tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83308373338984205832025-10-04T03:09:27.027-04:00artistic photo editing, digital art and other creative endeavorsnharveyarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01508691587525275861noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330837333898420583.post-63802028704951894802024-09-22T14:40:00.002-04:002024-09-23T13:16:23.977-04:00

Another year of insanity has slipped by and there are less than 100 days until Christmas. No pressure, no pressure... I, for one, am hopeful for some Peace and Joy. May we all receive a share.As usual, I have a new holiday design to share. I continued playing with fractals, but this time, instead of a purist approach, I created individual fractal elements and combined them into a trio of ornate,

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“Oh Fractal Tree, Oh Fractal Tree Thy leaves are so repeating…” Okaaay... that was bad. It’s September, the mid-point between the nostalgic and/or “plan WAY ahead” vibes of “Christmas in July” and the ramp-up to the coming holiday. It’s hard to express the spirit in the right way when there are so many distracting Halloween displays for candy and decorations. But here we are, and I’ve been

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 As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been exploring fractals, patterns composed of repeating and evolving iterations of themselves. Here are some simple examples that may be familiar to you.    I’d heard them mentioned in various contexts suggesting such things as the potential for them to provide a form for understanding patterns in time. I wanted to understand them better,

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I continue to weather a storm of family caregiving obligations on my trip through life, which leaves insufficient time for art and even less for writing about it. After reading an article on fractals, I became obsessed with them and set about learning to use software for creating them. I hope to share more about that and some examples of my efforts at a later time.In the meantime, I've posted

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It’s been a long time and I’m trying to remember how to do this (I think I've forgotten everything I ever learned about HTML). I’m not yet in a place where I’m ready to resume this blog more regularly, but I needed to share a burst of recent creative activity. I never did chase down a new (preferably free) source of image hosting, but for now I’ll try uploading them to Google Photos. Anyway,

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In one of my last posts, I said that I'd be focusing my energy on creating enjoyable holidays for my friends and family. Little did I know how long a break I would be taking. Around that time a number of health and family issues forced themselves into the spotlight, demanding my full energy and attention. I've spent countless hours on the road and in various waiting rooms that devoured the time

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Double duty on the blog post once again. First, I've got a $10 gift code to Zazzle up for grabs, good on any purchase of $10 or more. It is valid through December 14, 2014, 11:59 PM, Pacific Time. Here's all the fine print: $10.00 discount applies to Zazzle orders with a subtotal (before shipping and taxes) of $10.00 or more when the coupon code is applied at checkout. Offer is valid until

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It's a busy time of year for me, one when I put my energy into making the holidays enjoyable for family and friends, so I haven't been doing a great deal art-wise. Instead of a new artwork, this post will fall into the category of "other creative endeavors" as I share a little life-hack I've come up with. I'm not entirely sure it's original, but I did come up with this on my own and

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The Woot Derby has been changing things up lately. For starters, they're now running TWO derbies per week. The main derby, for shirts, now begins on Monday which now regularly gives artists additional time to work on their submissions after the Thursday theme announcement. Another change is that the 2nd derby (the one they'll run first after the theme announcement) will be for another

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Who would like a coupon code for $10 to spend at Zazzle? I have one for $10 off a minimum $20 purchase, but it's VALID TODAY ONLY (November 12, 2014), and I will give it to the first reader who emails me at nharveyart@gmail.com (you can click the request box to the right). Here's the fine print: $10.00 discount applies to Zazzle orders with a subtotal (before shipping and taxes) of $20.00 or

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Everyone knows a Bigfoot fan. They range from those who are continually amused at the idea of such a novel creature to those who make forays into the wild to bang sticks and whoop out calls in hopes of a response. (I often wonder whether any responses are real or possibly another Bigfoot searcher.) Many fall in between, spending their weeknights glued to reality programs searching for elusive

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Sometimes my mind works in strange, roundabout ways. Take the latest Woot Derby challenge, to create a design in one of four artistic styles, one of which was pointillism. Pointillism is a technique where a picture is formed from a multitude of colored dots. Under magnification, all you would see is dots. Stand back, and they seem to magically herd themselves into a wondrous image of subtle

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Often when we describe something colorful, we call it a kaleidoscope. Remember those things? Put a tube to your eye like you would an old-fashioned telescope and gaze at chips of colored glass reflecting into a mesmerizing pattern. Turn the barrel, and it would change, folding from one design into another. Autumn is a colorful time as the green of the trees first dulls, then transforms into

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It sounds like a line from an Abbott and Costello sketch (and yes, I know it should be "whom"), but for Whovians everywhere, it makes perfect sense. The annual Christmas special has become a traditional way to wrap up the holiday. A glass of eggnog and the BBC are a delightful pairing. So are we liking the new guy? After four weeks I, for one, am quite happy with Peter Capaldi's version of

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Ever have an idea you think is relatively simple and can be knocked out quickly, only to find that once you've begun, it's much more complicated than you ever imagined? That's exactly what I experienced this week. I dare say that aside from our lovely Earth home, Jupiter is the most beautiful in our solar system. Named for the Roman king of the gods, it certainly is the largest, and

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I admit it. I'm a Whovian. At least I know I'm not alone. Next week marks the return of "Doctor Who," starring Peter Capaldi as the twelfth incarnation of The Doctor. I'm anxious to see what he will be like. But while we all have our first doctor and our favorite doctors, for me, it's all about that magical blue box... the TARDIS. Vworp...vworp...vworp... I can't explain the fascination.

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I honestly was going to stay away from the Woot Derby this week. Christmas! I've got to focus on Christmas designs! I looked at the derby theme, saw "Football," and sighed with relief. I know barely anything about football. Good, I won't get distracted. Much later, while engaged in some menial chore, the thought again crossed my mind that I know nothing about football and how the

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Well, maybe just one or two. Have you noticed all the "Christmas in July" sales that just passed? Some stores even ran sales they called "Black Friday" sales. I'm definitely not a fan of what has become known as "Christmas creep," but it is the time to be thinking of the holidays for those of us who create Christmas designs. I have several ideas I'd like to get done, but will kick off with

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Several weeks ago I stumbled across some instructional videos on drawing Celtic knots. Fascinated, I went on a knot-drawing spree, constantly sketching on little scraps of paper until I got the hang of it. I also printed out circular grids and drew an number of those, varying the patterns in each. But me being me, I was quickly thinking about how I could apply this style/technique in other ways.

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I have yet another entry in the Woot Derby this week, and will probably have one more next week. They've been very generous in announcing four themes in advance to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary. This weeks theme is Pop-Culture Mash-Ups, and I wanted to work with and idea that I'd had for over a year. We all know that wizard schools are high security locations and no

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Procrastination. Everyone does it at one point or another. I did it with this blog post. But is it always a lack of self-discipline? I propose another idea: the time spent procrastinating is the time one's subconscious needs to work on an idea until it supplies the needed inspiration to act. Yeah, that sounds steeped in veracity. Perhaps neuroscience will verify it one day. This idea

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I spent all day yesterday working on another entry into the Woot derby. It features children catching fireflies beneath a starry sky and I've titled it "On a Summer's Eve." The theme is "negative space" which simply means that a design element is created by what is around it. Sound familiar? Having just used this technique, I felt primed to do it again, and thought I could do it more

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This week I pulled out an older design I had earlier intended to upload to Zazzle, but had hesitated thinking it wasn't quite right. It had begun with an experiment in using primary colors at 50% opacity, overlapping them to make a rainbow. I repeated this many times, eventually figuring out that doubling up on the primary colored stripes would give me a comparable opacity to the

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Woot.com has a derby. No, not the type of hat Charlie Chaplin wore as "The Little Tramp." And not a horse race either, though the truth is not that far off. It's a shirt derby where any artist can enter a t-shirt design and be voted on by the Woot community. If you've read some of my previous blog posts, you may have seen that I've entered designs at another site, but Woot is a little

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And it's back to photo editing this week... A few weeks ago I got a lovely shot of an iris while visiting a local park. It was getting on into early evening and camera in hand, I was disappointed to find nearly everything in shadow—I have a strong preference for shooting subjects in sunlight as there's so much more hidden color that can be brought out with editing. I was wandering about

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