Ginny Schmidt
Profile
Back home in Florida after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, and some of my favorite abstract creations have come from this. Just doing it is so much fun, it is an end in itself, but it is nice to be able to share my work. I hope that others will enjoy it. Thanks for stopping by, and come again real soon.
FEATURED WORKS
DIGITALLY CREATED ABSTRACTS
WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS
RED HIBISCUS
Groups
Ginny Schmidt is a member of All Around Florida: Christmas Card Voucher Challenge is on , Bubble Jeopardy, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Yellow Gallery, ! $$☻Get Art Promoted☺$$ !, " ' Too Bright ' ", " You Big SOFTY", *A Beautiful Blur, *Focus and Lighting*, 60 and Beyond, Abstract Art, ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING, Aeronautics & Aviation, All About Water, All In, "Editing", All Pets Great and Small, All the Colors of the Rainbow, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alphabet Soup , Architectural Photography, As Is, Backyard Photography (NO MACROS, DOGS, CATS, INSECTS, SKYSCAPES), Bits and Pieces , Black and White Photography, Black with a hint of colour, Books, Candid photographs of friends and family~~ (PLEASE ADD A DESCRIPTION OF WHO IS IN THE PICTURE), Cards For Sale (Must have writing on them), Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Childhood, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Classic Cars Worldwide, color altering, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: BLACK [No FLowers]), Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Cutest of the Cute, Depth Of Field (2 images per day) - Read Group Rules Please, Digital Abstracts & Patterns, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Digital Photography, Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Eye Contact (Animals Only), Fabulous Flowers, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), First Things, Florida the Sunshine State, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , Forests, Frame In Frame, Full Moon, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, Good News Group - Sharing & Caring, Green!, Hand Drawn or Painted Art of Happiness or Joy, Humour Captured, If it doesn't belong, ImageWriting (2/24), In the Pink 50% pink, Incredible India, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Just Fun, Just Lines, Key West and the Florida Keys, Leaves , Live and Let Live, Living Christianity, Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Made In Digital, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Nature's Wonders, Night Photography, Numbers One to a Trillion, Object Studies & Concepts, Once In A Blue Moon, One Single Flower On Show.. 2 Photo's per day, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Panoramas - 3:1 minimum ratio, Passions, Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, Pelicans, People and Portraiture Photography, Pets Are Us ~ 2 per day, Photo Manipulators, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Playful Photogenic Animals, Pop Art, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Seasonal Greeting Cards, Selective Coloring, Self as Other, Sepia Only, Shades of Grey, Shadows & Reflections, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Spiritual Art, Statues and Such, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Street Photography and Photojournalism, Strictly Human Faces , Sunrise, Sunset, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Art of Pain, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The true beauty, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, This Is Relevant (2 per day), Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Weekly Theme Challenges, Who are YOU to Judge?, Your Country's Best (2 images per day) and † The Picture of Scripture †.
Journal Entries
Other Artsy Pursuits
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Wow, thank you, robynstephenson
Posted 3 days ago, 4 comments so far.
Tis the Season
Posted 6 days ago, 2 comments so far.
Christmas Cards available now
Posted 20 days ago, 2 comments so far.
Plant's For Sale ... A Pet Peeve
Posted 29 days ago, 7 comments so far.
My Tree Fell Down
Posted about 1 month ago, 1 comment so far.
Biweekly Feature Update
Posted about 1 month ago, 4 comments so far.
French impressionist question
Posted about 1 month ago, 6 comments so far.
Sunday update, a day late
Posted about 1 month ago, 2 comments so far.
Four features this past week
Posted 2 months ago, 5 comments so far.
Art
Writing
How my hat got in trouble on the way home from Cozumel
There had to be something I could do, and I really needed to do it pretty soon.
Imaginary Conversations at 3 a.m.
What would you say, if you had the chance, to have a REAL / conversation, face-to-face and one-on-one, with a loved / one who left with unresolved conflict between you?
