YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER!!

I'm starting a series of Super Mario World stage layout paintings. This is the first of 4 in the series.

Birch Trees Wall Mural

1.  Had some leftover paint so outline trees - bunching 2 or 3 trees together.

*.  Plan out the birch trees on paper before attempting the wall.

 2.  Outline tress with paint tape.

3.  Make small branches.

4.  Put some detail.

5.  Paint the trunks off-white semi-gloss, and background light blue matte.

6.  Remove tape.

7.  Clean up and touch up lines.

8.  More clean up and apply another coat of paint.

9.  Add some leaves.

Bringing Back the Blog

Happy Halloween

Gonna start bringing back art to this blog and I started by carving 3 pumpkins!

Sassy Studio SCSS on Visual Studio

instructions here

I decided to try a different extension for VS2012.  Hope it's great.

Treasure! CSS/HTML coding standards

google style guide

There are many on the net. 

Treasure! - dumb reminders

So I'm playing around with Orchard trying to create a module, trying to connect on sqlserver (no dice), etc. But because of securty settings on my computer (I don't have true admin settings) IT'S HELLA HARD TO GET STUFF TO WORK!

However there is one way to bypass some admin rights that is running a prog as admin.
right click on program and choose run as admin.

CMS Umbraco vs Orchard

I have decided to experiment with these 2 products.  Since they seem to have a lot of potential.

• ASP.NET MVC
• Open source (free?)
• large support community

Currently I have done the install and played around with the interface, creating pages, links, apply themes...  And so far I'm liking Orchard in accomplishing these tasks. 

Orchard has a quite detailed set of functions that is easy to find and does what you would expect to see.  As for Umbraco it has an easy to use interface but maybe too easy as it seems difficult to find the functions I want to use.  I'm not sure if I'm looking at a simplified view. 

Performance wise Umbraco seems to load faster.  Since this is back end work the only concern should be the front end performance which I believe will excel in speeds.  (I have read that Orchard has too much stuff).

Next step is creating a module on each CMS.