shout-outs...you know, stay in touch! So show love on the Facebook page and/or follow @PurplPaintbrush so we can keep the conversation going!

Purple Paintbrush Now on Facebook!

Mmmhmm...Can you smell that? I think it's called productivity. With the temperatures turned up to Hades in my area, I'm taking full advantage of this time spent inside. And I don't even care who sees me in my drawers because as the title and accompanying graphic says, the Purple Paintbrush blog is now on Facebook! Boo. Yah. So please, "Like" away, post on the Wall, Tweet a link...all that! Check out the info page to learn more about the site and how to get in contact with me. See you there!

Soon I'll check back in with another update, as well as a full recap of what's new.

Blue Flower

Blue Flower, T. Turner 2011

Even though I was gone for a while, I wasn't COMPLETELY unproductive. I was lucky enough to be able to get some time at work to create a piece of whatever I wanted as long as I used our computer software. I'm more confident in my painting skills, but I had never made a digital painting before! That's a whole different set of rules than I'm used to, but I understand the basics. In some ways it's almost better than using real paint! You can't ctrl+z standing at an easel or magically have an endless supply of the perfect paint color you mixed. I was particularly proud of this piece, so I thought that I should share it.

This was made solely with Adobe Photoshop. I've never considered myself someone that needs to achieve super realism, but I'll be damned if that doesn't look like a rose haha. I found a picture online

What the fudge!?

Yeah so today I realized that the last post that I did was in March...Unacceptable.

I didn't realize when I started this blog how much I would have to dedicate to it. I certainly don't want this to be a project that I let drift by the wayside, at least not without proper warning lol. But I think it stands to mention that I get easily distracted, so there you go. I've vowed to put myself on a tighter schedule...so we'll see how THAT works out, haha. And that includes making sure that I post more often. I need to be more productive! I've recently been inspired by a friend of mine. She runs her own blog, Vegan, What?, and has been posting a lot of great content pretty consistently (check it out!). I then decided that I need to get back on track with mine, plus I've missed you so...

Coming soon, Purple Paintbrush on Twitter and Facebook! Oh yes yes ya'll. It's about to get serious up in here. I'll let you know.

And finally, more art!