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Already Day 20 and 80 more to Valentine’s!
Week 37 since the Covid shut down has begun.
Hearts come in all sorts of shapes. Today’s is more elongated.
Originally a watercolor, I probably over-did the application of filters on this one.
There is a time to let a heart be a heart.
Stop trying and just let it be.
A small heart stone lies within a flower of life mandala. I remember learning about this sacred geometry symbol and being told to look at it often.
Welcome to Day 19 of my One Hundred Hearts Project. These last three days I’ve been creating hearts using photography to capture a feeling rather than paintings — both methods I then edit with Photoshop to add interest.
Today’s heart reminded me how much fun it is to compose by placing objects on a scanner. It’s the closest I can get right now to making photograms – which are created in the darkroom by placing objects on photo sensitive paper that are then flashed with light under the enlarger. The outcome is a mystery until it is taken through the photo chemical process.
Day 19 Heart was completed in Photoshop using the solarization filter.
Getting back to my love of photograms and scanograms this process takes me out of my head to a space that’s timeless.
I placed these items on the scanner bed, arranged them, then scanned them.
Then I played with it in PhotoShop.
This process reminds me how well I can do when I don’t think too much and instead act on intuition.
Day 18 is an intuitive heart, I call “Heart Emerging.”
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” – Florence Scovel Shinn
At the end of the gathering the host asked each of us to share one tip about something we’ve discovered.
One person demonstrated the Aeolian Harp App on his iPhone.
As soon as I got home I bought the app for $1.99.
Now a decade later, Aeolian Harp is still available, and getting favorable reviews!
From their website:
“Make music while you draw. It was developed by Uwe Oestermeier available for iPhone or iPad.
User defined parameter and color schemes can be used to explore the manifoldness of the underlying particle system.
The compass can be used to locate the following instruments in the four directions of the winds: Balalaika, Celtic Harp, Guitar, Gamelan, Guzheng, Kalimba, Koto, Marimba, Orchestral Harp, and Sitar. Each of these instruments can be assigned to a compass direction with a double tap on a cardinal point.”
Fill your heart with your own art and music.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aeolian-harp/id374133120
Day 17’s Heart is created with Aeolian Harp plus some Photoshop editing.