In yesterday’s post, I offered to create a short tutorial on how to use the Liquify Filter in Adobe Photoshop or Elements in order to “push color” into defined shapes. Although this image is the final result, if you would like to use the tutorial to create your own visit http://atelierdigital.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pushing-color-digital-painting-tutorial/
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Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged contemporary art, florals, flowers, Genece Hamby, Haiku, orange, pansy, Poetry on March 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
a warm orange twist
of color moved by the muse
shaped into a flower
Pushing Color: To create my more recent digital paintings, I’ve created a distinct technique that is both easy to master and allows for creative freedom if you love working with color. It requires utilizing two software programs, Corel Painter that is used for sketching an image first and [...]
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Posted in Digital Painting, Poetry, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged contemplation, contemporay art, Digital Painting, fine art, florals, flowers, Genece Hamby, Haiku, peony, Poetry on March 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
soft in appearance
folding inward to the heart
the brush strokes the paint
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuicreative.com
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Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Still Life, tagged digital art, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, geometric, geometry, green apple, Haiku, Poetry, shapes, Still Life on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Granny Smith apple
sliced and twisted by the muse
the seeds fall away
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
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Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged attraction, contemporary artist, Digital Painting, Easter, Easter Lily, Genece Hamby, Haiku, lily, petals, poem, soft on March 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
beauty glorified
a focal point of stillness
for contemplation
trumpet shaped and white
your petals are soft attraction
on Easter Sunday
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
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Posted in Digital Painting, Sacred Nature, Thoughts & Writing, tagged acts of kindness, blessings, inner peace, letting go, life's lessons, llving in the moment, self acceptance, self esteem, unconditional love, wisdom on March 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Life’s lessons come in a variety of forms and in varying degrees of learning. There are premium lessons that shake you at the very roots of your existence. Basics that teach you daily how to improve upon the things you do at home, at school, socially, in your relationships or in your career. Lessons that [...]
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Posted in Digital Painting, Seasons, tagged blessings, clover, contemporary artist, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, good luck, Irish blessing, shamrocks, St. Paddy's, St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
An Irish saying:
May good luck
be with you
wherever you go,
and your blessings
outnumber the
Shamrocks that grow
– genece hamby, contemporary artist (digital painting of shamrock)
http://www.shibuistudio.com
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I had so many lovely emails about the post on a fallen leaf, I decided to paint a visual. Usually, I paint and then write a poem or thoughts. It was different to paint after writing.
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Posted in Thoughts & Writing on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I am from books lining the shelf of an old library with the collected works of literature, philosophy, art, spirituality, science and nature, and from historical places that leave traces of the human souls that once walked the land.
I am from a lineage of people who once lived in the “City of God and the [...]
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Perched on a sharp ledge over the creek’s rugged bed, I witnessed a solo leaf navigating with grace as it floated carefree to ground. The tree that cut him loose looked as if he had shook away most of the leaves; the others had fallen into the blush of autumn’s decay
I was an independent observer of this Haiku moment. No one [...]
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