Photo manipulation

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adam and God, Cat, Doodle, Fun, Hand, Layout app, Life, Manipulation, Photo, Playing, SniffLeave a comment

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The finger and the nose never touched. This is two photos, joined together, then I’ve drawn over the background and blurred it. I got my hubby to hold his hand out, a bit like in the painting of Adam and God’s hands in the Sistine Chapel, then I got my cat to sniff my hand, but I specifically wanted a male hand, so I’ve cropped the two together. I’ve blurred the background to look like clouds (and hide the messy background). I’m just wondering now if it’s gone a bit ‘ET phone home’?

The pale blue is where I drew a line. I tried to flood fill the background, but it didn’t work well. Anyway it’s almost 3.30am, so enough experimenting. Goodnight all.

Rocking horse

Posted on March 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawings, Drawing, Filters, Fun, Humour, Inspiration, Learning, News, Playing, Rocking horse, Sketcher freeLeave a comment

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Another of my digital drawings, and variations by using filters.

I tend to try different filters to see what the results are. Can you flip the image? Change the background? Alter the hue, colours, brightness, contrast, size, sharpness, solidity, edges.. Make a change, if you don’t like it click the back button, or save it and put another filter over it. When I had photoshop I used all sorts of filters that I don’t have now. But what I have on this small phone is so much more than I had on one of my early smart phones. You just have to try it out.

Green Woman self portrait

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Painting, Playing, self portraitLeave a comment

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Suddenly I’m painting again! I decided to do something with this picture. It was only roughly worked out. I decided I wanted to make a self portrait as a green woman. I used a photo of myself on my phone and overlaid leaves onto it. I don’t know if it’s finished but I liked trying to bring out the shaping and shadows on it.

Sitting in the living room, I should go down the studio, but my cold is worse. Anyway I will work on another partially painted picture.

More trees

Posted on January 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawings, Experiment, Fun, Playing, SketchLeave a comment

IMG_20200120_193348_455 IMG_20200120_193440_105 IMG_20200120_193418_085 I’m sitting here working with my digital drawings because my hip is still playing up so I’m missing choir practice. My hubby is just making a loaf and I’m going to bake some potatoes later so the house warms up.

Once you have done a drawing you don’t have to stick with that image, you can alter the hue, change positive to negative and find the edges of the image. Experiment is good. X

On the windowledge.

Posted on January 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cats, Dawn, Life, Photo, Playing, Staring, Watching, WindowledgeLeave a comment

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Got up and saw one of the cats sitting on the windowledge in the front bedroom. She likes watching the traffic passing and seeing the pigeons fly up onto the factory roof. The picture is grainy because it was very early in the morning, about the same time I took photos of the dawn. Cats are curious creatures. They love looking at things, playing with their toys and chasing each other. But sometimes they have a quiet moment and just sit and watch the world go by.

Squabble over a basket.

Posted on December 23, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cats, Chasing, Fun, Jumping, Playing, Pounce, RacingLeave a comment

My cats do like play fighting, at the moment they are either squabbling over a basket or trying to be top cat on top of the settee. Seeing them running backwards and forwards is great, or hiding under the coats by the back door and pouncing from underneath them as the other one runs past. It can be very funny. But it is only play fighting. They make little purring noises as they chase. Its like they are talking to each other. Leaping over each other. Flying, skipping, jumping. Fun.

Doodle for stained glass

Posted on December 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Playing, Sketching, Sketching app, Stained glassLeave a comment

sketch-1576378315539 cheered myself up with this digital doodle, ArtRage oils app followed by work in a sketcher app. The ArtRage one allows you to smear colour across the image, then using a drawing tool in the sketcher to draw lines over it and then a glitter pen to give it a bit of sparkle….

Middle word poem

Posted on December 14, 2019December 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Humour, Middle word poem, Most boring poem, Playing, Poem, Poetry, SpellcheckerLeave a comment

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Sometimes I just try to write random poems using the middle word of the suggested words on my screen… It can be interesting, or just plain weird. Here goes…..

X and I will try and get it done for you,

tomorrow morning,

and the rest of the week

after the rest of the week,

after the rest of the….

I need to get my head round,

the back of the building,

and get the detail and shading correct

on the way to the airport

to get the computer set up.

So I can take over the role

of the rest of the team,

at the end of the week

after the rest of the week,

after the rest of the week……

I need to get my Xperia by Sony today

and tomorrow from 10 till 4.

Tomorrow morning,

and the rest of the week

after the rest of the week…..

I will try and get it done

for the Brampton tomorrow morning

and the rest of the week

after the rest of the week…..

(the rest of the week seems quite important in this one)

Pattern

Posted on November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Duplicate, Fun, Mirrored, Moon, Pattern, Photo, Playing, TreesLeave a comment

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When you duplicate a photo you can get some interesting effects, like this duplicated photo of the moon through trees and looking out of a wet window. Somehow I see xrays of brains, or skulls, or pictures of alien twins, or strange little aliens with outstretched arms.

I remember looking at flock wallpaper and seeing animals, or looking at clouds and seeing dragons or elephants.

There is a name for this, but I don’t remember. I must have a very active visual mind.

Calling these finished

Posted on November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Autumn, Canvas, Colours, Low reliefs, Modeling medium, Painting, Playing2 Comments

Well, they are a bit random, but I think I’ve done enough to these. Added some highlights and shadows then silver and bronze colours. The first is now called puddle, like a stone dropped into water, the second is simply called autumn leaves. I might do some others like this but it’s knowing what to do and how to use the modelling medium.

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Tag: Playing

Photo manipulation

Rocking horse

Green Woman self portrait

More trees

On the windowledge.

Squabble over a basket.

Doodle for stained glass

Middle word poem

Pattern

Calling these finished