A Plethera of Patterns from my Abstract Painting

I Painted this canvas 11 years ago and sold it but I kept a record of it on disc.  My idea was to create an impression of a stained glass window.  I love the various colours and also how each cell has a variety of tones within it's black border.

How to Create Patterns

I used Coral Painter and this is the Coloured Pencil filter.   This is kind of successful in that it gives it a hand drawn appearance.  This worked well for the patterns that I was about to create.

I then used Coral Paintshop Photo Pro -

Using the Effects - Reflection Effects - Kaleidoscope/Pattern.

I absolutely love these pattern.

The Kaleidoscope patterns would make great Stylized Flowers in a landscape.

Whereas the Ones made with the 'Pattern' Filter would make interesting backgrounds for interior scenes/Zettiology backgrounds.

I can see chimpanzees in this next one - how cute!

I can use this in my character design work.

In this next one I can see lips and eyes that are interchangeable.

This pattern looks very ethnic.

I can also use this in my character design work.

Back to the original painting again using Coral Painter I used the Illustration filter on this. Then I drew white lines around some of the cells.

This is the illustration filter gone further which gives more black within the cell.

Then I applied the Displacement map filter.

The result reminds me of the Effect and Colour of DC Comics/Sci Fi and those kind of genres.

Hue and Saturation

Could be used as a background/landscape/collage medium.

This was my first experience with Displacement Map Filter and I am really impressed and can't wait to see what else I can create with this.

Any ideas??

New & Improved Nubian Diva Studies

Examples of my updated divas

The Nubian Diva Collection

Since I went natural in 2010  I have been obsessed with creating a range of original paintings of Vivacious Black Women.  It's been an idea in my head but for the first two years I did nothing about it.  Then I decided to get back into my creative expression and focus on producing faces - working on the proportions and the features and honing my drawing and collaging techniques.  So in 2012 I brought a Sketch book and began to focus.  One of the drawings that I came up with was this.

I was not too impressed with this, however I loved the Collaged Eyes and the shape of her hair style.  This was one of my first attempts at a whimsical Afro queen.  I left it in my sketch book for the next three years. 

 However this morning I thought I would revisit this and see what I could come up with.

So I manipulated it in PSP and this is what I created.

This was done with Displacement Maps.  I like the effect especially the way the eyes have been displaced and I absolutely love the texture of the hair and the head band.  I made the lips slightly bigger.

I then added a background that is quite similar in colour and tone.

Then I added the face and erased the rest and these are the finished roughs.

What shall I do next?

Using a Gelli Plate

I purchased a Gelli Plate over two years ago, I was so excited to get started. 

https://www.pinterest.com/nubiansiren/for-sale/

 I gathered a lot of bits and pieces to use as stamps and stencils etc and I began to play.  After a few months I brought some coloured card and pulled off some interesting mono prints.  I then put some of these into the computer and changed their colour.  This is what I came up with.

                                                     Original Mono Prints

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/233886007/set-of-5-monoprints-colour-instantly

Manipulation in PSP

Hue & Saturation

I can now use these for my Collage Work. The variations are endless. When I use them in a piece I will show it in a future blog post. 

More Experiements

When I went to Panama I drew some pictures of faces that were on the wall at one of my Hostels in Boquette and two years later I scanned them into my computer and coloured them in using PSP.

Here are two of them -

Then  a few months later, I have just looked at them again and decided to manipulate one to see what results I can achieve.

This was done using PSP.  I used Effects, Distortion Effects, Displacement Maps and various degrees.

Then I put this image through Effects, Reflection Effects, Patterns and various degrees then I applied Hue and Saturation and this was what was produced.

I then applied Effects, Distortion Effects, Displacement Maps and various degrees again.  This is the result and I really love it.

It looks like abstract alien creatures or monsters maybe Sci Fi but I might blow these up to A2  and frame.

Eyes, Masks, Faces kind of reminds me of the works of Miro and Dali.