Apples
This started life as a simple still life drawing of some apples on a cloth and grew. Here we have a photograph of the original drawing which has been coloured using the air brush in the GIMP. I really love the free and loose nature of the drawing and the colouring despite being digital hangs onto that looseness.
Bar Light
The original photograph was taken by placing my camera on the bar and adjusting the settings until I go the picture I wanted. Not difficult when it's three in the morning and you have had a quantity of falling over water. In the studio I rendered the picture monochrome and a bit sepia and finally the long slow bit I pulled the colour back into the areas of the picture to raise the interest. Look very carefully because some of them are very subtle.
Peppers
Peppers one of the subjects I get told I'm good at, I don't know but I do enjoy the process. Here, I have made a Lino-cut print of a few peppers and felt the dynamics of the picture worked well but something was missing. Of course what is missing is obvious colour, so I coloured in the peppers a bit with a very fine digital air brush.
Making Lino-cuts is a very interesting process because you are leaving behind the bits that will be coloured in the final print and like many artists I find that quite difficult. However, I find it quite therapeutic and the results are very nineteen fifties.
Barbs
I don't know what the plant is called but when found in the wild it is full of spacial interest but take a photograph and it's very flat and disintegrating. Here I have exaggerated the colours and contrasts to bring out the shapes, very busy but no longer dull, flat and lacking in interest.
Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom is a very full on experience a riot of pink and pink and in your face. However, in a photograph the edges of the blossom are often lost in the riot of colour and the edges are in my opinion more interesting. So hours latter and I have a picture that leaves the pinks ihn place but brings forward the edges in a pleasing way. I love it!