ATCs: June 2007

Collage on board. Originally posted 6/1/07.

Photoshop version, tweaked with various tools and a little paint. Background was run through the "Artistic: Fresco" filter and cranked up with the "color dodge" option in an attempt to give it that sea-of-lava-like quality.

Collage, decollage, and colored pencil on board. Originally posted 6/2/07.

Same card, with some tool and color/light changes. The lasso and magic wand were used to run the figure and background through separate settings of the "Artistic: Watercolor" filter. Does B*tt* Cr*ck*r's abomination of Italian cooking make a splendid headdress/rain hat, or what?

Collage on board. Originally posted 6/3/07.

Same card, run with two different sizes of the "Pixelate: Pointillize" filter, about 70% and in "Difference" mode. The figures were Lassoed to leave them out of the filter, then touched up and repainted. The white zigzag line was added back with the Polygonal Lasso tool and the "Fill" option.

Collage on board. Originally posted 6/4/07.

Same image. You got your cut-and-paste, your various cheezy paintbrushes, an Artistic: Colored Pencil filter (at about 50%) on the head, some burning and dodging and blah blah blah.

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted 6/5/07.

In the redo, the square/head is smaller, thanks to Transform and a little Clone Stamp. There's a mishmash of brush and pastel circling the square to soften the space up a little bit. The head is run through a medium setting of a "Distort: Glass" filter, which more or less obliterated the facial features. They were Lassoed from the original card, then cut and pasted to the redo with no change in size. Those "eyes" are oven dials, as I'm sure you were dying to know.

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted on 6/6/07.

Redo has a smattering of Sharpen/Unsharp, Blur, and "Distort: Craquelure" at the bottom. Plus some repainting, some use of cut, copy, paste, brushes and Transform on the frosting flowers.

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted on 6/7/07.

The redo's buttery center is a medium percentage of "Artistic: Paint Daubs." Other minor corrections and changes. Those creepy clutching hands only look that way because they used to be holding scrubbing pads, before I operated.

Collage on board, with some colored pencil touch-ups. Originally posted on 6/8/07.

The same card, with some Smart Blur filtering. I readjusted the pink hues with "command U" to make them look brighter and less grubby. I blame Satan. That triangle of weird limbless space-canines (actually, they're just fancy rolled napkins from an old volume of American Home, early 1960s) got a medium percentage run-through in "Artistic: Plastic Wrap."

Collage on board. Originally posted on 6/9/07.

Same card. Blur tool used on the sink, with Sharpen on the fixtures. The fish had some color adjustments and Sharpening, especially around the eyes. Free Transform on the hearts. Of course the typeface is overhauled, and that's an "Artistic: Rough Pastels" filter on the blue strip at left.