Old Photo Rummaging!
The other day, while rummaging through my photo files looking for an old remembered image, I came across three images which caught my attention: a bag of grapes, a string sculpture, and some old seed heads.
They looked like they might work well together…
…so I just had to try them out with some digital blending! I love the 3D effect of this one…
…and the mosaic effect on this one. But as usual I can’t decide which one I like the best. How about you?
Finally – I just couldn’t resist playing with this flower!
No blending on this one, just a few digital adjustment layers, some grunge brushes and a layer mask. What do you think?
Reflections and Light
It all started with a piece of white paper and four bottles of ready mix poster paint in blue, yellow, purple and fuscia pink…
…I squirted the paint into the paper, folded it in half, and squigged it everywhere! This photo was taken when it was all gleaming and wet. As soon as it was uploaded to the computer, I just couldn’t resist playing…
…and this was the first result created using the Snapseed app. I think it makes it look like a piece of beaten up metal. What do you think?
Next came the serious photoshop stuff…
…and this is what evolved! I called it “Looking for the Light”. You’ll have to look at the large image to see the light at the end of the tunnel which reflects the meaning of this image.
Which one do you like best?
Two More Pages!
Two more pages to add to the steadily growing collection! Another painted postcard for journalling on…
…created using acrylic paint, a stencil and acrylic ink. The black blots remind me of seahorses or maybe glow-worms. What do you think?
And another page in my recycled journal. This started out as a collage with acrylic paint. I added the scanned person doodle and blended her in, then chose and added the Nelson Mandala quotation using digital text.
Digital Magic!
Todays first image started out as an acrylic painted background in my handmade journal, which I transformed with a bit of digital magic!
When I first created this, I called it ‘Christmas Background’ because I thought the colours looked very festive…
…then I played digital – adding a digital image of Molly doll and a digital caption to explain why she’s there!
Image two started out as a simple oil pastel drawing.
It too fell prey to the digital magic that was in the air and it ended up looking like this!
Filling the Journal!
I’m slowly filling my recycled journal! If you look closely you can see the fabric strips down the centre of the page marking the end of one signature and the beginning of another.
I created the background using acrylic paint in layers and used an old credit card to scrape the final layer on which gave it a more textured look. Some of you may recognise the quirky bird on the right. I originally painted it some time last year, but thought it would look good on this page so I added it digitally and blended it in a bit. Lastly I added the quotation using digital text. I love how the coffee creamer lid shape from the previous page makes a perfect frame for the quotation!
Therapy Journalling
This morning I woke up with a head full of thoughts related to my personal therapy yesterday which I wanted to record.
I wrote the thoughts on the back of a postcard, then painted the other side using acrylic paint.
To keep my thoughts private, I made this little pocket using scrapbooking paper in my handmade journal.
Then I had a little fit of digital madness!
I started out cutting and blending several detail images from the ‘Most Success’ journal page…
…took pieces of the ‘Cut and Blend image and created this Kaleidoscope…
…but I had to have one last fiddle and changed the colour to purple. Which one do you like best? I think I like the first one. It reminds me of the patterns and colours in my kaleidoscope when I was a little girl.
Journalling Every Day
In a new effort to inject some discipline into my art making, I’ve joined Lani Gerity’s Morning Pages Daily Art Practice eCourse and am attempting to start journalling every day! But as usual with these things, Im already behind with posting the images, so here goes for a catch up.
I started by creating this journal background in my recycled journal using acrylic paint, stencils, a coffee creamer seal, a net bag from the grocery shopping, some molding paste and a few homemade stamps
Next I used a photograph of some of the detail from the background (can you spot it?) and added some digital text to it.
After reading Soul Mate Dolls: Dollmaking as a Healing Art
This last image was created in my handmade journal using leftover acrylic paint, a stencil and some digital text. Watch out for more journalling tomorrow!!