tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50639906581292085102024-02-19T02:26:17.134-08:00A Strange ArtworldWhitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-84234532037104883552013-01-12T06:35:00.001-08:002013-01-12T06:35:57.899-08:00The Creative Process - Don't Burn Out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">Rule number one for all creatives is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DON’T BURN OUT</b>. Its common sense but we do it anyway. Despite
everything I know I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">still</i> do it.
Neglect to put petrol in your car, change the oil or have it serviced and it
will grind to a halt leaving your sorry ass on the motorway, in the middle of
the night, in the pouring rain. With no phone reception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neglect to feed and nurture your creative
self and the result is much the same. There is also no RAC/AA cover for this eventuality
. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you will have to do it the hard
way and walk; coming back from creative burn out takes as long as it takes. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So, how to avoid the burn-out? We talk about creative ‘output’ for a
reason; the words, the music, the ideas, all pour <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">out</i> of you. You need to put something back <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in</i> occasionally or you’re going to run dry. Creativity may come
from an undefined somewhere but it does <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not,
not, not</b> live on fresh air.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Forget the hippy-dippy feel of this word – it comes from the word
“nourish” which means to “sustain with food, foster, cherish, nurse”.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Take care of yourself. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is so basic is shouldn’t need saying but sadly it often does – Don’t
expect to do your best work if you are, strung out on lack of sleep, too many
ciggies, too much coffee, alcohol, drugs, emotional dramas, lousy diet, or
internet browsing. Contrary to popular myth a steady diet of the above will not
make you a great actor/ writer/ artist/musician. We can all sustain a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bit of that</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">( not trying to be a killjoy ) but keep it up and all you’ll do is break
yourself. If you are broken then no-one else is going to write that novel,
paint that canvas or dream up the great design.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You are your own greatest resource,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>respect what you have and value your Self enough to take care of it.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Take your nose <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">off</i> the grindstone and do something else.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Doing something else allows the creative part of your mind to switch
into another mode. Not only is this is restful but, ultimately useful, for your
creativity will continue to work at a deeper level – think Archimedes in his
bath. Play the ukulele or the kazoo, take up knitting or gardening, something,
anything else that you can switch to. It helps if it is something fun. Anything
fun pays back into the creative bank. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Physical activity is especially good for this; there’s a zen like thing
that happens. Ask anyone who runs or swims or walks. Ideas, inspirations and
solutions will come when you give them room. If you do this often enough your creative
mind comes to recognise this ‘switching off’ and will begin to use this channel
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Give yourself some
playtime. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Regardless of any deadlines you might have, you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">have to</b> do this. You can get away with denying yourself for a while
but do it for too long and you will dry yourself up. It doesn’t have to be
complicated, expensive or time consuming Salsa class or blowing bubbles,
doesn’t really matter but it does need to be fun/satisfying in some way. I
repeat, anything fun pays back into the creative bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Daydreaming</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In much the same way as play is frowned upon once you get past a certain
age, so daydreaming is considered a waste of time. Not so, daydreaming may well
keep you alive. Not in a physical sense but in a crucial, imaginative,
sensitive, nourishing and creative way. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dreams are absolutely essential to our emotional wellbeing; they nourish
the soul. Daydreaming speaks to the heart and essence of who and what you are
both as an individual and as a human being. And creativity has to have the
freewheeling, noodling downtime that daydreaming gives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my favourite Albert Einstein quotes is “Imagination
is more important than knowledge”. And he should know.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All very well and good but how do you take the time, make the time to
daydream? It’s a question of whether you and your creativity are worth it. The
good news is you don’t necessarily need big chunks of time <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">but you do need to do it</b>. My favourite is to make a cup of tea and
stand at the window and watch the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not, make a cup of tea and browse the internet, send a text, phone my
mother, drink tea with one hand and fill the cat’s bowl with the other. Just do
nothing for a whole five minutes. Then you can do all that other shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Take a bath with no
interruptions.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> ( Harder than you think, especially if you have
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Walk the dog alone.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Not, walk the
dog and text somebody. Wander lonely as a cloud. It’s not lonely, it’s deeply
restful. Haven’t got a dog? Borrow one. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Doodle</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – doodling on a
page is brilliant for getting the monkey mind to take time off. You don’t need
to be an artist to do this and nobody else has to see it. It’s about random
lines not making a masterpiece. I’m not a drawing kind of artist but I’ve got
sketchbooks full of doodles.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stare out of the window</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> on your daily
commute instead of texting, phoning, playing with your ipod/tablet. You will be
so much more refreshed and notice so much more than if you fiddle the whole
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Take a proper lunchbreak </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">– don’t sit at
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not daydreaming as such, but related to . . . . <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Meditate </b>in the morning or before bed. No method, no guru, no
teacher. Just sit with yourself and allow your breathing to relax and slow
down. Yes, the monkey mind will chatter like, well, a monkey but sit with
yourself anyway. Can be five minutes or an hour, whatever is good for you. If
all you get out of it is five minutes to yourself in peace and quiet then
you’ve gained something. If you persue meditation as more of a practise you
will come to find that there is a vast space on the inside and below the monkey
mind there is a deep deep calm. All of which helps to redress the thousand and
one demands that erode our personal head space and leave us feeling strung out.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anything that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absorbs you completely</i>
. . . . jigsaw puzzles, origami, lego ( highly recommended for adults ) ,
taking things apart, cleaning them then putting them back together again, more
doodling ( buy yourself a colouring book and a set of feltpens if you feel
inhibited by the idea of doodling ). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Scrapbooks . . . . . as a visual artist this is what I do to re-inspire
and feed the creative mind. Cutting pictures out of magazines, sticking them
down with glue is the most absorbing process. Again, it doesn’t have to be
perfect ( I get way too hung up on making it look good ) and no-one has to see
it but it gives the unconscious mind so much fodder.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Find new areas of interest – depart from your norm, whatever it is and look
at something new. New interests feed the imagination in ways you cannot
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are a hundred and one ways that you can feed your creative self,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographing at night . . . a natural progression from walking at night. Go out during the day and there is too much to engage with. Walking at night everything is pared down, visually and aurally. I feel free walking at night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still thinking about alienation but also about the different layers to the world; there is always another world beneath/behind/underlying the everyday one we so casually accept. Which most of us don't really look at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Layering the different shots together . . . . don't ask me why I went for colour </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">with these . . . . just to see really. I shall draw my last breath thinking " I wonder what would happen if . . . . ?". There's a kind of underwater feel here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alienation,strangeness, loneliness</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> . . . </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this little seaside town has it's desolation just like anywhere else. I'm not interested in the chocolate box giftshop chip shop thing unless it's to draw out the strangeness of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favourite out of all this lot ( above ) . . . now the new blog header, facebook picture thingy. Can't get enough of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then invert everything and we've got an urban take on the <a href="http://astrangeartworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/landscape-of-nostalgia.html#.UJltudl3K9I">Landscape of Nostalgia </a>thing. They have a kind of early photography feel to them </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">but with weird added to the mix. Which do you like best? Colour or vanilla?</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
ideal, for any artist, is to stay creatively healthy, happy, and productive.
Begin by recognising that the creative self is something that has specific
needs and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>requires nurturing and you’ve
made a start. What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> the creative
self need? What is the nature of creativity? </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">If
asked, most people would say that creativity is just making stuff. But no, making
stuff is the <i>end product</i>. Creation itself arises from the very core of
our being, from a deep, deep wellspring within. It is the expression of
something that comes out of the Self but also comes from somewhere beyond
ourselves.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">It is
both simple and complicated. Simple because creation is, first and foremost,
play. Not worthy, sensible, serious stuff but simple child- like wonder and playfulness.
Complicated because we grow so far from our simple selves and the world demands
so much that goes against the grain of that simplicity and inner freedom that we
are often in danger of draining the life out of ourselves and our creative
natures.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">If you
watch a small child play, they are completely involved, totally present
and alive in the moment, absorbed, endlessly fascinated, always curious, experiencing
the world with all their senses. There is little or no sense of what they can’t
do. Once you've left childhood, play is dismissed as being childish and a waste
of time. But play is not only how children express themselves, it is how they
learn about the world and their place in it. It is how they innovate and find
solutions. It is how their imaginations and their hearts learn to fly. As
Einstein once said “ Imagination is more important than knowledge”.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">Your
creative self is just like that small child. Yes, if you are a working
artist/writer/musician there will be hard work and serious stuff but at the
heart of it all you must keep the wonderment, the sense of adventure, the fun,
the lack of strictures and rules and all the other crap that the world says you
need in your life but that will suffocate the life out of that creative happy
child. Do this you and you create a place within your life from which all the
art/words/music/dance comes. This is the anchor, the starting point, the
bedrock of your creative life from which all else proceeds.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
can be a tricky balance to try and maintain. The world clamours ever louder for
our attention and there a million and one ways to drift away from that bedrock.
Knowing what you need is the vital starting point, from that you can begin to
work out how to keep your creative self sane, happy and nourished.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">I will
leave you with a couple of quotations from Joseph Campbell that have been
constant reminders of where my heart has needed to be . . </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">“I
don’t know whether my conciousness is proper conciousness or not, I don’t know
whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where
my rapture is. So let me hold onto my rapture and that will bring me both my
conciousness and my being.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">“If you
do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there
all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the
one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in
your field of bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you
all the time.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Joseph
Campbell, Mythologist.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Next time . . . . . What Not to Do or How to Keep your Creative Sanity </span></span></div>
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Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-90931375887152520292012-09-18T05:55:00.001-07:002012-09-18T05:55:54.566-07:00The Creative Process - Artists are not like other people.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Artists are not like other people. Creating
is not something we chose<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as a self
indulgent whimsy, floating around with paintbrush/pen/musical instrument in
hand, head in the clouds, living in some fey fantasy La-La Land waiting for The
Muse to touch us with her faery wand. Tell someone you’re an artist though and
you will see an approximation of just that cross their minds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For most artists creativity is not a
choice</span>; <span style="font-family: Verdana;">it's a need. It is essential
to your wellbeing and your peace of mind and it is as intrinsic to you as
your DNA</span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is hard wired into your
soul. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All very well and good but your creative
soul has its own set of rules and needs. Meet these needs and you will feel
content, harmony will reign and your work will flow. Neglect or ignore these
needs and you will begin to feel emotionally dehydrated, irritable, defensive,
hostile, exhausted and pretty much ready to kill anyone who crosses you. Or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>looks at you the wrong way. Oh, and your work,
your beloved work. Producing anything significant will be like pulling teeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The secret lies in knowing and
understanding what the creative self needs. You wouldn’t buy a car and not
bother to find out whether it takes leaded or unleaded petrol. Nor would you
think of driving it around without putting any petrol in it at all. Understand
what you’ve got and you can care for it and nurture it. It will, in turn,
nurture you. Sounds corny but it’s true</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next time I will look at how your
creativity works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the meantime do leave comments,
opinions etc – feedback on this would be most valuable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm knackered, burnt out, depleted, bereft
of inspiration ( I could go on but I don't want to go bringing parrots into
it*) . Another bout of creative failure has brought about this sorry state. And
yet I am not sorry. Not sorry I tried and not sorry that, once again, I
failed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Being self taught means there is a lot more
trial and error than usual; I haven't had art college to help me define my
ideas or style, it's been a wide ranging, on-going process of trying everything
to see what works. And what doesn't. A lot of this process has taken place
publicly, on my blog, website and facebook page not to mention the Etsy shops
that died a death. Oh yes, I've put a lot of crap out there over the last few
years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There have been times when failure
has been particularily hard</span> - <span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have
torn up and thrown out almost all my early paper based work. That <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>really really hurt and I confess to having
cried but each time I did it I knew I was clearing the way for something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And that's the point right there -
failure is not this isolated 'thing', it's part of a process. Obvious really
but we tend to focus on the bit that didn't work rather than the wonderful,
complex, evolving whole that it is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I once likened the creative process to
wandering from a place you know to a place you don't know and possibly can't
conceive of with a cardboard box on your head.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">To which I might add that there is a big element of going over the
edge of a cliff as well. With the box still on your head, of course. Sometimes
I make a mad dash for the edge and fling myself off just to see what happens</span>,
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">at other times I find myself inching closer
and closer to the edge</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">delicately
feeling my way along. I am driven by curiosity and just enough fear and
uncertainty to make it interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I realized the other day that I loved this
crazy process and was no longer that fazed by the possibility of failure -
public or otherwise. The prospect of seeing whether I could fly off the edge of
the metaphorical cliff or if I was going to crash and burn is just too damm
exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And in the spirit of possible failure I
intend to blog more about what goes to make up the creative process, why
artists are different from other people and how not to burn out . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that kind of thing. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">* Youtube search 'Norwegian Blue Parrot' if you don't get this reference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">** This picture isn't actually relevant I just didn't have a picture of a mad artist running off the edge of a cliff. </span><br />
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Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-42496684157805415842012-08-24T06:45:00.002-07:002012-08-24T06:45:33.985-07:00Strangeartworld Photography - The Fair came to Town<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A stunning opportunity for taking pictures . . . . thursday night, the rides only half filled the carpark in the middle of town, a very sad bedraggled looking affair, only a few bewildered looking families and the usual bunch of likely lads. </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JoKSFnqwUMw/UDd_XuTxlhI/AAAAAAAAIH4/hZ4sYiFMnaI/s1600/The+Fair+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JoKSFnqwUMw/UDd_XuTxlhI/AAAAAAAAIH4/hZ4sYiFMnaI/s320/The+Fair+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because it was almost deserted I was able to lie down on the steps of the Dodgers ride to get a couple of really good shots of the lights. No-one took any notice . . . I'm developing the knack for being invisible when I take pictures.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wm_bFNXWkko/UDd_ZYj8RnI/AAAAAAAAIIY/NfOe2WimRHo/s1600/The+Fair+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wm_bFNXWkko/UDd_ZYj8RnI/AAAAAAAAIIY/NfOe2WimRHo/s320/The+Fair+9.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Camera on the same setting, getting two very different results, I'm loving the over exposed yellow.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g9JXVTU2hdU/UDd_Z-zXUCI/AAAAAAAAIIg/feQMTj8P38E/s1600/The+Fair+13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g9JXVTU2hdU/UDd_Z-zXUCI/AAAAAAAAIIg/feQMTj8P38E/s320/The+Fair+13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you have to admit this one's a cracker . . . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can't decide which I like better here, the colour or the black and white. The black and white given a little bit of punch with levels but that's all. The rest are all straight out of the camera. Have to say I also like the different size formats available to me with this camera ( Lumix G3 ).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I only came home because the battery
died on me . . . . . dying to get out and take more trying different
camera settings this time but, being a Bank Holiday in England, it's
pouring with rain. I keep going to window to look out and speculate
wether it will pass over by this evening. Keep your fingers crossed for
me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see the rest of the pictures <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/110261186541183173984/TheFair?authkey=Gv1sRgCJChlriW1P6xIg">here</a></span><br />
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Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-68694415867802710102012-07-16T12:54:00.001-07:002012-07-16T12:54:24.020-07:00Random Headspill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There's just too much stuff in my head . . . . I try to sleep and all I get is Random Headspill.</span></div>
</div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-40512920414919363692012-07-11T12:10:00.000-07:002012-07-11T12:10:02.351-07:00Rosary - Photo Montage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Malcontent that I am</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wasn't entirely pleased with the <a href="http://astrangeartworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/putting-stuff-in-my-scanner-part-iii.html#.T_3On9m1t8E">last lot of images</a> . . . same old, same old. The germ of an idea was there but it needed taking up a level. I can't rest until I'm satisfied, got to keep tweaking . . . . now this I <i>am</i> pleased with. It's too late for me to be doing test prints now but first thing tomorrow . . . . . .</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have a feeling this one will make it into the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrangeArtworld">Strangeartworld Etsy</a> shop so check my Facebook page for the latest.</span></div>
</div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-25297410583035357492012-07-10T06:09:00.000-07:002012-07-10T06:09:50.870-07:00Putting Stuff in my Scanner Part III - Spoons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, Hector, I really do put spoons in my scanner. I'd probably put the cat in the scanner if I could get hold of him! Having had some success with this so far I'll admit I'm looking at <i>everything</i> with a speculative eye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, the spoons . . . . the scanner was being pissy with me the day I did this and kept cutting the edge off one of them. In the end I thought, sod it, I'll work with it as it is. Got to love the accidental . . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is one of those things that I've just got to live with for a while. Most of all I need to do some test prints and stick them up on the wall and live with those for a while. It's the ultimate test . . . . the weaknesses and strengths of a piece will always show if you give it time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here I had printed the spoon out, hand stitched the paper and re-scanned. More food for thought.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Like with the gloves, the story needs to tell itself and right now I have only a small inkling of what that might be. All too often the temptation is to poke it and push it. It's like making an omelette . . . let it set and you've got something good, poke it too much and you've got scambled eggs. One more instalment of 'Stuff I put in my Scanner' to come . . . . till then . . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Something I had to try in the scanner was this old glove . . . . the softest softest kid, faded and grubby, it seemed perfect. First try with it as a Photoshop brush/stamp was nothing special but I was sure it <i>ought</i> to work so I kept going. Put a brush of an old sheet of watercolour paper with a raggedy edge</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">underneath and then printed it out onto card.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just following blind really, gingerly feeling my way to the next step but not able to see any further</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">than just that next step.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is good, an exercise in trust</span> . . . . <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">usually I try and pin everything down to the nth degree.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sewing into the paper </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">with a dull yellow thread, hugely satisfying but then hand sewing always soothes my soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now it's another brush/stamp and I've layered it up a bit and echoed the yellow of the thread I used. So far ,so good</span> . . . . .<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now we're getting somewhere . . . . deconstructing the larger piece and relayering. Putting conscious control aside . . . . .allowing the story to tell itself . . . . something about domesticity . . . . .it has a kind of Georgian feel to it . . . thinking of the painstaking restoration of old houses where layers of history can be seen in the flaking faded paint and the weight of peoples lives</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">hang in the air. It is often the small everyday things that remain, a child's toy, a lady's comb, a piece of lace, that are the most poignant. This was what emerged, slowly and almost incidentally while I was working.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then a further deconstruction . . . . taking sections of the glove to re-lay them onto a new ( digital ) surface. I'm not sure I wouldn't print those pieces out seperately and sew them onto watercolour paper and then scan that back in. A very different way of working for me . . . slower, more absorbing but infinitely satisfying. To be continued . . . . . </span> <br />
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Boredom, curiosity, whatever it was it was going to happen at some point . . . putting 3-D stuff in my scanner. In order to protect the glass I cut up a plastic wallet and lay that on the scanner bed placing the objects on top of that. Let me tell you it attracts a <i>lot</i> of dust, no sooner had I wiped one side of the plastic clean then the other side went all staticky and dusty. The scan of the matches has all the dust included. I got impatient and thought I'd better pretend it was meant to be that way or I'd still be there now.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First my Rosary got scanned and then some matches. Pretty good combination I reckon. The matches led to a whole other lots of pictures which I'll show you presently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This one is entitled 'The Ascension' using one of my old altered dolls . . . I can't help being flippant. Every time I think I've got the whole 'Serious Art' thing nailed there's a part of me that pushes it in the other direction. I was a nightmare at school for that very reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here we are . . . . 'The Brides of Christ' using a paper collage of a bride from a war time Picture Post magazine. Me being flippant again. It makes me laugh though which is so important; I quickly get fed up with anything po-faced or boring.</span></div>
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And then, from one minute to the next it went from slightly silly to pretty serious. This piece really embodies the practise of payer and meditation. Go figure.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The last few weeks have seen me churn out a ton of new ideas - artist as sausage machine you know</span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It seems to be cyclical, I can tell when I'm coming up for one of these</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> periods because they are always preceeded by a kind of restlessness and irritability where I'm unable to settle to anything properly. Like a bubble waiting to burst, things rising slowly to the surface. Sometimes wonder if the cycle/gestation thing is more pronounced because I'm female but I suspect all creative people have something similar</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It takes a while to sort out the stuff worth keeping, there's always plenty of crap generated. These ones here, I decided, are keepers and will be listed in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrangeArtworld">my shop</a> over the next week. Will post it on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strange-Artworld/104420866279119">Strangeartworld Facebook page </a>when that's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Abstract is something that never fails to move and excite me. I've stood in front of a Constable in the old Tate Museum and thought 'meh' and then stood before a wopping great black and white abstract by <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/pierre-soulages/">Pierre Soulage</a> and had a visceral experience of it that was so strong I had to go outside and take deep breaths of fresh air. And</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> while I loved abstract work,I felt it really had all been done before and that I could not add anything original. I wandered off in other crea</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">tive directions instead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But if you go far enough you meet yourself coming back, or so I've found. Somethings you've just got to do and being creative has never lent itself to being rational. Like falling in love, it's most un-rational. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> These two shouldn't really work but do. When I printed them out I thought the blue would look artificial and kind of pasted on. It doesn't, it just floats on top, seperate elements that keep their individual identity but somehow belong together.The process is still a mystery to me. I hope it always stays that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Heavily influenced by textiles and fabric design, this last piece is going to be a starting point for a lot of variations . . . want to try this in different colours,just to see. I will be sorting through the newly generated pieces over the next week or so and will post a bit at a time. Till then . . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have taken many, many pictures of the harbour but I've never been so taken with the results as I am with these. The 208 page pdf of instructions that came with my <a href="http://astrangeartworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/my-first-holga-photos.html">new camera</a> put me off taking it out until in the end I just thought 'sod it' and took it out anyway, stuffing the Holga lens into a pocket as I went out the door. What can I say? The results speak for themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a grey overcast day, be interesting to see how the same scene looks in bright sunlight. The lens is just a cheap lightweight bit of plastic with a lens cap that doesn't fit and has to be held in place by bluetack - a solution pretty much in keeping with the whole lo-fi, no-quality Holga aesthetic. There are no controls over aperture, white balance, etc, what you see is what you get . . . literally. Not only do you get that lovely vignetting around the edges but it does chop off a fair bit either side of the picture. . . . same picture taken with the proper lens on fits more in horizontally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am genuinely interested in early photography but also aware of ( and amused by) the fact that everyone is looking back and saying ( nostalgicaly), remember the good old, bad old days of photos that turned green, cameras that leaked light, film that was grainy?</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's evocation, evocation, evocation - the 70's weren't really great, we just think they were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It wasn't until I had done these couple of pictures ( very exploratory still ) that I realised I had been so influenced by <a href="http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html">Atget's </a>photographs of Versaille. Like everyone I love the pictures of the old Paris buildings but the photos taken at Versaille seem more moving somehow. Can't really analyse that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These three pieces have the right amount of fictional about them while obviously rooted in some kind of reality. I feel that I'm heading in the right direction.</span><br />
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I try not to get too hung up on the idea behind a piece. Really I've tried not to make art 'about' anything but it's kind of crept back in. Lets just say that these pieces have a feeling of alienation about them, a kind of displacement and leave it at that. I promise not to talk about a 'dialogue' or a 'journey' so as not to get too w***y about it.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPwQkXHYMFvBZvnHa1IEbju3UC6bx3Y3yAblizFOb1Uy0MvNmJqNEJaWY20GtdLSfLoY9k2kP4oBZc6dyjedt7xEMCmhlplcUN1mECz2-EuysWn_ZT5tyCnPgnnN02MfRwAqp39Ji8WR0/s1600/Light%2526Dark+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPwQkXHYMFvBZvnHa1IEbju3UC6bx3Y3yAblizFOb1Uy0MvNmJqNEJaWY20GtdLSfLoY9k2kP4oBZc6dyjedt7xEMCmhlplcUN1mECz2-EuysWn_ZT5tyCnPgnnN02MfRwAqp39Ji8WR0/s320/Light%2526Dark+1.jpg" /> </a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have to admit they are pretty spooky looking. I wanted a</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">feeling of near recognition about them, elements that you can almost identify but that lie just beyond your conscious reach.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Prints of these have come out really well. Didn't want to go for just black and white so the background/light colour is a very pale dusty kind of pink which contrast well with the deep saturated areas of black. Always print on a matte paper which makes all the difference with digital</span> .<br /></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDKklnVN6K6iSzcSEycU73mfji8rscRikn_Yz1sUWesDQOkldPexkJiGqBOvwcQoQiXd9M3lge9Nx2DJT_w-FeeiLOYv_7fqI0bq9mYXgtpdpSylXxb0TFZMejBKMxTHgiWEza1VfsbGV/s1600/Light%2526Dark+2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDKklnVN6K6iSzcSEycU73mfji8rscRikn_Yz1sUWesDQOkldPexkJiGqBOvwcQoQiXd9M3lge9Nx2DJT_w-FeeiLOYv_7fqI0bq9mYXgtpdpSylXxb0TFZMejBKMxTHgiWEza1VfsbGV/s320/Light%2526Dark+2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sod's Law that I run out of inks</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">at this point</span>.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> These will be listed in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/whitneysart">Whitney's Art Etsy shop </a>as soon as the new inks arrive.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Will post that on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Whitneys-Art/104420866279119">facebook page</a> as soon as so go on and hit that 'Like' button if you want to keep up with that kind of thing. I must admit I'm not as focused on this kind of thing as, perhaps, I ought to be . . . . I'd rather be making art.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span> </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgseYC0r2hwzoQ8eYmdajTMKWa1pgxjLFdgBmLaiWvg9hUKiRdfQbaSVCotAWXDLyYMEjRv9U9npsJTI5vAAGMklCUu0a2ZgRK0a0bWsAcidyKoXxlCU9CPrQcJPQ71i_Tyw826JJUCeeU7/s1600/Light%2526Dark+3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgseYC0r2hwzoQ8eYmdajTMKWa1pgxjLFdgBmLaiWvg9hUKiRdfQbaSVCotAWXDLyYMEjRv9U9npsJTI5vAAGMklCUu0a2ZgRK0a0bWsAcidyKoXxlCU9CPrQcJPQ71i_Tyw826JJUCeeU7/s320/Light%2526Dark+3.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-43307062211041996422012-04-01T13:18:00.000-07:002012-04-16T08:37:05.954-07:00Tonight in Photoshop . . . . .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zwc62EN7LTs/T3i3M66DlII/AAAAAAAAHqI/0Z-XGvH3hkc/s1600/we+were+going+somewhere+once+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zwc62EN7LTs/T3i3M66DlII/AAAAAAAAHqI/0Z-XGvH3hkc/s320/we+were+going+somewhere+once+copy.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> 'We were going somewhere once'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Tonights outing in Photoshop </span></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-34803738022015552632012-03-31T07:24:00.000-07:002012-04-16T08:37:05.939-07:00The Real Crime Scene<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yAq1PoPYGxI/T3cQQbOO-II/AAAAAAAAHpo/OcUtGytFFv8/s1600/Crime+scene+1+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yAq1PoPYGxI/T3cQQbOO-II/AAAAAAAAHpo/OcUtGytFFv8/s320/Crime+scene+1+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The way we hurt ourselves and each other . . . . that's the real crime scene. That's what these are all about. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZW-Su-97Gk/T3cQQranBpI/AAAAAAAAHpw/X6vdwvJJqtk/s1600/crime+scene+4+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZW-Su-97Gk/T3cQQranBpI/AAAAAAAAHpw/X6vdwvJJqtk/s320/crime+scene+4+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm enjoying the mix of photo stamps, a bit of scribbling with the mouse and then the graphic images. I think this is working out well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_mSyMU87e9c/T3cQRK5v7FI/AAAAAAAAHp4/lLA021uLEtg/s1600/crime+scene+5+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_mSyMU87e9c/T3cQRK5v7FI/AAAAAAAAHp4/lLA021uLEtg/s320/crime+scene+5+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I printed the top image onto a t-shirt transfer, ironed it on, peeled the backing paper off in great anticipation only to find that I had ironed it on upside down! It does look good, except for the fact that my chest distorts the image!!! What I need is a guy to try this out on. And no, my old man is <b>not</b> about to volunteer</span> . . . <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">not really his style. So, if you are reading this, have reasonably flat front and you fancy being a guinea pig the let me know and I can have another try . . . . the right way round!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O7wz-gcc9PA/T3cQRV4nTXI/AAAAAAAAHp8/-Zimz7G2fHE/s1600/Crime+scene+3+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O7wz-gcc9PA/T3cQRV4nTXI/AAAAAAAAHp8/-Zimz7G2fHE/s320/Crime+scene+3+copy.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-22757910215362060652012-03-19T07:47:00.000-07:002012-04-16T08:37:05.932-07:00Anatomy of a Picture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKOhWeGdEXj0MiGquhc_G-O_TnrzgwM7u6KazeSleyQDK7ZS-Xj8plSJ9LwgXFDEDO7CKZDOaM_7xN0y0YwNNFuySSPIwF7os8Dl6Sw2JhVezAHx71hcMVdMdDe-5BxdNUqqAOiKkLYOa/s320/abstract+doodle.jpg" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is where it started, with a doodled shape done in Photoshop. I'd had a couple of frustrating hours</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> trying to get stuff down on paper. It just wasn't working so I thought I'd give it one last bash but in Photoshop instead. Nothing to lose. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkkLUZzfXUROqG3BQGLmKYu16KXz6s-LD58JA4fC2m_tnQgXQ_6aPotJOZZMuDBywVF3MXR8nnlzMTIWryo9yMhGEe5r_Yfl410JLQPGpxqhqcLeTqJMNdEZNtM7apvOBlAfBcpLPS9PY/s1600/scribble.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkkLUZzfXUROqG3BQGLmKYu16KXz6s-LD58JA4fC2m_tnQgXQ_6aPotJOZZMuDBywVF3MXR8nnlzMTIWryo9yMhGEe5r_Yfl410JLQPGpxqhqcLeTqJMNdEZNtM7apvOBlAfBcpLPS9PY/s320/scribble.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stamped that a couple of times</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> and I'm beginning to feel mollified because it's looking the way I wanted it to.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqbk6F42PRwIISx_SJJKA3oI-yVc05xvxFbJpHsFIqUdFVJN1C0hWBxkRgfE6RNMzr59ZHOVnabL0bMVN1pKuHmbewQ1uKv-P3bkcm7qPLHNX6mBRUSH2R2fqpQ9Zd84k-Z9_x1hed5t8/s1600/circle+stamp.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqbk6F42PRwIISx_SJJKA3oI-yVc05xvxFbJpHsFIqUdFVJN1C0hWBxkRgfE6RNMzr59ZHOVnabL0bMVN1pKuHmbewQ1uKv-P3bkcm7qPLHNX6mBRUSH2R2fqpQ9Zd84k-Z9_x1hed5t8/s320/circle+stamp.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Add a bit of this </span><br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Rhe8lrGIwQUmq_m3K_6eBWQu5h3Y2djftPCzYnb9msItqToc8aEkcxKSxlrpFc-Mq9wJs3jdnhyphenhyphenlRFeWGqQQe-5DqM8Xpe0JeWAhDV3bX4wmbssnsW7eAfNjaPq586_rCEy2Bso_g-hq/s1600/car+guts.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Rhe8lrGIwQUmq_m3K_6eBWQu5h3Y2djftPCzYnb9msItqToc8aEkcxKSxlrpFc-Mq9wJs3jdnhyphenhyphenlRFeWGqQQe-5DqM8Xpe0JeWAhDV3bX4wmbssnsW7eAfNjaPq586_rCEy2Bso_g-hq/s320/car+guts.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and a stamp made of this. Junkyard are great for interesting textures and shapes!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span> </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1WoW73jPWi_bcKYn8LzaqQTekDUA-_uXgesnnfTheA1YD0o0Qg0WenL7a83Sn1lMep9ryScAFyk5cTzVa08bcirt4_bThMxba02nJa5bSAX8enJYD5VGEYDSHlpGl6WmF3MmmCySklE6/s1600/stage+2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1WoW73jPWi_bcKYn8LzaqQTekDUA-_uXgesnnfTheA1YD0o0Qg0WenL7a83Sn1lMep9ryScAFyk5cTzVa08bcirt4_bThMxba02nJa5bSAX8enJYD5VGEYDSHlpGl6WmF3MmmCySklE6/s320/stage+2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now I was intruiged because I hadn't really expected this combination to work. Like it in black and white but <b><i>love it</i></b> in red</span>.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2e8s13dLbVhHR8fcd6DG_Pr_cL1_ODY0Aw-AzVnXfRSVVYzwltDkRoHEV0h122ZbyHJWdV14iMhS4bpTTVFyzgrNFFAbyFJSF_84r98_wPZ4xaYJAvg56HUhKhlxKfy8OBP6klUMQEZT/s1600/red+background.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2e8s13dLbVhHR8fcd6DG_Pr_cL1_ODY0Aw-AzVnXfRSVVYzwltDkRoHEV0h122ZbyHJWdV14iMhS4bpTTVFyzgrNFFAbyFJSF_84r98_wPZ4xaYJAvg56HUhKhlxKfy8OBP6klUMQEZT/s320/red+background.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A bit of colour added, more out of curiosity than any real plan, and this is what I ended up with. Now where the hell did that come from?</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A question I find myself asking quite a lot. I'm crap at on-purpose art but the accidental-oh-blimey-look-what-I-just-did is where I seem to excel. Go figure!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAg20H6V44MMK2Iuz6ysoNXJLCL4BChyphenhyphenJOODySDLF8CIrY68DBNQuiKVpWae8wptAgeMo9AEdQ1BlkzYACa_9NCrwetrwVMfGbri0Wms_z_Pf18rxBygKejfVCKkSxjBlvyFEB5G8Qlyx/s1600/Red+Abstract+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAg20H6V44MMK2Iuz6ysoNXJLCL4BChyphenhyphenJOODySDLF8CIrY68DBNQuiKVpWae8wptAgeMo9AEdQ1BlkzYACa_9NCrwetrwVMfGbri0Wms_z_Pf18rxBygKejfVCKkSxjBlvyFEB5G8Qlyx/s320/Red+Abstract+1.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-70455624538831489662012-03-16T06:21:00.000-07:002012-04-16T08:37:05.965-07:00Mandala Collaboration - Art that Circles the Earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8feGLNuWfN-STjuYYg5dQueBR8hJDYglDWpBTc9pERddA2RCjM2cuUOHTEVifnegq59MY0dczgK6Y0ZPqpcEmQVxuxQ8ZdXqzMW0USEiF_uy62G3YcoKc8locL7MkNLMppgAAVqhpaLvz/s1600/IMG_1103.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8feGLNuWfN-STjuYYg5dQueBR8hJDYglDWpBTc9pERddA2RCjM2cuUOHTEVifnegq59MY0dczgK6Y0ZPqpcEmQVxuxQ8ZdXqzMW0USEiF_uy62G3YcoKc8locL7MkNLMppgAAVqhpaLvz/s320/IMG_1103.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This has been the most fun, <a href="http://whitneysweirdstuff.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-which-i-collaborate-with-shana.html">collaborating with Shana Goetsch</a> as part of her <a href="http://artthatcirclestheearth.blogspot.com/">Art that Circles the Earth</a> project.This was the very first piece that she sent me, wool glued to a circle of card. </div></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUmLn6fKTkRwK4q2kc6uVDJPuuQSnL2KgEzZ4J1oJUe5p9Epo694JiEfORbquSBD8CFCjZgGsAwHthyL8a4mVpIRWFGG5V0YRoH95LW3WBIrUf5nkB1Zbyb3blb51rvzPw6iIMO3_4KVh/s1600/IMG_1276.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUmLn6fKTkRwK4q2kc6uVDJPuuQSnL2KgEzZ4J1oJUe5p9Epo694JiEfORbquSBD8CFCjZgGsAwHthyL8a4mVpIRWFGG5V0YRoH95LW3WBIrUf5nkB1Zbyb3blb51rvzPw6iIMO3_4KVh/s320/IMG_1276.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I really wanted to give those colours a 'pop' so I dug out some bright blue painted card. But I'd also been thinking about prayer wheels and astrolabes so my next move was to cut out the middle and mount the circle so that it could move. Back it went to Shana . . . . .</div></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeDuk_gXT4wotos9dzheEBd3EKBE3zuRUS4wlFLV8jhPx1viQUFe6BXBpC86osqsybzh2dbNgyKrDHgllS-EodAVmblO8K-t6u2MHolr9BLYQDlSX9wXRjt7jbU4sHRwGAhmmHOdT3HkB/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeDuk_gXT4wotos9dzheEBd3EKBE3zuRUS4wlFLV8jhPx1viQUFe6BXBpC86osqsybzh2dbNgyKrDHgllS-EodAVmblO8K-t6u2MHolr9BLYQDlSX9wXRjt7jbU4sHRwGAhmmHOdT3HkB/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then just after Christmas I got this in the post. Gone was the blue card, a round of mosaic like pieces now backed the original circle. I love this process because each time what I got was something so different from my usual colours/style.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bloody brilliant, makes you think a little bit more.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJHcz7Bnypmzb25qmr8bnASqpYxFiDpCtPiKTdynArn-TW0ldJQTS4H35wcXpUpr71h1R3A5pviRYwlJRaih2OfPucos3HJSuid-G4O3kjZhPTs_BLhTpq_4POCrG9PV4doxvDcKHPaAs/s1600/mandala+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJHcz7Bnypmzb25qmr8bnASqpYxFiDpCtPiKTdynArn-TW0ldJQTS4H35wcXpUpr71h1R3A5pviRYwlJRaih2OfPucos3HJSuid-G4O3kjZhPTs_BLhTpq_4POCrG9PV4doxvDcKHPaAs/s320/mandala+1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Again I felt that the colours needed a little bit of a 'pop' so I bought a white gel pen and went round the edges and the middle. A bit of silver paint went on top</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of that to give it a bit of lustre and gold pen to work into the little mosaic pieces. I wanted to enhance them not lose them. Once I'd done that I</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">thought about sticking the two circles together and losing the moveable element. It needed something more</span> . . . . . </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFII7-ZgFDQPKE1M8JL1Bv1HwvbGRz0qStl0w0GCY4OElj3Q8NRlNUorY0ox6RBtSaeoox3S0IZwgiZ6LgmecdoveSmxPV3tDVeieqBe0tmDJRVsmWkS2a_6QhrXdy78IlFxd1v7hcDUF/s1600/mandala+2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFII7-ZgFDQPKE1M8JL1Bv1HwvbGRz0qStl0w0GCY4OElj3Q8NRlNUorY0ox6RBtSaeoox3S0IZwgiZ6LgmecdoveSmxPV3tDVeieqBe0tmDJRVsmWkS2a_6QhrXdy78IlFxd1v7hcDUF/s320/mandala+2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh yes, it had to be done! Turn that baby round and the eye follows you round the room! It made me laugh which is always a good sign in my book. So off that went to Shana, our collaboration now complete. I told her to let me know when she received it but I knew</span> . . . . <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">yesterday, a funny little bump sensation</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and she came quite clearly into my mind.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-Nb81Bvh6Y6Se2RBhpWPnGDvlzAWGVpzxy3Knk3Na_UzjV3etNaRsmGc0lNCoPDsvLucQSeWoE87IjSTYlA13vEqu-cz2wGogqn_PP7_eRPzfX7IETzHGsESctgjyUeUm1BBFopY9a8f/s1600/mandala+3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-Nb81Bvh6Y6Se2RBhpWPnGDvlzAWGVpzxy3Knk3Na_UzjV3etNaRsmGc0lNCoPDsvLucQSeWoE87IjSTYlA13vEqu-cz2wGogqn_PP7_eRPzfX7IETzHGsESctgjyUeUm1BBFopY9a8f/s320/mandala+3.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All the collaborative pieces will be in an <a href="http://artthatcirclestheearth.blogspot.com/2012/03/atcte-exhibition.html">Community Arts Thesis Exhibition from April 25th</a> so if you are in the Baltimore area then go along and check it out. I so wish I could be there.</span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-86940851094117134872012-02-18T05:31:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:37:06.053-07:00My First Holga Photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nn8NiRAD1EI/Tz-g7jROeiI/AAAAAAAAHeI/4yvumt91YFY/s1600/holga+lights+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nn8NiRAD1EI/Tz-g7jROeiI/AAAAAAAAHeI/4yvumt91YFY/s320/holga+lights+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have a new camera. My father left me a little money and I thought it was time to challenge myself . . . . something with interchangeable lenses. Interchangeable lenses means I can do more digital pinhole photography. After my <a href="http://whitneysweirdstuff.blogspot.com/2011/09/through-glass-darkly.html">initial experiments</a> I knew this was </span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">exactly</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> where I wanted to go. </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After a lot of research I bought a <a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/panasonic-lumix-g3_Digital-Camera_review">Panasonic Lumix DMC G3</a>, one of a new breed of cameras that has a light compact body but SLR capabilites . . . . delivered by the Four Third system. And best of all <a href="http://www.holgadirect.com/">Holga</a> does a lens that fits it . . .. lovely cheap shit bit of plastic that makes your high quality camera perform like a toy! Love the irony! The camera itself has so many bells and whistles on it that I lost patience with it and stuck the Holga lens on it just to try and get <i>some</i> pictures out of it. Hmm, so crummy and dark . . . the shot above as you can see came out all blue but hey, look what happens when you invert it in Photoshop . . . . . awesome effect I'm sure you'll agree.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EnOK5zDq1mY/Tz-g8eNNj_I/AAAAAAAAHeM/XwTOOH4CqU4/s1600/holga+lights+invert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EnOK5zDq1mY/Tz-g8eNNj_I/AAAAAAAAHeM/XwTOOH4CqU4/s320/holga+lights+invert.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's another one taken indoors with some of the characteristic Holga vignetting round the edges.</span> . . . .<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hiRjTwS008/Tz-g9BcGi4I/AAAAAAAAHeQ/0eu_xp3oTww/s1600/holga+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hiRjTwS008/Tz-g9BcGi4I/AAAAAAAAHeQ/0eu_xp3oTww/s320/holga+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aOxU5GkSKk4/Tz-g-iCqltI/AAAAAAAAHeY/IuwQV_Jo7go/s1600/holga+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aOxU5GkSKk4/Tz-g-iCqltI/AAAAAAAAHeY/IuwQV_Jo7go/s320/holga+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This one I used 'posterize' and then desaturated . . . lots of fun and lots of possibilities. The pros and cons of the camera I will post on at a further date. Like when I've finally managed to get through all the millions of ( totally unnecessary ) menus and worked out how to use the damm thing! One thing that is interesting is the aspect ratio . . . these pictures are roughly 5x4" not the usual 6x4" and there are other settings which I have yet to try but I know one of them will give me a <i>square</i> picture!!!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> O.K, all I have to do is read the whole of the 208 page</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">PDF of instructions</span>.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I may be some time . . . .</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QKQz6iQvbOI/Tz-g_cT0VQI/AAAAAAAAHec/MRT9JEUZBDw/s1600/holga+posterize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QKQz6iQvbOI/Tz-g_cT0VQI/AAAAAAAAHec/MRT9JEUZBDw/s320/holga+posterize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-79966454092620547122012-02-15T05:19:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:37:06.037-07:00Portrait Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TlCnZd5b6dF7u9ibYQb1IaP2ccM5rhGzqqZZ5efNnHcLuZFseynjNBN4nX8mZ7ilSCr2QEM1FiqZvlYBOGl0Y0rNv52msDt0Ff5ow0brV9RsZnPxGcnYjxH_bd_5SV5cYr7uSu3DKV66/s1600/m4.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TlCnZd5b6dF7u9ibYQb1IaP2ccM5rhGzqqZZ5efNnHcLuZFseynjNBN4nX8mZ7ilSCr2QEM1FiqZvlYBOGl0Y0rNv52msDt0Ff5ow0brV9RsZnPxGcnYjxH_bd_5SV5cYr7uSu3DKV66/s320/m4.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Beautiful sunny morning . . . . cameras all over the table . . . . my husband was showing me how interchangeable lenses work. Such lovely chunky old cameras, two Prakticas and a Canon . . . . analogue cameras, not a digital button in sight. I'm just sorry that film and developing is so expensive because there is something so straightforward about these cameras</span><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhB1pzk64srd6o27R9gABe2vRx0yfADzPlYtYBXO6IVK_2ge0bp1iHz2PFfIXE9GJamD4ojDvbJ2ywAmWBMPz-5pqNQqz3hj-348PAi8_Dl0F4jjVaafB9HgzS3HtqotKYLGGsnFatbGr/s1600/mike+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhB1pzk64srd6o27R9gABe2vRx0yfADzPlYtYBXO6IVK_2ge0bp1iHz2PFfIXE9GJamD4ojDvbJ2ywAmWBMPz-5pqNQqz3hj-348PAi8_Dl0F4jjVaafB9HgzS3HtqotKYLGGsnFatbGr/s320/mike+1.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Grabbing my digital I fired off a couple of shots. I have a new camera and thought I'd grab a couple of pictures to go with a blog post about it.But these pictures of my husband turned out better than I thought. See the previous post for the other picture . . . I may never take a better photo than this. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTw8wQIfUD21taMiDnJAo9IRMMnKJ1l-tioj__7SZXaCX0rjpyTKarV9wy7OucPqPIi8dZjzB-eBR1Toc5HB4KkMQ7vvk1GH0cb7bb_1fnAqS_wJhyphenhyphenleJbcxijwEeJsPs6bPPg_fZQK9i/s1600/m2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTw8wQIfUD21taMiDnJAo9IRMMnKJ1l-tioj__7SZXaCX0rjpyTKarV9wy7OucPqPIi8dZjzB-eBR1Toc5HB4KkMQ7vvk1GH0cb7bb_1fnAqS_wJhyphenhyphenleJbcxijwEeJsPs6bPPg_fZQK9i/s320/m2.jpg" /></a> </div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm still trying to work out the millions of menus and options that come with my new camera plus the card I got for it won't behave so sucks-boo to that. I do have a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga">Holga</a> lens for it so when I do get it to work it's going to be amazing.</span><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW2s00SdwTODxz-3TcuSvagPpEC-g3UJrdcdVqhrLw8Ly_rmSeUOd-SVLKb2TeMQuIDEvrDt0b4qZRZdCMaYVWf49fpJ9pg7l1au-w9w_aHVU4xwAPpYP2HqBC45-B0f7fWfUIcRfR6r5F/s1600/m3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW2s00SdwTODxz-3TcuSvagPpEC-g3UJrdcdVqhrLw8Ly_rmSeUOd-SVLKb2TeMQuIDEvrDt0b4qZRZdCMaYVWf49fpJ9pg7l1au-w9w_aHVU4xwAPpYP2HqBC45-B0f7fWfUIcRfR6r5F/s320/m3.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-84888238417586542522012-02-14T08:05:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:37:06.046-07:00Simply the best photo I've ever taken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pyzyvKI1tYc/TzqF33LSKxI/AAAAAAAAHcE/jet3M7dyvQo/s1600/camera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pyzyvKI1tYc/TzqF33LSKxI/AAAAAAAAHcE/jet3M7dyvQo/s320/camera.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Straight out of the camera . . . . . . spur of the moment and simply the best photo I've ever taken. </span></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-4075009593324302352012-02-02T06:23:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:37:05.950-07:00Self Portrait Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0rwUqYnmN3E/TyqWaRXZpPI/AAAAAAAAHaA/Nie8KxuS40A/s1600/self+portrait+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0rwUqYnmN3E/TyqWaRXZpPI/AAAAAAAAHaA/Nie8KxuS40A/s320/self+portrait+1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Fooling round with the camera trying to get a picture of my new haircut . . . got two mirrors so I thought I'd try it that way first . . . . mostly what you get is your camera and not much else</span> . . . .<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_AUcyA7NISg/TyqWazWKxZI/AAAAAAAAHaI/ZnlgcxFUoZc/s1600/self+portrait+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_AUcyA7NISg/TyqWazWKxZI/AAAAAAAAHaI/ZnlgcxFUoZc/s320/self+portrait+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">a bit of positioning . . . I'm pretty short so I've got to make sure I get myself in the picture . . . changed the camera setting because the sun went in . . . a cold blueish white balance and gave the exposure a bit of a pop . . . . . defintely like this. Nothing done to these now except cropping</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t8x9AXYSn7w/TyqWbEtmsNI/AAAAAAAAHaU/Ys_zIUdK5b0/s1600/self+portrait+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t8x9AXYSn7w/TyqWbEtmsNI/AAAAAAAAHaU/Ys_zIUdK5b0/s320/self+portrait+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and then I began to be intruiged by the idea of this . . . " in the moment" as my brother <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thejesuslizardpage/photos/2678125">Achim Friederich</a> ( v talented photographer ) says. Can I capture a moment of truth about myself here? I can do this when photographing other people but is it possible to be open and honest enough to do this with yourself? Or will the very fact that I am trying to do this spoil it? Can you catch your shadow or a glimpse of your soul?</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hnf6p7KOKKQ/TyqWbqxzGAI/AAAAAAAAHaY/Cvg3d1DpJiM/s1600/self+portrait+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hnf6p7KOKKQ/TyqWbqxzGAI/AAAAAAAAHaY/Cvg3d1DpJiM/s320/self+portrait+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe I didn't quite but i had a lot of fun trying . . . the one below is my favourite . . . there's mischief in that beady eye!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HpYDdhE_ZMI/TyqWccHBOaI/AAAAAAAAHac/qES61027UxM/s1600/self+portrait+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HpYDdhE_ZMI/TyqWccHBOaI/AAAAAAAAHac/qES61027UxM/s320/self+portrait+7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZSZgmp79HU/TyqWdVaPeyI/AAAAAAAAHao/poyg-5RXjv8/s1600/self+portrait+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZSZgmp79HU/TyqWdVaPeyI/AAAAAAAAHao/poyg-5RXjv8/s320/self+portrait+5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JUUi66YqMtM/TyqWdoKO05I/AAAAAAAAHa0/TjPkLrL-54k/s1600/self+portrait+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JUUi66YqMtM/TyqWdoKO05I/AAAAAAAAHa0/TjPkLrL-54k/s320/self+portrait+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWKgwFb5pzg/TyqWd_jxZ4I/AAAAAAAAHa4/J2n2njWgd5Q/s1600/self+portrait+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWKgwFb5pzg/TyqWd_jxZ4I/AAAAAAAAHa4/J2n2njWgd5Q/s320/self+portrait+8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then try the other mirror . . . . yes, I do know how to work the camera but I'm trying to see what I'll get while at the same time taking the picture. I love the restrictions of things like this, working within that to see what you can achieve. God, I look just like my Dad in this one . . . . I simply desaturated this one, nothing more.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PdIKX0VUVj0/TyqWf8oW0kI/AAAAAAAAHbM/Sf4m49sbJfw/s1600/self+portrait+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PdIKX0VUVj0/TyqWf8oW0kI/AAAAAAAAHbM/Sf4m49sbJfw/s320/self+portrait+12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A bit more tweaking with levels</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to bring out some contrast but actually prefer the one above . . . hmm, need to think . . . how to get better pictures, or rather more interesting pictures, how to get that honesty?</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ef_fSgxOF1w/TyqWgJEl87I/AAAAAAAAHbU/Zc7W3xvYmhY/s1600/self+portrait+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ef_fSgxOF1w/TyqWgJEl87I/AAAAAAAAHbU/Zc7W3xvYmhY/s320/self+portrait+11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063990658129208510.post-79481030654647873312012-01-09T08:25:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:37:05.970-07:00Whitney's Weird Stuff Print Giveaway.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwoCh7ofhaAQ_c2vj5FUkvbQXryLAs-M3ufvOpvWoxXWDAuEwinQcxLeu19osrk98-ZWptg7Gg10UefJdjBHbCv_xOMxO1vVSsDLLNCreLvHZlGb9892bNAJS_mkyIftBuNEkdxACZEmb/s1600/3+boxes.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwoCh7ofhaAQ_c2vj5FUkvbQXryLAs-M3ufvOpvWoxXWDAuEwinQcxLeu19osrk98-ZWptg7Gg10UefJdjBHbCv_xOMxO1vVSsDLLNCreLvHZlGb9892bNAJS_mkyIftBuNEkdxACZEmb/s320/3+boxes.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I suddenly got bored of tasteful muted colours and let rip with something a little punchier. My favourite word to describe in-your-face kind of colour. This one was built ontop of something else I did a while ago. Taking the idea of making things specially for Photoshop stamps from <a href="http://whitneysweirdstuff.blogspot.com/2011/11/sewn-collage-photoshop-brushes.html">sewn paper bits</a> to maybe something more 3 dimensional . . . grabbed a small box and an old roll of exposed film along with a letter from a dead keyboard (<i> </i> we <i>never</i> throw anything away in this house!</span>). <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I like the idea that I can use and reuse various components . . . expect to see these again then in different combinations.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9sA85rLXSaah5qMiBCmAsQK8CVopLAcUPTDqBDEkKscYdVq8Ng13vt6e4fWqfeyiQElnpM-RkpHXW7IGQkIh4B1IpCHzJnJPy7eo4CPl_XvP3urkMxBhf5JqIkFLPLo_z77JdFbN4qQo/s1600/angry+red+thing+1+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9sA85rLXSaah5qMiBCmAsQK8CVopLAcUPTDqBDEkKscYdVq8Ng13vt6e4fWqfeyiQElnpM-RkpHXW7IGQkIh4B1IpCHzJnJPy7eo4CPl_XvP3urkMxBhf5JqIkFLPLo_z77JdFbN4qQo/s320/angry+red+thing+1+copy.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is called Angry Red Thing 'cos I was in a bit of a fractious, bored stroppy sort of mood. I get these restless period where I need to just be spontanous</span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sod whether it works or not, sod whether</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've got too much else to be starting something new. Just got to do it. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijc9f89Qw4nx5YkKtV2tbjVUEyFMqjCpeKuHWxLmtBXbcS7D9stz9YfHxgAAcHlTS7UMe5pQYaEkXEztgeNDI48IPg1Glhe3dX_zgiL4SQtlWoo1YIrtKX5LOy0LNtTP_mbMg_uuRokvJo/s1600/Crucifixion+every+day.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijc9f89Qw4nx5YkKtV2tbjVUEyFMqjCpeKuHWxLmtBXbcS7D9stz9YfHxgAAcHlTS7UMe5pQYaEkXEztgeNDI48IPg1Glhe3dX_zgiL4SQtlWoo1YIrtKX5LOy0LNtTP_mbMg_uuRokvJo/s320/Crucifixion+every+day.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Strop over I decided that I really like that red</span> . . . <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">oh yes, could eat <i>that</i> off a spoooooon</span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is all about the pain</span> . . . . <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">another reason why I was feeling fractious. There is, after all, only so much I can bear</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and be cheerful.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Too much pain, too many drugs for the pain </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">which after a while become some kind of variant of the pain because they make you feel like shit.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The worst of that episode is over, thank god and I'll be back</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">at the gym before long. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNhsjgNsZ4Dx8Qcs5SqH7oE3jWnEn81HhWaLGCnnk0AEPsD5cBry4ZTezNuf4aj0IXAjTNAcmUVIIJNyBRKUqJXAAFpzI2yFdsleJ7ZI9hjrJ2HlOTYAc3jqeqtPClwvDDTfC0qUa2tj9/s1600/Good+year+for+the+roses+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNhsjgNsZ4Dx8Qcs5SqH7oE3jWnEn81HhWaLGCnnk0AEPsD5cBry4ZTezNuf4aj0IXAjTNAcmUVIIJNyBRKUqJXAAFpzI2yFdsleJ7ZI9hjrJ2HlOTYAc3jqeqtPClwvDDTfC0qUa2tj9/s320/Good+year+for+the+roses+copy.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now we could call this one 'Good Year for the Roses' or 'Splash' both of which would be crashingly obvious but</span> t<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hen sometimes you get a title inspiration and sometimes you don't. Suggest a really good title for it and I'll send you a print, A4 or smaller . Leave me a comment and I'll pick the one I like best in about a week from now.</span><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb0QVdviZIwMCKgr-Y2j0pxcsZIGPUrMeluUfP98ZkoQMuKF_mMk_53B6nUA_T9Y8QRDagPYxTB7TUgZ5ZILcw6O5PB0ydiWfKHCLm6ZSrX-mTr3tl3ltL_oSFE9MDA_4DarsGIfWSrn4/s1600/forever+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb0QVdviZIwMCKgr-Y2j0pxcsZIGPUrMeluUfP98ZkoQMuKF_mMk_53B6nUA_T9Y8QRDagPYxTB7TUgZ5ZILcw6O5PB0ydiWfKHCLm6ZSrX-mTr3tl3ltL_oSFE9MDA_4DarsGIfWSrn4/s320/forever+copy.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh well, here I was chucking in everything but the kitchen sink which is a great thing to do because you do end up with some pretty random combinations and you get to learn what works and what doesn't. For me this works. It is called ' I will love you forever' though with that eye it seems more like threat than a promise. I've been trying out a thicker scribble line, the black lines are just the standard round brush but thicker than normal. It works but I'm not 100 % happy with the way it looks so I think I will try and come up with something else that can make that kind of mark but not look quite so . . . . digital I guess. </span><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"></div></div></div><br /><br /></div>Whitney-Anne Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05931606580273243670noreply@blogger.com2