A Skull-eton and some antlers

Here are two pieces I edited as part of my practice using Photoshop. I found a fantastic blog that offers tons of free public domain images that can be downloaded and used for art. The author even encourages artists to send pictures of the art created with the images so they can be displayed. Check out graphicsfairy.blogspot.com to find some images for yourself. The first of my pieces is layered with multiple skeleton and skull images, using different opacity and blurring to de-emphezise some of them. The second was created with an images of antlers, inverted and textured, while adding color and rougher outlines. I am starting to get the hang of Photoshop's special effects, and really like the amount of choices I have at my fingertips for editing.

Twirled, Swirled and Mirrored

In this post, I wanted to show a before and after example of an image I photographed and then edited. There is a building in progress behind my apartment that looks really interesting when it is lit up at night. I thought this would be a good starting point to do some more experimenting with mirroring and twirling editing effects. This is the result of my efforts, which I may or may not keep, though it was fun to create, and gave me new ideas for future projects.

Glass Face Photographs

Every year I attend this huge summer art show at a local college, where there is an artist who makes these beautiful glass faces by melting down old bottles. The one iridescent mask style face that I bought cracked, but I thought it was still interesting to look at. These pictures are all using the two different glass faces, the one is the blue face on top of my abstract painting. The rest are the light blue, iridescent mask on top of the blue face, with the crack just giving you a glimpse of the face underneath. For this image, I photographed the faces using several different special effect settings on my camera. I think I like the painting setting the best, which seems to give an ethereal-like glow to the photograph.