Experiences with Canva and Lunapic

In my last post I showed you the green beetle which I had painted with acrylicinks. I had saved it in png format and tried to delete the background in gimp, but as Gimp does not have the magic eraser it is quite difficult and time consuming to do it with it.

I uploaded the file to Canva - unfortunately only Canva Pro has the "remove background" filter, and I use the free version. But there is Youtube - and actually I found a very useful tip: There is an online image editing software which removes the background with one click - You can find it on lunapic.com. 

So I removed the background there, downloaded the file and uploaded it again to Canva and copied the beetle and rearranged the two images till I was satisfied with the result. 

Green Beetle

Just now art adventure for me means mixing adventure. I love to use acrylic inks, but mixing acrylic inks is far more difficult than mixing paints out of the tube. They tend to "run away" and behave rather uncontrollable. Here I tried to mix a green acrylic ink with Payne's Grey out of the tube. You can see that I managed to create quite a range of greens, but I must admit that it wasn't always the kind of green hue I wanted to create...

The rocky Hills of the Provence

This is a photo taken as a diapositive in the 80s during a vacation in the South of France. During all the days we spent there the sun was mercilessly shining from a blue sky. It was very hot, but it was a dry heat, so it was bearable. I like the composition of this photo - the road leading to that big rocky hill, and so I had it digitalized a few weeks ago. 

Colours, colours, colours!

What I dislike most about winter is the absence of colours. Everything is grey, black or brown. That's why I am so looking forward to spring with all its fresh greens, yellows, oranges and blues. In the meantime I help myself with my paintngs which I try to create as colourful as possible. I used acrylic inks again which I love for their intensitiy of colour.

Working digital and traditional

With the open source software "Inkscape" you can very easily create geometric shapes, for example stars, as in this painting and then use them as line drawings. I like coloring those shapes - because I can focus on colour combinations and colour mixing. This painting was done again with acrylic inks.

The painted Pillow

It looks like a pillow - but it is only a painted pillow. I had a colouring page with some round shapes downloaded from the web, and in the process of coloring the painting transformed itself in a magical way. Things like that have happened quite often to me during the last weeks - I had fun with taking a coloring page and transforming it into something quite different.

The painting was done with Gouache paints on a mixed media paper.