Green man by Sandra, from Siggi's prompt
This is the first one.
I altered the colour with various filters, played with symmetry and various effects, 'pulled' the image around (like the previous challenge) and added lighting effects.
I was hoping a break from the prompt would help my subconscious come up with something, but so far I'm still getting nowhere...maybe next week!
Challenge 9.Green Man, 2012
This work was done in watercolor and white ink. Waking to visit the planet earth, Green Man is angry and startled.
...But see what you've done to the rain and the sun
So many changes have all just begun, to reap
I know you're asleep
Wake Up excerpt from Prelude, by Spirit
Challenge 9. "It's Raining in Bangor"
Photo 1: The prompt
Photo 2 and 3: Working out to find an idea from the prompt.
Photo 4: Reminding myself of the yellow in the photo and using it to join
both areas of white and add some texture
Photo 5: Painting seems unbalanced so work on that and add the rain
Photo 6: Several tries at adding and covering the clouds to get them "just right"
and adding in the lightning and some iridescent white
on the top of the mountain and tip of the lightning ...
I like how the iridescent paint looks at night or on darker days of the year
and the painting "pops" off the wall instead of disappearing in the darkness.
Photo 7: A little darkness was added to the bottom of the clouds.
Final painting: "It's Raining in Bangor"I thought and thought about the prompt...and decided to just start to paint and see what developed.
After the first day, I was coming out of a store in town, the sky was clear, but towards Bangor,
you could see dark clouds and rain in intermittent places from the dark clouds.
Challenge 8 - from Sand - 'Tripping the light fantastic.'
I agree with mimu that the crystal light puts one in mind of dancing and movement, so I went back to one of the fluid apps that I haven't used since a previous challenge. I tweaked colours using various apps then 'pushed' the image around, then added lighting effects to end up with this;
Then I approached the image from the start again, altering the colour, pushing it around then playing with it in a graphics app before pushing it once more and filtering the colour;
CHALLENGE 8 - photo by mimulux - my result
THE DANCING UNIVERSE
Challenge # 8 Crystal City
in beautiful prisms. Approaching through the tunnel, you see some illumination ahead.
Rounding a corner the view opens up... to a city of crystal.My response to the prism challenge photo was to look for the rainbows. Crystals are magical in their ability to refract white light into color, and the best foil for light is darkness.
This dark cavern underground would be all the more magical for hosting a beautiful crystalline formation deep within; a reward for those who would dare to venture there.
Some small petroglyphs incised upon the cave wall, lower left, show that a woman of power did just that.
This was painted with watercolor and ink on 140lb. Arches watercolor paper.
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Challenge # 8: Crystal Clear
2. I painted the canvas with Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground.
Then painted the sky a light blue which I decided to change.
3. I painted the sky over with the DS watercolor ground and then applied
a darker sky, with Yarka watercolor paint.
4. second coat of water color and an application of DS watercolor pearl white to the moon...
the water color pearl white didn't show up as effectively as I wanted
...I applied acrylic pearl white over the watercolor application of watercolor pearl white.
5. More pearl white to moon... and then I sprayed water with a fan brush to get a "random" star pattern".
and applied watercolor pearl white to the areas for the stars in the sky.
The water below the mountains is still the watercolor application of pearl white.
I give the stars a second application ... acrylic over the watercolor
...they didn't shine like I wanted them with the watercolor pearl white.
6. Acrylic pearl painted on the water for the reflection of the moon and stars shining. Painting is completed.
Title: Crystal Clear. Mixed Media on canvas.
Challenge # 7, Pat's Response
Pulling out a background with bright reds and yellows, I imposed a drawing in white , and then let the snapping energy of the creature take over.
I worked in watercolor, conte crayon, and white ink.
You can see here where I started, as well as the conclusion.
It is titled Chinese Lion.
CHALLENGE 7 - mimulux contribution
phew.. this was a toughy. sand really made me think.. and it took me a while to work it out. i was irritated by the image.. somehow .. it did not work.. something was amiss but i could not put my finger on it.. what was it that was disturbing me? i opened the image.. started playing around with it.. only to discard what i had done. the word "dragon" kept going round in my head.. but something was not right about that.. so.. a few days ago i looked at the photo once more and saw.. no.. that is not a dragon.. that is a guard dog.. or lion? so i started to check and found.. lion indeed it is. a shishi lion.. without its partner. they come in twos.. always.. one male.. one female.. the female always playing with a cub.. the male has its paw on a globe. they are guardians, those lions.. you can still see them guarding chinese buildings.. homes.. restaurants... . could i work now? yes.. ideas started to come. slowly i admit.. i must have had some kind of block ... so i made two lions.. and from there.. one thing happened after the other.. i started adding images and colours i associate with chinese symbolism.. the colour red for happyness, good luck.. same goes for the dragon.. a pagoda in the background....... and then? right in the middle of it... a grim, jade colored face.. in all this joy, exuberance, happyness, good luck ...a stern face... and the lions? their eyes gleam red... they look fierce and ready to bite any intruders.. any evil spirits....... so that face? another guardian?? who knows...
Challenge 7 - from Sand
I have seen dragons lions*...
So how did i get here? Well...
...here are the first two images that I came up with. These are mostly the result of the app 'Photo Studio' then 'Water my photo.'
But I wasn't happy with them and for some reason I ground to a halt. When I recalled the challenge (oops) I went hunting for the photograph, taken outside the Tai Pan Chinese restaurant on Derby Road, about 5 minutes drive from the centre of Liverpool. I started with it a new but kept getting stuck. Then I found a montage of two different images I'd previously created of the dragon, (put together with the app 'Juxtaposer.') Here are some of the images I created...
Challenge 7, Sandra's Gargoyle
a plastic paper.
The paint was applied as an experiment with the
red/blue/green triad from Daniel Smith and was intended
to be a background "starter" for a portrait.
When it dried, the basic painting was there and members
of my Vagabonds painting group, started pointing things
out that they "saw" and suggested I not change it.
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It started looking like it might be a subject for the prompt
and I added the white...the paint had not stayed on the paper
there and it was white and looked unfinished.
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Doing the white, disturbed some of the other colors....a fact
of working with YUPO. Every action has a reaction that wasn't
expected. I tried to recoup the "feel" of the original applicaton of
paint, and strengthened a few lines.
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To finish the painting, I splattered a metalic watercolor also from
Daniel Smith.
Challenge 7 - Photo from Sand
I just looked for this, sure that it wasn't that long ago that I posted it, only to find that not only did I send this to all of the Muses in August, but that I hadn't even posted it here!
