this stuff is so awesome, it will take my art to a whole different level, my images will be so much easier to transform and manipulate, it is mind-blowing....!!!!
i immediately went to work, starting with one of my recent iphone shots, taken in my favorite shopping street
my new iphone 6S has a much better camera with a 12MP (instead of my 5S's 8 MP) resolution, so the quality of the images i use as a starting point for my artwork has increased accordingly, such a wonderful improvement!
it was an absolute joy to lift the manikin from its background on my new ipad pro, loads of extra screen 'real estate' to work on, the pencil felt and performed just like a real one, incredibly accurate, by zooming in i was able to erase the background almost pixel-by-pixel.....
and then searching for new scenes and adventures for my manikin.....
barking up the wrong tree
invoking my inner artist
forever chasing rainbows
first one: nature scene from my daily dog-walk; added written text (part of the song: "Elephant Talk" by King Crimson i was listening to at that time) in Procreate
second one: Lianne LaHavas performing in Utrecht, viewed from the balcony; added the birds with Distress FX and the Bacon-like vertical lines in Procreate
third one: shot a beautiful rainbow from the bridge, after having dragged the dogs through a rainy, muddy marsh; added some painterly effects with Impresso and ToonCamera and a bit of texture and a wavy line in Procreate
so many creative possibilities, such a great source of new inspiration, i'm already completely addicted to my new toys....:-)
some really sad news too, we had to say goodbye to our little dog BiBi, she'd been with us for 16 years, she had a stroke which left her hind legs paralysed, so we could no longer keep her with us.
after she died i was transferring my latest Olympus shots to my Macbook and found this image of her reflection in a puddle, already fading away, it felt like a last goodbye; while shooting the puddle i hadn't noticed her coming back and quietly waiting for me, like she always did..... not anymore now....
I am so sorry you lost your faithful and loving little companion BiBi. She is so cute and what a wonderful image you captured of her. Even upside down as a reflection, she clearly shows how much she wants to be with you. And, she will.
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