July 2012 – Ellis Hollow

Midsummer bouquet

Scan and manipulations from the weekend …

First stab at a real mandala. Directions.

Water lily

First kaleidoscope I’ve done from a photo, rather than a scan.

Creating kaleidoscopes isn’t magic. Here are the directions. I’m not as fast as the video I created below. The hard part is choosing the slice to use. The tedious part is getting the pieces of the mosaic to line up.

Bloom day: Singles, kaleidoscopes and more

My friend Julie at The Human Flower Project confided to me the other day that she missed the basic scans that I used to do, opting instead for the fancy stuff. Yeah. All the fiddling around turns the plants from the subject of the composition to the material used to compose the image. But I still can’t give it up, because it’s too much fun. So today I did a series of basic scans — most of a single plant — and the took it from there …

Crocosmia …