This is from a walk that I took yesterday at Lynch Park here in Beverly, MA. The park is surrounded by water on three sides. I took this photo looking down at the beach, from the the side of the park that looks out towards the Atlantic Ocean. It was windy, the tide was high, and the waves were strong. Tonight I cropped this image out of one of the photos.
Yesterday I posted the latest photo of the collage and decoupage project I have been working on, a heart-shaped box that I am covering with printed metallic ribbons. This is a closeup of the inside of the box, which is going to be covered in pieces of red ribbon. Each little area of this project is a tiny composition, a miniature collage.
This morning, I went to the studio to work on this project, a heart-shaped box that I am covering with decoupage and collage created from printed metallic ribbons. During Open Studios, back in early December, I cut some ribbon pieces and put them in the box whenever I had a few quiet moments between visitors. (There was no chance to glue them down.) Well, cutting is faster than pasting, and so I am still working on pasting all of those pieces. Almost all the pieces were cut from a pattern printed in red and gold. I have been concentrating on the gold pieces, for the outside. But as I trim out the gold from the red, I have also been keeping the red pieces for the inside. Today I made some progress on the gold areas, but also started pasting in the red pieces, and I was surprised at how much I had accomplished! So I decided to take a photo from above, even though the inside of the box is far from ready for prime time.
This is another version of my photo of the ice on the Cummings Center Pond. I used my Painter program to transform the photo into a digital woodcut. I think I like this version the best of the three because it emphasizes the lines of the grass and the horizontal surface of the ice.
Yesterday I posted a photo of ice on the Cummings Center Pond, here in Beverly, MA. This is a version of the same image, but I used my Painter program to do some posterizing and to add some color overlays. I also created a digital woodcut of the same image, which I plan to post tomorrow.
Tonight I cropped this image out of a photo that I took recently at Cummings Center Pond here in Beverly, MA. It was a cold, windy day, not much snow left on the ground (we were between snow storms), but there was still some ice on the pond. I also used this image to make a posterized photo as well as a digital woodcut. I will post them over the next few days.
It has been overcast and gloomy all day; it started raining a few hours ago, and snow is expected any minute. So I think this calls for more flowers. Here is another image, cropped from pictures I took yesterday of a bouquet at my daughter's. I posterized the image with my Painter program to add a little magic.
It is hard to wait for spring, with ice and snow still on the ground. Here north of Boston, we get a few days above freezing, and then another cold snap. I always love to look at flowers, but especially around this time of year. Yesterday I saw a bouquet at my daughter's, so I took some pictures. Tonight I cropped this image out of one of the photos. I opened the image in Painter and used digital pastel to fix up some some daisy petals that were being pushed out of place by a more assertive flower, and then I posterized the image. These aren't really spring flowers, but this image of store-bought flowers is a hopeful reminder that time is passing, the earth is turning, the seasons are changing, and spring is inevitable.
Yesterday I finally made it back to the studio! It's been a while since I worked on this project. (I checked: the last post was December 27!) What kept me away? Well, the usual snowstorms and crazy work deadlines of course, but most of all, the full month I spent coughing my head off (an evil cold that got my asthma started). So I stayed away from my studio to avoid dust and fumes. But yesterday, I was very glad to get back to my sunny little studio and this project. The heart-shaped box originally contained a Mother's Day gift from my daughter, and I am covering it with collage and decoupage made from printed metallic ribbons. Yesterday I worked on the outside of the box, the gold area, and concentrated on pasting in pieces I had already cut out back in December. I filled in some areas and closed a few gaps. I made a little progress I guess, but the real accomplishment was getting there in the first place!
I used my Painter program to create this posterized version of the photo that I posted here yesterday, of a sunlit evergreen tree at Long Hill Gardens, here in Beverly, MA. I posterized this because I think it brings out the texture of the needles, and the contrast of light and dark.
This image began with today's afternoon walk at Long Hill Gardens. I was looking for signs of spring, but of course, there is still plenty of snow and ice on the ground, despite some recent melting. So I decided to look up! I liked the way the February sun was hitting an evergreen tree, so I took a picture. Tonight I had to crop in close to get the play of afternoon light on the pine needles, which is what I was after. I also created a posterized version of this image, and plan to post it tomorrow.
Today I had an afternoon out at Northshore Mall with my daughter. I thought it might be hectic and crowded, what with last minute shoppers for Valentine's Day and bargain hunters for President's Day Sales. But it was great fun and I had a lovely time! There were carts set up in the middle of the mall with big plastic bins full of roses for sale. I took a couple of quick pictures with my digital camera. Tonight I cropped this image from one of the photos, and used Painter to posterize it.
Here is one last version of the photo from Monday's trip into Boston. I took the original photo while admiring the view from a window at the Starbuck's opposite Children's Hospital. Last night I used Painter to transform the photo into a digital woodcut. The colors are more sublt in this version, but the woodcut effect emphasizes the lines of the branches.
Tonight I used my Painter program to posterize the photo that I published here on Monday, a view through the window at a Starbucks in Boston, across from Boston's Children's Hospital. I also created a digital woodcut of the same photo, and I plan to post it here tomorrow.
This is another image from Monday's trip into Boston. I was taking pictures (from the passenger's seat) as we drove down Storrow Drive, heading towards the Fenway. The traffic was stop and go, but to me that means photo ops. I had a nice view of the Charles River, still covered with ice, and the Mass Street Bridge. Across the river, you can see Cambridge, and MIT. Tonight I cropped the original photograph and used Painter to posterized it. I also used some color overlays to eliminate some distracting highlights in the clouds. I like clouds and I am in favor of highlights, but they were in the wrong place because I wanted to emphasize the reflective surface of the river, the cityscape on the river bank, and the long diagonal line of the bridge.
