Hello...
I know, I just updated recently, HOWEVER, I thought I might talk about
the new look of both the Habitat and the Orphic Endeavors pages.
I got tired of looking at the same old stuff and had a change in the art.
I also added a new gallery and updated the "Gallery of New Art".
The fun thing about most of the art on that page is that its all pertaining
to something else. "The Muse", "The Traveler" and "The Terror Outside"
are all inspired by Orphic Endeavors' tunes of the same names. The
"Fortress House" piece is from my novel, "Fortress Around Your Heart" and
the first pic on the page is also from the book.
Anyway, I thought I might bring up how I make these pics in case anyone
stumbles here and thinks these are simply photos I took or something.
Using "Fortress House" as an example, I found about fifteen 'pieces':
bits I needed for different things in the final picture. Here are
a few, just to give you an idea.
Step one was finding the right building. I knew I wanted to use
a church, (it's a long story), so I went to Art Today and did a search
and found just what I wanted. The windows were right and I could
eliminate the steeple without having to change the whole look of the building.
Step two was putting the two pieces of the same church together and
painting a roof and repairing the hidden bits covered by the large tree
in the foreground.
The third bit I needed was tougher: finding the right steps. I
did after alot of trial and error. Once I found the perfect steps
I knew I needed to "build" a foundation on the building, so I painted one
a lighter shade than the rest of the building and airbrushed it with shadows.
You see the final version of the house in the fourth photo without any
background yet.
What I did for the background is very obvious if you look closely at
the photo. I cut and pasted most of the farthest trees from the fifth
photo and cloned the tops of them over and over to fill the space.
Then I cloned the gravel and the dirt road from both the fifth and sixth
photo and stole plants and groundcover from both and gave the house a yard
and a driveway and finally I took the branches from the last photo and
a foreground tree and some flowers from a couple of other photos and came
up with the finished piece you see if you click here: Fortress
House
or go to the "Gallery of New Art" and find the link there.
Most all of my photo work is done this way. In fact, the background
for this page was done using a photo of a stone wall and photos of fossils.
And the Habitat art on the main page is even more complicated. I
started with the same stone wall.....but that's another story. :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Bonnie |
***One Last Word***
When I finished this yesterday
I didn't know that I would find
out today that my all time number
one hero, Douglas Adams, had
died on May 11th. I will miss him
so much. He's the reason why I
love to write, why I love silliness
and creating all kinds of things. I
have been a fan since I first heard
the Hitchhikers radio show (the
first time they aired it in 1979-1980?
in the US). It came on right after the
Star Wars radio show and I
happened to catch it one day. It
was the episode where Marvin
was telling this horrible robot who
was chasing Zaphod around how
awful it was having to deal with
people. The robot got so angry
it blasted first the wall and ceiling
and finally the floor out from under
itself.
I was hooked. :) |
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