Tag: black and white
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Midnight Rendezvous
Under the cloak of midnight, secrets are born and whispers travel unseen. I’m catching on to my own little schemes. Apparently, all I need to do is talk about finding purpose and confronting the old Imposter Syndrome… and then suddenly a gazillion images are calling me for revamps. Wow. That just reminded me of my…
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Waiting for a Sign
This particular photo “upcycle” literally made my day. While playing around in GIMP, I discovered a huge set of image manipulations in the G’MIC plugin that I wasn’t aware of – and this neon effect was perfect. Of course, it’s not what I had intended to do, but random is so much better! I actually…
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Vintage Appeal
Antiques: Grandma had it. Mom threw it out. I bought it back. I used a black and white photograph for the basis of this illustration, and it’s said to be from an old photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar… by photographer John Engstead. I wasn’t able to fact check this and verify it – so don’t…
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a gentle calm
I wanted to try my hand at some more minimalistic scenes. It’s a far cry from what I had originally planned, which is an illustration of a woman yelling – which I was going to call “Crying Wolf.” It’s a long story, but long story short: I caved and changed my Adobe plan back to…
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Can a Zebra…
…Change its Stripes? I started working on this Zebra some time ago, and I started to enjoy the fact that all I had to spend time on was the black. The white just sort of fills itself in for you, with the help of your eyes. What a time saver. I’ve been offline for awhile,…
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Everywhere I go…
…There I am. I ran, and I ran, As far as I could.I ran from the bad,In search of the good.But wherever I went,It would always still be.The one that I ran from…Turned out to be me. I was attempting to go back to simplicity, but the darkness in this image looked a little too…
a sprinkle of faith 