Gini Schmitz is regarded as one of the best web artists in the world. Though she's fairly reclusive in terms of her personal life, her work appears on a large number of websites. She's also regarded as one of the founders and pioneers in the field of web art. She created a large number of backgrounds and images that are still used today.

Schmitz's work dates back to the middle of the 1990s, when the Internet was still in its infancy for most of the world. One of her early backgrounds involved a vintage or retro feel, with brightly colored orange, pink and yellow flowers against a yellow background. She also created a number of other backgrounds, which were used on early websites.

The work she's best known for is the Over the Rainbow piece. This background took on the appearance of a vertical rainbow, with each color slowly bleeding into the next. All the colors of the rainbow were incorporated into the piece and then made to sparkle lightly. The Over the Rainbow piece by Schmitz was popular enough that people still reference it today.

Resources on similar graphics and backgrounds include:
• Bells N Whistles:provides free animated graphics and images for websites.
• Rainbow Connection Graphics:contains graphics in different categories, including education and sports.
• Rainbow Row Graphics:lists different types of graphics for websites, including animated images.
• Pat's Web Graphics:provides web based graphics such as animated icons.
• Blackcat's:offers graphics, including backgrounds and animated images.
• Absolute Web Graphics:provides access to thousands of different graphics for websites.
• Realm Graphics:lists graphics for websites including icons, bullets and backgrounds.
• Web Graphics:organizes free graphics based on their category, such as children and animals.
• Printer ink:For printing out your pages.
• Full Moon Graphics:offers graphics with a vintage feel, includes backgrounds and screen savers.
• Elated:lists graphics for those building their first website, such as templates and icons.

The world of web art has changed quite a bit since Gini Schmitz first worked in the field. However, it's clear that without early pioneers such as her, things would look significantly different. Today, users can visit hundreds of different websites and gain access to glitter graphics, images and backgrounds for their personal page. You can even print these pages out - keep plenty of ink cartridges on hand. Oddly enough, Schmitz herself no longer maintains one of these pages, yet her work is still found online. Those interested have the option of choosing her work, creating their own background or picking one from one of the other pages.


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