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A belated scrap of a photo my friend Brenda Marks had given me of her doggie... isn't he delightfully cute? I also used it to fulfill a ...

A partial extraction is when you only allow one portion of an image to remain intact, and cut out the background on the rest of the image. P...

No, not teeth. Though that may yet come. For this one I used a dark brown linen bookbinder's thread stitched loosely into some light, wh...

Dagnab it, 2Peas is down again, so my blog is all patchy. Sorry 'bout that! Guess I'll have to upload these... Ok, I'll go from...

So, here's the layout I worked on today: (The 2Peas site seems to have exceeded traffic capacity at the time I'm posting, so I'...

Well, the challenge at 2Peas this week was to de-emphasize a background. It's actually a really good skill to practice on, because very ...