354 - Stratafied

Day 354. No idea. Just started making marks with Adobe Draw. Ended up with this. Andre Breton would be proud. Sigmund Freud would be scared.

328 - Iterative Abstraction

Day 328. The process of making this image is probably more interesting than the final image itself, although I do quite like the final image. This was created from the museum collage in a recent post. It was manipulated several times in MegaPhoto+, passed through filters and reflection over and over until this end result emerged.

295 - Cyclic

Day 295. I was looking some the abstraction works by Picasso and thinking about the idea of simplification or reduction. I'm a little fascinated by the concept of using as few resources as possible in order to get something done, so the idea of conveying an idea as simply as possible is interesting to me. It's not just a matter of efficiency, although I like that notion too, but there is a real sense of beauty in doing more with less. As I was exploring the pen tool in Adobe Draw I wondered how few lines would be required to convey the idea of a cyclist, and I quickly scrawled these six marks on the iPad. As I draw the last stroke Linda noticed what I'd done and said, "nice cyclist" so I guess the concept came across ok.

It makes me wonder how often we agonise over details that don't matter.

179 - Pride Poles

Day 179. I was messing around in the new Adobe Sketch app, just throwing some colours around and using the line drawing tool, which was not a tool usually found in sketching apps. My fiddling was literally just a bunch of scribbles on the screen. I then sent it out to the Repix app and messed around with it there too. I applied a bunch of effects but particularly the drips and daubs brushes. End result reminds me a little of Blue Poles, but on a Pride weekend, with more colour than just blue.

 

156 - Art For Art's Sake

Day 156. I was playing with a new app tonight called Repix, a very interesting painting app for iOS. It has a series of brushes and filters that can be applied over a photograph to create effects that range from painterly to other-worldly. It's quite cool.

This completely abstract image started life as a small cropped corner of a larger photo ( this actually started out as a picture of a teacher and kindergarten kid using a iPad together, not that you can tell that now.) After applying a few effects and brushes it quickly distorts the image beyond recognition. I'd like to get my kids trying this app.

"But what's it a picture of?"

Nothing now. I just found it to be an interesting arrangement of colours and shapes. Does it have to be "of" something.