Monthly Archives: December 2011

Dec142011

Seeing my artistic vision

One of my favorite artistic activities is to set my screen saver to show a random selections from this year’s photos. This visual “magazine” of my own photographs repeatedly viewed over weeks shows me what I have been interested in taking pictures of.  The random juxtaposition of different placees and different themes provides an inspirational jog to my creativity.

Rather than be confronted solely with imagery from the rest of the world on tv, magazines, or internet I can be reminded of [...]

Posted in Art in nature
Dec82011

Invert–one of my favorite digital tools

 

 

One of my favorite digital tools is the Invert transformation (found in Elements9 under Adjustments). It can add an interesting component in a layered composition, changing colors in an odd way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inverting very dark images gives a drawing-like quality to an image that could be worked on further with the drawing filters to convert it to a BXW drawing.  Also details lost in the dark are revealed.These Holiday Light images, when inverted, have a very wintry [...]

Posted in Digital Tools
Dec12011

What is Digital Quilt Art?

 

 

I recently ran across a website with a discussion of different types of digital art: With Digital Eyes  –JeriAnn Holt.  She distinguishes between digital photography, digital painting and digital collage among other types.

It seems to me that using digital techniques with textiles, cloth, quilts, etc most neatly fits into her category of Integrated Digital Art–which is a kind of mixed media category where the artist uses a variety of techniques, both digital and traditional art media, to achieve [...]

Posted in Techniques, Uncategorized