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Some time ago I took a brown crayon and sketched a rear-facing lady in a long dress.
I took a liking to it so much that the next step were pastels.
| Mentioned sketch made with brown crayon. |
I thought that pastels could nicely help in achieving a fantastic picture. A picture which may be a dream, or a fantasy universe.
Below there are photos showing further phases of a creative process.
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Back in May 2016 I visited Łazienki Park in Warsaw. There I saw not only beautiful buildings and nature but also lots of peacocks. I'm mentioning this because one of the photos showing a peacock led me to experiment a bit in graphics software.
| Peacock strolling in the gardens of Łazienki Park in Warsaw. I took this photo in May 2016. |
When I look at this photo it seems to me as if peacock was emerging from flowers, or walking on the surface of flowers. I found this part of photo fascinating.
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From time to time I like to have fun with turning photos into surreal graphics. Generally, I chose photos showing trees, and trees are present in a photo which You can see below.
| Photo from June 2021. It shows old stairs in the nearby park. |
But this time trees aren't the main characters.
I decided to focus on a part with old stonen stairs instead.
So, I cut this fragment of photo, and edited it slightly.
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If You come by my blog from time to time, then surreal graphics based on a photos of trees are nothing new to You. I sometimes like to take photos of the trees. I find them oddly inspiring.
In today's post I'd like to show You another work created thanks to a photo of trees.
| In February 2023 I took this photo in the nearby forest. |
So, I cropped a fragment from an above photo, and dived into experimenting.
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So, today I'm coming to You with a collage card I've made in Canva.
Once I was experimenting (and I'm still doing that) in this programme.
Below you can see the net result of my experiments.
| complicated thoughts, graphic. |
It looks quite surreal. I called this card with a floral motive complicated thoughts.
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Occasionally, I find a strange pleasure in taking photos of trees. There's something fascinating in staring at complex trees' branches as they try to reach the sky. It's a usual thing for me to experiment a little with these photos in graphic software.
This is why this post came into being - I've created another surreal graphic based on a photo which you can see below.
| I took this photo during the stroll in January 2024. |
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Back in the 2023 I made a photo of a barberry, and immediately took a liking to it.
| I took a photo of this barberry at the beginning of March, 2023. |
The reason I'm writing about this photo is creation of a graphic from a cropped fragment of this picture (a photo's centre). Then I started to play with it in graphic software. I wanted to create a completely new graphic. After flipping, combining copies of a photo, et cetera I obtained this effect.
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From time to time I'd like to snap pictures of the nature. Trees happen to be impressive models.
Photos of trees sometimes inspire me to create crazy, and surreal graphics.
That's the reason why I wrote this post - I've made another surreal graphic.
| I took this photo on April this year in the nearby forest. |
HELLO!
From time to time I spend time on creating surreal graphics which are based on photographies of trees.
Trees are inspiring. Trees can save you during the hot day in the city.
Anyway you see another surreal graphic today.
| Here you see trees from nearby forest. I took this photo this year on February. That day weather was really lovely. |
I cropped out a part of this photo and experimented with it.
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Here comes another surreal graphic which happened because of photo showing trees.
During one of the autumnal walks I took a photo of trees. It pictures a contrast between branches fully dressed and the naked ones.
| That's the mentioned photo. I took it in October 2022. |
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A year ago I wrote a poem inspired by Yuki Kajiura's composition the Main theme of Petit Cossette. This beautiful & moody piece of music made me think about the dark sky and blusterous storm.
The poem I wrote is named symfonia grozy and you will be able to read it HERE.
Today I'd like to show you a pastel created on the basis of a poem, and also a translation of mentioned poem - the symphony of terror.
ENJOY!
| the symphony of terror, oil pastels on a teal blue paper, 14,7 x 21 cm. |
HELLO!
From time to time I like to take a photographies of trees. Then, photos usually inspire me to modify them into surreal graphics.
Here comes another post in which a photo of the trees contributed to creating a surreal graphic.
This time I got to photo, which you can see below.
| Photography from February 2022. |
Somehow branches and power lines connote a vision of hands playing on the instrument's strings. So during my work I created this graphic.
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Well, I made an another surreal graphic which is based on a photo showing the trees.
Nature can be so inspiring!
A photo in question is visible below.
| Photo shows a certain park. I've took it in Autumn 2015. |
And here, look below at the result of my experiments.
HELLO!
It's nice to take an autumnal walk from time to time. There's a possibility to notice beauty in the unexpected places. It's great to have a camera in a bag just in case.
| I've took this photo in September 2021. |
HELLO!
Lately old photographies inspire me to experiment a bit with them and create something new. And again, after works like attempt to embrace and dancing trees a surreal vision happened. Funnily enough it was a photography showing trees one more time.
| Mentioned photography. I took in a certain forest two years ago. |
After the initial experiments I created a Rippled Forest.
This graphic is showing trees reflecting in the water.
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Two years ago I was walking through the forest. There I took a glance at amazing trees because they came off as their trunks were dancing.
| It's the very same photography which you are able to see on the right sidebar. |
So I started experimenting with this photo in order to create some kind of a surreal dimension (like it was in case of attempt to embrace). Additionally I mixed this photo with a different graphic but unfortunately I cannot recall which one was that...
Below you can see the final effect of my experiments.
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Yesterday I was searching for an inspiration for backgrounds for the future "the Poetic Graphics". Among all of those old photographies I've found the one from over four years which you could contemplate below.
| I've made this photo in November 2016 during a walk. |
Those trees and their branches looked marvellous. Thanks to them a photography resembles a painting with craquelures.
It looks so fascinating that I started experimenting with photo in graphic software. To be honest I was a bit surprised by the final effect.
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In the last post in this year there will be one of my aims - a female guitarist. I haven't got a clue at the beginning how should I portray her... Finally playing on the guitar make me aware which pose looks the best (and drawing a guitar was kinda problematic).
| A Guitarist, pencil and oil pastels on a paper, 14,8 x 21 cm. |
During creative process I decided to experiment a bit. I used a pencil for a young guitarist sitting on a wall and oil pastels for background. I thought about the fourth story from anime Mononoke (2007) where the grey world became lively thanks to smelling various scents.
So... That's all.
As a new aim I chose... a portrayal of a Samurai
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(because this year's One Piece was really awesome, entertaining and inspiring... For me it was one of those rare things that made 2020 quite tolerable)
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Ok, my dear readers
I wish you a Happy, Calm and Great New Year!
May your dreams come true!
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| a Sky from my Memories, graphic. |