Love love love and all that.

So, I was just looking at Katherine's post and thinking about how it's pretty awesome how supportive we all are, but my brain switched over to thinking about how in my life just about everyone is super supportive and how they either like or LOVE everything that I paint. As wonderful as that is for my ego, I don't think it's great for my self-development as an artist.

I don't honestly think everything I paint is amazing. Sure, sometimes people don't say anything, which is, in itself, it form of criticism, but it's not really helpful. Do they not like the colors, the style? Does it give them a bad emotion or remind them of something negative? These are all things that people don't talk about - at least not to my face.

My problem is that I am not sure I want people on my facebook fan page to be too critical. Having supportive fans is partly what keeps me painting. But if I posted some images here, would you all be super honest and tell me what you think? Hard core honest?

Any thoughts?

T-Shirt Designs

I had a good time this weekend playing around with my new wireless Wacom tablet (way to spend a tax refund!) while creating designs for the St. Louis Children's Choirs to use on their tour T-shirts when they go to New York this summer.

Any suggestions to make them better? Do my Carnegie Hall tiers look like they're floating? Tried drawing doors lots of times, but did work. Guess you can't get out of this hall!

My favorite shirts are the ones with white printing on a bright color, but don't know if that will work for the first design. These designs go on the back and their logo will go on the pocket area on the front.

I'm having a hard time making the programs cooperate to test different color combos. I can export to photoshop and have the art in a separate layer, but don't know how to easily select all the black to change the color. I know there has to be an easy way. Jocelyn, I locked the empty pixels, but then I still have to physically click on everything to select it. What am I missing?