Over the Holidays, I began reading a book written by Andy Clarke entitled “Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design”, and I am finding it a fantastic reference. It approaches the use of CSS from a designers perspective, and it has made me think of web design in a whole different way. His explanation of proper structural mark-up is one of the easiest to understand that I have seen. The book also has a very good section on designing web pages to the grid. By laying grids over screen shots of beautifully designed sites it illustrates how the designers use them in exciting ways.

ColorSketches is currently an experiment into blogging, to delve into one of my favorite passions – the world of art. My name is Edward Sine and my main interest at present is digital art. Art that can be created in Photoshop, Painter, 3d Studio, or Lightwave. I like to study traditional art techniques such as oil painting, watercolor, or sketching and apply these techniques to digital media.

In future posts I hope to share some of the techniques and insights I have learned along the way. I also plan to share links to other relevant sites or, if I find some exciting work from another artist, I will point you in their direction.

If you can forgive at least some personal promotion, I would like to point you in the direction of my own personal portfolio BlueNoseGopher.com. I am also trying to develop an online magazine that builds on my philosophy that different design and artistic disciplines are all related and, in fact, tied together. The website, Art n Architecture, addresses the different yet related forms of Art, Architecture, Graphic Design, and Photography.