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STEUER
Sharon Steuer
After discovering that she could paint with raster images in Illustrator, Sharon Steuer
decided to experiment with making a pattern brush from an Italian “push puppet” in
her oil paintings (
Puppet Oil Painting
). In Photoshop she combined a number of
details from different paintings in the series to form the pieces necessary to
articulate three separate parts for the body (the legs and base, the torso, and the
head), and three more so she could articulate the joints of an arm (one for each end
and one for the middle). Tightly masking and cropping each element, she saved
them as a separate PNG files, and placed all of them as embedded objects into one
Illustrator file. Rotating each of the elements so that all were oriented horizontally,
she dragged the torso segment into the Brushes panel.
