Showing posts with label subway art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subway art. Show all posts
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Happy Father's Day
Wishing every family a wonderful Father's Day! May we all celebrate the wonderful men our lives. I felt blessed to be asked to create a special canvas to be given as a father's day gift. What a wonderful family heirloom! This beautiful portrait was taken by Vikki Dinh Photography.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Pretty in Pink
Love and blessings!
Kathy
Sunday, February 27, 2011
All in the Family
I am posting one of my favorite recent projects...These wonderful portraits of three siblings are so very special...more beautiful portraits captured by Vikki Dinh Phototography!
Hope everyone is a have a wonderful weekend!
Love and blessings!
Kathy
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| Sweet Baby Valentino! |
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| Adorable little sister Coco! Love her name! |
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| and handsome big brother JJ! |
Love and blessings!
Kathy
Monday, February 14, 2011
Love Campaign: Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentines Day! Sending you all much love and blessings! Today, I am featuring another cute photo taken courtesy of Vikki Dinh Photography. This sweet little girt all dressed in pink inspired a pink-themed girlie canvas design. Here is the before photo...
Here is the finish photo edit...
Love and blessings!
Kathy
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| Photo taken courtesy of Vikki Dinh Photography. |
Here is the finish photo edit...
Still taking submissions for my February Love Campaign!
Submission Guidelines:
How does this work you might say? Submit to me your favorite photo — any photo that you would like to turn into an heirloom, a piece of art or a “just want to see what you can do with this” kind of project. I will perform my magic and return to you a digital image — you can do what you want with this digital image. Post it on your Facebook account, print it yourself or by any photolab, use it for scrapbooking, post it on your blog. Whatever makes your heart sing! AND, if you decide you really, really love the final results and would like it printed onto canvas or as a print, I have pro accounts with the finest photolabs in the country and can hook you up.
How do you submit your photo? Just send your image (300 dpi resolution works best if you plan to have it printed) along with your idea to ArtsyCanvasGirl@ymail.com. In the event you have trouble describing what you want you can even send me an example image of a style you’ve seen. It’s that simple. Really, just send an email and imagine what you want and I will do my magic.Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!
How does this work you might say? Submit to me your favorite photo — any photo that you would like to turn into an heirloom, a piece of art or a “just want to see what you can do with this” kind of project. I will perform my magic and return to you a digital image — you can do what you want with this digital image. Post it on your Facebook account, print it yourself or by any photolab, use it for scrapbooking, post it on your blog. Whatever makes your heart sing! AND, if you decide you really, really love the final results and would like it printed onto canvas or as a print, I have pro accounts with the finest photolabs in the country and can hook you up.
How do you submit your photo? Just send your image (300 dpi resolution works best if you plan to have it printed) along with your idea to ArtsyCanvasGirl@ymail.com. In the event you have trouble describing what you want you can even send me an example image of a style you’ve seen. It’s that simple. Really, just send an email and imagine what you want and I will do my magic.Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Love and blessings!
Kathy
Love Campaign: Word Art
This photo was taken courtesy of Vikki Dinh, a photographer in San Diego. She requested a word art design to be added to this photo. What a cutie! -- her handsome client, Jacob. Here is the before...
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| Photo taken courtesy Vikki Dinh Photography |
Cleaned up a little bit of chapped lips, cropped the photo, added a word design and a little texture. Here is the finished photo edit...
Still taking submissions!
Submission Guidelines:
How does this work you might say? Submit to me your favorite photo — any photo that you would like to turn into an heirloom, a piece of art or a “just want to see what you can do with this” kind of project. I will perform my magic and return to you a digital image — you can do what you want with this digital image. Post it on your Facebook account, print it yourself or by any photolab, use it for scrapbooking, post it on your blog. Whatever makes your heart sing! AND, if you decide you really, really love the final results and would like it printed onto canvas or as a print, I have pro accounts with the finest photolabs in the country and can hook you up.
How do you submit your photo? Just send your image (300 dpi resolution works best if you plan to have it printed) along with your idea to ArtsyCanvasGirl@ymail.com. In the event you have trouble describing what you want you can even send me an example image of a style you’ve seen. It’s that simple. Really, just send an email and imagine what you want and I will do my magic.Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!
Love and blessings!
Kathy
Monday, October 4, 2010
Earth laughs in flowers!
So a few weeks back, I met the sweetest gal, Emily from Family and Life in Las Vegas. We met through our blogs during a blog hop I participated in. From time to time, I love spending some time seeing what others are doing... and thinking... and sharing! It's really good for the soul and the creativity process. Anyway, Emily stopped by my blog because I had stopped by hers. She had made a comment on my "tutus and trunks post"(still one of my favorite canvases I've created -- beautiful Baby Kendall captured by talented photographer, Vikki from Vikki Dinh Photography). Emily made a comment that the picture was beautiful and that she always wanted to have a picture done on canvas..."maybe one day!" she said. I thought, "There's no time like the present!" when I remembered a posting I saw on Songberries blog about a free 8x10 canvas offer by CanvasPeople. So I told her about this offer I noticed on Songberries blog. I was happy to offer her my services to make this happen. A few weeks later, she sent me the following picture... It was the sweetest picture of flowers! This is my first "nature" project for a client. I was expecting a family picture or the kiddo picture...but instead I got a picture of flowers! How fun!
Emily's vision was to create a "subway art"-styled canvas with this photo. She wanted words like rejoice, celebrate, love, joy, etc. She also wanted to incorporate a special quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Earth laughs in flowers." I LOVED that quote! So I began working on this really fun project. I always create a few different versions in an effort to match the various personal tastes that varies from person to person. Here are some of the samples I created for this project.
First, I enhanced the color of the photo because I wanted it to have a really full-of-color feel to match the power of the words she requested. Then I selected a color scheme by pulling colors from the photo and began selecting fonts that expressed the words visually to me. Then I added some pretty little sun spots and a soft milky frame to give it a little mystical feel and added some little daisy embellishments in the top corners. I liked the results...
Then, I wanted to play a little more with the photo. I just started using a trial version of a product called Topaz which has some really cool features to enhance photos. I'd been dying to try it out so I played with their product called Clean Adjust. It allowed me to stylize the photo...
Here is a close up of the difference between the color enhanced photo compared to the stylized photo...
The stylized just added a little more texture and line to the photo. I personally really love this effect for this particular photo.
Then I did another version, a little more of a crisp clean look (knowing that not everyone likes the embellished artsy look.)
I sent these versions to Emily to get her feedback. It's a good time in the process to get a better idea of what the client likes (and don't like) and fine tune to the finish product. Emily asked if I could create a lace-like frame. I wanted to see how a closer-in crop of the picture would look like so I created this...
Here's my favorite version...pretty much same as Emily's pick but with a closer-in view of the flower!
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| Original SOOC |
First, I enhanced the color of the photo because I wanted it to have a really full-of-color feel to match the power of the words she requested. Then I selected a color scheme by pulling colors from the photo and began selecting fonts that expressed the words visually to me. Then I added some pretty little sun spots and a soft milky frame to give it a little mystical feel and added some little daisy embellishments in the top corners. I liked the results...
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| Color-enhanced photo |
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| Stylized Photo |
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| Close up of the color-enhanced photo |
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| Closeup of stylized photo |
Then I did another version, a little more of a crisp clean look (knowing that not everyone likes the embellished artsy look.)
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| Crisp clean version |
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| Lace frame with a closer view of the flowers |
In the end, Emily chose this version of the photo for the final printing of the canvas... The stylized photo including the really cool quote with the milky frame, sunspots and sweet daisy embellishments. The gallery wrap sides of the canvas will be a dark sky blue that matches to the darker portion of the sky. She sounded thrilled and I gotta tell you that is the best part of what I do!
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| Emily's pick |
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| My pick |
Emily promised me a picture of the final canvas when she receives it back from CanvasPeople. I will post it here...I'm hoping it turns out great!!!
What's your favorite version?
Love and blessings!
Kathy
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