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Comment by Fred Asbury on February 20, 2013 at 1:53pm

The question is "what do I do to print note cards?"  This is very common in my area especially if you are showing your work in a gallery or exhibition to supplement your work. Bird drawings would be very popular there or in a gift shop setting.  You can do them yourself with a photo printer. Software is included or can be uploaded from the net to complete the cards. Card stock is available at any office supply store and other outlets that offer printer supplies. If you do not want to do it yourself, there are several printers on line that will print them for you like Vista Print. Just google search "note card printing" and you will have several to choose from. You will have to process them into the proper size and quality before you send them for printing though and that requires some expertise in photo processing software like Photoshop.  Good luck.

Comment by Robert Adelman on November 7, 2012 at 6:15pm

i sell my stuff all the time. I digitally create my stuff  and then print them on Giclee's. just saying :)

Comment by Pavelle Fine Art on November 7, 2012 at 5:10pm

Don't ya'll be so cranky. Exhibit, promote, repeat, repeat, repeat. Sooner or later you'll sell.

You're welcome.

Comment by George M Bowles on September 2, 2012 at 11:13pm

Comment by Todd L Thomas on July 14, 2012 at 6:58am

The "traditional" art world says if i take a piece of canvas, stretch it around a frame... get a stick, glue horsehair to the end of it... and get some lipstick-like goo of pigment and smear it around the canvas it is "fine art". Which is fine i guess, i mean i can do what they do, though it seems archaic to me now. But if i apply the same technique virtually on a computer monitor, they say it is not. But that's because they don't know how to do what i do, and just the thought of turning on a computer scares them, much less painting with one.

What i do with a computer is no different than what i do without, its just applied differently, just another media... like the difference between watercolor and oils... and i go though a process to get my end result. I still use classical modeling, atmospheric perspective, tonal contrast, use of line variation, shading and highlights... nothing different than what you learn from the sketchbooks of Michelangelo.

These traditionalists need to get over themselves. It's called "PROGRESS". Some of us have learned we no longer have to use a hammer to change a tire. We use a jack and a tire tool.

Yes, there are those who drop photo images into their work, make a few minimal changes and call it art. Well, so do traditional multi-media artists. Some use images on bottom layers and paint on top of them... well is there any difference than tracing or using an opaque projector like the traditionalists? Ive noticed some traditionalists paint right on top of a giclee image and sometimes let it bleed through.

My point here is, the beauty of art is freedom... Artists are like eagles. Nothing in our DNA says we HAVE to conform and live in a chicken coop. We were born with wings and meant to fly. And this is just one more obstacle we can soar high above... and over... and leave the chickens behind, pointing their fingers, clucking at one another. So what? LOL... Gotta love it...

Comment by Vajrayan on June 21, 2012 at 1:04pm

Our digital realm is relatively new, so attempting to use a dated term like "Fine Art" is too non-descriptive. Fine Art is a misnomer, if I crap on canvas but it is received well by viewers I am a genius, if not, then I am an idiot not an artist.  Who decides me or you

Comment by Jin Hwang on February 29, 2012 at 9:40am

Yes, it is fine art!!!  If you are an artist and you produced an art work, absolutely it is.  I have a feeling that some may think that the computer or digital cameras did all the work because how fast artwork can be produced.  Often there is an opinion that artists have to labor long hours and endure hardship to produce fine art.

I use today's technology as my tools to capture, abstract, or conceptualize my creative imagination.  Some of my art work here have been waiting over ten years to finally come to light.  Digital artwork is intangible even though a file is created and you can see it on the monitor.  But yet there it is for us all to see.

It seem to me, that digital artworks is art as long as we can view it somehow, but fine art critics may want tangible artworks.  So, what is fine art?  I think that is something that every artist has to answer for themselves.  Jin Hwang

Comment by Steven Kohn on February 29, 2012 at 7:54am

The only way to gain a full appreciation of computer generated art is to familiarize oneself with the details of the software available and to see what it can do. You can paint with software. You can create fractal designs. You can manipulate what you put up on your monitor and produce finally as a print of varying dimensions. Because I create - amongst other art works - computer generated art I know exactly what goes into producing each work and believe that the ability to put together so many variables takes talent. The same questions have been asked about photography as there are those who do NOT believe that the ability to produce a stunning image is an art form. Is computer generated art a FINE art or simply an art? When someone can pin down the definitions distinguising ART from FINE ART, maybe then the question you raise can be answered more precisely. In the mean time here's another question. Can a digitally manipulated image of an original photograph be considered Fine Art? - Steve Kohn

Comment by Mary Russell Holmberg on February 28, 2012 at 4:42am

When I joined www.fineartamerica.com I ask myself, "can computer generated art be called Fine Art"? I have never heard any comments pro or con.

Comment by Mary Russell Holmberg on February 28, 2012 at 4:22am

Hi everyone, This place rocks!!! I am so glad I found it!

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