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Digital Repeats

After the fiasco of disastrous hand rendered repeats - which incidentally I am going to reattempt at some time... I have been putting some images together digitally.  This has been a much easier and consequently more satisfying experience - I never thought I would be saying that!!!!

However it is worth remembering that all these digitally manipulated images started off as hand rendered drawings done by my own fair hand and I have done about 70 different drawings over the last few weeks, some in situ and others from my own photographs.  I have hand coloured a lot of the drawings using promarkers, water colours and pastels.  In some cases I have used all three and added a quantity of inks, brusho and even emulsion paint!!  I'm in a blue phase at the moment (even considering painting the living room)

taken from the fineliner pen drawing I did of the'atrium att eh Old Place Of Monreith
All these drawings and paintings have been scanned into the computer and then lovingly layer. placed, faffed about with on Photo shop.  For me this continues to be a massive achievement but I feel I have really got to grips with some of the digital age and I have even task myself with adding to the experience by trying to find additional tools not yet used before on PS.. this isn't hard as its an endless play area... this week I discovered overlays and different brushes and with some practice may be able to simulate real painting. 
the really messy painting I did - tidied up digitized and recoloured layer played about with...

To be fair I'm not that bothered about digital colouring as I find great joy from doing it by  hand and I think there is a depth in hand rendered colours that only a very skilled digital drawing can produce.

These prints are heading in the direction of being repeat furnishing fabrics - they may evolve further - they may not!!!  they may not even make the final cut!




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