from a red rectangle

abstract & digital artwork


Folder: Arts & artefacts - Museums, galleries, exhibitions, music and other art forms
These are all my own original works made using Photoshop Elements 10.I frequently refer to them as doodles, as I rarely start with a clear idea of what the image should look like. Sometimes I try out different filters or effects provided in Elements used on very simple shapes. Other times I start with a ready-made shape and apply effects to that. One of the many effects that has been most useful i…  (read more)

from a red rectangle

4 curly brushes 2x3 2x1 11

4 curly brushes 2x3 2x1 90L plus grad

4 curly brushes 2x3 2x1 drop shads

halved grad - yellow magenta teal - dropped shadow…

De La Warr Pavilion - Down the stair well - 25.10.…

Fractal & gradient Happy Christmas

Fractal & grad

Fractal on diagonal -Happy Christmas

not another fridge magnet

A Moorhen chick at Friston Pond - 27.6.2016

27 Jun 2016 1 3 176
Almost an abstract - make the grasses a bit fuzzier and fade the chick a bit more! As with the cow - it is the simplicity of the image that I like.

marbleously colourful

keep circling around

No, I haven't any idea either!

02 May 2016 6 4 228
The sugar rush from one too many squares of Lidl's Rich Milk Chocolate is to blame, I think! It emanated from thinking that the previous mono marble picture should be installed in an impressive building's entrance atrium (wasn't it a foyer when I was growing up?) Clearly these are arty types heading in to an avant garde musical happening, or perhaps a new gallery opening.

marbleously mono

02 May 2016 4 6 276
The marbling is largely due to a Photoshop Elements effect called 'Paint daubs - sparkle'. which breaks the divisions between tones with ragged pale lines. This mono version provides a great starting point for using Photoshop Elements 'gradients map', which takes all the different shades and applies sets of colours to them.

Blast furnace meets Cathedral


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