Great explanation Jen, you know why I ask these questions, it's always good to recap what we're aboutJohn, it was partly to broaden that troublesome definition that i called the thread ‘APP’- stract as opposed to ’Abstract’. I kept the rules simple^^^ for the same reason.
When you (and most photographers) use apps in, say, the BW challenge, you're usually looking to perfect some aspect of your representative image. In this kind of challenge, it's almost the opposite. Here you are invited to play with the transformative possibilities of your apps.
Looking at an image in BW, we might not immediately know what if any apps you‘ve used***. Here, the apps are front & centre (‘in your face’, if you like). It’s a different aesthetic AND, as with JillyG ‘s gorgeous flower image, it‘s an opportunity for us to learn more about what’s out there and what they can do.
[***Pause to plug our recent reminder drive: that‘s part of the reason we ask people to list the apps used and in the order you applied them].
^^^Rules: 1. Interpret the theme 2. Use apps 3. Tell us something about your image/edit
Finally, my careful explanation above is obviously redundant, because as you know, I know, and all the regs on MobiTog know, not only you can, but also sometimes you actually do, post perfectly wonderful APP-stracts that everyone falls about appreciating.
But, you know, there‘s nothing I wouldn’t do for MobiTog’s Shrinking-Violet-In-Residence
I like this a lot, printed large on canvas on a dark coffee shop wall it would look fabulous.View attachment 154149
I put an old image through four JixiPix apps I have not used except to check them out on purchase years ago: Moku Hanga, Rain something, Romantic something and Snow something. Then i did my best to mask those changes in Glaze (thank you NickLeon) SketchClub and SnapSeed.
I think exams and the like have temporarily compromised my ‘experimental’
Awesome. I love it.View attachment 154149
I put an old image through four JixiPix apps I have not used except to check them out on purchase years ago: Moku Hanga, Rain something, Romantic something and Snow something. Then i did my best to mask those changes in Glaze (thank you NickLeon) SketchClub and SnapSeed.
I think exams and the like have temporarily compromised my ‘experimental’
Great explanation Jen, you know why I ask these questions, it's always good to recap what we're about
Post anything you want. I googled abstract art once and followed a Wikipedia link then followed another link, then another...... Ultimately it covered just about everything except realism. But maybe I just didn’t click on that link.
Great one.
Yes, a forest, in a library (it looks like to me). Revenge of the tree ghosts? Or the student library at Ent University?
Brilliant.
I see all sorts of things in there! And I love the idea!
here it is.
I have the same problem with Procreate. It is my favorite app.
Fab. It reminds me a little of psychedelic sunglasses. I think they’d be a great invention for when we’re tired of reality. I might never take them off.I’ve had Distressed X for a while but rarely use it. Today I took three of my abstracts and collaged them, then spattered stuff in them from fun little app Repix that I use a bit, finally I took my new child into Distressed X. Remember in art class as kids, we used crayons to colour a whole sheet of paper, then added black paint over all of it and when it dried we scratched out pictures?
So that happened
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And the contrast with the brush (what do US people call coastal grasses?) . . . well, i‘m inspired to have another go at PaintCan. 