New Things

No Texture Tuesday this week, but I worked on some new things.  I took some photos of peonies I brought home from Trader Joe's.  They were really disappointing -- only one opened.  The rest just sort of crashed.  I tried some different processing on this one peony.  I used Kim Klassen's "canvasback" texture plus Bonnie's "golden bokeh" texture on the first image below.

I practiced outlining my font below -- don't want to forget  how to do that.

I thought I would post some of my work for a Photoshop "Selections" class I'm taking. Go to this link and click on"online courses" to check it out. I really needed to learn the skill of selection and extracting.

I first selected the foxglove from another photo I had and then applied it to one of my paintings.  I actually used it three times in different sizes.

Then I played with different filters to get the different looks below.

Then we learned how to make our own masks from scratch.  We selected one flower out of a group and placed it on a background with copies of the flower made smaller.  That formed the larger corner image.  We then made it into a sillouhette and so on..... to get the look below.

Another thing I learned how to do was work with selected shapes, rectangular and elliptical.  For fun I did some color blocking and messed around with these two....

It's a really fun class, and I learned so much.  I plan to take more of Ann's classes.  The first two classes are free, so how can you lose?