After submitting my design for the Linux T-Shirt contest I was inspired with good energy to paint.

I have a finished 18 X 24 Oil On Canvas painting I'd like to donate to the Linux Foundation.

I have e-mailed the Foundation with a Dear Linux Foundation etc. e-mail asking the Representative if they would like to view the painting.
info@linuxfoundation.org

I'd like to hear what others think-

How and where would I post it so all Linux users could view it?

I used GIMP to transform / rotate the painting and it is still on it's side...Anyone know why?

I have no idea about the GIMP issue. I would try again, maybe doing a "Save As" rather than a "Save" after I do, so I can compare the two images.

I'd love to see the painting if you would be willing to post a link to it here (but if you want to keep it under wraps for a while, I certainly would understand).

I'll have to do some Googling around to find a good place and than I'll post the link with sincerity.

Would pastebin be a good place to start?

Nope, pastebin is for text, not images.

http://pastebin.com/faq

Someimtes wikipedia is useful for stuff like this-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...aring_websites

I be having a good look at the terms and conditions for any image hosting site you might use. Some of them have a 'if its uploaded, we can do whatever we want with the image' policy.

Here is the link to the painting I painted for the Linux Foundation:

http://s1052.photobucket.com/albums/...rent=img.1.jpg

Or the link from the Ubuntu forum in the Art & Design section:

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12035925

Something's broke.

I got "The specified media does not exist."

When I opened a new account with Photobucket I was ( pretty sure ) that I copied the link correctly.
It bugs me that it is not correct. I will look into learning more as I'm eager for all to view.

The painting took about 3 days and I wouldn't want it all to go to waste-

I think that there is something that has been left either undone or perhaps as I mentioned above; a mistyped letter-

I was able to find out that photobucket and flickr are good places for images.

Exactly.

I may be out of line and if so I apologize, but if you want to email it to me, I'll upload it to my site and send you the link and you can do with it what you will.

I fixed the problem with help.

Here is the corrected link:

http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...ecat/img-1.jpg

I painted the painting to donate it to the Linux Foundation but they are not responding-

What do you think?

Interesting; it sort of sneaks up on you. I downloaded it so I could look at it in a larger size.

I think the reduced size on my screen does not do it justice.

Heaven knows how much unsolicited mail the Linux Foundation gets, legitimate and otherwise. I'd give them at least a week.

Ok; I'll give it a week or 2 and see what happens-

Not my sort of thing to be honest.

As far as a T-shirt design goes, IMO-

Too many colours. Simply a screenprinting problem. Ever different colour requires another screen, with all the setting up, stuffing around and equipment size increases that takes. Most t-shirts are 4 colours or less for that reason. BTW, I used to be a screenprinter.

The message gets lost in the letters.

Reproducing the texture from oil on a t-shirt is very difficult/impossible as well.