flowering quince with bokeh

if i set the "scene" to "macro" and focus on something close it sometimes comes out nice like this.

Soft sky with branches photo

I think branches against the sky create a lovely pattern. This photo has been processed with the colored pencil filter in pse 9 to give it softness; razor sharp focus and brilliant color is not always preferable to me.

Nature dried flower

A natural dried weed flower found on a walk. I used pse 9 to add vignetting; I think it brings out the subject nicely. My camera, a Nikon coolpix, takes pix @ a 16:9 ratio, this does not translate fluidly into print sizes but would look good on my monitor. This crop is ok as a 6x4". I wonder if photo labs will add a paper size that works better with the 16:9 aspect ratio?

I am lichen this one

lichen on a rock today. so decorative, almost like a pattern on fabric.

shadow me with leaves

or could be called "Shadowbox". I call it expressive. makes me want to see more ;^)

clouds are fun, too

Oooh more fun with pse9 and Perfect Photo Suite 6, with Pandora radio for sound.

love puddles love taking photos love playing in photo software love a monday off love Pandora radio love this photo I took today.

fun with my photos and photoshop elements and Perfect photo Suite 6. Addictive but legal.

Moonrise backyard

Fun fiddling with fotos. tho technically a poor photo, I like the way it looks.

Nice abstract look at reflections in our Lake California, down by the boat launch/clubhouse area.

yay! photoshop elements 9 has layer masks. i wanted more dimension on the birds and wires so used some photoshop magic, but then it seemed so typically "birds on the wires"that i used a layer mask to erase one section of the filtered effect and liked the result. i just got a new wacom create tablet and pse 9 came with it. my creative juices have been stirred; another yay!

sun in a puddle

weather in a puddle, sun and clouds with concrete. trying to see more abstractly and create an interesting photo. added warming filter in photoshop and cropped to 8x5", an atypical proportion.

A little breeze

A chilly breeze and some overcast clouds from the backporch on a sat aft. been trying to photograph "weather" recently. used the soft focus adjustment in picasa 3.

jan 26 park and ride

went for the b/w pattern against late aft clouds.

A lovely winter walk

Took my camera for a walk this eve. then did some processing in picnik and picasa just for FUN!

Zucchini leaves

From my garden, some impressive leaves! wow, really simple to add the picture from Picasa web albums. I am using google/picasa for my online storage of photos.

Drawn Inside 1, gradation of Value

Attempted to post using IE9 but publish post button was not working, so I am trying Chrome.

After watching a Grant Fuller video on http://artistnetwork.tv I have re-realized that drawing can have lost and found edges, too, like painting. It was fun to do and I don't know why I don't do more!

Catching Up

My 3 year old Toshiba laptop died a few weeks ago, and I ordered a desktop from Dell which arrived 2 weeks earlier than expected, Yay! This new computer has plenty of power and a large monitor; using Corel Painter has become enjoyable! No lagging and room to paint with all the palettes handy.
Also have found some better online storage options. The latest version of Picasa has a much improved uploader and Google sells 20 gb of storage for $5 a year. so its much more feasible to use the web albums for backup photo storage.
TTFN =)

More fun with the sun-set oil painting!

I am working on improving my composition sense and simplifying brushstrokes to make stronger paintings. This is oil, 9x12" on masonite from a photo on WetCanvas! in the reference image library. Also showing a couple of possible compositions I drew in my sketchbook. One reason I chose this particular photo is that it is of Chincoteague Island; one of my fav books as a child was "Misty of Chincoteague" about the wild horses that live there. It was written and illustrated by Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis and I would love to have a copy of it!

Sunset Oil Painting

My blog should be called "A painting occasionally"; but yay! today was occasionally. From a photo
9x12" oil on panel