McDonaldtown Graffiti Two

More Graffiti from McDonaldtown.

An Color Edit Example

Color Editing Mosaics.

I'll like you to help with a comparision.

The first image just had one simple crop and tidy up of edges.

The Second I did color and tone edits on to try to be back to how I suspect the original mosaic looked before weathering and erosion etc .


Is there a difference or not?

Here's the first version.

and now the second with more edits!

What do you think?

Next time I'll be discussing the use of mosaic filters in Gimp and how I edited letter shapes to get forms that would work the best with that filter.

Oh and yes I did tweak both the reds and blues for this using the Color Tool to deepen shadows and strengthen highlights and mid tones I HOPE ???

Last Julys Patreon Rewards

These rewards from last year will be deleted or moved to my DeviantArt soon. 

Last chance to get them !  All of these were made with Gimp.

A screensaver pattern 4 - 3 ratio 

Another screensaver pattern inspired by aerial photography 

One of my better attempts at using Gimp for digital painting 

Crafted on a laptop fingers on a touch pad and filters and textured airbrush and supernova 

A July Medley

A July Medley of Weirdness created in previous years in July. Please note most of these are copyright and have appeared on RedBubble or DeviantArt or my Patreon.

copyright J. Vaux 2020

I was in a strange mood.

Copyright Julie Vaux 2020

Philosophy Ethics Politics and Inkscape.

Combining shapes and Filters 

Copyright Julie Vaux 2020

Copyright Julie Vaux 2020

Another Inkscape Experiment with combining shapes

Three Objects Aligned into one 

I and J

Its July so I'm going thru my files looking for things with a J theme. You may be aware that the letter J developed from the  I letterform. Here's a comparision of the letterforms to illustrate this. 

Gold on Inksticks and Writing Boxes

These are Inksticks but probably for collecting not usage? Gold is used for writing decoration and on writing tools and equipment. There are Japanese companies that specialize in gold maki-e foundation pens but also shops selling more traditional objects like these.

A writing box Note the interior is decorated too!

A plainer writing box for contrast. 

None of the boxes I store nibs and pens in are alas anywhere this beautiful. 

They're more likely to be old tin biscuit cases

Gold Writings beyond Europe

Here's some examples of gold used for writing outside Europe.

A Tibetan manuscript. 

Islamic use of gold 

Japanese copy of the Lotus Sutra