naarmamo | NaArMaMo 2017: Day 6

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Ready, set, art!

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From:

spiralsheep

N-Pop Girl sliding away....

The arty bollocks generator says: "My work explores the relationship between zeitgeist and multimedia experiences." :-D

From:

pebblerocker

Okay, you will be amazed at this one. It's performance art today, all right? I went on an amazing outing and took a great many photos, at least a handful of them interestingly artistic, and kept taking photos until my aged camera wheezed out the last of its battery charge and folded up its lens for the day. There was no use carrying the camera around in my hand any longer, so I put it in my sister's backpack for safekeeping. She's on her way back to another city, unaware that she has all my artistic output with her. So until next time we have a family get-together and I collect my camera, none of you can see the lovely pictures I took, and photography is out of the running as an art form for a while too.

This is not an unusual occurrence of forgetfulness for me, but the magnitude of the outcome skyrockets it to an outstanding level.

From:

pebblerocker

Whee! Hold onto that teddy!

I had to look again to figure out what was going on with the shape of the slide and its reflections in itself. It looks like she's on a cross-shaped surface, only perspective starts going the wrong way.

From:

spiralsheep

I tried to position the bear for maximum wheeee effect, obv, so I'm glad you noticed! :-D

The reflection hurts my brain because I can't work out the physics without significant effort and I don't have it in me at the moment, lol. I presume it's because the reflections have two different sources: one pointing up-ish (on the slide above the figure) and one pointing down-ish (on the slide below the figure) but I might be wrong about the up part and I still can't visualise the light bounces needed for the down part! ::wryface::

From:

spiralsheep

I applaud your outstanding achievement in the field of performance art and humbly suggest that it reminds me of the sort of plot propelling arty/comedic short films. :-D

From:

vera_j

A joyride! This mirror-like thing creates an interesting effect:-)

From:

spiralsheep

Yes, full of joy! It's a metal slide in a children's playground. I was there at 6-30pm but there was still one toddler in a nappy and reins racing around and wearing out her mum, lol.

From:

spiralsheep

Like this slide:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/17/article-2130923-12A2279E000005DC-73_470x423.jpg

:-D

From:

feng_shui_house

Very cool photo! Your posing and the cool reflections make it very surreal.

From:

feng_shui_house

This is great, we can imagine the fantastic photos and until we see them, we can enjoy the word picture you made. :^)

From:

feng_shui_house

Am v. sleepy today and reading fanfic- found a long story in which Natasha Romanov (from Avengers) is turned into an orange tabby cat. So I drew her. ;^) Click for full size version in new page.

From:

spiralsheep

Thank you! I love the Lego minifigures for simultaneously being adorably clunky and eerily human in their actions. The reflections were a gift and my only contribution was knowing the time of day when the sun was in the perfect place (note: English sun = directional daylight not actual Australian style yellow sphere, lol).

From:

spiralsheep

A very tigerish tabby!

From:

feng_shui_house

Thanks! I like how she is in the story-playing up 'I'm a cute, harmless kitty' in order to do her spying and manipulating people. ;^)

From:

vera_j

Hahaaa - this is like when my 3 years old granddaughter enjoys herself in the playground! Exactly lilke that!:-)

From:

spiralsheep

:-)

From:

capri0mni

This is an experiment, rendered entirely in Microsoft Paint's 'Black and White' setting (remember when that was all Paint was? That was the days when all printers were dot matrix, and you could only write in one font).

Yes, I'm old. What of it? ;-P

From:

pebblerocker

Deceptively sweet! I like the stripy tail and pink pads.

From:

pebblerocker

The patterns look like stitches in embroidery to me!

Thank you for being old! It's good for me to have people to look up to in my online circle - wise aunties, people who have gone before and seen more.

From:

feng_shui_house

Catasha plays up the sweet little kitty factor-- pretty much like all cats. :^)

From:

feng_shui_house

Oh, yeah, I remember Apple paint on a tiny black and white monitor- you had a palette of 'grays' formed by patterns of black pixels and space.

The good old days-- wow. Took FOREVER to draw anything, I'm impressed by your patience.

From:

spiralsheep

I find that image, with the reliance on texture rather than colour, very appealing. I think it looks like a quilt, with patterned fabrics and stitching.

From:

capri0mni

The one thing I do miss from the first Paint -- never had an Apple, but I imagine Paint copied it pretty closely -- was the fully adaptable eraser (rather than a set of five fixed sizes).

Microsoft is phasing out this Paint -- won't be included at all in the next version of Windows 10, and won't be developed any further, but you will be able to download it for free from the online Store. They're replacing it with Paint 3d, which I tried out yesterday, and was basically shouting in frustration within 5 minutes.

The whole thing is geared toward "customizing" someone else's designs for cartoon characters: man, woman, cat dog, and that's about it. So no more improvised monsters for me (through that app). So yeah: I'm keeping my 2d version (I know how to add shading and highlights for myself, thanks, which, as far as I can tell, is the only thing that Paint 3d does that Paint doesn't)

Okay -- rant over.

Edited (closed html tag) Date: 2017-08-07 10:21 am (UTC)

From:

capri0mni

*Nod*

The Color setting on Paint is fabulous, 'cause you can fine-tune colors by hand (three times 240 factorial different shades), but it's very hard-to-impossible to do anything with consistent texture.

So I'm wondering how it would work if I created a textured image in black and white, and copy-pasted it into color, then changed the black pixels into different hues.

This was step one of that experiment.

Edited (fixed typo) Date: 2017-08-07 10:18 am (UTC)