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If you recall, the week before last I wrote about the free creative course being run by Kate England at MarmaladeMoon.com
One of the tasks was to write a word and hide it with doodles that ran to the edge of the page (I’m simplifying here, you need to sign up for more info ;)
I can’t always hold a pen so though I managed to begin a doodle I wasn’t able to finish filling it in…so I did another one with my finger on my iPad using Art Rage. I filled it in with Meritum Paint.

It reminded me of an art activity that I used to do with children - taking your pencil for a walk across the paper, the pencil never leaves the surface and you must keep it moving. Then you fill in the spaces in between with patterns. Some of the results were amazing and it tells you a lot about the person doing the drawing…and there are a variety of adaptations possible.

Anyway - layering was the next step. Photographing the doodle and adding to it, looking at it in different ways… I’ve kind of gone my own route here because I’m struggling with the heat and energy is almost non-existant.

Coincidentally I’d doodled, photographed and apped sketches earlier last month…so the images with this post are -
The ink pen doodle after apping,
The digital doodle after apping,
And some of the stages along the way including two of my earlier photographed doodles.

The last few posts I’ve mentioned my fondness for adding painterly effects to the images I create - most recently with the ‘Paint Mee’ app.
Another painterly app is ‘Auto Painter.’ (There’s Auto Painter ll now as well) This differs from Paint Mee and Artisita Oil in that there are no adjustments possible. These latter two apps let you tweak everything from brush size to colour palette etc. With Auto Painter there are four different filters and that’s it. Apart from the option to mask the area you want the most detail added to, but I’ve not noticed this making much difference really…

Auto Painter one has four filters - Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.
I’m posting this from my phone because I’m in bed, (had a bad week pain and fatigue wise this week.) so I don’t know what order the app will post the images in. What I’m aiming for is -

1: The original photograph of a tree (taken with the iPhone 4S) which I then tweaked in Camera+ and turned into a painted version with Paint Mee.
2: The paint Mee version
3: Auto Painter Aquarell
4: Auto Painter Benson
5: Auto Painter Cezanne 6: Auto Painter Van Gogh (I’ve never seen this filter produce anything I like.)
7,8,9: Are screen shots from the app.

Kate England over at Marmalade Moon is delivering a free four week course via email about jump starting creativity.
In her own words;

“To make it easy to succeed, the course will be delivered to you in 8 tiny, to-the-point, practical and bite-sized chunks, so that it’s really easy for you to follow through and be successful. Creative Jumpstart is a free four week course, delivered to your inbox on Mondays and Fridays.”

Although its already started, if you join now Kate will send you the tasks you’ve missed so far.
Here’s the link for more info -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/creative-jumpstart-course/

And to jump right in and join, (it’s all free remember) click here -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/club/

The photo above is of my notebook.
Yes, it’s my iPad…but although I do have a sketchbook, my hands aren’t often up to the task of using it. So my iPad and iPhone are my creative lifeline.
You’ll need a notebook/sketchbook for the course. So dig one out if you don’t already use one.
Or if your like me, create an album ready for your doodles and ideas, on the touch pad device of your choice ;)
Let me know if you join, I’d love to see what you create and I’m sure Kate will too.

There’s just something about saturated bright colours…

Yes, late posting…though this was done last week, I’m just behind with everything admin related.
(No change there then ;)
Happy Friday lovely peeps
Sx

Although I’ve managed to leave the house twice this past week (!) I didn’t actually have enough spoons to take any photographs. So a sign needed to be found in the house.

*What do you think that this photo is a sign of?

Hipstamatic, Scratchcam, Phantasy, Segmentix.

Here are a couple of other variations including a screen shot of from Zen Bound2

*Answer; I’m a geek…

I was about to start gathering together tips for resizing iPhone images, when I decided to start with the studio talk section of iPhoneArt.com
And lo! It’s all there in one discussion :)
Find it here;
http://www.iphoneart.com/studio_talks/303
Ah I love iPA…

After a break - both for AppIt! and for me - the challenge returns. This time the photo comes from iHeart.

I’ve avoided iPA for a while, along with a lot of things, because…oh a multitude of reasons. Mostly because I’m aware that I can no longer keep up with much and just posting and not commenting/replying much stresses me out with guilt.

Also, my muse doesn’t seem to approve of my mood of late and has gone elsewhere.
Till Appit started.
The photo is of a tree.
Just a tree.
In a field.
…and I couldn’t for the life of me decide what to do with it apart from alter its colour etc. But it’s turned into a journey of app revisiting and I’m having fun.

Week 5 of the 52 week challenge. The theme - eyes.

Using the app…so here’s the last one
Possibly

week 4 of project 52. the title is ‘up’. as usual i am a little limited by my health so it’s another indoor shot. this time i’m posting a different image here than on google+ because poor little ‘rule of thirds’ got no attention last week. i suspect it veered too far away from what photogrpahers consider to be photography. here it is…

taken with the iOS5 camera app, then processed with

‘camera+’, ‘segmentix’, ‘filterstorm’, ‘scratchcam’. 

I use ‘strip designer’ for the framing of multiple images and ‘iWatermark’ to watermark.

The title for this weeks project 52 is ‘Rule of thirds’, here’s an explanation over on Wikipedia. Due to being housebound, the opportunies for a particularly interesting photo are somewhat limited so I though I’d approach it from a different direction.

I was reading an interview with David Hockney in last weeks Radio Times and one of the illustrations was one of his massive images made from smaller parts.

Hockney has a new exhibition opening at the Royal Academy from the 21st January 2012. There’s been a small amount of broohaha about it with regard to him making a dig at Hirst. Here’re some relevant links for those interested;

Interview with Andrew Marr 

A new way of seeing

Damian Hirst spot paintings...

Enough about where the idea came from, here are the 2 images I came up with;