'tis the end of august and this, the final bank holiday weekend before christmas, and i'm trying not too hard to get the winter blues. it's my perception that the oddments of time we pick over, after everything else has devoured its share, do not amount to enough hours to inspire great creativity.
also the weather is conspiring against us this weekend; the diminishing patches of blue sky wrestle with the grey billowing clouds and the air smells faintly of rain.
i have an art course beginning next month and, with thoughts of this, i walk into town to buy pencils and stuff, and gather these few images on the way.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
delete nothing
there's a rule I picked up from a professional: never throw any images away.
it's true that some pics that didn't make the grade might be reused in other ways. i've been admiring some photoshopping artwork recently and it got me thinking; i don't really try much of that stuff (apart from the odd tweak and enhancement). these two images use photos that i took a while ago - the kids in the stream is just a simple tonal and saturation shift with added noise, followed by an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, blurred.
the montage below is built up of several layers of old images i'd taken then blended with the layer transparency controls and finally the eraser tool, toggling between layers. finally an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, duplicated and the second layer colorized to a complimentary, mirrored, then blended with gaussian blur.
if i don't type this now, i won't remember tomorrow. ;o)
it's true that some pics that didn't make the grade might be reused in other ways. i've been admiring some photoshopping artwork recently and it got me thinking; i don't really try much of that stuff (apart from the odd tweak and enhancement). these two images use photos that i took a while ago - the kids in the stream is just a simple tonal and saturation shift with added noise, followed by an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, blurred.
the montage below is built up of several layers of old images i'd taken then blended with the layer transparency controls and finally the eraser tool, toggling between layers. finally an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, duplicated and the second layer colorized to a complimentary, mirrored, then blended with gaussian blur.
if i don't type this now, i won't remember tomorrow. ;o)
Sunday, August 06, 2006
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