"mom.moma.dad"


"wait.a.moma"

Interim image:




Print screen snapshot of a lovely post led to image below. Post latent after effects of the "sixties" made me convert it to the images, above. I blame the monkees.

This post is dedicated to all parents who show their children art - museums, concerts, libraries, websites.

All you needed was love.



I am going to go back and tag all sampled images with first name of my bandito victims. Andrea is labeled here. If anyone ever minds, please let me know....

Also have to figure out what to do if ever want to shop to galleries a sampled image (like surfy pic below).....questions. Endless questions.

This is a botched "image" - bad scan with off color and part of image cut off, but I thought I would post something....I do wish it were better quality.

The print is 8 by 10 inches. Original graphics is here. The reference to pain killers is that I had broken a rib, slipped and landed on my iPod.

An iPod is tougher than bone, sometimes. iHurt, therefore iAm.

Close up from this "painting:"



BTW, please go to Sue's blog to see the Mandalas she created sampling one of my quilts. I respect her art and I would blush if it were more manly. It's here. I am very very happy to collaborate with gifted artists in our community. I am so happy to have met you. Thank you, Sue.

Also, Kris yesterday also gave me a "Day" award. It is a great honor and I want to acknowledge her site, her art and her will. Go here to experience her positive energy, her resourcefulness and her wit. She also taught me how to spell clairvoyance (ok, I fixed it with spell check). Thank you, Kris. Someday a mon.key.

Create. Comment. Enable.

Andrea of The Artful Eye had the wise suggestion that I try to salvage something of the paintings for which the scanned images were botched - she suggested aptly that I make a jambalaya.

Fearing some of you might be allergic to shellfish, I am starting with an appetizer - three thin slices of seared blackened red fish on a bed of seasoned okra. Mind you, the colors are off. But you get a sense of "stage two" of my process.





Here is the original image without paint - the print I manipulated was an 8 by 10 C-Print and mostly Golden acrylics were used. The paint was added to the photo print last June when I was working with a Broadway dancer to do a possible show. Project was abandoned, for the good actually.

I have about ten good "paintings," many are 11 by 14, but I feel I would do much better work today.

"pass.the.pearl.buck"

No disrespect meant.

Almost ready to dive in:


Needed cropping or something....

Steps into the wet sand:


I also liked this one...


I got inspired by Bobbie's recent warm image. Here. Tried to steal the typewriter, but it shattered. I blame Bill Gates (rich monopolist).

I created an "oriental rug."


Another refresh snapshot - an accident and noticed similarities to snapshot below.



Refresh clairvoyant snapshot.

"pax.tells"

F5 play in NZ led to this - fairly straightforward - cut and copied - cropped and unsaturated, etc.

No time today. Original snapshot:

"dutch.tex.nick.names"

This also sampled from Irene by way of a young girl in Tejas....

Bumps along the way:





I also like this bottom one.

"beirut.bubbly"

Listened to Neda, in opriginal post the bottom left was busy - so I worked on it....a military exercise before I invade we.wait.

I am tired of sitting around, being deadly afraid of Weapons of Mass Distraction ("WM,huh").

Other pic is an apple with a blog screenshot, see below.


"everything.has.a.bar.code.price"



I take screenshots where I move the web page down while still loading - I love to do this and capture accidents, when fate hugs me. Demo.lition.

Need a quick trigger.

Process, going back in time. Wish I could back even further and buy Microsoft stock, early early on. Then Google stock, then crude oil futures....


"sunday's.glow"

Before colore and contrast manipulation.



When renamed Sunday:



Before cropped:



Alt print screen (the story of my life):

"door.stop.start"


"norwegian.would"

Process - started out calm, got crazy and in the end I worked without "save as" because I love having no safety net. With MS Paint you can only undo three actions and then it is set with crazy glue.





Last version, warmer and more saturated - slightly:

This image belongs to Bobbie - who most graciously allowed me to borrow it - the intent here is to continue the process discussion.

With manipulation there is the ability to push the envelope and create colors that can soothe or jolt. I prefer soothing the palette in many instances because it camouflages the manipulation and keeps the focus more on the created image rather than on the process.

I seek to submerge the process - make it transparent. Here is the original image - my changing the tone makes it less magical, more somber.

I prefer Bobbie's vision, but wanted to show the example...

Later I played a bit with Bobbie's hand.keet.fox.tree and quite by "accident" I defoliated the landscape. Alas. much time in the blender, but still not a Daiquiri.


"remembrance.of.a.hand.keet.fox.tree"

Have a great day.

Process, again.

Simple discovery - inversion created surprise:



Isolated the surprise:



Cloned it, sliced and diced it:



Toned it down (do not be swayed by loud side of the force):

Again, to show process and also to highlight simple cheap trick of inverting colors which creates instant compliment (ying your yang) - like a politician kissing babies or taking a small earnest bribe.

Do not shoot me, I am just the piano player. Movie then an album. Listening to Feist, "The Reminder."

Drinking glasses in hotel bathroom during summer business trip to San Francisco. I miss San Francisco, grew up there.


"half.full.half.empty.who.knows"

Prior steps in process:

Irene asked for demo of process.

I can amplify as desired. Basically I like Microsoft Paint although wish they would enhance it. Biggest problem is you cannot reduce under 100 percent to hard to work with large files. I have old versions of Corel Paint, Photoshop - I just love Paint and the fact it is so limiting. I also use pocket cameras - nice baby digitals good for family snapshots. Wanted to buy high end Cannon, then life happened...

Photo of church floor near Wall Street, Manhattan. George Washington used to attend services there and they have his pew. It is situated less than a block from the World Trade Center:


This is a image - bad draft held in reserve - used green elements below:


Played a bit, created bones:


Another image used for elements:


Modified colors using Photo Manager:


Flipped and cropped, (spare the rod, spoil the image, grandma always said):


Words, title:


"global.warming.credit.rate"