PhotoArt Friday graffiti for Easter

I had Bonnie’s suggestion of creating photoart graffiti in the back of my mind when I was wandering around an Easter display in Covent Garden in icy wind and occasional light snow.  I snapped this lovely image of giant daffodils while wondering when spring weather would arrive around here.

and slowly an idea for my graffiti creation took form.  Back home I created this using the selection tools, artistic filters and the bored schoolboy font

Still waiting for some nice weather but glad to make the statement. 

and a version with Bonnie’s latest lovely texture gift as the background (I do love the magic eraser tool that enabled me to easily remove the white from the flattened image)

Looking forward to seeing the graffiti others present.

Look up look down with others

 

One of the many delights of meeting Deb and Alison last weekend was being in the company of fellow ‘look up look down’ ers who were not at all perturbed at being asked to point up in order for me to take my photo (Alison on the left, Deb on the right) and yes those gloves were needed as it was icy cold.

The down is of a fun and energetic busking band who jumped to the classical music they were playing – providing a nice thematic link of moving limbs

Deb was in town !!!

Back from a lovely weekend in London to meet Deb and Carrie, and Alison and Mel.  Such a strange mix of familiar and unfamiliar – known lives in previously unheard voices; conversations using real names rather than blog pseudonyms; chat in real time on several topics. 

I met up with Deb, Carrie and Alison for breakfast at the hotel and then a wander around Covent Garden market as it awoke. Plenty of chat and touch and laughter and of course photos of everything, including some up and downs.  So refreshing to be around other scrappers when whipping out the camera to take photos of everything. 

Then the number 9 bus to Kensington for lunch with 7 more scrapping bloggers.  Again plenty of camera action amongst the chatter and laughter.

Indeed the novelty of all the photo taking inspired my first layout of the weekend.

the bottom right photo is Ruth doing the series of photos of each of us with Deb and Carrie – and here is mine

We did take a group photo in the restaurant – but took pity on the helpful waiter and agreed to share the image rather than pass him 11 cameras.

So lovely to meet blogfriends who have been part of my life since Shimelle’s blogging class in 2009. 

photoart Friday - yes its hand made

Self-portrait is the theme this week from Bonnie for PhotoArt Friday.  As I used my own face for the portrait theme last week I turned to a different part of me for this challenge.  Again I was drawn to the idea of making a photo look as if it had been drawn or painted





for both images I followed the same process
*heartland (Pioneer woman) effect
*find edges filter
* Bonnie’s Dusty Rose Bokeh in colour burn (added warmth)
* artistic filter rough pastels
*some pixel cutting magic to keep the coffee foam in real colour and to remove the background on the 2nd so it looks more like a sketch