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Tag Archives: Photoshop

Mark making

08 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Painting, Photography, Show-and-tell

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art, brushes, crafts, creativity, doodle, homemade, inspiration, mixed media, paper, Photoshop, stamp, texture

I have a special to-do list for occasions where either pain, fatigue, Resistance or muddled concentration keeps me from the projects that require thinking/planning/energy, but also don’t want to “just” read or knit. Or simply to shake up a stuck imagination by doing something new and relaxed.

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Not much of anything

23 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Critters, Keywords, Photography, Thoughts, Weaving

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cat, creativity, inner conviction, inspiration, intention, kitten, life, pets, Photoshop, weather, winter, writing

A couple of weeks ago I had a million things I wanted to write about, words and ideas were in a queue. In fact I was on such a roll that I thought I could take a break and not be stopped!

Well baahaa. Come Monday and my head was completely empty. That was Monday before last. It appears that if I don’t go with the flow, the flow goes on without me and when I look up, the view is different. Right now, my brain is doing textiles, no words. Apparently I have no say in the matter. I’m doing a lot of things, they’re just not what I thought I’d be doing. I’ve not even been reading anything.

Ok, I do know what happened – last week I had some really bad headaches. And these happened. I guess I should have known that would throw my focus.

Emil Leo

So we took your seat, you weren’t using it!

I hope I can get back to what I wanted to say on Focus and Intention. Or perhaps what I had to say wasn’t all that important and I was therefore saved by circumstances. 😉

I do keep up the Bullet Journal. It’s not a planner, although it has dates and lists in it, I see it more as a suggestion. I write things down as I think of them and they may get done sooner or later. An upgrade from my previous napkin/post-it/envelope note system. And that works pretty well for emptying my head, I even remember to write down some of my design ideas.

I also work pretty hard on not postponing the little things. Yes, the wash room is cold, but you can go pick up the laundry, it takes 15 seconds. Yes, you can put that crochet hook back where it belongs NOW and not just leave it where you’re standing. All those things that are a tiny bit inconvenient right now but won’t kill you. I even finally whipped out the new sewing machine that I got ages ago when I broke my old one mending horse blankets. I simply could not face it if there was issues with the thread tension or something and I’d have to fiddle for ages and not get it quite right. With some things, I can do that dance forever if I feel out of my league. Well I made myself do it and while not as good a machine as the old one, it does, in fact, sew.

Now I’m in a bit of trouble because I’ve also run out of photos for my other blog. I could use some similar shots and whatnot, but we’ll see if I can keep it up. No painting has happened here since before xmas break, that’s the one thing I need the most quiet and the longest time to wind myself up to, and I just don’t seem to get it very often. So I have to dive into the old photo archives again. Because weather. Yuck. Why didn’t I spend all autumn making huge ponchos and hoods and cowls and sweaters from super bulky yarn on size 10 mm needles? Facemasks. Don’t get me started on the mud, at least we seem to get a short break from that now.

Come to think of it, I’m not doing too well in the quote department either. Do I really have to start writing more bad poetry to fill in?! I mean, it’s not like I can give up on the project less than half a year in… Can I?

I’m thinking of weaving things but I can’t show you the inside of my head. (I should be making more colour sketches, so I don’t forget) So many preparations, warping tapestry looms takes days when you get tired. And make mistakes. I’ve learned tonnes already. But I don’t know what to show you to make this post a little interesting. What would you like to see?

(And then I was saved by Pat Tyler. Off to play with orbs! I see collage-mandala potential here.)

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Taking it easy

17 Sunday Nov 2013

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Gallery, Painting, På dansk, Thoughts

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alien skin, art, colour, crafts, creativity, exposure, filter, inspiration, intention, Photoshop, snap art

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Time to Photoshop!

As I’ve mentioned I’ve been a bit beside myself with my injured thumb, a limping old dog AND cat, headaches and various other creativity killers. Halfdone paintings sitting around that I was working on at the time but can’t for the life of me remember what plans I had and/or feeling reluctant to dive back in for some reason. And just feeling the usual irritation creeping in when I don’t get to make stuff with my hands.

So instead of struggling I figured I might as well make it easy for myself and see where that got me going. I’ve been digging through the old photos that I have backed up on the computer (I also have 2 large binders of negatives that I never got round to scanning, too bad really), picking out and playing with Photoshop making “fake” paintings or weird effects. Just trying things out. I’ve been wanting to make collages as well, but holding my stylus for cropping out items is a bit of a strain.

And it’s paid off, because I have enough images now for my picture blog to last for the rest of the year! I know it’s technically cheating, not actually doing one a day, but surely I can’t be the only one…. Anyway it works better for me to do stretches of one thing, and my temper isn’t as bad when I’ve been doing this 😉

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Let som en pletdanish

Som tidligere nævnt har jeg været lidt ved siden af mig selv med min stakkels tommelfinger, halt hund OG kat, hovedpiner og diverse andre eksterne kreativitetsdræbere. De malerier jeg lige var beyndt på kan jeg pludselig ikke huske hvad handlede om og jeg har en eller anden sær ugidelighed mht at gå i gang igen.some reason. Og ja, så bliver jeg bare sådan lettere irritabel når jeg i længere tid ikke laver noget med mine hænder.

Så i stedet for at kæmpe for sagen, besluttede jeg at gøre det nemt for mig selv og se hvor det førte hen. Jeg har gennemrodet alle backup mapper på computeren efter gamle fotos (jeg har også to store mapper med negativer jeg aldrig fik scannet – egentlig rigtig ærgerligt!) og bare leget med Photoshop, lavet effekter og falske malerier og andet sjovt. Collager er også noget jeg vil i gang med igen, men det er lidt hårdt at holde på en tegnepen for at fritskrabe objekter.

Om ikke andet har jeg nu billeder nok til resten af året på min billedblog. Jeg ved godt det er lidt snyd ikke at rent faktisk lave et om dagen, men jeg er nok ikke den eneste… Når først jeg kommer i sving med et projekt holder jeg helst ikke op lige med det samme. Med bedre humør i bonus imens. 😉

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No yarn

06 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by Pia in Photography

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high key, Photoshop, snow, trees, white, winter

The weather is too dark and dreary to be taking photos today, so you’ll have to wait a while for the first dye results I promised.

Instead I stumbled across an old photo, it was scanned from a negative many years ago when internet connections were much slower and hard drives a lot smaller, so I don’t have these images any larger.

I never could decide which version I liked the best, how about you? (maybe you don’t like them – that’s ok too)

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I have so many negatives, so even if I can’t afford a new camera house when my current fails (hoping not to jinx it here, it’s definitely a senior), I do have image material enough to last me a lifetime of play in Photoshop. I just know I’d miss the thrill of the click…. 😉

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Marbleous

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by Pia in På dansk

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art, crafts, creativity, ink, inspiration, marbling, mixed media, Photoshop

Years ago (like, around 1995 or so) I did a couple of experiments with marbling techniques.  One of the things I had in mind when I pondered recycling my old stuff was getting some use out of these sheets instead of just storing them. Gift wrapping has come to mind, but it would be fun to get more out of them (first) somehow.

So I’m going to scan them and see if fun can be had along the way. In fact I think I may want to make more of these at some point, perhaps using better paper. I can’t remember which type of paints/inks I used, but that can be researched I’m sure!

First I’ll need that studio, I think. Or just more hours.

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Marmorering

En gang midt i 90’erne eksperimenterede jeg med at lave marmorering, brugte forhåndenværende papir, tapetklister i et fad og ja, jeg kan ikke engang huske hvilket farvestof jeg brugte.

I stedet for at de bare ligger og glor i en mappe syntes jeg det kunne være sjovt at bruge dem, måske lave små gaveæsker, men først har jeg tænkt mig at scanne nogen af dem for at se om man også kan bruge dem til noget i Photoshop.

Og så fik jeg i øvrigt lyst til at prøve igen på et tidspunkt, evt. med bedre papir. Når jeg altså lige finder en tidsmaskine, sådan en som kan lave mere af den!

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