paintings prints and stuff

I made a few more cards this afternoon - it's a grey rainy day and I think it crept into the colour choices and weather I was showing in them! I do like moody light at the coast though :) these are some of the ones I did yesterday. .

Night beach, collage all images copyright Vivien Blackburn I'm showing paintings at an Art and Crafts fair in a few weeks and I thought I'd do some cards - most people can't afford the paintings but they can buy cards if they like. I'll do some with prints of my paintings but I thought it would be interesting to do some small abstract collages with fabric, hand made papers, gold tissue and painted papers. Then I scanned them and played a bit more :>) so some will be printed in their new coats. This is a variation in Photoshop on the collage above. This one looks better IRL because some of the fabrics have a metallic sheen, it didn't scan very well - none of the collages did :>( These were done from memories of the beach in recent paintings. This is collaged from fragments of an overworked painting - at least it was useful for something! and below is a variation on it in Photoshop. and another collage with fragments of the same painting. For the collaged card...

If anyone is interested - I'll be uploading these to imagekind over the next few days

digital images and photograph copyright Vivien Blackburn I should be getting on with the paintings of C0rnwall in progress and maybe be working on the waterways project - but I'm always juggling lots at once and I wanted to carry on with these digital images I've been working on. They've been in and out of Corel Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop and I couldn't tell you exactly what I've done to them! They started life as photos, close ups of flowers - the rest is layers, filters, cropping, adjusting colour and contrast and levels and .................. ......... etc etc etc! I'll upload some of these to my Imagekind account I think and will also give some thought to developing paintings from them. Some would work fantastically well in watercolour - if I'm good enough, not sure if I am though. They would involve careful layering and patience and that isn't something I'm strong on. I'll also try some in mixed media on canvas. I thi...

watercolour sketch I'm thinking around the canvasses I want to do and how I want to develop them. These first 2 are quick watercolour studies followed by a couple of digital simplifications - I'd like to do some more abstract variations on this view and these are a start on sorting out essential elements. watercolour sketch digital manipulation digital manipulation This last one does really catch the essence of the light without any detail - I rather like it and though it's simplified there are some nice bleeds of colour going on. what do you think? .