3 Bumps and a Bug

Texture Tuesday Prompt: 3

Kim Klassen's texture: Robin's Egg

As I played with my photo, Imagination said, "Hey - this looks like the cover of a children's book. You do see it, don't you?"

I replied, "Really?"

I replied again, "Hmmmm, yes, yes it does"

Enthusiasm mounted, "OK - I'll design of the cover of an unwritten children's book."

It feels a bit "cheaty" to design a cover of a fake book, but since we are working with layers and textures altering a photo, it seemed like an ok little white lie-ish sort of thing. Among friends, you know.

On the photoshop side of things: I played around with the lasso tool and gradients - I was trying to create some worn spots on the cover. Need to pay with this a bit more.

Story behind the texture story: You know that feeling when you spy the shot and get so excited you can barely hold your camera steady? That's what happened to me with this photo:

I spotted the opportunity from our deck above the patio. Ran into the house, dragged out the ladder, hauled it down a flight of stairs, climbed atop and snapped. (I'm just over 5' 1" so when I say "drag and haul" I mean it.) The scene is the very beginnings of a wasp nest attached to a large table umbrella. After putting the ladder away, including hauling it back up a flight of stairs, the photos remained in the camera for a couple of days.

On download day, as I flipping through the pictures, I saw that darned, teeny, tiny gnat, just hanging out in the shade of the wasp nest. Disappointment grabbed my photo heart - "stupid bug." I thought for a split second about hauling out the ladder again. Quickly decided against that, a bit too much work.

 And besides, I need to learn to "compose" a photo - not just snap away - especially if the photo involves a ladder and a flight of stairs. Next time, in addition to watching for unwanted pet hair, a straight branch, etc. I will also look for bugs.

It takes courage

Time for Texture Tuesday once again.

Subject: Your own choosing

Texture: Kim Klassen Golden

Photo: flowers by a lake, with very brown water - added a layer of my photo of a garbage dumpster to add the darker brown colors, and my grunge photo frame.  Add text.

Remembering the first time I discovered e.e. cummings. OMGosh - an adult who ignores the other adult rules and makes up his own! An adult version of Pipi Longstalking. A world changing moment for me - many moons ago. 

Oh - and just saw Kim is using a Subject I suggested: the number 3,

for the next Texture Tuesday!  How exciting!

one spring day

Imagination + Photoshop

Went out to weed, brought along Cam, the camera. You, know - just in case.... 

Oh - LOOK at that dandelion shadow!

Hey, I'll bet I could.....

And I did!

Recipe: Created paintbrush from the dandelion shadow. New file: Yellow background. Paint the dandelion and shadows. Add Kim Klassen textures: old letter and KK-2 (a Texture Tuesday event). Add text.

Where it started, an almost throw away photo. I got lucky with the "leaves" on the paintbrush - photoshop picked up some of the shadows from the crusty leaves which gave me some nice leaves on the dandelion paintbrush.

Yep - the dandelion is still out in the garden, growing.

Pretty & Delicious - Texture Tuesday

Texture Tuesday Directions: anything goes, use KK yesteryear texture.  

Also added: Pretty & Delicious, grunged it up a bit,

 AND I figured out how to use Perspective in Text!  Yea!

blue egg - Texture Tuesday

Texture Tuesday. Theme: Vintage

Kim Klassen  Major Grunge texture.

Plus my own "vintage", grunge frame, and photo.

The photos others submit definitely push me to try new things in photoshop.

A great art escape while still hanging at the kitchen counter.  vbg (very big grin)

Pretend I am a Tree, please

Those "trees" - a stamp I created from the burr bush below.

The background - a texture I painted (with real paint).

Layered on is a Kim Klassen texture: celebrate January.

The burr bush before it was a stamp.

On a recent walk in the wild next to my little corner of suburbia, I snapped the gray photo above. As I took the photo I was so excited about the silhouette of the burr bush against the sky. It was also a change of appreciation for a burr bush - a nemesis from my childhood of brushing those burrs out of horse tails and dog fur. When I got back to "the lab" (photoshop at the kitchen counter) I was really dissappointed with the photo. So I succumbed to Photoshop's lure of "I wonder what I can do with this."

Yellow Dog

yellow dog

standing

Texture Tuesday.  Nothing like a deadline to foster creativity.

This week: Klassen Serendity Texture added

Another

 Another daffodil.  Another Texture Tuesday. Credit: Kim Klassen Serendipity & February Magic Textures, plus my texture and extra PS spice added to my photo below.  small update:  looks like I may have used a texture other than what the directions called for.  oops. :-)

Started here.