digital tweaking

I randomly striped a journal page with a range of colors using Art-Kure watercolor-ink brushes. It wasn't until later that I thought of scanning and playing with Gimp filters to do something with that page.

Under the original image are 3 of the things I turned it into. Fabric designs come to mind.

Gimp 2.4--love it!

red reaching

And another one: whirl and pinch.

playing with Gimp

Two quick filters:
whirl and pinch,
then "glass effects" and "lens"
--converts any poorly lit picture to something more interesting!

spinning marble

My first attempt at doing a little digital manipulation. I used the blur tool on a circular swirl. It's nothing to Gimp experts, but for me a long delayed door into technical playing.

W/c on Stonehenge paper was the first step.

Digital transformation

At Modern Gypsy I found instructions for making a mandala from any triangular slice of an image. Instead of Photoshop, I used Gimp, free Linux-based software that comes in a Windows XP version.



In a collaborative learning exercise, I and my husband figured out the basics from a GIMP manual. I selected a triangle from the blueberries I painted on July 18. We created a single mandala, then a tiled version.

Before the berries, as our first attempt, I tried a freehand selection from a photo of our cat Chaucer crouched on top of a door.
Even with mismatches and mistakes, repetition of the same slice turned into a workable image. This was such fun! Now any drawing can blossom into a new multiplex form.