NatureFootstep: photoshop

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Monica Johansson and NatureFootstep.com

I am interested in nature photography and photo art and travels
as much as I can to find new areas to document.
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Coils, twirls and mosaic

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Hi guys! Today I start with what I painted and finish with a coil mosaic.

Heartfully recorded!

On a single song old fashioned vinyl record disc. Acrylic color and die cut´s. "Framed" in PS!

Windy!

It has been windy for a while now and I thought I´d try to catch the motion. Captured with the tools I used. Acrylic on sketch paper A4.

Twirly Mosaic

During the years I created quite a lot of swirls and twirls from my photos. I thought it was a good idea to share some of them. Hope you like them. Even the Mosaics backgound is a twirl.

© NF Photo 210415

I hope this day finds everyone great and in good health!

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Crops and farming and............

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Rains TAD is about crops and farming today. Nice I thought, I have a lot of that. But, sometimes the more you have makes you trapped. My brain got a meltdown. Not fun! And the images I searched for I did not find. Luckily I had a few beforehand I can share.

This is a manipulated image of rye or barley. Not sure which. It s´was shut at a field after a rainfall.

This is Oats. Photographed and manipulated this summer.

Grass a rainy day manipulated in both Topaz and Photoshop. I like it, wish I could paint like this

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I painted this background several days ago. And then my mind was blank.

But this morning I finally dared to paint some oats on it!

Watercolor on A4 watercolorpaper.

This young farmer is me. It is an old shot of course I was probably just 8 years old.

I worked on it in a sketching software I have and made it a painting.

Hat and jeans! The outfit has not changed much. But nowadays I need something on top.

Wounded tree!

Sometimes when trees are wounded and sap are running it can be a very beautiful abstract.

This is pretty much the true colors. Just slightly enhanced. I cropped the image and mirrored it.

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Rains Cozy and PPF

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Spiritual Deer forest

canvas 23x30 cm. This one took me several days to complete. It was when I placed them unevenly that I liked it. And then I remembered I had some white deer's as well. They are cutouts. And, there are glitter on it, like a little snowfall. An hour ago I noticed my kitchen floor are glittering too. 😀😇

Santas Cozy vacation

For Rains Cozy and Dreamers challenge. This is painted in photoshop, first time I tried something like this really. But Santa is photographed. I bought them in New Zeeland many years ago and thought I could combine it. Santa is part of my Christmas decoration.

Abstract pour on panel 18x24 cm
I bought the panels earlier this week as they were cheep and wanted to try it. But, as you can see they are bent, curved at the short side. I thought they should stay flat 😞
Both panels are the same colors. I dipped the second one on the standing one. There were too much colors on it. But the final result is very different from each other.

© NF Photo 191212

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Friday, December 6, 2019

PPF Blue and yellow

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Yellow, holiday fantasy.
The base is a canvas 20x30cm that I painted yellow. The ballerina is the one I created earlier by cutting it out. The deers and candles are stickers I bought. I layed it out and took a shot. Fixed the rest in photoshop, removed shadows and such to create true silhouettes.

Blue! Sketch paper size A5
Just testing the colors. Earlier I had been cooking lingonberry (cowberry) for making jelly. I love the red colors it has. After painting the black and blue I thought the red lingon would be nice to ad. The lingonberry added some color and texture to the, well, abstract painting. Anyway, I am not going to eat it. 😀

© NF PhotoArt 191206

Blue and yellow! The colors of our Swedish flag.

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Friday, August 9, 2019

Testing and exhibition

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These are my contribution to Gallery KIKK:s exhibition themed "Microcosmos"
This exhibition ends Aug 14th

Seascape!
This is a test to see what it will look like on my upcoming exhibition in the Library. I have the canvases and the scallops and they are a bit fragile. I got the aquarium a while ago from a friend and thought I might use it to "cover" them. And, hopefully make it more interesting.
This will probably be my last exhibition so I would like it to "stand out".

Flight to the heavens!
This dragonfly is created by an Industrial artist I know. I visited it and noticed the sun was right in it´s belly. Can´t resist such a thing. :) When I studied the image at home I was surprised to see a rainbow above it´s head. Used a filter in Photoshop to create the look on the clouds.

Sailing!
This is two sailing boats to start with. Twisted and filtered in Photoshop.

© NF Photo 190809

Sun is shining today and it is not that hot. At least not yet. It is still morning in Sweden. I can notice the fall is soon here.

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Friday, July 12, 2019

Trial and error

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This is two photos merged and manipulated. It is a rosebush and a part of a walkway with flat stones. I like when the purple and blue colors pops up. :)

Sunset
This is another tile. Worked with acrylic colors and mostly, my fingers as pencil.

Northern light or whatever. At least that is what I aimed for.
I turned out to use both tempera and acrylic. I´m not sure I like it, but I find it interesting in a weird way. And I like the acrylic colors when you don´t blend them too much. I probably give it another try when days are getting darker.

© NF Photo 190712

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Abstracts

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Copper birch abstract

Forest blur abstract

Whimsical tree´s texture canvas with shadow pattern, edited in photoshop

This is the "Whimsical Tree Goddess" project.
I saw the video on Youtube and thought it is a good exercise for handling pencils. First time I got the blending of Acrylic colors to my liking. It was well explained how to do it. So I was happy :)
Then I made a sketch of the treegoddess. And got stuck! It is hard to transfer the sketch to the canvas as the canvas surface is kind of, slippery.
So, for the time being I photographed the canvas texture and took it to photoshop for some fun edit.

© NF Photo 190524

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Universe and Transformation of field

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Micro cosmos - Mikrokosmos
In August there will be an exhibition in my town where every local artist can attend with three pieces. The theme is Micro Cosmos. I have created two small pieces so far. The shell is 12x12 cm and the canvas 12x18 cm.
I´m unsure which way to turn it. I created it as the lower one but my daughter sais it shall rotate to the upper one. What do you think? I would like the input.

Below I decided to share how some things evolve when I work

This is a field hole, I think they call it, where my daughter lives.

The same image with a PS filter, Angle strokes

Next step: channel mix1 o gradient map
Liked this one so I decided to try to paint it

So, here it is: the Field hole as painting on canvas. Acrylic 20x30 cm
I was using a roller, pencil and a water spray bottle. I liked the little dots created by the water.
Has very little in common with the original, right?

© NF Photo 190510

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