Stepping into Another World...

Halloween is just around the corner, and the theme for this week on Illustration Friday, "Haunted", fits perfectly with tales of ghosts and goblins and strange and scary things. My contribution seems to be a glimpse into another world...another dimension... Or is that other place catching a glimpse of us? Are we being watched?

Wordless Wednesday September 26, 2012

 

 

And a new listing preview...

 


Must taste like candy!

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what is this and tell your friends math CAN be cool...

I'm continuing my dabbling and messing around in Procreate(tm), which I first mentioned here, and I've added even more nifty cool fun to my repertoire via a fractal generating app. Now, fractals have always fascinated me, even though I've never been able to wrap my head around the mathematical equations used to produce them.

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Yes. OMG math. what is this I don't even...



Math is supposed to be boring and numbers and why do we have to memorize this stupid quadratic equation and NO! you tell ME how to find X, because I have better things to do...



So I've started combining some cool fractally wonders and some other cool and nifty artsy ideas, and have come up with something like this:






Of course, now I'm stuck not knowing what to call this colorful...fun ...strange...fractal...thing...



So...I'd love to hear some ideas on a title. What words come to mind when you look at the piece? What catches your eye first? I'd love to hear from you!

Getting a little procreative...

A few days ago I downloaded a really neat app onto my iPad (okay besides the blogging app I'm using and still floundering at) - called "Procreate". I've explored and played with brushes and textures, and have even downloaded a few extra brush sets. So far I've really enjoyed using it, and have created some pretty cool art in the meantime...

 

This one was my first - I just felt like playing with colors in the background - I think that's either the "decimal" or "halftone" brush in the background (the dots)

 



Loved the brushes in the retro set - can you tell?

 

 

This one started with a photo of clouds taken in my backyard - see them in the background?

 

This is my latest - inspired by the fireworks displays on the Fourth. The fireworks themselves were made using a modified brush from the "luminance" brush set.

 

Soon I hope to have a few new additions to my "pretty little pixels"section!

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