Friday, May 7, 2010

Garden cuttings




In the middle of my table, I have a group of cuttings from my garden. I thought I'd take a pic and preserve the memory of them at this stage, and then - AHA! I decided to tweak it in Photoshop Elements as an exercise to help compose a painting. Here are three variations. The reason I like to play with them this way is - I would never have thought to go dark wtih this subject - yet when I tried it by adjusting colors and contrast and saturation - I can see that it would make a very interesting painting. Hmmmmm........ Look how the little face on the bottle disappeared, and a new face emerged! Awesome!

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