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.
There's just something about saturated bright colours...
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+
@JimForADay over at iPA, you may recall, sent me a photo to play with. This post is a record of some of the stages I went through and my two favourite images after all the play/sketching/experimenting...what DOES one call the process?
The last first...these are the two images that I was most happy with;
I put Jim's iPhone photograph, (which is the first image in the 2nd and 3rd strips.) through Tiny Planet. Next was Stripecam, it's an app that I'm not 100% sure about, but as a tool simplify and focus on colour, it's excellent. Fracture came next. Water my Photo was the last one in this sequence and you all know how addicted to that I was for a while...but it did come after Kaleidoscope X. The 'X' is important, I don't like the app without the X...Kooleido is another kaleidoscope app that I love. Most of the others that I've tried have been a big disapointment. The two mentioned allow a good choice of variables and let you use photographs from your phone photo album.
I've been exploring Photo Studio again recently. Until now I've not used it very much, not sure why. Perhaps because of the amount of competition it has...yeah, I'm a bit of an app addict ;( This sequence is mix of Photo Studio filters and, naturally, Water my Photo again.
The Photo Studio filtering continues, but this time I start to layer the results using HDR Fix. I like using this for blending two images together - partly because it's quick and easy and partly because it allows for plenty of adjustment. Then I went to Juxtaposer to combine elements togther collage style. Juxtaposer was the best app for this for quite some time, now we have Superimpose too which has more scope but the UI isn't as intuitive.
How about that? I really did get back and edit this...but I did it in Posterous, so apologies for any typos, I'm lost without a spellchecker these days...
My plan was to post the work process behind this digital art work...but time has run away from me, so I'll do a longer post tomorrow.
September's 'App it!' has begun and this is my first entry.
Taken from an iPhone photograph by Clint Cline (@clix2020)
I think this mandala began as the doodle I did for @karinSF
Kaleidoscope X and then photo studio then addlib then back through Photo Studio a few times. The border was added with Filterstorm when I was looking to see how big the image was. Seems Addlib only produces small resolution images too.
Finally had a medic lay hands on me for the first time since my op. I made an appointment to see my GP to check my scars/wounds. (What do you call them at this in between stage when the outside is more or less healed but the inside isn't?) Everything seems as expected, she believes it'll be after Christmas before I start to feel the real benefits of being gallbladder free and made a lot of sense. So although I didn't think I was worried about the added pain etc I must have been, because I feel better for having seen her.
Fibromyalgia - never a dull moment.
And it's a really stupid name for it. Even chronic pain syndrome would be better. It needs the word 'neuro' in there somewhere. Just saying... ;)
The excitement of a trip out of the house left me exhausted, so I haven't dipped my toes in the twitter water today. My apologies.
One of the artists at iPA is astonishingly good at creating the most wonderful montages on his phone. Intimidatingly good actually...it's a whole new way of working and I've struggled with it because I've been trying to approach it using old skills. Skills from the real world and my folders of collected images...I'm still struggling greatly with it but at least I've started to play and achieve some almost pleasing results...so here are the first to see the light of day. Feedback (if not too harsh) is as always appreciated ;)
And pop over to iPA to marvel at Clint Cline's (clix2020) creations.
Alas this little guy has gone through so much that I'm not entirely sure where he came from. The odds are that Kaleidoscope X was the beginning, but then, sorry no idea :( I DO remember the final stages though - Photo Studio and a saved effect I created when last engrossed in an Appit! challenge. You may recognise part of the effect from the 'Dreaming' appit! image...
Just watched a movie. 'Untraceable', such promise sadly wasted...and too close to torture porn for my comfort.
Another metallic doodle - and then I played with it in Photo Studio and I actually had the presence of mind to save as a preset any group of effects that I liked this time. Yay me ;)
Then of course the water my photo obsession kicked in and...
It's a free app and I like what it does, but the file size is tiny. I'd pay for it if it would address that.
And then lastly for no apparent reason I can come up with, here's a screen shot of my phone with one of my pink wallpapers...I like pink. Never used to. Odd that.
It's a tad disorientating going from a photo of a home screen shot to the home screen...most odd. Try it...
I am a disabled artist & designer based in Liverpool, a coastal city in the North West of England.