Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Art Fart

We've been messing around with Photoshop again. Its really addicting but I have to say that I hate that The Mr. knows more than I do about it. In my defense, he has the time to learn this! I'm in school. And work has been killing me lately. I can get better at this during winter break! I know I can!

Wow, competitive much?

Prior to getting our DSLR - I had this vision of what I wanted to do with a wall in our dining room. Its a blank slate with so much potential. And its small. And its in an open floor plan so you can see it from the living room, kitchen, stairs, etc. We actually have a very generic picture from Ikea on that wall but it isn't really "us" and it was more of a filler piece than anything.

Back to my vision. I love the look of a wall covered in framed pictures of differing styles, shapes, colors and size. Are you with me? Can you picture this? And I thought it would be interesting if we had pictures of doors and windows. Its a little artsy fartsy and I'm not trying to be pretentious or anything but considering our space is somewhat small, it seemed interesting to have pictures of windows in our home. And Baltimore has some interesting architecture so it would be easy to find.

Easy, that is, until we bought the frickin' DSLR. Its like all of the interesting doors and windows have gone into hiding. Yarg! Anywho - we took some interesting pics in Puerto Rico and through the power of Photoshop, we aged them and made them look even more interesting. I think these might earn a spot on our wall (unless, of course, all of the cool doors and windows I've been dreaming about reappear).





10 comments:

MMC said...

Interesting pictures from PR : )

We can do pictures any time-- I just can't think of where to have them taken! Any ideas?

Liz said...

Those are awesome photos, but the last one frightens me.

Anonymous said...

I don't know if I can come over if you have that one up of the scary animals!!! Great shot, but it makes me feel touched inappropriately :-)

I love the one at the end...creepy too. I love creepy stuff. like factor. he's creepy. And I love him.

Anonymous said...

wowza..these are cool! i love the aged look.

CAG Incognito said...

I think the first pic has to be my favorite! I love warm earth tones.(They look good on my skin...lol)

Scooter McFly said...

great pictures! you must bring over the photos from PR when you come visit on thursday night. i'd love to see them. :)

mccashew said...

That last photo made me shiver! That isn't to say I don't like it, it just scares me =)

ALSO - I am catching up on your blog here so I am commenting about another post, but I want to be sure you see it. You can make yourself anonymous on picasa! Login and go to settings (its up top by your email address) and from there you can add a nickname and change the gallery url. (that's how my gallery became McCashew) SIMPLE! I just discovered this recently thanks to another blogger so pass it on! =) Hope that helps and please get to it soon because I want to drool over more fabulous photos!!!!

Terri: said...

Great pics! You're getting really good at that!

willikat said...

we hung tons of photos in different frames over our bed. it turned out really nice. if i get a chance, i'll take a photo and show you.

Jamie said...

Very nice...I like the first pic the best...then the last pic