Sunday, November 04, 2007


Yesterday morning as I was checking my regular blogs and viewing photos from my "Flickr Friends" I found this blog from Judy Scott a fiber artist who is documenting, or "blog-umenting," her City and Guilds Machine Embroidery studies at Dundee College in England. I was very inspired by her work including a very lovely reference photo of foliage. I decided to go over to the our local college and take photographs of a variety of leaves and a few late flowers. I took a half a dozen shots before my camera batteries went dead! When I got home all my other batteries were dead. I was disappointed but decided it was a good time to try something new. I placed flowers on the scanner and took pictures with the scanner lid up.
Then I played a while with Adobe Photoshop to get this.

5 comments:

Dianne said...

Thanks for the link to Judy's blog - I'm a regular visit to Judy's other blog, and love her art!!! The photo looks fantastic altered, and would make a wonderful base for embroidery!!

Anonymous said...

Hi Molly,

I stopped by to visit your blog~ It looks great. You need to put your paper dolls on here. I loved them.

Annie

gunnelsvensson said...

Hi Molly!
Thanks for your comment on my blog! the weather in Berlin was cold and grey - and I think most of my pictures looks grey - all "must take" pics! But I find many colourful house and other thing with colour :-)
I like your art when you are changing the colour stc in Adobe Photoshop, I have to learn me to use that more!

thanks for the link to Judys new blog!
take care :-)

Unknown said...

Oh I love this photoshop enhancement. I thought I would stop by and see what you were up to. Do you ever print your photoshop enhancements onto fabric. I know that my sister Susan found this really cool place that sells silk to print on for her fiber art. Well enjoy. Blessings, Karen

Yvonne Moxon said...

This is beautiful :o)