Week 3 is here! I don’t often do portraits for a number of reasons. I’m not very comfortable shooting them or getting people to pose for them. Also, I don’t seem to be as creative with a portrait as I am with other stuff. However this week I have ventured slightly outside my comfort zone […]
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This one was kind of fun. Its not terribly complicated since I started with the photo of the boat. I toned it a bit, gave it a painterly kind of look and added the birds. Then I added the sun and the sunbeams. Finally, I took it from photoshop to Topaz studio to fiddle with
I’m sorry I haven’t posted since Sunday but I’ve been working on something that has taken me a while. I fought with this for several days in several different forms. My friend Joyce loves anything zebra related so I wanted to try to do something centered on zebras and believe me it took me a
It seems the “Artist’s Way” exercises and some great jazz are having a good influence on me! I didn’t really have an idea of what to do when I sat down and started this one. I just sat down and put on Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”, (probably the greatest jazz album ever made) and
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I did this one today and don’t particularly care for the end product. I worked on it most of the afternoon and just couldn’t get what I wanted. This is something I am learning to live with. They don’t all turn out great and that’s ok. No one makes something fantastic every time. What matters
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This started out as just playing around to see what would happen. I created this in about 2 hours last night and went to bed. I didn’t sleep very well and I woke up this morning and was in the shower thinking about this piece. You see, when I stopped working last night, it was
Some folks have asked me how I got into Composite Digital Art so I thought I’d tell you. I started out as a photographer. I was a photographer in high school but kinda gave it up when I graduated. I picked it back up again in the early 2000s and was getting pretty good at
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This is a composite I did as an unplanned exercise. I have found that when I have no inspiration, I should just go grab the first image that looks interesting to me, crank some tunes, and start working and see what comes out. This one started with the image of the Buddha from Laos. (See
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Welcome to Week 1 of Project 52! The first project is called Easter Parade because that’s what (I believe) it started out with. The car with all the flowers is driven by my Great Grandfather with his wife in the passenger seat. My cousin and I are not clear on who the three girls in
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I’ve decided to try a program designed to “unblock” your creativity. It’s a book called “The Artists Way” by Julia Cameron and is highly recommended by almost everyone I come in contact with who has read it. I also watched some reviews on youtube that were also positive. Especially Laura Try, and Alessandro Frosali. “The
