As most of our members know, we have got an ArtWiki on the Talk Chat forum which is full of excellent tutorials, a couple of articles (more being added shortly) and now we are pleased to announce the Interviews that 1stAngel is famous for.

We are taking all the interviews over to the ArtWiki over the coming weeks, and putting all new ones up on it in the future.

Hopefully this will help our ArtWiki grow and help people find them and the people they love to read about….

This will take a little while so we ask everyone to be patient Thank you!

August 25th, 2008 | Tags: 1stangel, artwiki, interviews | Category: Art and Literature, Interviews, Site News | Leave a comment

Special / Sale Price - Pearl Lights

The original best seller for the 8100 blackberry pearl. On other site This sells for 5.95, but here there is no need to give them half the profits!
Take advantage of this nearly half price today!

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One of the collection by KC!

February 18th, 2008 | Tags: blackberry, kc, mobile, theme | Category: Specials, Your Sites | Leave a comment

This is another project I have started on, a Pen & Ink of my cat, Nari.

I made sure to put the reference photo I took of her, next to the pencil drawing. I always pencil in first to make sure my values are in proportion.
Also tried to make the penciling darker than I normally do, so it will be easier for you to see.

Here I am just starting on her eyes and the fur around them.
These are my favorite Pen and Ink tools. I am using my usual 140lb hot press watercolor paper in a 9″ by 12″ size this time. Pens I am using are the Copic Multiliner 0.03 and the Sakura Pigma micron .05. Also have my pencil and a high quality eraser to remove the pencil marks.
Bit more fur to the right side of her face and color to her nose.

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August 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Add new tag, cat, drawing, ink, pen, Tutorials | Category: Art, Tips and Hints, Tutorials | Leave a comment

The two blokes who pop up in it from time to time are the artists behind the music: Grand Popo Football Club.

http://www.myspace.com/grandpopofootballclub

August 21st, 2008 | Tags: Grand Popo Football Club, music video | Category: Art and Literature, Music, News, Video | Leave a comment

Alice Cooper guitarist Keri Kelli is pleased to announce he is offering four new custom Guitar Hero faceplates by Painted Axe, on his Web site KerriKelli.com.

Said Kelli, currently touring in support of the new Cooper disc “Along Came A Spider,” “The overwhelming worldwide popularity of a guitar-oriented video game is just amazing. Guitar Hero has opened the doors to the electric guitar for a legion of kids these days; it just seemed incredibly cool to be able to make my own brand of face plates available to the market,” explains Kelli.

“We are incredibly excited and honored by Keri’s interest and confidence in Painted Axe,” said Michael Gauf of Painted Axe. “He is an extraordinary musician and we look forward to transferring his intensity, energy and uniqueness onto the faceplates.”

“Keri’s notoriety and willingness to think outside the box is another positive step for Painted Axe,” said Gauf. “We want musicians like Keri and prot g s to know Painted Axe provides unique opportunities for them to connect with fans and broaden their musical expression.”

About Keri Kelli
The American guitarist from Orange County, California has been a force in the hard rock and metal music scene since the early 1990s. As a member of bands like Slash’s Snakepit, also featuring Slash of Guns and Roses; and Saints of the Underground, Kelli has also stepped in and assisted renowned bands like Skid Row, Ratt, Vince Neil and Warrant. For more on Keri, visit him at http://www.kerikelli.com and http://www.myspace.com/kerikellifanpage.

August 21st, 2008 | Tags: Alice Cooper Guitarist Keri Kelli, Guitar Hero Videogame, Painted Axe Faceplates | Category: Art and Literature, Music, News | Leave a comment

Absolutely Live Entertainment, LLC will present the 25th Anniversary Concert of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnnette on Sunday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. at Boston Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets at $75.00, $65.00, $55.00 and $35.00 are on sale now at http://www.bso.org or by calling 888-266-1200. Symphony Hall box office at 301 Mass. Ave. opens on Thursday, September 4.

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette are touring as a part of celebrating the trioÕs 25th anniversary and the reissue of two out-of-print concert DVDs. On August 26, ECM will re-release Standards I and II, which were previously available as separate VHS and DVDs, in a single package. The shows were taped in Tokyo in February 1985 and October 1986. The 1985 gig leans toward the softer side of the trio on songs such as “Stella by Starlight” and “God Bless the Child,” while the 1986 show is an all-standards set featuring tracks like “Georgia on My Mind,” “When You Wish Upon a Star” and “On Green Dolphin Street.”

The trio’s first three ECM Records releases were Standards Vol. 1 and 2, and Changes. These recordings from the original New York trio session were re-released by ECM as a special 3-CD box set in January this year also in celebration of the trioÕs 25th Anniversary. It includes all new liner notes, plus a gallery of trio photos taken over the past 25 years

August 18th, 2008 | Tags: 25th Anniversary Concert, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnnette, Keith Jarrett | Category: Concerts, Music | Leave a comment

An authentic anastatic facsimile of the original handwritten 1776 Declaration of Independence has been rescued from obscurity by Tom Lingenfelter of Bucks County, PA. Lingenfelter, historian and President of the Heritage Collectors’ Society, said the copy provides definitive evidence of how the original Declaration was damaged.

The little-known anastatic process, patented and nused briefly in the late 1840’s until eclipsed by photography and other advancing printing technologies, produced perfect likenesses of original documents, a huge advantage over other contemporary methods. However, the
process relied on taking a direct contact impression using an acid-based solution and occasionally damaged or destroyed the original.

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August 18th, 2008 | Tags: 1776, anastatic copy of the Declaration, Declaration of Independence | Category: Literature, Things We Have Found | Leave a comment