Vector - Collage - Painting - Experiment

Today's image started as a new file in Painter 8. I was testing the speed of a large watercolor brush and an ink brush and made the textured background.

I saved that file and opened it in PhotoPaint and added two pieces of Dover Publications Clip Art. One is a circular emblem, and the other was a floral frame. I adjusted them to fit the image and used the object property Multiply to add them to the background.

I copied to the clipboard and opened CorelDRAW and pasted the image there. I then made some vector pieces to frame the center piece. To create the center piece I used the spiral tool and thickened the line. I then used the line adjustment tool to move the lines and curves to their new position. This gave me a vector object somewhat like an "Eye."

I grouped these together and copied to the clipboard, opened PhotoPaint and opened from the clipboard. I saved the large file and then I resampled for display here. All in all a enjoyable experiment with pleasant results.

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Collision Warning
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Jars and Jars - Angled

Shopping can be an exper-
ience in unusual places. Products displayed in row after row. Thus today's image "Jars and Jars - Angled."

The original photograph was taken by my son Keir M. Gatzka. and it includes myself and my wife surrounded by products during a shopping period at a very peculiar store.

What attracted me to this photograph was the repetition of line and products and the angle that the photograph was taken at.

I used Paint.NET for the line art applying the Ink Sketch effect to it. I took another Mayang's Texture for the background and merged the two together using object property of Multiply in PhotoPaint. I applied Filter Forge's frame film frame. I applied the Tone Curve for depth and upped the saturation a tad for color boost.

Listening to Rock/Pop/Folk NPR - WXPN online.

Apples - Cider Anyone?

Autumn is upon us and so is the Apple season! Plenty of Cider and Donuts for everyone, Please.

This image is from a photograph taken by my son Keir M. Gatzka at a vendors apple bin near Lansing, Michigan. I took the photograph into Paint.NET and applied the Effects> Artistic> Ink Sketch> to it for the line work. Then I used a painterly filter on it to soften it a bit. I altered the saturation also in Paint.NET, then brought this into PhotoPaint.

There I applied Filter Forge's watercolor frame to it for the white bordering. I took that into Painter 8 and used Apply Surface Texture> Image Luminance> on it for the painterly brushstrokes look and feel.

Back in PhotoPaint I made a 10 pixel black border and added my signature and saved for display here.

I can't wait for our trip to the Cider Mill!

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Autumn Day
via FoxyTunes

Vector Graphics - Paisley Face - CorelDRAW

I really like Mayang's Textures and I used another one for this image. It began as a doodle in CorelDRAW creating some swirled objects that I extruded slightly and added bright blue to it.

I used duplicates to create the mirrored swirls to make the piece symmetrical. I added a paisley like object and when I duplicated it I saw an odd face.

So I added a nose and mouth to it to give it that facelike appearance. I imported one of Mayang's Textures into CorelDRAW and used it as the background. I grouped all the pieces together and copied to the clipboard. Then in PhotoPaint I opened it from the clipboard. It was a large 300 dpi file. I resized it for display here and I also added a film frame from Filter Forge's frames. I adjusted the Tone Curve for depth of color and upped the saturation a bit.

Another fun experiment with Vector graphics and texture.

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - After Midnight Cover
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Ancestry - A Moma and Baby