Do you have a photograph or painting that you love? If you’d like to copy the color palette so that you can 1) paint your living room to match 2) create a digital drawing or 3) design a web page color scheme around it, then the Color Palette Generator is the tool for you. You upload a photo and get a simple break down of the color palette, complete with HTML color codes. It’s easy breezy to use and fun, even if you have no plans to bust out a paint brush in the near future!
This is a photo of my daughter Lizzi and my father-in-law, Hank. I took out the background and color in Photoshop and I used the oily blender in Corel Painter to give it a brush stroked effect. Lizzi is twenty-four now and Hank passed away seven years ago. I still think of him often, and I will miss him and remember him fondly today. Happy Father’s Day all.
I know I’ve blogged it before, and I’m sure I’ll blog it again, but I love the image mosaic generator. You upload one of your own photos and it gathers images from flickr and turns it into a mosaic. How cool is that? If you click on my butterfly you can see the tiny photos that form the image. I used it to make the background for my twitter account too, click here if you want to check it out. Okay, enough said, go and make one yourself!
I’ve been playing with my new Wacom pen and tablet. I took a photo of my daughter Lizzi and “painted” over it in Corel Painter. Fastest portrait I ever painted! There’s no substitute for the real thing, the smell of the paint and the way it feels in the brush, but I have to admit, this was pretty fun and there’s no clean up! If you click on the image you can view a close-up of the piece and see the brush strokes. There’s so much to learn that it’s a little overwhemling, maybe I should take a class?
One of my favorite browsing and shopping sites, Art.com, has a fun on-line version of Paintbrush. You paint a picture and when you’re finished you watch as a video replays everything you did, very cool. You can then view it in a mock-up art gallery and they will add it to their collection. My painting is done with my mouse, not very fancy but fun to do. I just ordered a Wacom tablet so I can learn to do more intricate graphic designs (I hope) like the ones I see on the Illustration Friday site. I’m not giving up on my “Story of George” collages though, no matter how tricky I become with the pen and tablet!
Saw this on Misty Mawn’s cool blog the other day, what a lovely way to end another busy the week.
Bookbabie started out trying to do a portrait of her crush, George Clooney, on this cool website called Mr. Picasso Head. It ended up looking more like Donald Trump doing the Macarena. Oh well, it was a blast anyway, check it out and create your own masterpiece!
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