current observations

  • Scribbling :: autumn leaves

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    I’ve been scribbling again with Adobe Ideas for iPad. It’s quite addictive once you get started. I created a palette of 5 colours from the bench in autumn photo – can you believe it? These are exactly the colours it picked. So I started with the top one and they were very strange looking leaves…

  • Inspired by :: beth retro photography

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    I love the dreaminess of beth retro’s photos, the candy colours and almost voyeuristic experience when looking at them. I have a fascination with light both real and created and I suppose it’s why these photos appeal to me so much. I can almost see them shimmer. The photos are all via flickr – from…

  • Flickr three :: autumn

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    My autumnal images are all via Flickr. From top autumn by kalenstrand, bench in autumn by shoothead, autumn star by Susan Frazier

  • It’s beginning to feel like autumn

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    This chill is already in the air and the leaves are just starting to turn heralding my favourite time of the year. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of summer and I get quietly excited when nature reminds me that winter is approaching. The mornings are dark, the fog appears on sunrise, the…

  • Screencast #1 :: Creating a seamless tiled pattern

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    Here’s my first screencast, which has been a quest of mine for while now. Working with video file formats and video players has certainly been a learning curve and there’s been much frustration and a few expletives over the last week. My player of choice just wouldn’t play nice (pardon the pun) in Firefox and…

  • A wood scribble

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    Here’s my latest Adobe Ideas scribble. I had the idea in my head that it would look perfect with a single colour (top) but once I got going it didn’t exactly turn out as I imagined – well does it ever? It’s also quite hard to draw with your finger no matter how thin the…

  • Flickr three :: wood

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    My wood finds are all via Flickr :: from top Cuba Gallery: Wood texture background – green grass – feet by Anderw @CubaGallery, Cuba Gallery: Wood texture by Andrew @CubaGallery, Wood Wounds by Jos van Wunnik

  • Reclaimed timber delights

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    I love wood and was reminded of this while trying to move our very own coffee table made from a nature-got-the-better-of-me slab – it’s very heavy. Practically every door in our house is wood and I love wood bowls, chopping boards and floors. I have a very heavy Oregon wood chair that I made at…

  • Flickr three :: stars

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    My starry finds are all from flickr – from top Stars by Ohad Ben-Yoseph, How Many Stars? by cobalt123 and Shooting Stars by Stefan Van der Straeten

  • Mariners stars (and not the baseball team)

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    So here’s what I find myself doing when I can’t get to sleep! I’m still stuck on stars this week and I’m fond of the mariner’s star (compass) especially in quilts. This is my latest Adobe Ideas scribble and although I’m not sure about the colour scheme I think the star has potential. I’ll see…