Clean Slate - Creative Interpretation

[Swampy]

For a change up, I thought it would be fun to start with a background and build up from there. So, given a clean slate....

Decoupage? Wood Burning? Brass Plate with award inscription?

Have fun!

[Swampy]

I'll start with a wood carving

[Steve Conway]

Walking in the rain.

Steve

[Swampy]

Wonderful use of the wood's grain, Steve!

What blending mode did you use on the rain picture?

[Kraellin]

very cool, steve

craig

[Steve Conway]

I used "soft light." Tried "overlay" but liked this version better.

Steve

Originally Posted by Swampy

Wonderful use of the wood's grain, Steve!

What blending mode did you use on the rain picture?

[Steve Conway]

Thanks.

Swampy has a great idea of posting plain bg's and /or texture. Allows for the use of images that wouldn't normally get posted.

Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

very cool, steve

craig

[Peter S]

I just found one of the original adverts for Wacom, thought you would like to see.

[familytreephoto]

after 300 attempts here's my shot:

Equine Lawnmower


btw - i like the other examples i see.

[Janet Petty]

What a fun challenge. Great job in creativity everyone.

And Family, ONLY 300 attempts. Sheesh, you are good. Seriously, that does sound all too familiar.

Here is mine.

Janet

[familytreephoto]

LOL I meant 300 attempts at getting the file to attatch, the pic itself took about 2 mins

[familytreephoto]

WICKED CAT btw!

[Janet Petty]

LOL Family, I'm just joking ya' know.

A bit about the "cat". Tis a bobcat. The picture was taken from about 3-4 feet away and without fences. This cat LOVED me, so well in fact the owner had to pry him off my lap so that others could see him too. I have several more shots of him close up as well. Ever have a 75 lb. cat lounge on your lap and purr? It was an experience I'll never forget.

Janet

[Xaran]

here's mine, just a sketch overlaid with different blend modes.

Christine

[Swampy]

Peter S... I didn't know Wacom ran that ad, musta been before my time. Good catch.

FamilyTree... Well done.. Is that a cat in the left foreground?

Janet.. Great choice of subject material to add to the wood! The texture really makes it special.

Xaran...Well done. Lots of depth in your "carving".

[OnAir]

I would go for simply things with this wood.

[Swampy]

On Air... Glad you didn't mount one of those talking fish on the plaque! LOL. Very nice. And yes, simple things do lend themselves to a wood burnt look IMHO.

[familytreephoto]

What I want to know is why they dont have catfish as a talking fish. (sorry, i'm hooked on catfishing, big ones. ever have a 40 lb flathead on the other end of your pole?)

Everyones coming up with cool stuff.

FamilyTree... Well done.. Is that a cat in the left foreground?

I attatched a smaller version of the picture i used. (I took the picture myself, too bad horses dont stand still, i had a perfect shot of all 4 of them in the trees, but i got out of my car and they beat feet to me like i had a bag of carrots or something)

I used Little Ink Pot's Thredgeholder to get a nice sketch look and used different layers and overlay techniques.

[familytreephoto]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

LOL Family, I'm just joking ya' know.

A bit about the "cat". Tis a bobcat. The picture was taken from about 3-4 feet away and without fences. This cat LOVED me, so well in fact the owner had to pry him off my lap so that others could see him too. I have several more shots of him close up as well. Ever have a 75 lb. cat lounge on your lap and purr? It was an experience I'll never forget.

Janet

I love domesticated bobcats. One of these days I'll either have a bobcat or a tiger. I got to pet a baby Siberian Tiger (my absolute favorite animal in the world) and have my pic taken with it, the guy had to take the picture 5 times cause Noah kept turning around and licking my face. Thank goodness he was only 6 months old, not full grown. His tongue was big enough lol.

[cardmnal]

The practical side of me thinks this hunk of wood could make a fine game board.

[Swampy]

Wonderful, Cardmnal! Very well done! Yes... a great game board! :-) I particularly like the beveled depressions on both sides.

Clever.. really clever.

[rrustic]

My shot at it.

[lkroll]

Just a wood burned self portrait; lost a little in the compression, but still alright I guess.

[jaysmummy]

Great challenge Swampy,
Everyone has added their own ideas and they've all turned out great.

Steve - Very Very nice!!

Janet - Gorgeous bobcat pic, must have been a great experience

I used the wood to build a frame and then nailed that frame up over the singing fish toy!

[Swampy]

rrustic... I love the depth that the left edge of the poitrate adds. It's like the face is appearing from behind a curtain.

Ikroll... Great woodburn effect. I especially like the clock in the book case that adds a sense of the time deminsion... 7:30... (today? yesterday? morning, evening?). I love a mystery!

jay... Excellent choice of photo for the overlay! The woodgrain really texture to the sky. Well done! And thanks for covering up the talking fish.. LOL

[Kraellin]

ok, all these references to the singing bass toy got me remembering something... http://mizus.com/kraellin/bass_dab.exe

sorry, dont know how to make this work by just clicking it and having it run in a new window. you'll either have to download it and run it or if you know how to 'open with' from the save window, you can do that. but i've no knowledge of how to embed this to make it work directly.

craig

[Swampy]

:-(... exe files don't work on my Mac.

[makeovermagic]

here's my not so woody interpretation -- this was fun to work on.

thanks swampy!

[Swampy]

Makeover... Great color combinations. Again, you've used the wood's grain to it's best advantage.

[Steve Conway]

I thank you!

Steve

Originally Posted by jaysmummy

Great challenge Swampy,
Everyone has added their own ideas and they've all turned out great.

Steve - Very Very nice!!