About the Image(s)

Something silly this month. I was sitting in a waiting room staring at a cubist painting and decided to try my hand at it. I needed to figure out a way to incorporate photos into the project for DD of course, so I thought maybe shooting different textures and geometric shapes I come across on my morning walks would give me something to work with. I started with the tan texture as a background for the face and then just placed other photos on separate layers over it. I thought it was going to be easy to recreate the cubist look, but it took a lot of trial and error. After I had the textures/shapes placed, I drew the characteristic black lines with a hard brush tool and the pen tool. The pen tool can be really frustrating! After I had the black lines done, I added the canvas texture so it would look more like a piece of “art.” Original 2 was the result of processing the final PS file in iColorama on my ipad, and I kind of liked the lines being more sketchy, but the textures aren’t as recognizable. Which do you like better? It ended up being a pretty corny result, but I had fun doing it. Picasso I am not.