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This was inspired by the recollection of many a time spent feeling just like this. At times if I am lucky I still can – but it is much harder to acheive as an adult. Gouache, ink pen, print collage on cartridge paper. This image has not been tidied up – I like its flaws.
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Sort of a tutorial on portraits!
by Andy73I have had a couple of requests asking me how I do my portraits. / I may not do this the right or the most effective way, but this is what…
I have had a couple of requests asking me how I do my portraits. / I may not do this the right or the most effective way, but this is what I have learnt from playing around so far, only just a newby to all of this. FOR STARTERS, BACK DROP AND LIGHTING / Sheet on the good ol’ hills clothes line for the backdrop, and the sunshine for my lighting. I havent used reflectors before, but would like to get some eventually. Other than that, I cant really say what I do, I just shoot. PHOTOSHOP / Using one of my shots ‘Blue’ as an example, using 4 steps to achieve, the eyes, the skin tone, converting to mono, and selective colour. The way I bring out the eyes is something I do for all my portraits. TO BRING OUT THE EYES / To start with, use the lasso tool, and select the eyes and mouth, then apply the unsharp mask. / To help bring out the eyes even more, use the dodge tool, set for midtones at about 7% using a small brush. *I never sharpen the entire image in portraits, just the eyes, and mouth, sometimes the hair. SKIN TONE / I use a program called ‘Neat Image’, a noise reduction program, which helps smooth out skin tones. This is the only shot i have used on a childs portrait, as I dont really think its necessary, and it can also effect the eye and mouth area, so careful not to overdo it. CONVERTING TO MONO / Layer – New Fill colour – Solid colour – set mode to color. In color picker set all values in RGB to 28. / This is the way I convert most of my images to mono, much more effective way than desaturating image. SELECTIVE COLOUR / Select the second layer and using a small soft brush eraser tool, delete the parts you want in colour. / For the edges change the opacity to about 20% to avoid a harsh line and to blend between mono and color. / Then going back to the first layer, I play around with the levels / and colour adjustment until you get the effect you want. I think thats about it. Hopefully this helps, and if anyone has any other tips, corrections, or better ways to do this, would love to learn.
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This little plant grabbed my attention, I have no idea what it is (the leaves are a couple of mm diameter) but there it was making its home on this lovely old wall at Sizergh Castle (between Lancaster and Kendal). / The castle itself is a splendid edifice but the gardens (though not large) are superb and worth a visit whenever they are open (normally March – November). Amongst all the resplendent acers in their golden autumnal coats, look closely and the beauty continues in miniature as with this little plant. / I’ve just added a very gentle watercolour effect in photoshop to take the ‘harshness’ out of the shot. Thanks for looking. / Richard
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Pencil Drawing.
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There is something distinctive about the sight and sound of a / human body falling from the rain forest canopy. The breathless / scream, the wildly gyrating arms and legs pumping thin air, the / rush of leaves, snapping branches, and the sickening thud, / followed by uneasy silence. Listening to that silence, I reflected / on how plant collecting can be an unpleasant sort of activity. / - Eric Hansen, Orchid Fever
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Of my daughter, for my daughter, but without my daughter (to model) This is is a combination of digital manipulation via the use of cloth patterns that were scanned and utilized, digital drawing, and digital painting. Since the cloth patterns started out as real cloth, it is mixed media. The symbolism in this piece is more personal to my daughter, and myself; but, I know that other people have been drawn to it for the same sort of reasons as it was about her. Partially inspired,also, by this song, which I kept singing as I was making it. This is the first time I saw the video, though! Haven’t finished watching it, even, but, boy is it weird so far! Erica is a very pink sort of girl , living in her very pink sort of world / She likes to swirl it around dots, like the moon, and drink it down / In eyelet lace and leather, skulls and kittens, she dances on gravel / Swims in lakes of geese, eats sushi but hates rice and fish, this / Is part of the whole, but, only a surface scratch leaving a pink scar PS: Editing group: This involved a lot of editing! Please read first reply to comment! Feminine intent: The intent was as a mother, to express something of her daughter to the world,and also to express to her daughter that she is seen. Not what it seems: Most people think this is a scan of a painting that involved a lot of texturing work, mixed media, etc. Since it is purely digital, minus that the cloth was once real before scanning, it is definitely not what it seems. Does that count? I don’t know! Let’s find out! This piece is, or has been featured
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Had some fun down at docklands, i got bored of shooting my usual so started taking pics of myself… Im not one for photos of myself but this is what i came up with… And i like it…
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This was once the head end of a crusher and sorter, but i think it has sorted its last stone now.
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A sort of resting is an original acrylic painting on canvas, size 80 cm / 100 cm, requires no frame is ready to hang. Artwork is for sale, signed and protected by copyright. Many thanks for stopping by ! A SORT OF RESTING WAS FEATURED In THE ART NOUVEAU AND THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT GROUP …..01-08-09! ANOTHER FEATURE HONOUR IN THE WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE GROUP …...01-08-09!
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One of the few remaining fishermen at Dawlish, Devon, sorting out his nets, before taking to sea again in his small boat. This is the start of a journey to highlight the disappearing fishing trade from the shores of the South West of England. Photos will be added/updated at a regular basis, along with some interesting facts about the locations visited, and hopefully include some places to stay, eat and drink, should you want to visit there. Thank you for looking.
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Sorting your art in your Portfolio.... Did you know that......?
by GerryMacI like to move my images around in my portfolio. I sometimes will bring some of my work that I have posted months ago to the front page. ...
I like to move my images around in my portfolio. I sometimes will bring some of my work that I have posted months ago to the front page. This is easy to do by using the ‘Art’ tab which will display all your images in a list. One the far right hand side of the page are 4 blue arrow controls: 1st Arrow: when clicked will move that image to the very top of the list on the first page. 2nd Arrow: when clicked will move that image up one position at a time towards the top of the list. 3rd Arrow: when clicked will move that image down one position at a time towards the bottom of the list. 4th Arrow: when clicked will move that image to the very bottom of the list on the last page. Now heres the deal… when using the 2nd and 3rd arrow it is quit a slow process as the page refreshes each time to show you the new position of the image and you then have to move the cursor up or down to the new position of the arrow and click again….. / This is what I have discovered, if you carefully keep the cursor on the arrow and very quickly click the left mouse button, when you stop and the page refreshes it will have moved the image the number of times you have clicked the mouse…...
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“Swimming on the Estate… sort of” was featured in the group Dimensions. Photo taken in Duin en Kruidberg estate, Holland. / Shot with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera.
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I dont really like spiders. In this image I blended 2 photos of the same spider. / Changed his legs (with liquify-filter) and used posteredges filter. / :))
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“Sort of love” was featured in PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY (25 November 2009) Made in Photoshop CS3, using the pen tool. / / /
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There was a rich load of beech-tree leaves lying on this field just out of Hilversum today.. More are still to come. Hilversum, 9th November 2008, 11.30 am / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 18 mm / F 16, 1/60, ISO 800
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11” X 14” Oil on Canvas a gift for my dear friends who lost their home to Hurricane Ike this summer. Here is a beautiful story about their home by my dear friend LIz. The Seahoose, Crystal Beach, Texas / By Liz Osten Sanders Our beloved Seahoose is gone, there’s nothing but sand left in its place. It had a ramp for Dad’s (Bop) wheel chair with a concrete statue of Mary at the top. It had a white washed picnic table that family and friends had signed and/or etched their words of wisdom. Mama and Bop had 7 children; the Osten’s to date count 48. It hosted many a spaghetti dinner for all the pot would feed. Bop always made “Character Sauce”, mushrooms, onions, Rotel and fresh jalapenos, so named for what it required to eat it. The Seahoose witnessed countless games of poker, dominos, and hearts, so many crowded around the glass table, often into the wee hours of the night, Mama and Bop slept through the noise as if it were a lullaby. The picture of us at our tacky party hung next to those from the Mardi Gras parades, when were 101 Dalmations with Cruella, and Charlie Chaplins and Waldos – we won first place once. Next in line was the Bay Vue first dollar, followed by the framed traffic ticket Bop got in France for going the wrong way in the circle, at the end the picture of Bop with the caption “it’s not so much I mind dying, it’s just I don’t wanna be there when it happens.” Bop spent many hours in his shop working with stained glass and his beautiful creations hung in all our windows. Bop and Annie painted the little kitchen table with neon paint and glued fish pictures on it they had cut out of one of the coffee table books, we didn’t even have a coffee table, but Mama had lots of beautiful coffee table books about the sea. They painted the fan blades to match. Actually anything that stood still was at risk of being painted, ask Felix, our 18 pound black cat. This was our HOME, not a vacation getaway. How many people sat on the porch swing in 34 years? Is it more or less than the number of shark teeth in the baby food jar on the kitchen window sill found over the same amount of time? How many grand kids got in Mama and Bop’s king size bed to watch Disney videos on the TV suspended from the ceiling? More than the family and friends who, in our 1200 square foot house, looked for their floor space assignment on the nightly bed chart over the years? Too late to calculate now. In recent years Annie and I spent hours combing the beach for glass and tile. Sorted and saved for projects never started, I guess it was really all about the hunt. Our stash has been returned for others to find. When we were young we had a 400’ seine and would have fish fry’s on the beach with our catch. Our “plate” was a brown paper bag, the fish seasoned with just the right amount of sand to ensure peak crispiness. The kids would throw the crabs back, so many pinched fingers. Anheuser Busch bought several Clydesdale horses with the money we spent on beer, perhaps one was Hank. In our haste to follow the last minute evacuation order, we forgot to bring Bop’s poker fund jar, and Rick’s poker fund jar, and Liz’s poker fund kept in the Halloween purse on the bed post with the “keeper” Mardi Gras beads; Hama’s (Bop’s grandmother) Santa so prominently displayed on the Christmas tree every year, and the 4’ turquoise pre-lit metal Christmas tree with a tilt. We didn’t forget, but were forced to leave, damn near everything else. Bop and Mama moved to Crystal Beach in 1974 and ran the Bay Vue grocery until 1983. Then they started Mike (Mama’s nickname) Osten Real Estate, M.O.R.E.. When forced to give up the real estate business due to health reasons in 1990, Mama created the crystalbeach.com website to provide information about her community to those surfing the net. She was 72. Mama would spend at least 6 hours a day updating the site and answering all inquiries. Mama and Bop loved Crystal Beach as did the other 46 of us and many, many friends. We scattered Mama‘s ashes on the dune in front of the Seahoose in March of 2007. Ike may have washed away the dune, but it only served to widen her presence on this place she treasured. The Osten family will be back soon, but not as soon as we would like. There are too many memories to mention, too many laughter filled times to recall. She was a grand ole house, The Seahoose, and we will miss her. And maybe, just maybe years from now, a treasure will be found buried in the sand by some unknowing hunter….a concrete statue of the Blessed Mary. God bless all the former residents of Crystal Beach Texas, you will be in our hearts forever. Bop, Liz, Annie, Felix, P-Kitty, Ditto, Cheech , Chong and the rest of the Osten clan. /
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she just needed to sort things out… / there’s a rainbow still in there… . o2.25.2oo9 / charcoal pencil on bristol paper(smooth) / 6” square (15.24cm square) butterflies layered and / drop shadows airbrushed in photoshop .
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Nikon D90 VR 105mm / F/8 @ 1/125sec Hand held in a slight breeze Not sure what these are called, hoping someone can refresh my memory Taken on my lunch break at work in Queens Gardens, Perth 26th Feb, 09 /
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*ELEMENTS*
by van049ELEMENTS / Best viewed large. / / / / “ELEMENTS” was FEATURED in the group SHAPES AND PATTERNS / / / / “ELEMENTS” was FEATURED in the group ART IN MATH / / / “ELEMENTS” is actually an experimentation of sorts, and it all started at College on a recent afternoon while sitting in class with my camera. I take group photos for some of my College Professors from time to time, and this was one of those days. While waiting on my Instructor to arrive, I looked out the window and couldn’t resist taking a shot or two of the side of the building. / / In Photoshop I enlarged the image and then began my quest of post-processing to a further degree. / / I used various filters, added a little color, tweaked at the contrast, and played around with different lighting techniques until I was pleased with the final results. / / Photo taken at ACTC in Ashland, Kentucky with my Canon EOS 40D camera.
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I rather thought tires belonged on vehicles… but fence posts work too… May 7th 2009. 9am… a foggy day… My Nikon D80 A good example of reduce reuse recycle. may not work as a tire anymore, but it works as decor…or whatever it’s currant use it lol!
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mental/emotional/spiritual defragmentation… essential periodic personal maintenance… Iterations / 3600×4800pixels ~ use large view, please ~ / Thanks for the look! Peace… Serious Fun Studios ~ fractal art images and products Fractal Art Prints & Products by SBricker @ Zazzle fractal art by SBricker @ devientART Scott Bricker at Fine Art America Scott Bricker’s art at Art Wanted.com
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