I’m an artist, photographer, musician and Macintosh enthusiast, with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and a job as an illustrator. Having recently acquired a new Mac II and a “new” graphics program (an upgrade of
[don’t laugh] FullPaint), I was inspired to create some original art. I’m something of a seashell collector, and decided to use some of my favorite shells as models for Mac art, though at the time I didn’t have any practical use in mind for the drawings.
Perching a shell on the CPU, I sketched the outline freehand, then added interior contours and textures, then eventually brushed or “sprayed” shading. Consequently, I began to dream of a color Mac...
I had enrolled in a Desktop Publishing class at Paradise Valley Community College, and began working with SuperPaint on an SE. Immediately I felt something was lacking.
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I took along my shells on disk and printed them out on a LaserWriter IInt. Im-mediately I felt something was lacking.
Although the background screens certainly looked better in the laser printout than anything my ImageWriter I could do, they were still uneven. I have experience with MacDraw I&II so I knew I needed to use an object-oriented program in order to retain a “live” screen for the LaserWriter, particularly if I wanted to print at a reduction. So I converted my shell files into SuperPaint documents. I spent a few hours after classes trying to perfect the shells, but couldn’t figure out how to make the imported bitmap shells opaque! A friend at work