The last few posts I've mentioned my fondness for adding painterly effects to the images I create - most recently with the 'Paint Mee' app.
Another painterly app is 'Auto Painter.' (There's Auto Painter ll now as well) This differs from Paint Mee and Artisita Oil in that there are no adjustments possible. These latter two apps let you tweak everything from brush size to colour palette etc. With Auto Painter there are four different filters and that's it. Apart from the option to mask the area you want the most detail added to, but I've not noticed this making much difference really...
Auto Painter one has four filters - Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.
I'm posting this from my phone because I'm in bed, (had a bad week pain and fatigue wise this week.) so I don't know what order the app will post the images in. What I'm aiming for is -
1: The original photograph of a tree (taken with the iPhone 4S) which I then tweaked in Camera+ and turned into a painted version with Paint Mee.
2: The paint Mee version
3: Auto Painter Aquarell
4: Auto Painter Benson
5: Auto Painter Cezanne 6: Auto Painter Van Gogh (I've never seen this filter produce anything I like.)
7,8,9: Are screen shots from the app.
Here are two pieces of art from my recent series of new images, 'Combinations of Infinity.' There are two apps that I seem to be using quite a bit recently;
Paint Mee, (love the resolution the two 'Mee' apps can save at) and 'Photo Cube'. I suspect the Photo Cube app is intended to be a photo album slideshow tool but I like the geometry of the images it can create. Here are some of the steps that led to the above.
I photographed a tulip in the garden. Then using 'Paint Mee' made it blue;
After a brief play with it in 'Kyoobik FX' I open 'Photo Cube'. I choose a shape. You tap each surface and then choose from your photo album the image that you want to go there. You can alter the size of the faces, the background colour, the colour palette can be altered to a rainbow effect and there are various options about what to do with the finished shape;
I've posted some of the images to my sketchbook blog and am in the process of adding them to my neglected Zazzle gallery. I've also been spending most of my online time trying to wrestle my website into shape. Let me know what you think of it so far...bearing in mind I'm pretty thin skinned ;)
Have a happy weekend lovely reader.
I've just altered my phone wallpaper, something warm and cheerful to try to coax the Spring to return...and thought I'd share.
Fluid motion, artista oil and camera+
I've been experimenting with Spin Art and Percolator. The updates to Percolator have made it so much more versatile than it was in the beginning and it's worth checking out not just for it's strong graphic quality but also as a means of adding texture to your digital art.
I'm terribly forgetful when it comes to resizing and watermarking images before upload, but these two apps make it much easier;
iWatermark
iResize - this lets you change the dpi too, and do batch edits. Can't believe I only just found it... I need to try to spend more time at iPA...
Much to my surprise I've ended up with a series of Percolated spin art. If you're curious to see the series so far in it's raw state - sign up for my newsletter and I'll send you the password to my online sketchbook.
(What I need to do is add it to the confirmation email you get when you sign up - that way you don't have to wait for me to check my mailing list. Just email me if I'm being tardy...it's a spoon shortage rather than a lack of interest.)
Happy Sunday (or whatever day you're reading this.)
Sx
A lovely Twitter/Facebook Fibro friend posted a status update about 'Pay it Forward 2012'
Were there 5 people who wanted to receive a handmade gift from her? On condition that they in turn would give 5 gifts.
I responded, and received a lovely hand knitted hat (which I'm in awe of, even when my hands worked that well I didn't have the patience for knitting.)
Two of these ACEO sized paintings have been 'Paid Forward' to folks who accepted the challenge. Which means...I have 3 left to give...
Let me know if you want an original painting from me.
They're not scanned when finished - you'll own the only version, besides photos like those above.
I mean, who knows - when I'm dead they may be worth something ;) Especially as my hands and I aren't well enough to paint very often...
But you have to pay the kindness forward to 5 people.
Are you prepared to take that challenge?
Here's my contribution for the second Twitter Art Exhibit in Moss, Norway.
David Sandum is organising it again and this time it's to raise money for a local shelter for Battered women and children. For further information see his blog entry here;
http://davidsandumart.posterous.com/call-for-artists-2nd-twitter-art-exhibit-...
Doodle drawn with a black sharpie, first layer is Caran D'Ache water soluble pencils, (I need a pencil grip because my hands find it hard to grip and I can only use them for short period of times.)
Second layer is iridescent water colour paint.
The outline is 3D glossy paint.
Yes, late posting...though this was done last week, I'm just behind with everything admin related.
(No change there then ;)
Happy Friday lovely peeps
Sx
Week 5 of the 52 week challenge. The theme - eyes.
Using the app...so here's the last one
Possibly
After a break - both for AppIt! and for me - the challenge returns. This time the photo comes from iHeart.
I've avoided iPA for a while, along with a lot of things, because...oh a multitude of reasons. Mostly because I'm aware that I can no longer keep up with much and just posting and not commenting/replying much stresses me out with guilt.
Also, my muse doesn't seem to approve of my mood of late and has gone elsewhere.
Till Appit started.
The photo is of a tree.
Just a tree.
In a field.
...and I couldn't for the life of me decide what to do with it apart from alter its colour etc. But it's turned into a journey of app revisiting and I'm having fun.
I am a disabled artist & designer based in Liverpool, a coastal city in the North West of England.