From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
How are you doing the art for Stay Frosty?
ReplyDeletegregory blair This particular one is a composite. A real photo of this comet that I drew on using this app:
ReplyDeletehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytestorm.artflow&hl=en
Then I run all my crappy drawings through this:
play.google.com - 8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects - Android Apps on Google Play
This is kinda screwed up because the composite lowers the resolution, but you can see a before 8bit on the right, after on the left.
ReplyDeleteMy mess of a drawing becomes almost something.
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Yeah, it's like 3 miles wide or something.
ReplyDeleteAh cool, thanks for breaking it down Casey G.
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