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STEUER
Sharon Steuer
Borrowing elements from Illustrator art she created several years earlier, Sharon
Steuer rein-vigorated the original calligraphic brush work with the addition of a
frame made with a pattern brush, invoking the look of a craft frame made by
children on a beach vacation. Steuer duplicated, scaled, and rearranged the shells
and starfish. Dragging them into the Brushes panel, she chose Pattern Brush,
enabled Stretch to fit (under Fit), chose Tints and Hues as the Colorization Method,
and clicked OK. For the corner, she decided to use a photograph of a real shell.
After masking the photo in Photo-shop, she placed it as an embedded image in
Illustrator.
To add the photo as a corner tile to the pattern brush, she selected the masked
shell, then—with the Brushes panel in Thumb-nail view—held Option/Alt as she
