Ann Seeber

Decided to do something a little radical for Project 4 - a small collection of the artist David Hockney's works. The background is from another of his works called Garrowby Hill which I tortured with the kaleidoscope effect. The heading uses the Rockwell and Ravie fonts. I am posting the original so you can compare.  I think I've used up my craving for color for the day! ;-)

Good catch, Carole! I wanted to mute the color somewhat. I mistakenly used the opacity instead of lowering the brightness on the cogwheel. Is this more realistic?

Here is Bootcamp Project #3 - It is based on a watercolor painting of the ship, called The Gilded Otter, that carried my ancestors from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to the New World in the mid-16oos. They landed in Kingston, NY, after traversing up the Hudson River a-ways. The left photo is not identified though the photographer mark is in Dutch. Center is my grandmother and father. Right is my mother, dad and me.  We are all Terwilligers!

 

Actually, the ship painting is in two halves in a museum in New Paltz, NY, which is near Kingston. I attempted to join them to show the entire ship.

Theresa: That is now an outstanding showcase for your awesome photo. Well done!

Gerry: Carole taught us a trick recently to get sharp corners on a selection. On your PSP toolbar, to the right when using Selection, it says Custom Selection. Hit the white button and your selection will have sharp corners.

Cassel/Carole: Here's our bear story. I did scrap it last year.

Here is the next Bootcamp project, Adventure-Logan-Bear Hug! My great-grandson Logan will turn one on Feb. 6. His gender reveal party was invaded by a real, live, young black bear so we use that as his totem. Papers from my stash; Cardinal is clipart from Corel, bears are from NicePNG, Logan's name is in Vladimir Script and the heading is Ravie font.

When Carole puts up the design to welcome the New Kid on the Block, I try to focus my layout on who (or what) is new with our family. This time it's the red-eared turtle, Shelly, housed by my daughter, Laurey, who is a big turtle enthusiast. Her entire home is decorated in turtles! So, here's Shelly, New Turtle in Town. First I created a backround and flood filled it with white. Then, I created the plaid pattern using Shelly's shell pattern, and gave it a 45degree angle at 50%, to fill the next layer and reduced the opacity to 85%. Because my photo is square I ended up with a horizontal strip instead of vertical, so I'd have room for a title. I placed the photo in the center and went to Image/Picture Frame and chose one called Albumin. Except for the Shelly portrait in the lower left, all the embellishments came from my beach kits. including the alpha for the title. I played with the star and rope by duplicating the star and putting it on top and then erasing where the rope would disappear through the holes. (It helps to reduce the opacity on the star to see what you're doing but be sure to put it back to full opacity to finish or else your erasure will look odd.) The font used on the brown strip is Wide Latin typed in a vertical manner. I used a lot of shadows and that finished it up. I create my layouts on 2400 x 3000 so they print 8x10 on my desktop printer.

Lynda: Fascinating! Those frames work really well. Would it be possible to post the item on the lower right separately as I can't make it out here in reduced form?

Here's my sketch challenge. I used a grayscale image for the background over a blue layer and used the multiply effect. The plaid I had made from the colors of another photo not used here. All the frames are made with Select Selection borders, flood filled, outer bevel and drop shadow. I used the raster-to-mask script for the photo placement. The font for the heading is Berlin Kitchen. Photos are from the internet.

Somehow, I just couldn't have my lunch floating in midair, so I made a table for it.

 

Forgive me, I've done this exercise umpteen times and I like to play! ;-)

I have decided to use a photo of my daughter's new Red-eared Turtle. Her name is Shelly.

Hi, I'm here for my umpteenth go-round in this class. Here's a Buddha Doodle for Cindy. Get better!

Cristina: Please send my get well wishes and love to Annie! Thanks

S = Social distancing: keep 6 feet of space away from others for safety.

We still need R - S - T, which come between the Q and the U

N = N95 Masks (highly recommended but harder to find than KN95s)

Here's my second entry for the January Alphabet Album. This is Letter B. My focus will be on my rather large book collection for the entire album. In Letter A and now B all the titles start with the appropriate letter for the page. I may change to authors on another entry. Again, the B monogram is the free font CAT Altgotisch. This time I used Carole's script Scattered Photos to arrange the book covers. Also used both bookshelves from Carole at the bottom. I found the Dr. Seuss quote and remembered to lock the transparancy when I painted some of the letters brown.

Pirkko: Nice design. Also pleased to find someone else who finds the rollator useful. ;-)

Here's the updated information on masks - specifically the most effective protection - N95 and KN95. I have a somewhat silly Emergency Hospital kit that I used last year but it did have some useful components.

K = KN95 Face Mask - the gold standard for protecting yourself and your loved ones.

I = Infectious disease

Mary, I moved into a smaller home in Oct of 2018 and at that time I, also, had to wean out my book collection, though it wasn't as extensive as yours. I think I took 4 or 5 boxes of book to my local library where they put them on sale in their used bookstore. Meanwhile, I had been avoiding buying any physical books and concentrated on my Kindle collection. Which is how I ended up with 745 Kindle books. At least they don't take up any space.

 

Here is an update to my first Alphabet layout because I discovered I had missed a set of 5 books from George R.R. Martin, who is very important to me. You might have heard of his A Game of Thrones book which was made into a series on HBO. It is only the first in a series titled A Song of Ice and Fire, now 5 volumes and promised to be 7 all told, but we, his fans, are getting very impatient since the last book came out over 10 years ago! I also changed to a gradient on the monogram.

 

Edit: I moved the pile of books down to the bottom.

 

Edit: Hopefully my final edit. This assignment is making me a bit batty! LOL

It took me this long to decide on an overall topic for my alphabet, but I finally came up with my book collection. Luckily, they are all on Amazon Kindle, so I have images for everything. Also, I don't have to have all the bookshelves that almost 800 volumes would require. ;-) So here is my Letter A, as Elmo would say.

 

Edit: I added a narrow border since my background blended too well with the page. Also, I forgot to mention, the monogram letter A is a font called CAT Altgotisch that I got for free from a site called 1001 Fonts.

 

Edit 2: Added a shadow to Elmo.

D = Drive thru testing