WATERCOLORS, OIL PASTELS AND. . . .

THE LITHOGRAPH EFFECT

(Nothing "weird" about these!)

OTHER THINGS I'VE BEEN DOING

Not everything I do totally distorts the original, sometimes I only play with color, or in these samples with solarize and negative filters. You can get some very surprising results just going to "negative"!

This one is what I call a "raw" image, the negative view. Other filters and tweaks would be done to enhance the color, then the lithograph effect would be added to (actually) soften the view somewhat and at the same time emphasizing certain areas of the image.

"THE POND"

I put this one together piece by piece and element by element. Some components had to be created and others, notable the lily pads were made by modifying and manipulating an image I had of the lily pads on my above groun "pond". My inspiration being my "pond" as well as a acrylic on barn wood folk-art painting I purchased many, many years ago on a trip to visit my sister when she lived in Florida. This one doesn't have the "Water Hyacinth" blooms of the original; perhaps the next one will.

APRIL MUSSINGS Cont'd

APRIL MUSSINGS

CLOSING OUT THE MONTH!

This little guy was NOT supposed to have been up loaded as it is only a component of a bigger piece. Since it looked so good standing alone though I left it as it is certainly "Weird" enough!

HOW MANY RENDITIONS

I often marvel at the number of different renditions I can get out of one base line manipulation of an otherwise "normal" image. in the post following this one you will see 4, although I have a few more that I've made, but these are the ones I like best. Three of them gave up their names but one is still "untitled". It does make me think of kites though, very strange kites!

"HOW MANY" Cont'd

MORE OF THE SAME . . . .

This one was the wave below before I added additional "waves" to it Here I also used a couple of different Robert Redwood filters (plug-in for Photoshop Elements).

I was able to pick up the mat colors from the image using the "eye dropper" tool on PSE, I did have to allow for some darkening when I then used the "AAA" Texture Frame filter.




I really liked how this one turned out and except for a 3 pixel edge it has nothing else added to it. All the colors in this "work" were in the original Apo that Susan created by manipulating her image I was able to bring out the various colors and tonal qualities.









This last one is very "abstract", and the colors are just marvelous in the way the combined and mixed. This one was also used in the making of some of the other images in this section.

ENDLESS VARIATION

These are part of a series of manipulation I made using an Apo from Susan S. I have not yet tried, seriously, to do the Apo Flames, I have a hard enough time trying to master regular Fractals!


Most of these had many different filter and/or steps to get them to the finale image and I hope you enjoy them all. A few more are coming yet.