Tuesday 9 November 2010

The birds


The storm raged, the wind howled and the rain came down in torrents. The worlds shifted out of alignment that night as the black bird made his way from one to another...

 Forcing myself to create for Art Every Day month is a wonderful experience. I end each day with 'something' and often surprise myself. I love this piece. I realised I hadn't even thought about the Three Muses Blackbird challenge this week, so sat down and opened my mind. Leah's simple silhouette drawings sprang to mind and reminded that I didn't have to go complicated, that illusion was often far more powerful.

I took my imagination into the elements (the photoshop kind) and let rip with a few secret ingredients.

OK, perhaps not so secret. Shall I share? First up a background I've painted, sprayed, dripped and dabbed with acrylics and inks (intended for a later mermaid painting) and then wonderful play with brushes! Yes, brushes! The bird, moon and tempestuous sea were all imported brushes. Clever eh? Then I applied a few textures and masks et voila!
How lucky we modern artists are. Who would have thought what a wonderful outlet to creativity our computers would become?

Look.... a ghost bird too.... spooky! Same background - just changed the colour. Mask applied from Designerdigitals.com.


I love Photoshop!

32 comments:

  1. Really lovely interesting work Lisa. I haven't got photoshop but it looks amazing.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love this painting. It gets the imagination going...

    ReplyDelete
  3. I absolutely love your creation. The multi-colored paper you created as your background is perfect for the dark raven-crow. The drippings add to the mystery. This is great.

    You know, I have never used Photoshop. I will probably tackle it one day but still enjoy using real art materials. Now that I see your fabulous combination, I may put it on my short list.

    ReplyDelete
  4. lovely images and words!!
    p.s. i love pse too!!!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Beautiful Lisa..i love birds.especially blackbirds....gorgeous work. sound like you are having such fun...i have never tried or used photoshop..looks like super-fun!
    Fabulous!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Love this one,so haunting. I wish I could do photoshop,it looks like you could do so much with it.

    ReplyDelete
  7. What an ispiring and joyful post. I love that you seem to enjoy every second of this process/adventure! I wish I could use photoshop the way you are using it. :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. so many tools, so little time!

    fantastic results on your black bird!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Very cool artwork!
    I have photoshop but have never learned how to use it, but what amazing effects you can get with it!

    ReplyDelete
  10. It looks beautiful, I am always awed at what can be done on the computer.

    ReplyDelete
  11. You are amazing...I've really gotta try figuring out my photoshop.
    Xo

    ReplyDelete
  12. Computer work or not - its lovely. Great work!

    ReplyDelete
  13. hauntingly beautiful
    blessings
    ~*~

    ReplyDelete
  14. Cool blackbird, it's looks super cool as ghost bird!

    ReplyDelete
  15. This black bird is awesome! What a powerful piece.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Wow, exytemely creative!! I love that blackbird and the mood in the picture.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Great job Lisa - and so appropriate for this time of year too! I love love the colors of the background!

    Smiles

    ReplyDelete
  18. What a powerful and fabulous picture...you set out to be creative and you have succeeded masterfully...excellent job words and art!

    ReplyDelete
  19. Beautiful, Pam. The greens and blues are so gorgeous together.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Fantastic art, Lisa, I love photoshop, too!

    ReplyDelete
  21. Very beautiful (love the ghost bird too)!

    ReplyDelete
  22. Wow, that's cool, wonderfu background colours, love the bird, too.
    Thanks for visiting my blog, you've asked how I've coloured the blackbirds... I've stamped with VersaMark and than embossed with black sparkling embossing powder.

    ReplyDelete
  23. The background is gorgeous with the blackbird!

    ReplyDelete
  24. I have photoshop envy! I can't do "brushes" with my gas-powered image manipulator. I love how this turned out!

    ReplyDelete
  25. I absolutely love both pieces Lisa ..... you did a brilliant job.

    ReplyDelete
  26. YES indeed YEAHHH for photoshop Lisa!
    And brushes !!
    (if you only knew how much I've downloaded the past years)
    Unique work !!

    ReplyDelete
  27. Fantastic, at first sight I thought it was a traditional painting.

    ReplyDelete
  28. Absolutely superb artwork. I love your soaring bird. You are a legend, Wrightstuff.

    ReplyDelete
  29. Love photoshop too!
    Fantastic bird, love it
    Pat

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for your comments - I always love to hear what you think :)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...