Gosh, I noticed that my last few posts here were pre-pandemic. Hmmm...why would I stop posting because of the lockdown. Maybe it was the extra work that happened due to the college going all virtual and log of people needing help with that. Ah, the life of an instructional designer.…

More from the collaged and morphed characters series. This portrait started out as a photo from Colby Files and came out of several iPad apps - Procreate, MetaBrush, iColorama and Mextures. Just in time for spring! I like using the liquify and warp tools in apps to give these characters…

Still exploring a workflow for creating collage characters from portrait style photos. This from another Pixabay find - started out as a girl in a blue jean jacket, leaning on a city street wall with a bit of an attitude for the camera. This was a fun one to play…

This image started out as a simple collage of a photo from Pixabay of a girl in an interesting coat and hat. Then I decided to warp it a bit into more of a whimsical portrait and added some texture and paint from iColorama apps. I think it's a workflow…

We get a number of little birds that winter over here in the Pacific Northwest. I have a nice feeder area out back that attracts them close enough for me to practice my bird photography and catch some unique poses and behavior as they manage their perches around the food.…

I enjoyed creating this funky portrait that I titled "Georgiga Curiosa".I ended up using a combination of Procreate, Repix, Distressed Effects, Snapseed, and iColorama apps on my iPad. The cool thing about starting on the iPad is that I can then take it into Photoshop and play even further with…

"Where there is no gift, there is no art." --Austin Kleon

It's not always that things work out without a lot of effort, but this image just sort of happened while exploring iColorama on my iPad. Started with an average lion photo from Pixabay and then just started layering, adjusting, styling and adding textures from the many options in the iColorama…

One of the great things about the iPhone and camera apps is that you are never without a camera (unless you forget your phone, I guess...) and therefore, have no excuses especially if there is a garden center just down the way. A lovely soft dahlia image, created with BlendCamera…