AWAKE!

I am currently working my way through an online Photoshop course called Awake! Living the (Photo)-Artistic Life. The designer of this course, Sebastian Michaels, has created an online Digital Art magazine and I have a bit of a write up in issue 2.

Living the Photo Artistic Life Issue 2

 

 

I feel very humbled to be a part of such a talented group of artists.

Please take the time to look through this wonderful magazine and appreciate the other artists' work.

 

 

 

 

Creative Mojo is Missing!

Well, as I'm sure all artists and creative folk can attest to, my creative mojo has gone AWOL. Some days I can create like someone possessed and then my creative mojo clears off. It doesn't normally go for long but this time it seems to have taken an extended holiday. Hopefully it's sight seeing and finding lots of images and ideas for me when it gets back.

At times like this I actually do what got me into digital art in the first place..... I create digital scrapbook pages. And sometimes my creative spark appears for a short while. Here is a single page of a walk along a canal not far from where I used to live. I also created just a single artsy page from one of the photos.

The walk was along part of the Llangollen Canal at Whixall, North Shropshire. UK.

 

 

 

Off to have a play with a tutorial. Bye for now..

Abstracts.

I find abstract art hard to do. Funny really, as pretty much anything goes but I still find it crazy hard. Usually when I create a piece, I have a finished image in my mind or I know what I want it for. Maybe a card for somebody or a card design somebody else might like. But abstract art isn't something I'd normally put on my wall.

I've done a few I'm actually quite pleased with and if I had wall space would quite happily put them on a wall.

 

 

Off to play with another technique so toodle pip for now.

Watercolour and Sketch

I have been learning how to create a watercolour and sketch image from a photo. I've used two tutorials for this technique. One by Katie Pertiet and the other by Sebastian Michaels as part of the Awake! course. Simple to do but not so easy to get it to look good. Here are a few of my images created using this technique.

 

 

I'm rather fond of this technique myself. It lends itself to so many different styles of compositions.

 

 

I'm going to work on abstracts next.