Digital Collage

"The Tinkerings of a Gentleman's Mind"

Photoshop CS5

(All manipulated images found on Google image.)

Spook! Monkey #10

Monkey Drawing Challenge complete! 10 Monkeys for 10 Days! 

It was an interesting challenge that I set for myself, probably wont be doing it again for a while though.

Le Artist, Monkey Day 9

Blossom Tree

 After watching the video of how to paint a Cherry Blossom tree (shared in the video post below) I was inspired to try it out for myself. It is beautifully unpredictable how the ink flows along the page and it was lots of fun painting this. I wanted to have a coloured background so I first painted a gradient blue and green 'sky' using water colour paint, then used the ink and straw technique to create the branches and then acrylic paint for the blossoms. I used more red in my blossoms because I wanted them to look a little more like Chinese Plum Blossoms rather than Japanese Cherry Blossoms. I'm really happy with how this turned out.

 

Toast is evil; Monkey #8

Painting with Ink

I was exploring the contents of youtube for new and interesting painting techniques and found this intriguing video of how to paint a Cherry Blossom tree, using ink and a straw to create the branches and stippling paint to make the petals. It looks fun and unpredictable so you know each set of tree branches will be unique.

 

7th Monkey, Sleepy

Monkey drawing day 7, challenge almost over.

Once I have all my school work out of the way I promise I'll upload more than monkey illustrations.