• Blog

    Digital flowers

    April 30, 2009 - By 

    I’ve been having so much fun making and playing with custom brushes in Photoshop.

    The green, red and white image started with a photo I took of a Canna Lily blossom at my folks place last summer. After many layers of brushes and adjustments I got the image you see.

    The white flowers and smudges on the surface are a brush I made from this image.

    The pink background flower image below started as a macro shot of a poinsettia. Again lots of brushes, layers and adjustments made it look like this.

    The top grey image may look vaguely familiar. I made a brush from a photo of the mixed-media painting I did last summer.

  • Blog

    300th post with an Earth Day tribute

    March 14, 2009 - By 


    I was shocked to see I’m already at 300!

    This ATC is made of items that would have been recycled anyway. My way has a little more visual appeal. I used a cereal box, a wallpaper sample and green magazine images. I decided to sew the wallpaper to the cereal box so I wouldn’t have to use glue. Of course I could have cut letters from the magazine to spell my message but a white gel pen was so much quicker.

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    A few things…

    February 17, 2009 - By 




    I’ve been playing a bit…no real direction or purpose. Just having fun.

    The first item is any ATC. I made this one day when I had inserted my foot way too far down my throat for my comfort.

    The other items are in a board book. I think this board book is the closest thing to an art journal that I’ve made so far. Other than this book that I haven’t been able to bring myself to actually journal in yet.