Vintage tree

Jazz and IColorama

 

Advent Bough

Ultrapop

 

 

Today's Advent decoration

IColorama, Decim8

 

Yesterday's and today's decorations

Apps are Enlight and Phototoaster.

App is iColorama.

 

Advent Decoration 3

Apps are Ultrapop and Phototoaster.

 

Advent Bough

App is Jazz.

 

Advent decoration no.2

Moku Hanga, Phototoaster

 

Advent bough + 1

App is Jazz again .

 

Advent Bough

 

 

App is Jazz.

 

Six Degrees of Separation: Vase

  

1. Original 

  

 

2. Imaengine 

 

 

3. Etchings

 

 

 

 

4. Rays, then cropped and rotated in Photos.

 

 

 

 

5. Matter

 

 

 

 

 6. PDQ

 

 

 

 

Six Degrees of Separation: Hand

 

1. Original 

 

 

 

 

2. App: Phototoaster

 

 

 

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3. App: Union

 

 

4. App: Fragment

 

 

5. App: Moku Hanga HD

 

 

 6. App: iColorama

 

Six Degrees of Separation: Rhubarb Leaf

1. Original photo.

 

 

2. App: Jazz

 

 

 3. App: Diptic

 

 

4. App: Diptic

 

 

5. App: iColorama, using the Coherence setting to combine images 2 & 4.

 

 

6. App: Decim8

 

Fallen Apples

App used was Diana

Playing Around...

 

with letter forms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A simple Helvetica 'a' from Pages meets the app Diptic.    

A is for ...

                                 

Playing with Sketches 3

 

Another exercise from this great book.  I can't remember the correct name for this, but it is the collage equivalent of reverse appliqué. Pages from a John Lewis catalogue and card.

Playing with Sketches

 

Another exercise in the 'Playing with Sketches' book suggests making rubbings from embroideries. Now I have quite a few embroideries around Cheese Acres - this one (top right) was inspired by the trunk of a beech tree and was actually in the waste bin when I started this exercise! 

 

Things. I learned:

1. Some embroideries work better as rubbings than as embroideries.
2. Contrary to all I've ever been told about making rubbings, thin paper is not necessarily the best. The blue here is a light card and it worked very well.
3. You can make rubbings direct onto fabric but you need to secure it well.

 

Since making these I've experimented with making embroideries specifically for rubbings, making rubbings on tracing paper, and using fabric crayons and fabric pastels for rubbings, using paper bag paper for fabric crayon rubbings, and embroidering into a heat transferred rubbing.

 

 

Playing with Sketches

I'm working my way through the exercises in this excellent book. Here is an example.

 

This exercise was exploring making marks with a variety of drawing tools. I didn't have any of those listed by brand name in the book, (many more than are shown here) but fortunately there were images of the tools in question, so I found the best substitutes I could.

 

The surprise for me was how much I enjoyed drawing with a dip pen - and how much drawing you can do between dips, although considering that we still used dip pens when I was in school, I should have known!

 

Hands

What I did on my holidays

 

Visited Thomas Cromwell's stables.

 

More heads

Heads

Overhead

Oops!

Hand

Hands up

Hand and hound

Hands