Savoring Summer

Chocolate Mint Iced Tea - pictures and recipe on my new blog:

http://oddmoondesigns.com/blog/

Hope to see you there!

My Manifesto

This week’s {very challenging!} Beyond Beyond project was to create your own manifesto. 

Bison Release at the Belwin Conservancy

Bison 3 Ways

Version 1 = soft, matte, and dreamy

Version 2 = warm, saturated, and dreamy

Version 3 = cool, dreamy, and matte

Radlab version 1&2; Kim Klassen’s Anne texture on version 3

 Running Bison

Texture Tuesday - Summer

Shine

 

I used Kim's Daisy and Cora textures on this photo.

 



Beyond Beyond Day 19 – Kim’s Beach and My Style

This week’s task was to alter Kim Klassen’s beach photograph.  It always feels a little bit “wrong” to take one of Kim’s beautiful photos and change it – below is Kim’s original and then my version.

I love this quote of Eleanor Roosevelt.  I tried to give Kim’s photo a dreamlike feel.  The right side is a pencil sketch idea of a dream and, moving to the left, the realization of that dream.  The pencil sketch technique is in the Sept/Oct issue of Adobe Photoshop Elements magazine.

 

My Style

I don’t know that I have a style, but I do like taking photos of the plants and wildlife in my backyard.  Below is a favorite of mine – a wild bird bath party.

Friday Finds - Handmade Love

I’ve been on the look-out for an old dressmaker’s form, or some other structure, that I could dress up with scarves and jewelry to photograph.

Last weekend my mom and aunt were planning a trip to the flea market.  I asked my mom to keep an eye out for a form that might work for me. 

These two clever and talented women made one!  I cannot believe that they made this!

First they tea stained the fabric and created a pattern; they sewed and stuffed the body. And then they crafted a wooden base from a broom handle and scrap wood. 

Truly an amazing treasure!

 

 

Texture Tuesday - Spring

I used two layers of Kim Klassen’s 1402 texture on this photo

Spring brings out the pink beauty of this flowering crab tree.  The flowers last for only a short time, just until the spring winds tease the petals from the tree and carpet the ground in glorious pink.

I used two layers of Kim Klassen’s 1402Magic texture on this photo and Radlab