Movin Messages

Wow!

It's been a realllly long time since we have posted anything. Our absence from posting has been due to a combination of being really busy, one of our computers being killed by a virus and breaking in some new equipment.

So even though we haven't been posting we have still been keeping busy. Hopefully within the next week or so we should be back to posting some things, who knows we might even share some of the good things we have been learning over the past few months.

So far 2009 has been a great year for us, recently one of our paintings was featured in an article on DaSouth.com, which is one of our favorite websites to visit and hang out when we have some free time. You can check out the article and the site Here.

Over the next few weeks we should be uploading some new pics, and adding some new categories to our online galleries, and we are in the process of totally revamping our online stores, to include adding some new merchandise and some new customizable products that will allow the customer to put their own finishing touches on the products...so stay tuned. If you are on twitter be sure to follow us,(@movinmessages) our tweets have been light lately but we promise to be better in the future, until later...


Peace & God Bless

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Taking it all in...
It really is an Historic Moment for America, maybe even the World. We have come a long way in America, but we have a long way to go...I wonder if Dr King even dared to imagine an African American holding the highest seat of authority in America...

Propaganda that is...

Here's some sketch work on one of our favorite hip hop artist. He goes by the name of Propaganda. He was one of the subjects of our HHH (Holy Hip Hop) legends series.

It's been a month of Sunday's since we have posted anything. We haven't been goofing off, we have our eyes set on a new goal. It's the Mother Of All Graphics Tables the Wacom Cintiq 21UX, take a look at it...

We love the artwork and the graphs used in this video. We also like the modern day presentation of the story from the gospels of the paralytic.

Street Art seems to be going the way of Hip Hop, it was once the scourge of the art world, and now it is becoming a big part of mainstream art. High end clients are looking for it...








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Now playing: Earthsuit - One Time
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Here's a piece we did...it was inspired by Flame...his latest project "Our World Redeemed", is off the chain!

One of our recent paintings, you can click on it to see the large view...it has a bit more detail.

in the meantime check out our Zazzle Gallery

During the Month of February we did a couple of pieces to acknowledge and celebrate some of the contributions of African Americans throughout History. Here are a few of the pics we did, enjoy...

Lately we have been working with a free program called Inkscape, it allow users to create vector images and a host of other things...it is a really great program and it rivals those expensive programs like Adobe Illustrator. It is a great program for beginners and it is fairly easy to learn...and did we mention that it is FREE!

There are tons of tutorials out there to help you get started creating your own masterpieces, so what are you waiting for...visit the Inkscape website and start creating. Here is a list of places with some cool tutorials to help get you started creating some movin pics of your own:

A Quick Guide to Inkscape (noobs start here)
Creating a Compass
Shattered Grungy Text
Create Cool Metal Orbs
Text Tricks (how to maually kern text)
Chrome Text

Here's some video tutorials showing how to use the inkscape interface:

We have been so busy that we really haven't been maintaining our blogs. Hopefully this time around we will stay current in our postings. We have a lot of things on our plate, but fortunately most of them are fun.

We can hear the taskmaster in the background crackin the whip...so it's back to work for us...we'll talk later.