Hello and meet Cooper. Cooper was a dachshund I had for several years. I had him and an Akita named Woody. I actually started one of my first blogs as a kind of comedy thing of conversations I had with Cooper and Woody. He was a blast. He loved to play ball (not by himself) […]
Welcome to Week 21! I was going back through old photos again and came across this one. I’ve always liked it and wasn’t sure what I could do with it so I decided to try to turn it into an illustration. I used Topaz as well as some various textures and frames and I think
Project 52 – Week 21 – “Streets of NYC” Read More »
I’m almost halfway through Project 52. I’ve really had a blast, but my creativity has been waning a bit. This week I’m back to a more traditional composite. This started with a photograph I took at Padre Island in South Texas that was just a plain beach scene with a little structure in the middle.
Project 52 – Week 20 – “A Day At The Beach” Read More »
Week 19 and I decided to do a little Black and White work. Technically, I added a little color, but it’s basically monochrome. The dog is an old pic I took of a friend’s puppy about 15 years ago or so. The old radio was a stock image. Why did I go black and white?
Project 52 – Week 19 – “The Silvertone Puppy” Read More »
Here we go with Week 18. I started with the boat photo that I took many years ago. I severely blurred the background and added the birds (the boat looked lonely). I applied several texture layers and finished up with some help from Topaz Studio. I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.
Project 52 – Week 18 – “A Fishing Dream” Read More »
Week 17 has arrived and this week I am really happy with this composition! The idea came from Renee Robyn who was the first person I have seen to do this. The fish part is a beta fish and getting them to blend together at least somewhat was a challenge. it took me several hours
Project 52 – Week 17 – “The Mermaid” Read More »
Trying something a little different. I decided to try something minimalist. There are really no photos in this composition. It is almost all brush work. For those who don’t know, photoshop brushes are amazing! You can turn anything into a brush. Trees, Mothers with strollers, birds…even signatures can be turned into brushes. And for this
Minimalism – “Lakeside Stroll in Silhouette” Read More »
One last go with the techniques of Anna Czekala before moving on for a bit. I did a bit of a mashup with this one by using Anna’s techniques to create the wild background and then added motorcycles I shot at my friend Chris Shaw’s “White Knuckle Ranch” a few years ago. After that, it
Project 52 – Week 16 – “Make Your Own Path” Read More »
Week 15 and it’s yet another composition with something that flies! I don’t know why I’ve been doing so many things that fly over the last couple of weeks (ducks, butterflies, pelicans, etc..). This is another one that is inspired by the techniques of Anna Czekala. There are two pictures here, as you can probably
Project 52 – Week 15 – “Psychedelic Ducks” Read More »
This is an interesting little piece that popped up out of nowhere. I was watching some training that was looking at some of the art of Anna Czekala. It was so cool cause she would take a rather hum drum picture, sometimes two, and Copy, Move, Warp, etc… those pictures until she got something really
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