Small tutorial from me :)

Few tips on drawing landscapes and little insight on my technique.

Here are few links worth trying when you start your adventure with Gimp:
GimpDome
-helpful people, loads of tutorials to read and friendly atmosphere
Gimp Paint Studio
-Ramon Miranda's great addition to Gimp- set of brushes, tool presets and color palletes to make painting more efficient and effective- must have for starter painters! In the article you'll find link to his blog- take some time to explore it, his artwork is simply astonishing :)
Current version of plugin is 1.07 and what's interesting, mr Miranda is working on new, polished version of his creation. You can see further details here:
Oil Presets
Pencil Presets 

Why, oh why am I doing this?

Ahoy!
I've decided to create this blog to share tutorials, art and all things Gimp with world. I assume some of Earth's inhabitants like the idea of creating digital paintings using open source software and supporting it.
This blog won't be about how good is Gimp and how @$#!$ is Adobe Photoshop- both of those programs are great in many ways. Reason I chose Gimp in first place is simple- it's free. It's also good, the more I learn about the software and about digital painting the more I believe it can be tool equal to Photoshop in quality.
This blog will be my way of supporting community- through tutorials, art, tips and news from Gimp community.
Let's get started, I hope you're not asleep just yet ;)