The Creative process - Abstract art 2 #iPhoneArt

Here's another abstract, which may (or may not) give you some idea of how I've been feeling recently.

'The Ugly Underneath'

It started with FlowPaper and then I had fun for quite some time with Photo Studio.

The red effect was created by using the mask tool during one of the FX filters. Here's the sequence of images, starting with the original Flowpaper drawing.

Abstract art is a bit like marmite isn't it? Some people love it others see it as an illustration of what's 'wrong' with modern art. Though the word 'modern' is a bit of a misnomer isn't it? I dabbled in the simplification of form before the wonders of the iOS. (Like this.) but never created anything as abstract as the things I've made during the last 12 months or so. Especially since having my icky gallbladder removed. Somehow it releases my subconscious in a way that more figurative images just cannot.

Wikipedia says; "Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.^[1]"

I suppose abstract expressionism describes that side of my creativity better than just abstraction. In fact the Pollock app was the first creative tool that I discovered in the app store. (None iOS peeps can play with it online here.) Here's a piece from the master himself;

"Unformed Figure," oil and enamel on canvas, 52 inches by 6 feet 5 inches, 1953, Museum Ludwig, Cologne"

The Creative process - Abstract art #iPhoneArt

I keep aiming for a Sunday post and failing...but my life seems to be ruled right now by my digestive system and my Fibro brain and I suspect that the two aren't mutaully exclusive.

Previously I've focused on iPhone photos and I still have a LOT of images from my day down at the Dock that are waiting to be played with. Yesterday though was a yucky day and my muse tends to leave me alone when my body and brain have me at their mercy. Just before bed I started to play with Flow Paper.

This is a lovely app, @missypoem  (see her Posterous here.) has been doing some lovely sketches with it and a few iPA peeps do great things with it too. 

Find FlowPaper here.

Here's the final image -

'The Road to Nowhere.'

It started with me trying to achieve a smoky effect with Flowpaper. Then I used a few Scratchcam filters, Scratchcam can take a while, not because it's slow but because the filters are so random, though you can save your favourites. Then I started playing with some art effect apps - 

Artista Oil - I love this app and the variety you can achieve with it, but it didn't like my Flowpaper sketch this time so...on to;

Auto Painter - I tried both versions and this DOES take a while, but it's interesting to watch the process. Not happy with any of the results so;

Shock My Pic - I can't link to the iTunes store for this because iTunes search has decided they don't have it...I LOVE this app. SImple but effective and very easy to use. I got a few images that I like with this, for blending with, I tend to use;

HDR fix - Because it's quick and I like the slider to choose the degree of blending of one to the other. There's probably another app that does this and more, but at the moment necessity has made me a creature of habit. Plus when I tried to update apps on my phone last night, it said there wasn't enough room! *Gasp* Please hurry iPhone 5...

Next came filters in Photo Studio and more blending of the results with HDR fix. Then finally, another of my favourites;

Camera+ : Which is ON SALE at the moment, so snap it up if you haven't already got it. In this I used the 'Back light' filter and the framing option. Then I used my preferred Watermarking app;

iWatermark - (sheesh Apple, your 'search' tool sucks) Though the eagle eyed amongst you will know that I usually forget to use it...

Here are some of the images produced in the above process, created as usual with Strip Designer

The first black and white image is the original Flowpaper drawing.

Hope this made a change from the usual Liverpool Tourism advert ;)

NB - I only recently noticed that feedburner wasn't working, my apologies :( it's now fixed (I hope)

A way out... #iphoneArt #tinyPlanet

This is the image 'Wind Music' given the Tiny Planet app treatment with a dash of Lenslight and Photoforge thrown in.
(So this was a drawing on the iPhone first, rather than a photograph.)

wind music - 40/30

Flow of life - 39/30

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