Paper to digital

Playtime in the studio!

 

 Though I am no expert at all, I thought it would be nice to give you a peek inside my digital collage 'kitchen'.

 

 

 

For the above digital collage I used the paper collage below.

This is clearly visible, isn't it?

The paper collage was made by me some years ago when we were living on a Caribbean island...

 

 

 

This paper collage speaks to me, because it embodies

some very specific Caribbean ingredients:

 the ocean and sea, the coastal shores as can be seen while

sailing and from an airplane, and of course its colours

 

To change the paper one into the first, digital collage I layered it three times 'over itself' in PS; the second time I rotated the picture because I also wanted to have yellow in the lower right corner.
For each layer I changed the blending mode and when I was satisfied a boost filter and my 'signature' (turquoise native indian sign below right) were added.

 

The digital one shows that layers add so much more depth than the with the paper one.

 

However, I must say I love them equally much...

 

Thanks for reading and yes,
if you liked this post I would love your comment

 

Regina



Inspiration

Hi!

 

I am almost recovered from a serious cold.

 It lasted way too long and therefore this morning

 I finally got out of the house

 to do 'something nice'...

In my neck of the woods, that is in this piece of

coastal Spain, it is

charity shopping!

 

 

I was very lucky today.

Ah, the inspiration I found there

The possibilities these treasures offer

 

 

 Look at those parts, the closures, the materials

 I can derive  from this necklaces

 once deconstructed...

 

 

And to end this post: wishing you everything from the digital collage.

You may need it, we all need it, everything, and more...

Happy Holidays!

 

Thanks for visiting,

 

Regina



I'm pretty sure...

I have not posted this picture board on this blog yet,

 

so while the weather is dark en cold in big parts of the world,

 

I bring some merry, Caribbean pleasure!

 

 

 

 paper, paint, collage

 

 

Till next time!

 

Regina

Swallows

 

 

Hi!

 

Though the swallows in Spain have moved to warmer surroundings now, I had to think of them today...

 

We sing a lovely English ballad with our choir that mentions these birds and like often I keep humming the songs during the day after our meeting.

 

And then I browsed my picture gallery and came across a picture I made some years ago in a Starbucks coffeeshop in the USA. Some playing with Photoshop gave this result. Layers of a USA map, the swallow picture and one of flying birds over a lake in  Upstate New York.

 

Happy to have made at least something nice today!

 

Till next time, thanks for visiting,

 

Regina

New abstract

Hi!

 

This week I finished an abstract painting.

 

One of our more talented painters taught us

a way of designing, that could end up in a more or less Kandinsky style painting.

Though at first I gave it a try, I did not get any further than said design state and did not like that at all.

I jumped to the conclusion that I need more freedom, how difficult that blank canvas may be at first

 

 

So I went back to the collage method that I described in this post. Other examples can be found here here.

Again I found it quite hard; the complete canvas has been painted over in different colours several times. Then someone told me how she had liked the original design... At that time I already had made the two glittery bows with modeling paste. In a final attempt I did what she advised me: I went back to the original design. The various colours now shimmer just a little through the top layer, and strangely each seems to play a role in the overall effect. The text is part of a zinc billboard that says Noirmoutier, which is an island on the French Atlantic coast. I'm still not sure what to think of this painting, but it is finished. We'll see what the public thinks of it, as of December 15...

This is the place...

Hi!

 

This morning I discovered this documentary of the place where we live. There is a bit of business PR in it, but on the whole you get a pretty good impression! We feel very fortunate to live here!

 

Happy weekend,

 

Regina

http://upnowcostablanca.com/project/moraira-teulada-the-place-to-live-visit-tv-documentary-2016/

Mountain walk

click the image please to see all three pictures 

 

This week our visiters and I made a pretty strenuous walk on the Olta mountain close to our village.
I could not have done it all by myself, but it was so worth the effort!
 

Amongst all the great vistas of the surrounding mountains and the ever present Mediterranean Sea, we saw a heart shaped climbing plant, the always impressing Bernia mountain range opposite of the Olta, and cairns of course. By now I have seen so many of these stone path markers... In Norway, the USA, on Caribbean beaches and also here in Spain!


Enjoy your day, thanks for reading

Regina