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House of Cards

sometimes it feels that way.....

Laden

sometimes things get a little heavy…

i began with this photo from a magazine:

it was opened in Brushstroke and Lead 1 was applied:

next i took it to iColorama and applied

Style/Simplify/4/14, Brush to mask what 

i didn't want and add the random letters, 

cropped, then Form/Straight to skew the

 image so she looked bent over:

i finished up in Path On, adding the wording

on her back.

Here is the journal spread i did with
this piece:

Published Again….Happy Dance!

I've been published again.

A picture I took of an old truck then applied a little

digital magic to is in Somerset Memories.

It's nice to see your art recognized.

…..smiling

Red On My Mind a Digital Collage Tutorial

Geri Centonze over at Art of Mob issued a challenge

on instagram to create a face collage using parts from

different photos. this is one of my favorite things to do

so i created Red On My Mind. i thought i'd walk you 

through my creative process to show how i made this piece.

i began with a picture taken with my iPhone at a ceramics

exhibit.

i opened this in iColorama app and changed it

to a painterly look.

opened this in Procreate app and then opened

my color outside the lines collage as another

layer and erased everything except the eyes.

below is what i ended up with. i also brought in a layer

with a letter written in a childs handwriting and erased

it all except what you see on the cheek.

then i opened the above image in ImageBlender as

the background and opened the picture i did below

as the foreground.

i played around with the opacity modes and

slider and then masked out all but the hair and glasses.

i took this photo back to iColorama and again

applied a painterly look. next i wanted a better

background so i opened my Tintype collage

in ImageBlender as the background and then 

brought in the above image that i had painted.

i moved the woman off center and then masked

out all but her figure. next i took the combined

photo back to iColorama and used brush/paint

to do a wash of color over the numbers to

make them fit my colors. i wasn't too happy

with top of her nose so i took the picture back

to ImageBlender and brought in the original

painted ceramic picture on top and masked

all but the nose to cover that light patch under

her glasses. i like how it turned out. i'd also

like to say that i'm sure all these steps could

have been done in iColorama…i'm just not

that good with the app…it's a powerful app and

one that i would suggest you add to your

collection.