Art is a Manly Sport

Can It Be "Manly" to Make Art?

We here at PPS do see it as an adventure in which anyone may share. To enjoy the creative process is a human quality, shared by few animals, to be sure.

So is it a manly pursuit, to make art?

Of course it is!

We offer our first "manly" blog candy ever in hopes of increasing more interest in creative blogging and art-making in the men among us.
So move over, ladies, and let's make some room for our friends, the gents!
Happy Creativity!
:)

Our Display Copy

Main image: pitcher and manager Clark "Old Fox" Griffith baseball card

manager Cincinnati National Team (The Reds) (card dates to 1911)

Source: Library of Congress

All altering of this image (including caption) copyright ©Plush Possum Studio

And here is the blog button size--FREE for use, and never for sale by anyone. This not for sale part is, of course, in order to keep things both legally upright and free. We appreciate how some of our guests do credit us or even send other people here via links. We like to do that for others, too!

:)

(You can even grab this blog's URL and use it for a link with this button, if you wish to)

Actual Blog Button for use

You can add it as a gadget. Be sure and check the box which makes Blogger "shrink to fit,"otherwise it might be a bit too big. Of course, this will be determined by the size of your margin.

(He really looks like his nickname to me here)

Introducing my brand new G+ look!

Let's make friends there and here, shall we?
Hope you like it. It still requires a few changes, but that can come later, when there's more time.
Do you G+ too? 
If so, you may find my Profile at G+ HERE.
I won't be able to be around much there, but intend checking in as time permits. Being a "Possum" for the Studio has its perqs and pluses, but I need down time, too.
I will see you 'round the Blogosphere!
;)
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Our New Look!
We are currently hard at work on making a few changes to the design around here, and do hope that you will be patient as we try different things out.
Our line-up won't change, and neither should our product line or links.
Please be patient while we study and experiment!
We are sure to get back to our regular style of posts soon.
:)
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Travels Abroad with Twitter! 

CORRECTION: We will need to re-vamp this design and post it in a corrected and usable form, for Twitter's new ideal is to have everybody's main page look very much the same. As we hadn't been blogging, much less Tweeting, for years and therefore had not heard of this before, I want to apologize on behalf of the Studio for any confusion that may have been caused.
We will test via trial and error means, any and all options with Twitter prior to posting any further items in this category.

For those of you who are about to travel this summer, we thought it might be fun for you if you would be able to Tweet in a themed way about your travels.

In our first Twitter series for quite some time, we've chosen to use that as our theme. Our first destination today will be Ireland, offered here for your use while Tweeting. (Note: None of our work may be sold anywhere for any reason without our express written permission. Just thought it might need saying again.)

Most, if not all, of our work has parts to it that have been offered for free use to anybody, although not for sale. This offering is no different. Credits will be listed with links below.

Choosing just the right background color to surround one's Twitter page can be a tricky problem. Not to worry. We've already figured all of that out for you.

This Twitter background was based in the following RGB color: #196c1B
Anything lighter might look funny.

Please follow the link below, then choose the Download arrow icon.

Enjoy your Tweets and travels with your
Happy Creativity!

HERE

Credits

Digital Brushes: (SSCeltic Vectors) from www.obsidiandawn.com

Wikimedia Images:

"Eire" Stamp: Uploaded by: Ww2censor - (scan by Heinz Günter Grünz with permission to use as copyright has expired) to be found HERE

Old Danegeld Coin: Scanned from the german history magazine Der Spiegel Geschichte (6/2010): Die Wikinger - Krieger mit Kultur: Das Leben der Nordmänner. Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg 2010, p.71 to be found HERE

Irish 9 Shilling Postal Order: author is Minister for Posts and Telegraphs found HERE

Irish Clover: (this has a Wikimedia GNU License, free but with a few rules to follow--so please scroll down from that image to read the license there) HERE

Harp (altered by us): Image created by en: User:Djegan, based on Image:Ireland coa.png, using the official harp of the Republic of Ireland. HERE

The embossed scene (which we altered), lower left, was in a file of old freebies, the copyrights to which have long ago expired.