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Category Archives: Creative Process
using motion blur
using motion blur, both in camera and in Photoshop, to disguise the features of people where it’s difficult to get ‘model’ permission. Continue reading
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purple parrot tulip sketch and photo(s)
April 30th – the first of my one-a-day projects Sketch of tulip, and then, since that only took 15 minutes, another sketch, this time the Euphorbia – too complex actually. Should have worn my glasses; stone was bloody cold to … Continue reading
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mysterious powders revealed
Earlier in the week, while doing a ‘art set-up’ in the basement, I opened a torn brown paper bag with what I thought was acrylics in it. Instead I found about 20 white jars and several bags of spices. I … Continue reading
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bend, fold and mutilate: jungle palm art
May 6th (one-a-day project). Actually tried out a bit of painting this morning, starting with coating some seed pods I’d gathered with acrylic medium, to see if I could make them less brittle. But the medium was too thick to … Continue reading
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thinking in black & white
Perhaps use sparkly carborundum grit together with plaster for a ‘granite’ painting, inspired by the plaster walls embedded with mirror that I saw in India. Continue reading
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the Frida Kahlo stone
Inspired by the heavy, pre-Columbian jewelry of Frida Kahlo, one jewelry project, featuring a beach stone with a natural hole in it, turns into two. Continue reading
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Tagged carnelian, coral, design, Frida Kahlo, inspiration, jewelry, turquoise
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trying to jumpstart my creativity…
April 30th, 2011 – the beginning of a new creative me! I have signed up for a multimedia painting class at Emily Carr, starting June 6th, as a way to get started painting again after my life has been hijacked … Continue reading
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Tagged art, creative, inspiration, jewelry, origami, photo, photography, sculpture
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Fave Photoshop Filter # 3: ‘drybrush’ mini-tutorial
I use the ‘Drybrush’ filter in photos that are already fairly contrasty (above). It has a softer effect than the watercolour filter. It also works well on photos that are slightly out of focus in a critical area (below). For … Continue reading
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Fave Photoshop Filters #2: ‘watercolor’ mini-tutorial
the ‘Watercolor’ filter creates interesting dark and light areas in photos that might otherwise be a bit flat… Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor Wat, Cambodia, carving, filter, photo, photography, photoshop, stone, tutorial, watercolor, watercolour
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