For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
Cay I would love to see the three photos separately. Any chance?
ReplyDeleteWONDERFUL! Photoshop Elements came with my scanner. However, I have no clue how to use it. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteHi Ann,
DeleteI would suggest starting by getting to know the tools available in your Elements program through altering one of your own photos. You could begin by cropping the photo, trying any filters it offers (to see what the filters do), changing the hue and saturation of the photo, selecting lines or an area of the photo and changing its color or erasing it altogether. These are some things that will help you to get to know the capability of the program.