Guest Artist: Lisa Pavelka Wednesday, Feb 27 2008

Lisa Pavelka is an artist specializing in polymer clay and mixed media art. I found her website while doing some research on the name “Heart in Hand Studio” which, as it turns out, is the name of her business. Although she doesn’t work exclusively with a heart theme, I did find this beautiful heart art in her collage gallery. Check her website for more examples of intricate and unusual polymer clay art pieces.

Copyright Lisa Pavelka

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Guest Artist::Karen Michel Friday, Feb 1 2008

“Spread the Love” by Karen Michel

Karen Michel is an artist I highly admire who is working with a heart theme. Her work is featured on the cover of January/February 2008 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, and she is the author of an instructional altered art book called “The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery“. I was delighted to find that she has a gallery on Flickr. I’m equally delighted that she has allowed me to share her art here.

My own recent inchies set was influenced by Karen’s heart collages. I didn’t discover her, though, until after I started this blog a year ago and I’m always amazed when I find other people working on the same wavelength that I am.

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heArt #103 Nine Patch HeArt Quilt Remix Saturday, Jan 5 2008

Fellow Iowan “non-runner Nancy” has a blog about training for marathons when you’re not really a runner. She discovered heArt-a-Day and asked if she could use the “Nine Patch heArt Quilt” for a logo for a virtual race she’s organizing. I’ve never been much of a runner so I was happy to oblige. Besides, us Iowans have to stick together. If you feel like running nine miles on the ninth of February, pop on over to Nancy’s blog and post your time. Don’t be shy, she’s very nice. In fact, I would say she has a lot of heart.

In honor of the “sweetheart shuffle”, as Nancy is calling it, I’ve remixed the original piece of heart art for yet another variation using a gradient background fill and the posterize filter in Photoshop. I think I might like it better than the original. The colors remind me of the Haitian voodoo art by Edouard Duval-Carrie who I’m a fan of.

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heArt #100 Heart Agate Wednesday, Dec 26 2007

 

I was experimenting around with Photoshop today, trying new things. My inspiration came from the January 2008 issue of American Quilter magazine. In it are two different articles about creating fabric digitally (awesome!).

Using the instructions in the article Digital Delights: “Applique and Piecing” by Computer (by Gudny Campbell and Sandra Hart * ) I started with this iris photo I had in my files. The color is a little off for a straight flower photo, so it’s perfect for altering.

Then I applied the Photoshop Motion Blur filter (horizontal) which made a gorgeous gradation right away. I was pretty surprised how well it turned out. To that I added the Ripple filter and ended up with the nice background below:

To get the final heart image I got into the Liquify filter, which was really like finger painting with a more sophisticated palette. Using the Forward Warp Tool I just drew the heart outline with my stylus and then kept working with the colors until it was obviously a heart. It’s amazing how much you can fine tune where the “paint” goes, even though the colors are a bit slippery, like oil on water. I think the end result has organic striations of color like you find in an agate.

* For examples of Gudny Campbell and Sandy Hart’s work, see their Art Quilt website.

 

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heArt #94 Altered Happy Holidays Friday, Dec 7 2007

For this I took the photograph of my heart ornament and altered it in Photoshop using gradients. I’m really happy with the way some of the gradients look. I sense variations on a theme to come from that. This was supposed to be an entry for a digital holiday card contest, but I misread the dimensions. Back to the graphic tablet.

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heArt #93 Altered heArt Ornament Tuesday, Dec 4 2007

This is my entry in this week’s Creativity Contest at The Artella Cafe. If you want to vote for me (which I’d love if you would!), VOTE HERE. After voting you may download a sheet of digital collage images of silver milagros and charms as seen below.

My ornament is about 2 x 2 inches made from wood, paper, foil, and glitter, wrapped in colored copper wire.

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heArt #88 Turkey Love Thursday, Nov 22 2007

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I originally drew this for my Canadian boyfriend for his Thanksgiving in October. I reworked it a bit to put here. Painted in Photoshop with a Wacom Graphire4 and then digitally manipulated to give it that pseudo batik effect.

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heArt #84 Picasso Dreams Wednesday, Nov 14 2007

As I’ve said before, I never know where things are going when I start to do a piece of art. The only idea I had for this was “guitar”. At the end I could see a vague sort of Picasso influence. I don’t study other artists, but I know what I like, and Picasso strikes a chord for me. lol This is also influenced by the artists I’ve been curating on my StumbleUpon blog, as well as “Val’s Art Diary” on YouTube.

Digitally painted in Photoshop as a larger image originally, then cropped and altered with the “posterize” filter.

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heArt #72 Erzulie Freda Portrait Tuesday, Oct 23 2007

Painted in Photoshop, then altered with the “neon glow” filter. Not my usual thing, but I kind of like how funky it turned out with that filter. This was done intuitively, so I had nothing in mind when I started. Just feels like Erzulie Freda to me now that it’s done. She’s a voodoo spirit, so she’s not meant to look exactly human.

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heArt #71 Heart Interlock Monday, Oct 22 2007

Digitally painted, then altered with filters in Photoshop.

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