child's play

wow, eileen, this is gorgeous! i love the dress/shirt.... and the colors too! so much movement and joy in this work, i can't stop smiling whenever i look at it.... kept thinking that i have seen a painting, somewhere, that radiates the exact same happy pleasure, so i started searching for it. and then i suddenly remembered an exhibition some years ago, titled: Klee and CoBrA: child's play, and i knew....
so now you are not only channeling Klee but a whole group of famous dutch painters as well.....ha!

another artist that came to mind is Keith Haring (i saw his retrospective at the Whitney in NYC, 1997)

his paintings always make me smile and wat to start moving. 
just like that dress of yours, it needs (and invites) to dance and jump around!

while digging around in my image-archive for photos i took of the Klee & CoBrA exhibition, i found these interesting abstract shots, taken with my old iPhone4 on 15 februari 2012,  the same day i visited the CoBrA Museum

think i might use them as backgrounds for my iPad collages and/or use the colors and lines in my paint work.

tried to find a preferred orientation for your second image, but couldn't.... every time i see the four versions, i prefer another one, lol! and i see so many familiar things in it i cannot even begin to mention them.... i just love it! it is also fascinating because the different orientations lead me into the image in different ways, and i keep discovering new details.

maybe you should make a collage and present it as one work:  four ways to honor Paul Klee..... 

this reminds me of an image i composed after you wondered how i created the green turmoil out of the bottle on the metal pole near the water

there are a lot of apps that you can use to distort your images in all kinds of weird ways, the one i used for the green turmoil is one of my favorites, called Roll World, introduced to me by Tina Rice, whose blog i am a big fan of!

after your question about the turmoil effect i browsed my collection of distortion apps and toyed around with a couple of them, using a shot of a plate of strawberries (freshly plucked from our garden!)

carpe diem

original shot with vividHDR, edited with Snapseed (note that the plate is on top of the newspaper's obituary page...)

three different distortions: 1: PixelWakker  2: Trimaginator  3: Roll World

strawberries served four ways

btw, the strawberries tasted heavenly, very sweet, juicy and aromatic. we have five plants in tubs sometimes pick twice in a day.....