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I have over a hundred photos posted in an album on MySpace. You can find my profile here. Click on Pics under my profile photo and then click on the SDCC '07 Album. Enjoy!

~kenmeyerjr was in Artist Alley. I found him and picked up a print of shhh. Ken's watercolors are incredible!

Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo, the Samurai rabbit was there as well. I picked up a copy of The Art of Usagi Yojimbo (20th Anniversary Edition), which Stan graciously autographed for me.

I got to see Ray Harryhausen. He has just finished colorizing the movie She and it should be out on DVD by Christmas.

I spent the whole day in the Exhibit Hall and still didn't see everything there. And I never made it to any of the presentations I'd picked out. But I had an incredibly fun time!

Wayne

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Through the generousity of friends I will be attending Comic-Con on Saturday, July 28! We plan to arrive well before it opens and will will be heading home sometime around 7:30 pm.

This is my first time attending. I hear it is well nigh impossible to just bump into someone you know due to the crowd. But having never been, and not knowing yet what events I'll be attending makes planning well nigh impossible as well.

If you are planning to go, drop me a note and we can plan on connecting there. I'll note you my cell phone number and have my phone fully charged before leaving!

My camera battery will fully charged and I'll drop to a lower resolution than I usually shoot to insure enough photo space on my memory card!

And I'll try to snag a photo of my costume and post it in scraps so you'll know who you're looking for. This year I'll going as myself. Since I haven't really felt much like myself the past few months it should be a challenging role.

And for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, enjoy the rest of your summer!

Wayne

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I finally got some of my projects posted from my Beginning drawing class this past semester. Mostly the ones from the 2nd half of the semester.

Our weather has been quite windy the past week or so. Since I photograph my work outside, I haven't been able to shoot the 1st half of the semester yet.

Probably about a third of my work will end up my gallery. The rest will go into scraps.

Taking this class has got me interested in doing more pencil drawing over the summer. So we shall see how things go.

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China has Jianzhi. Japan has Kirie. Germany has Scherenschnitte. Poland has Wycinanki. Mexico has Papel Picado. India, Cambodia and other countries have their own styles. Cut paper art even spread to early America, especially among the Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch. Centruries of artists, world-wide, have been creating intricate cut-paper masterpieces and developing national and regional styles that are still practiced today around the globe. You can find resources and supplies online at the Guild of American Papercutters ([link]) and many other sites.

Look at all of this history behind cut paper art and the number of artists who still practice the traditional methods or are developing their own styles today. And yet deviantArt has no category in either Traditional Art or Artisan Crafts for the practitioners of cut paper art.

Origami is in Artisan Crafts. Collage is in Traditional Art place. But cut paper art doesn't fit into either of these categories. Origami is folded paper designs done without cutting the paper. And Collage is cut or torn paper, either whole images or fragments or text, recombined to create a new whole. And while a few cut paper art styles, like Wycinanki, use multiple colors of paper to create the finished work, most just use a single sheet of paper, laid on another sheet of contrasting color so that both the positive and negative space are easily read.

The only category we have to place them is under Miscellaneous. And yet, when we do, Traditional Art says our work is 3D and belongs in Artisan Crafts. Then, when we post them there, our work gets moved to Scaps as miscatergorized!

Now I've seen poorly-drawn Anime fan-art, done during class on lined notebook paper, that really belongs in Scraps. But the artist is allowed to post it in Anime/Manga > Traditional Media > Fan Art Drawings. There is an actual category that their work qualifies for.

As long as Cut Paper Art has been around, it really surprises me that no category exists here at deviantArt to cover it. After all, if someone has put in the hours to create an intricate cut paper deviation, it belongs somewhere besides in Scraps!

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As most of you know, my birthday was last Tuesday, April 24. On Monday I drove my folks to the mall because Mom wanted to hit a sale at Penney's.

It was two weeks since I dropped my camera off for cleaning and was told the turn around time was 6 to 8 weeks. Still I stuck my head in at Ritz camera to see it had come in yet. It hadn't.

When Mom returned from shopping, my grandaughter needed a diaper changed. None of the men's rooms had a changing station in them. That's how outdated our local mall is! So Mom waited with Dad while Little Bit and I trekked down to Penny's to use their restroom.

When we returned Mom said, "It looks like the camera store just got a shipment, you should go see if your camera came in."

There were six medium to large boxes in the shipment. The clerk patiently looked through all of them for me. Lo and behold, my camera was in box number six!

Praise the Lord for poopy diapers!

Wayne

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