Folded Paper Paintings
The assignment was to think about what we did with paper and then construct an artwork of it. For me, as a commercial artist, one of my favourite things to […]
Category Archives: One Word Photo Challenge
Textures: Pixels Vs. Paint
Pixels can never truly reproduce the tactile quality of real textures created by paint; textures so delicious you want to reach out and touch them. There is however, visual texture, […]
Macros of Bougainvillea, a Tropical Vine with Bright Papery Flowers
Just back from Huatalco in Mexico where I was taking macros of one of my favourite tropical flowers, Bougainvillea, and running into an old problem which I call ‘red flare’. […]
Single Letters
‘A’ is for antique. On an old building made of corrugated metal on the former industrial site of Granville Island, the letter ‘A’ has almost faded into oblivion. ‘C’ is for […]
Landscape Paintings
Here I am trying to create landscape paintings using photo apps – mostly Waterlogue which has a dozen different watercolour styles. Ireland’s Bloody Foreland is sort-of okay but the Waterlogue […]
Insects, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once I had to illustrate the ‘all about bugs’ section of a grade seven Science textbook. While admittedly I felt a bit crawly drawing all these insects I also learned a […]
One Word Photo Challenge: Horse Art from Around the World
Horse art from around the world. The yellow horse riders in Vancouver’s Chinese New Year parade. Statue of Pancho Villa on a horse in Zacatecas, Mexico.Old wooden rolling horse in […]
One Word Photo Challenge: Grain
Grains of wheat in a field next to one of our many French picnics. A comment from one of the few bakers in Canada that is capable of producing bread […]
Adding Frames in Photo Apps
Several photo apps that I use extensively have ‘frame’ options. This screen grab of a flower run though the photo app Snapseed shows some of the current 23 ‘frame’ options. […]
Fish Art from Around the World
A collection of fish art from around the world. A shop decorated with metal fish of all sorts in the harbour of Carnlough, a small town on the Coastal Causeway […]
