A quick look at ‘beige’ in Wikipedia shows that, in spite of being a colour with a reputation for being boring, it actually has an interesting history. Currently ‘beige’ is described as a light grayish-yellow brown. The word ‘beige’ originally comes … Continue reading Beige, a Bland, Boring Colour that Starts with B
The grape harvest in Rioja intensified – I just want to pick that cluster and stuff it in my mouth! The Original. Week 1. Watercolour by Waterlogue.Week 2. Retro grapes in Pixlromatic Week 3. Monochrome in Stackables Week 4. Intensified. More … Continue reading One Four Challenge November Week 4: Rioja Grape Harvest
For some reason I find Stackables to produce the most interesting black and white images. Whereas Pixlromatic does a better job on sepia images with a bit of character. More of Robyn G’s One Four Challenge. Continue reading One Four Challenge November Week 3: Rioja Grape Harvest
This week I’m running the grapes through Pixlromatic which I find does a good job of making the image tell a story. More of Robyn G’s One Four Challenge. Continue reading One Four Challenge November Week 2: Rioja Grape Harvest
I’m off gallivanting again so I’m picking an easy subject and just running it through a bunch of photo apps. The grape harvest was in full swing when we were in Rioja last October, and the smell of fermenting wine … Continue reading One Four Challenge November Week 1: Rioja Grape Harvest
A Venezuelan artist born in 1923, Carlos Cruz-Diez became involved with the ‘Op Art’ movement of the 60s, moving on to ‘kinetic’ installations of Op Art in the 70s. The ‘Op Art’ Movement, for those of you who weren’t around in the … Continue reading Cruz-Diez’s Kinetic Colours at Centro Niemeyer in Aviles, Spain
This week I wanted to use a monochrome look to emphasize the Victorian ‘Industrial’ quality of this Spanish conservatory. I thought for sure Stackable’s ‘Tintype’ formula would fill the bill but in my one image the focus was just too sharp to … Continue reading One Four Challenge August Week 4: Conservatory
Some fun colour looks for my conservatory from a variety of apps. Photoshop Express ‘Dream’ look enhanced the natural mistiness of this version of the conservatory. Pixlromatic had a couple of versions that worked well with my other shot of the … Continue reading One Four Challenge August Week 3: Conservatory
I’ve been working on two view of the magnificent Victorian conservatory in Madrid’s Retiro Park. In this second edit, the two views of the conservatory were run through Sketch Guru. This is the ‘Gouache’ look. Followed by one of Sketch Guru’s ‘Watercolour’ looks. … Continue reading One Four Challenge August Week 2: Conservatory
The conservatory in Madrid’s Retiro Park has art inside rather than plants. I was more intrigued by the building itself than the installation art, which consisted of a lot of rocking chairs and books scattered around. Once again, I had trouble picking … Continue reading One Four Challenge August Week 1: Conservatory
Elizabatz Gallery 