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\"Brownstone<\/a>
Brownstone by the beach – LeMasney Consulting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Okay, it’s April 1st, so I figured I’d play with a little visual foolery. With some inspiration from Shannon O’ Connor, who contributed a photo of a tower with a tree growing out of it (what kind of neglect does it take for a full sized tree to grow on top of a building, I ask you?) so I figured I’d mash up some architecture and nature. So here I have an urban apartment building\/townhouse which I’m clearly mislabeling as a brownstone, painted on a brown stone. I haven’t decided yet whether it’s just a painted facade or whether you can actually enter it. I like to think that someone walks up to it, tries to enter, and grabs an image of a doorknob. April Fools!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in Inkscape, I imported two images from MorgueFile<\/a>, one of the apartment building, and one of a massive rock in the middle of a desert. The boulder had a man standing in front of it for scale, and he was about one eighth of its height. I bitmap traced both images, placed them on top of one another, then painted them with the calligraphy tool, the eyedropper, and the palette. I added a gradient based background, built a happy faced sun out of stacked, blurred ellipses and text, and added some surf crashing with the calligraphy tool. So there you have it, a ‘brown stone’ by the beach. Thanks to Shannon for the inspiration, and to you for taking the time to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here I have an urban apartment building\/townhouse which I’m clearly mislabeling as a brownstone, painted on a brown stone. I haven’t decided yet whether it’s just a painted facade or whether you can actually enter it. I like to think that someone walks up to it, tries to enter, and grabs an image of a doorknob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,1128,4110,3070,3654,21,23,3657],"tags":[1411,335,365,404,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cv","8":"category-illustration","9":"category-inkscape-portfolio","10":"category-open-source-consulting","11":"category-portfolio","12":"category-professional-activities","13":"category-professional-experience","14":"category-requests","15":"tag-calligraphy","16":"tag-gimp","17":"tag-graphics","18":"tag-image","19":"tag-inkscape","20":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100401.png?fit=495%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-6W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":614,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/05\/10\/140-of-365-is-an-apartment-in-inkscape-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":0},"title":"140 of 365 is an apartment in #Inkscape #design","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-05-10","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's sketch is an urban dwelling, a comfy corner home, a stacked abode. 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