Wild Colors

There's nothing tame about my Photo Art for Pixel Dust Photo Art creation this week. It's really vivid!

 I chose 3 images from a recent drive through rangeland that borders the highway from NE Oregon to Idaho.  I used the new "Topography" texture after "collaging" the images with Screen blending mode.   With the addition of the texture, I used Linear Light blending mode and then added RadLab's  "Technicolor Dream."

Chinks of Light -- Photo Art Friday

When Bonnie of Pixel Dust Photo Art  provided two "artsy" textures last week, I began playing immediately.  And I forgot to record my "recipe."   For some reason, I couldn't get "Off Kilter" to work for me, but "Chinks of Light" resulted in some interesting art, which I chose for Photo Art Friday's gallery.

I've posted the photo collage that I worked with....each photo layer was reduced in opacity from 73% to 37%, depending upon the image.   I then applied "Chinks of Light" in three layers: darker light at 100%, hard light at 100% and a duplication of that layer to complete the "art."  (I still need some work on softening the edges of the individual layers.)

Photo Art of a Red Door

Bonnie of Pixel Dust Photo Art has some wonderful images of buildings....and a fabulous set of doors in this week's post.  I have to search for pretty doors, but I found some on a century-old building in Joseph, Oregon a couple of weeks ago.  They have been painted bright red.    In keeping with the Photo Art Friday  challenge to "feature a piece of photo art using one" of Bonnie's free textures, I've edited my red doors with "Vintage Wine Label" on color burn at 100%, duplicated at 45% opacity, and "French Script on Parchment" on linear light at 100% opacity.  Pretty snazzy doors, aren't they?  

Experiments with Bonnie's Latest Free Textures

 (Temporarily violating my silence of August Break)  Bonnie of Pixel Dust Photo Art has invited her followers to try out her latest textures:  Fleeting Memory and Silent Memory.   I'm always happy to oblige.

Silent Memory x2 - Color Burn

Fleeting Memory - Luminosity

Fleeting Memory  - Color Burn

Fleeting Memory - Hard Light

Trying out two new PDPA textures

Bonnie introduced two new fine art textures on her Pixel Dust Photo Art  blog today. To try them out, I used one photo of an old grave headstone and tried to imitate Bonnie's process with each.  ( I wish I had a wonderful pear image like hers!)

"Artist's Easel" texture 

"Dear John" texture


And here's an image with BOTH of the new textures added:

Orange in the morning

Summer is cool this year, and the mornings are especially pleasant.  I have 3 lilies blooming...colors that I wouldn't particularly choose because I like pinks, whites and reds.  This orange one was processed with Bonnie's PDPA Pow! (2 layers on soft light at 100% opacity), and a layer of It's Raining (soft) from Nelly Nero actions.

The last of the peonies

Peonies never seem to last long enough...maybe because they are so unattractive when the flowers are spent.  When several plants are close together, as in one of my flower beds, a late bloom will appear.  Such was the case with Coral Charm, the earliest of the doubles.  When everything else looked horribly bedraggled, here was a small bloom tucked down in the floppy foliage of the plant.    I've added three layers of Bonnie's (Pixel Dust Photo Art) "Old Ornate Linen" texture to the image, primarily to mask the distracting background.  I also de-saturated the image slightly.

Here's a different take on the same photo: PDPA's "Cherish" with Soft Light blending mode 

Painterly tree images

For almost a year, I've been photographing one tree just 10 miles from my home.  For several months, the images didn't change:  the tree was in its dormant phase and the mountains in the background had snow on them.  Finally, the tree leafed out, although the snow was still there on the mountains into June.

Using the free texture "Dappled Dawn" from Pixel Dust Photo Art, I've turned two images into "paintings." After applying the texture with Color Burn blending, I then applied the dry brush artistic filter  of PSE.

Watercolor filter

Saving for the Creative Exchange

I took this photo more than a week ago and added texture last week, just to post it for Lisa's Creative Exchange.  Lisa sets the tone each week with an amazing photo, very often a fabulous macro image that makes me wonder how in the world she did it!  The center of a tulip is "on stage" for this week's "exchange."  

This blossom was at a local nursery where my husband and I had just picked up two beautiful red wood dogwood shrubs to plant.  I assume this is some kind of bush or shrub rose, fully "blown."   The texture is Gold Dust from Bonnie's Pixel Dust Photo Art, and her "recipe" for adding the texture.