Friday Flower Art 18 May

Here is my photo for this week’s Friday Flower Art Photo challenge The texture is a piece of fabric “moon 3″ made by my online friend Jill Sullivan

progressive challenge – sunflowers

The Yahoo group ArtTechniquesDigital challenge this week was a progressive challenge where we had to start with an image of sunflowers, add an image containing lines, combine it in an interesting way using blend modes, filters or brushes. Then add an overlay of an aged texture and blend suitably. Then add another sunflower image – [...]

Photo art Friday – macro

The challenge for 6-8 April was to showcase a macro shot or a shot that has been cropped to highlight a close-up part of the image. I have chosen to showcase these shots of a white hibiscus flower and a white lily and finally, a gardenia, with one of my own textures added

12 days of texture-day 1

Kim Klassen is generously sharing 12 days of textures with us. This is the first one, called Lilly. For this composition I set the background copy at soft light then added Lilly with the darken blending mode then Kim’s Cinammon with pin light blending mode and 69% opacity.

twirling

I have discovered a new website for displaying your digital art. It’s called Pixeldustphotoart and it hosts a weekly PhotoArtFriday challenge. The challenge for the first week of November 2011 was to do something out of your comfort zone or to try out a new technique. I found a tutorial for using the twirl filter [...]

Texture Tuesday times 2

The challenge for Texture Tuesday 25 October was to use any image we liked and to incorporate two of Kim’s textures. Here are two versions of my final photo, one with text and one without. I used two of my photos superimposed on each other and added Kim’s pumpkin grunge and simple things textures.

a European miscellany

This summer we spent two separate weeks cat-sitting for friends of ours in Germany. They live in a converted railway station building. with wonderful views across the Moselle valley vineyards in their garden  are silver birch trees with the old bark peeling off to reveal the beautiful new bark underneath red poppies late afternoon sun [...]

Abbey House Gardens

On the one sunny day we had while we were in Bristol we decided to drive to Malmesbury in Wiltshire to visit Abbey House Gardens. This is the home of the “Naked Gardeners” and they regularly hold “clothes optional days” which are the best attended of all! Our visit did not coincide with one of [...]

Iris Sibirica

Iris Sibirica’s clothes were as exotic as her name. Blessed with a Spring complexion she could wear clothes of any colour and indeed her wardrobe was extensive. Most of the time she wore a pale green underskirt with overskirts or panels of different colours and gauzy blouses of pale and contrasting colours.  The overskirts were [...]

Mayday walk

It was sunny again this afternoon so I went for a walk, firstly in Yalikavak where I found this colourful garden. Then I drove up into the hills to the abandoned village of Sandima which provided lots of great shots with masses of flowers. an old water cistern On my way back I spotted an [...]