My design aesthetic goes one of two ways, minimalistic or overly complex. There is very rarely any middle ground for me. I also love monotone or two tone patterns. My favorite neutral color is gray. So naturally these things all came together in this design. I started with floral vectors from istockphoto and went to town with layering and scaling.
A little spin on my usual design process, Paper Damage brushes. The photo was taken 4 days ago and damaged in Photoshop for 4 minutes or less. Thank you Photoshop Exchange for the brushes.
Today I found myself thinking about this photo I took of the Peter Pan Statue in Hyde Park, while in London 6 years ago. Said photo was shot with my now old and trusty, 35mm Cannon Rebel G. After returning home the photo was scanned. Today I applied the Desaturate and used Levels commands to produce a softened black and white photo.
This picture was created using techniques I've already mentioned previously. So I post this as a farewell to a good summer and motivation for me to blog more.
I recently made some colorful pasta necklaces for a design project I have been working on. While photographing I became slightly obsessed with the colors and angles. Proof is above. There's no Photoshoping on this picture, just straight up the original photo.
Wow, it's been a while since my last entry!
I recently discovered a new hobby while spending some time at the beach, sharpie tattoos. 
This photo was taken during an outing to the National Arboretum. Although the original photo was very colorful, I decided to apply some filters and mute the colors to almost monochromatic to focus in on the camera and the photographer's face. This particular photographer often wandered away from the group to use her old faithful Cannon Rebel G. So I decided to document this annoying/funny occurrence.
At the request of a friend of mine I broke out my water colors, sadly they haven't seen the light of day in a while. In the quest to develop my Photoshop Godessness, painting was pushed aside. I have had a little more time lately so I'm starting to put those painting and drawing skills to use! I am not the greatest foliage painter, but I tried a different approach (lots of little washes, instead of wet into wet). Having not painted in a while, I was happy with the result. The line from a childhood song 'In the leafy tree tops' comes to mind when I look at the tree in back of the hosue. Now I'm on the lookout for my next subject...
In honor of the rain, here's a painting I made while in London. My sister took the photo I used as a reference. Apparently the phone booth smelled pretty awful inside. Perhaps someone used it as a loo?
I recently came across some pictures I had scanned 4 years ago. However I wasn't on a computer with my beloved Adobe Creative Suite. Then I remembered the Photoshop Express webiste https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html. It's basic and it's free and lets me play with photos. It even has a few "Pink Flamingo" functions (see text bubble above) that could provide hours of enjoyment if you like pink flamingos, happen to be unemployed or an admin assistant with some time to kill.
The year or two following a semester spent in London, my artwork kept me reminiscing about my time there. This painting is of York Minster as seen though the city of York.
Due to some recent circumstances, this blog is going to take a different turn for a bit. I'm going to focus on paintings with a few digital creations here and there for the time being. The image above is a watercolor based on a picture I took of a window of John Ruskin's home in the Lake District of England. The image was painted on my return to London. 
This image is made from stock photos and illustrations from istockphoto.com. I copied and pasted parts of the illustrations from Illustrator into my stock photo in Photoshop to make the city. Then I applied filters and layer styles to give the image an illustrated quality.
I really liked the original color contrast of this photo. So I used a few filters and a scan of old paper to play up the shoes and the color of the screen.
The title of this image is a combination of two song titles Serious by Duffy and Hometown Glory by ADELE. I found the image of the TV on iStock.com. 
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There's too much going on here to explain my entire process. A few things that were used are the Lighting Effects filter (for the frame), Liner Burn blending modes & smart objects. Sometimes I wonder if subconsciously I've banded minimalism from my work.
