From gumnuts to abstraction

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From two photos, one layered over the other, I took of gumnuts, sticks and leaves found in nearby Myers Street, I messed about until I made some more kind of abstract pictures. (Anything to get out of housework eh!) I have previously posted some pictures made from these photos.

Gumnuts and transparent pictures

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From three scans of collected leaves and gumnuts I experimented with transparency. We intended to drive to the Celtic Festival at Portarlington today (it's Queen's Birthday holiday though that's not much to do with Australia really)but it started to rain so it's become a lazy day for me, just pottering around, though Peceli did fix the grass cutter and tidy up outside.

A quilt design of gumnuts and peppercorn leaves

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I put together some of the pictures based on photos I took in the street where we live - gumnuts from a tree, peppercorn leaves from a huddle of trees near the flats up the street. (And Peceli's pumpkin leaves and tips before the extraordinary 48 degrees centigrade on that Black Saturday got to them.) The technique of combining pictures that have been manipulated and put together in a mosaic using Picasa would be an easy way to make a design for a quilt - that's well before all the real hard work. Now wouldn't Picasso have a great time with modern technology!