DaVinci and Dover Clip Art Montage

I have a lot of different images by DaVinci and some Dover Clip Art and I played around with them today to create this montage image for today's post. It doesn't have a music theme as many of my images do. But it is striking in it's own way.

I used PhotoPaint and browsed for images to use in Picasa 3. I was striving for a balanced piece with the DaVinci drawn face and binary code, alphabetic characters, along with some floral images.

I may have some time today for practicing guitar and playing with lyrics and chord progression. I may try to put "Just a Chill Out Song" to music. Depends on how long I have quiet here. The neighbor just finished mowing and weed-whacking his lawn. Man was it noisy! But it really needed it it was way too long.

I think I am pretty much out of my slump, now. Which is way cool. I really hate a long dry spell creatively. I have had much encouragement from others to ride it out and look ahead to better times. Always appreciated!

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Now playing on Windows Media Player: George Strait - Ocean Front Property
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Experiments in Photo Montage

Here is another experiment in digital montage/collage work. I used many of the same methods described in my previous post.

Once again I used a photograph of a young lady and some Dover Publications Clip Art, and a quote from a Gutenberg Press novel.

I have found these types of pieces to be fulfilling to create and enjoyable to look at. The combination of each individual piece of the whole makes for an entertaining image. Each one adds interest and depth to it.

I don't do scrapbooking but if I did I would do it digitally using the same tools I use to create images like this.

I am going to add a link to Picasa 3 for those of you who have an interest in using it to keep track of your photographs and digital images you create. It is a good tool for that and has other functions that make it interesting to use in conjunction with your other image or photo editing software. So look for it and give it a test run to see if you like it as I do.

Gutiar Study Montage

I think I have guitars on the brain! Well, I do enjoy going to the music/guitar stores like Motor City Guitars and the new Village Guitars here locally. But if you want a great store to go to I'd advise Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. I've known the owner since the early 1970's, Stan Werbin, and he has the best place around for buying anything string related!

That is where my family purchased my 12-string as an anniversary gift so many years back. It is a Seagull Canadian made guitar. It has stood me well for many years now.

Here is another of my Montages about guitars. I have for the background a dinner party tiled. I used Paint.Net's filter for ink drawings and got this interesting texture to the piece. I resized it in PhotoPaint for display here.

I also have started other songs for "One Tough Baby." I did an instrumental using the chord structure of Am C F G and a chorus of Em C D with a bridge of F#m Am7 Dm7. Then I added some lead guitar and a bass line. I am still using Audacity to record and it has a Bass Boost filter which worked great on that bass line. It made my 12 string sound really good as a bass guitar.

Weather here is cold and we had both rain and snow so we have a frozen driveway today. Ice and snow. Not pleasant for driving or shoveling. But the sun is out and we have some blue sky right now. That IS pleasant.