Did some “sketching” in Photoshop last night… This is my favorite idea for the blocks on my studio wall right now. The faint lines would be quilted in.
Getting my Art Deco on…
This colorful drawing was a fun jumping-off point for a digital symmetrical design. The crudely colored sections can be easily modified by filters…keeping the shapes I like, and fixing the coloring that I don’t like. I loved the little arrows that popped up in the symmetry from the negative space around the drawing.
Stage Fright
Photoshop composite – drapes drawn in Photoshop with a texture applied.Let’s call this “Stage Fright” though I was thinking of Billy Porter’s awesome performance of “Everything’s Coming up Roses” as I worked on it. No stage fright in him! Photoshop composite – drapes drawn in Photoshop with a texture applied.
Starting with a hand-drawn image
A new piece, hand-drawn and digitally manipulated…both old-school and new-fangled. This is where I started…a Zentangle-style drawing from last year. (I’m trying to mine my own materials as a starting point more often. Anything to avoid the scary blank page!) After selecting a square section of the scan, I pasted it several times into Photoshop, flipping the image across from …
Going from Garden Photo to Garden Dress
Since I’ve been delving into drawing on the iPad, I have also learned about artists who are selling their work printed on products through Print-on-Demand (POD) companies. I thought I’d test a few items at a few different POD companies, and see if I can find practical ways to print my work and offer it for sale. After reading the …
Making accounting beautiful
In my day job, I create business graphics. This snippet is from the cover of a professional journal that I designed. It’s nice to have the latitude to create colorful images for topics that can be seen as dry. View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2MhcgrZ
Virtual Quilt from Art Journal element
I picked up some drafting stencils at a thrift store for a quarter. This journal page kicked off by moving and filling an ellipse stencil around the page. Clearly not the neatest pen work, but who cares when it will be used very small! I open my picture of the page in Adobe Capture and experiment with options for patterns. …
Personal coloring pages
Playing with some personal coloring pages, using a mix of Tombow and various metallic markers. I really like the metallics – Gelly Roll, Jane Davenport, and some random ones called “INFINITY” that are surprisingly juicy. (If you’re having metallic marker envy, links for these exact markers are at the end of my post. The personal coloring pages give me an …
Custom-fabric pillow
My new pillow came in the mail yesterday! The fabric for the pillow is my design, based on a photo of the pieced fabric in my quilt. I think it would be cool to use the pillow in a room where the quilt is hanging.
Wants to be a Vegas carpet
I like stripe-y textures mixed with the bubble-like forms. It wants to be a Vegas carpet!