Flowers and photoshop

roses in Bangkok market

A lovely dusty pink standing out in a riot of colour in a Bangkok flower market. Visual poetry I think. I like the way they are wrapped in newspaper - foreign newspapers - non latin alphabet lending a touch of the exotic to the picture. For me this picture evokes the scent of the market on that day, hot and sweet, perfumed air with the occasional blast of spice. I take lots of pictures of flowers, I like to have fresh flowers in the house and really I don't mind where they come from as in shops ( I might draw the line at garage flowers but not really fussy..), the garden or wildflowers. I even like weeds as I believe they are just much maligned flowers in the wrong place. I enjoy gardening and grow as much colour in the the garden as I can manage to cram in.

At college this week we were using photographs and some of our flower drawings to experiment with Photoshop tools. I am completely new to Photoshop and any digital tools - I can manage cropping and a wee bit of colour enhancement but that's my lot so I'm finding it quite fascinating what can be done digitally. As a new medium I'm looking forward to playing and working with the images I have drawn and seeing what can be done. I have always been very much a hands on maker and creator liking textures rather then flat images but I'm open to experimentation and finding ways to apply these new techniques to my work.

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