"New Milestone for 'gatzkART!'" - 160,000 Plus Pageviews - Thank You

160,000 Pageviews Milestone!

By the time this posts "gatzkART!" will have reached over 160,000 plus Pageviews. Another Milestone for this blog, its Digital Visual Art and its Music for everyone!

Without regular viewers along with new viewers we could not have reached this goal! Many Thanks for revisiting and coming by to listen to some Music and view some Digital Visual Artwork! You are all important to the success of "gatzkART!".

Visit and Tarry for a time,
All will come to see
Somethings sublime
And Music for subtlety.

Kirk Mathew Gatzka

"150,000+ Pageviews for gatzkART! - Thank You All"

"100 Thousand Pageviews - Milestone!" CorelDRAW

Created in CorelDRAW.


I wanted to add to this Page a NOTE that invites those of you whom come to his simple
page offering of thanks to peruse the rest of my blog offerings and not just bounce away
disappointed by the meager artwork here as thanks. I have much more to share here,
If you would take the time to look deeper into my Digital Visual Artworks.

Scroll down, view on the right Archive links and click on them. Also I have a tag cloud
at the bottom of the page you can select and view by topic. For Example click on 12_String for
additional Guitar Artwork, and select Older Pages for more!

It is my hope you enjoy my Digital Visual Artwork created to delight and leave
an impression on you. A Good One is my desire!

"Singer Songwriter Eardly Jordaan" Corel - Plus

Singer Songwriter Eardly Jordaan

I attended a Hangout on Google+, since our power is now back on. "In The Spotlight" was Eardly Jordaan from the duo Band MINDS. They are a multicultural band from South Africa and South America that have joined forces for some very creative music.

I did a screen capture and opened with Corel PhotoPaint where I cropped the image and saved the iteration. From Picasa 3.9 I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3.

There I applied the Digital Camera Noise Removal and the Smart Photo Fix first. I resized to a display size in PSP Pro X3 as well. Saving this iteration I reopened with Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and auto painted a Detailed Watercolor of the image.

I used the soft cloner brush to add back in some details and saved this file. I reopened from Picasa with PSP Pro X3 and added the Polaroid frame and black border. Which is part of my workflow for these Hangout portraits now.

995th Post to gatzkART! Blog, only a short way to our goal of 1,000 Posts! We are also close to 83,000 Pageviews Milestone, will your view put us over that figure?
Feel free to click on the Home button and browse more of our Digital Artworks with a Music theme and other themes as well. Fill your screen with the art work with one click on the images, or try our Dynamic Views of all the artworks in a collection view.

"70,000 Plus Pageviews Milestone - Three New Images" - Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 - Plus

Blown Glass as Detailed Watercolor

Gouache and Detailed Watercolor

Splat Brush Gouache

We have reached over 70,000 Pageviews and it is once again a Milestone for "gatzkART!" Thank you for visiting! We appreciate your visits and views and your comments are always welcome. You can join the blog as a Google friend or RSS or Atom feed, as well as an email feed as is your pleasure. You can also use Google+ to vote for your favorite posts. Digg the post or Share on Delicious as you desire. Share with your friends this blog about the Digital Visual Arts and Music!

We invite you to read "About Me," and "My Art For Sale," pages for more information. Art not shown on Fine Art America or Zazzle can be requested to be added by an email to me. They both make great quality prints and other products for your selection. The Art is competitively priced.

We will continue to share photography, digital collaging and other digital imaging, along with explanations of workflow. Corel products are highlighted as well as imaging tools like Paint.NET and others.

I recently retrieved some photographs for painting from the Painter Talk Forums. I Auto-painted them with varying results. These were shared with us for painting exercises and I chose to use Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 to "Paint" them. I have yet more to experiment with.

Each title describes the image and auto paint features used on them. I truly enjoy Painter Photo Essentials 4 for it's versatility and easy use for making great paintings from good source materials.

Listening --- Neil Young --- Falling Off the Face of the Earth

"2012 AutoRama Two" Photograph Manipulation - Paint.NET - Corel PSP Pro X3

Blue Flames

Blue Corvette

Red Orange Custom

Yellow Pickup Custom

"2012 AutoRama Two," features photographs take by Keir M. Gatzka. The Photograph Manipulations are done by myself. I browsed in Picasa 3.9 to the AutoRama folder and selected these photographs to manipulate.

I opened them each in succession in Paint.NET where I applied the Ink Sketch feature. I adjusted the Luminosity in Curves and upped the saturation a bit. I also applied a painterly filter to each image. Saving the large image I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3.

There I further manipulated the images. I adjusted the paint strokes on each one just slightly. I used the saturation Vibrancy on them. I used the Smart Photo Fix on each as well. I also added my signature as a Visible Watermark. I finished each with a 25 pixel black border. I resize in PSP for display here.

I noticed that we are soon to reach 50,000 Pageviews and wanted to thank all of our readers and visitors for making that goal possible. We have over 866 posts to date on gatzkART!, and are happy that many enjoy our blog.

Listening --- The Beach Boys --- Fun, Fun, Fun

Milestone Reached for gatzkART! * 10,018 Pageviews

gatzkART! has reached a new milestone according to Google analytics:

• 10,018
Pageviews

We are grateful for all of you who follow us on a regular basis and continue to do our best to provide interesting and informative postings and Digital Visual Art and Music Discussion.

Here is an image done from a photograph taken by my son Keir M. Gatzka of a young engaged couple hugging. I used similar techniques as other photographs in Paint.NET, PhotoPaint, Filter Forge's Frames. I used autumn tones for this warm image.

Thanks again for your patronage!

Sincerely,
Kirk Mathew Gatzka