Painter Scratches

I've been struggling with a creative block of late.

I pick up a drawing tool and I can't get motivated to finish anything.

Sometimes you have to give yourself sometime to play

and not think too much about it, and see what happens.

Weird how that head works in two different orientations.

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GarSeeYa!

Painter Play 1

Playing around with the painter kaleidoscope feature.

I was doing this in Photoshop a couple of years ago 

using the reflect options...took a long time.

This is so much easier and faster.

 I experimented with cut paper and the snowflake configuration

too, with interesting results. New toys are always fun.

Slowed down on drawing...things are busier at work.

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Day 181. GMC.

I am taking advantage of some of the new features

of Photoshop CS5, using some old photos. Sometimes

new tools will inspire the work. The bonus is having fun

doing something you love.

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Day 179.

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Day 171.

Early morning doodles.

Parker Quink black in a synthetic brush pen, more grey than black.

This is a portion of a table top at my son's school grounds.

It reminds me of grey moths.

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Day 169.

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Day 168.

Rainbow Splatter.

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Revisiting BUG TOWN.

This was a little comic strip that ran on RMD a couple of years back.

I'll be doing a few more test pages on them in the for story telling

experiments. Stay tuned? Thanks for visiting.

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Day 167.

Splatter experiment.

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Variation 1.

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Day 166.

Early morning brush pen.

Lines drawn half dreaming,

cast in black, cutting white

like ash and burnt bone

on new fallen snow.

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Day 165

Tried a lighting effect on the last one, give it a glow.

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Day 164.

Two snowflake patterns are digital manipulations

of finger paintings by my eldest son.

Funky stuff.

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Second set.Like stained glass finger paint.

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Day 158.

Kuretake brush pen sketch. Still loving this pen. I ordered it with an ink

cartridge converter, having the option to refill with bottled ink. I've done

some research on which inks would be suitable, but was not satisfied

with some of the answers. I didn't want to take chances on the sable

natural hair, so I've stuck to the cartridge ink. I got fifty of them in the mail.

Hopefully that will last for a while?

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Watercolour experiment.

 Makes me think of Christmas in the Philippines.

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Day 156.

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I'm pushing the experiment and making some cool

discoveries with my tools. This is one of my favourites.

You can see more of these designs, by doing a search

on snowflake on the blog sidebar. Some are available

at my Zazzle store. Thanks for visiting.

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Day 148.

This is one of many drawings I've done in bed.

I've made a habit of free-line sketching before

falling asleep. Free line: no construction or

preconceived ideas. Ink marks running

and exploring a field of white.

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These are samples for blank cards. I can place any of the images

I've created on a card or print, on watercolour paper.

Contact me for more info.

Thank you.

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Day 145.

Throwing in some colour and mark making explorations.

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Two for Girl Friday. Using an over sized brush pen,

broad strokes,challenging for detail.

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Day 143.

I've got some old Pitt pens that I've re-filled with ink,

they make thick messy lines, it works best on larger

drawings.

The image is influenced by Lego,my boys

have been playing the Indiana Jones video games,

every day. The music gets stuck in my head.

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Video game and C.

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Day 142.

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I recently saw the movie: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE,

this influenced some of the monsters on this page. They may

be a little too evil for young kids and the spider and mouse

could disturb some people.Self censorship is an unusual thing

to steer sometimes.Some days you go with the flow and draw

what ever comes to mind, only to see things in a different light

upon completion.

The drawing material changed with this one too. The line quality

has changed since I first started using this pen, the ink bleeds more into the

new paper. I think drawing supplies make a difference. I've been drawing

on 11"X17 "20 lbs copy paper, switched to a heavier stock, but not

happy with it. Funny how long I've been doing this and still looking

for the right "groove".

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I'm still making little discoveries with this process,

so much to develop, on something that has not been

fully explored. A combination of math and art.

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Day 141.

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