Canterbury cloister
This oil pastel sketch was inspired by a photo of the Canterbury Cathedral cloisters. I love how the color turned out. Tried taking photos of it with different camera filters.
GifBoom App
I’ve been playing with the app GifBoom in the last few days and trying to figure out how to get it to work well. It’s a bit like instagram in terms of how sharing works, but with a series of GIF images you can (found here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gifboom-animated-photos/id457502693?ls=1&mt=8)
If you have an i-phone/i-pod it’s worth a try to play with. On my i-pod, which doesn’t have the greatest resolution of camera, the results haven’t been spectacular, but there’s potential (currently I’ve accidentally posted the same photo of Algernon swimming 8 times). To see this idea done beautifully, check out photographer Jamie Beck’s blog, From Me To You, where she uses a similar idea of photography called a cinemagraph (http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/)
Sketches
Sketching designs based on a Dover book of medieval designs.
Didn’t intend to end up with scifi looking fingers
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. Gothic arches…. Need to
practice
Toyota Tercel
Adorable 1980’s Toyota. Best little cars ever.
Stack the Countries
Discovered this app last night after being reminded how I wish I was a lot better at geography than I am now. So far, I’m just at level one (it has that annoying habit that some app games do of making you unlock games) but I’ve loved it so far. It’s a nice distraction for the bus that’s entertaining enough to hold it’s own as a game to play on the bus ride home at the end of a long workday, but also seems like it will help my skills at geography to improve!
It’s $1.99 on i-tunes, which is totally worth it.
The countries are made into weird, but kind of adorable and Veggie Tales-esque pieces.
If you’re trying to get points fast, play North America and hope they ask you a question about Canada.
2$ inspiration
Finally got inspired with a box of 2$ oil pastels from Dollorama and tinkered while watching Coast II with Neil Oliver. Determined to practice architectural drawing but symmetry isn’t always my forte. I made the sketch book over 10 years ago and found it again while snooping in my mom’s basement and was determined to use it.
I’m fairly impressed with the pastels so far. The texture is softer than usual for a cheap set which means they blend well but get on hands easier.
Benjamin Moore Color Capture
This is a free app I stumbled on. So interesting to see all the shades of colors in one picture and some of the fabulous names that Benjamin Moore has for its paints. Love this fish too. He was at a pet store I visited this morning.
Paper Mache Chicken 