The Journey Within

This piece began as a series of swirls created with Flowpaper.  I really didn’t know where I was going when I began, but it started to tell me a story and this is the final result.

Here is what I started with – swirls created in Flowpaper and blended in Sketch Club.

Here is the “recipe” of the apps I used in the order I used them:
Flowpaper to create to separate swirled designs
Procreate for smudging the Flowpaper design
Sketch Club for blending to Flowpaper designs
AutoPainterII Chalk Setting
FilterMania 2 – to add the water drops and intensify
Tiny Planets to get the swirled effect (tunnel setting)
Perfect Photo for saturation and sharpening
Percolator
Sketch Club for blending a combination of the images resulting from the above apps.  I layed .  I also added the text in this app.
Crop’n’Frame for framing
I really like several of the intermediate results including after FilterMania 2

and after Percolator (below)

Abstract

Below shows the step by step progression
Original photo

After Tiny Planets

After Moku HD

After AutoPainter II

After Percolator

After Popsicolor

After Image Blender (Blending AutoPainter Image with Popsicolor)

After Perfect Photo (increase saturation and sharpen)

After Crop’n’Frame


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My iPhoneographic Journey Begins

Just what I need...another blog!  iART CHRONiCLES features photos of my world as seen through my iPhone.  With the innovative, creative apps on the market today (and many FREE ones too!), iPhoneography has become an art form of its own and my new addiction!

My inspiration is Karen L. Messick.  I have viewed other powerful iPhone images, but Karen's work captured me because of its painterly look and the way she combines various applications to get unique results.

Dark blog backgrounds aren't normally my first choice, but they do compliment the photographs well which is another reason I'm giving this work a place of its own.  Here are a few of my first attempts.