Planet Ruby Starrs

Photo montages - the way forward digitally at the moment!!!  I had my formal tutorial at Uni and got on the whole positive feedback but a bit of a doublehander with an observation made that I have an excellent portfolio of primary photographs, varied interesting and relevant but I'm not using them enough!!!  So I decided to play with photo montage and manipulation on PS this is 6 different photographs taken all on the same day on a beach in Galloway First problem I ran into is that my computer is too old and low spec to run my newly repurchased most updated version of Photoshop!!!! So a new computer will arrive later today.   This is a minor setback as I have been meaning to upgrade my lappie for a couple of months and this just kicked me into action.  What it did mean though was I lost some valuable time last week being unable to work from home and as I was a bit under the weather I didn't make it into college.... C'est la vie I'll make it up.. Unseen...

Back in school and the getting out of bed is killing me... its not helped by the fact that the traffic has been terrible and also I was involved in a small incident when another car didn't see my (normal sized bright red) car and drove into the side of me!!! No one was hurt and the damage was made good within the week.  That was on day one - then day 2  another accident slowed traffic.  This week a huge oil spill on the only link roundabout into town caused complete standstill and I was sat twiddling my thumbs for nearly 3 hours while it was cleared... But once in college it feels good to be back - I've claimed my wee space to work in and started to put stuff up. I've collated my work from the summer and it adds up to a fair bit. This module is all about collecting and composing drawings, mixed media paintings, any imagery really, and getting it ready to be developed in the next module which is the major part of this years work. Most of my current work is line work an...