Creative interpretations: Eyes

[Janet Petty]

The cat that ate....errrr...the bird that ate....Whatever.

My cat and my student absolutely do NOT get along. When he saw this picture of the bird today, he had to manipulate the cat into it in some way. He left happy with his rather exotic creation, which left the cat's nose but not the eyes. With my imagination running wild by then, I decided to add the nose to the mix and this is the result of cats and birds being natural enemies. Who wins?

Rather bizarre but what the hey.

Janet

[Neve]

Hi Graham, Thank you....you can thank the New Caravaggio Xero Filter for this subtle retention of detail.

[Duv]

Here's one with Impressionist.

Compressed Levels
Ran twice: IP*Process: Adaptive Equalization
Ran twice: Impressionist: djr24 Oil: Image;88/95/104 Faded second to 45%

Cheers
Dave

[Xaran]

Neve - that looks really good - another xero masterpiece.

Janet - that is excellent - very believable.

Wonderful ideas from everyone - I love the kaleidascopes - had a play with the Kaleidascope in Painter IX (If you don't know about this it is under the layer menu and dynamic plugins)

Christine

[kiska]

Alrighty then, Janet. Very good collaboration (if a bit unsettling) with your student on th 'cat bird'.

[Con Looymans]

Hi Xplorer,

This started out as a photo of a glossy black ceramic head I have. I used the Liquify filter to distort it. As it was lit from only one side I duplicated and flipped it to make a whole face. I combined the two Layers back into one and created a Render Clouds Layer above this. I Selected the Highlights Ctrl+Alt+~(Tilde) and used that as a partial Mask.I ran the Stylize>Extrude filter followed by the Radial Zoom filter.

After this I created a Gradient Adjustment Layer with a Levels adjustment Layer to control the effect. I then duplicated the original Background i.e. Face Layer and dragged it to the top of the pile, finally I added a pair of Owls eyes and used Transform>Distort to fit them into the right spot, apart from that nothing else was changed.

Hope you like it.

Regards

Con Looymans

[xplorer]

Absolutely amazing !!! Reading your technique to produce this art work it sounds so straight forward BUT I imagine there were LOTS of steps along the way that led nowhere. The end product certainly justifies the effort you put into the project. I would love to see the original image of the head that you started with - any chance ?

[Con Looymans]

Hi Xplorer,

Thanks for all those kind words.

Here's the shot you asked for. Feel free to play with it to your hearts content.

Regards

Con Looymans