I had a spurt of creativity after going to my 3rd Photoshop World in Orlando last week. It was a lot of fun and I added a few more techniques to my bag of tricks. I even got some inspiration from the Westin Hotel where I stayed. They had such a nice landscaped entry way that I took some pictures of the grass and used it to create a wonderful grass pattern brush in Illustrator. Did I mention I'm crazy about grass?  The vector kind of grass that gives me that warm fuzzy feeling without the munchies.

P.S. I also added a DSLR camera I did totally in vector. It started as a small icon project that I just couldn't stop messing with until I came up with this:

I just added a new quick tutorial on a grassy text effect I did last year but lost the video. I just wanted to show you an easy way to paint on a mask to get a nice fuzzy grass outline on text simply by stroking the text path with a brush and a few simple dynamic brush settings and layer styles.

I just finished organizing stuff and doing some spring cleaning. I organized stuff in to separate pages instead of one big page of art thumbnails. I hope to add some more tutorials and resources when I get a chance.