ART GALLERY, July 9

SKETCHING

I've always enjoyed the Photoshop tools that allow me to work in black and white.  To transform a full color photograph to monotone and use line tools, pens, brushes and shading to "create" what appears to be a sketch of the subject.  Soft brushes will give a pastel effect, sharp pens the look of an India-ink drawing.  What seems like a hundred-years ago, I worked with real India ink on real art stock, but now enjoy the challenge of digital designs.  

As we continue through our Art Gallery Retrospective month, files include  'collections' or 'series' designed around a common theme.  For these, we called upon pet friends in this community, asking permission to work with their pet photographs. Those who are long time pet bloggers may remember the years [early-mid 2000s] when we would ask a pet to choose a word they felt best described themselves.  We designed a picture of the "pet and their word" and this series ran randomly as Wordy Wednesday Challenges.  

In revisiting these pictures, many of these friends ~ cats and dogs ~ have either crossed their Rainbow Bridge, or may no longer be active bloggers.  But all live on in our memories.  

Tomorrow, July 10, we'll feature a number of wonderful pets, WHAT'S IN A NAME?, followed by other series throughout this week.