While trying to re-create the background image from my Cherita post, long story, I ended up creating a new piece. It started with flipping the background image vertically and horizontally, changing the blend mode to “negation” and lowering the opacity to 90%. I liked the tropical look it was taking on.
As I played around with the parrot tulip photo with different kaleidoscope settings, I would use the shape tool in Affinity Photo to get different parts of multiple kaleidoscope pieces to use in this artwork. Once I was finished with the background, I set out to create a 3D girl in Daz Studio to use as the subject. The haiku came to me after I put her in the scene.
California girl
likes to surf in Malibu
a stereotype
About the digital mixed media artwork. It was created in Affinity Photo with kaleidoscope pieces and mirroring to get this look. I re-prosessed the parrot tulip image then played around with different kaleidoscope settings. When I saw a design I liked, I used the element in the image.
- Photo of a parrot tulip flower (that I used in the Cherita post) flipped vertically and horizontally
- Text brush that I created and stamped several times in different areas of the image
- Diamond kaleidoscope shape
- Re-processed image rotated and put on left and right hand sides
- Circular kaleidoscope pieces tucked into upper left and lower right corners
- Triangular kaleidoscope pieces moved over part of middle diamond
- Orange kaleidoscope pieces
- Kaleidoscope flowers
- Kaleidoscope “surfboard”
- Shar, my newest 3D character
- Background overlay
- Beveled border (not shown)
Imaginarium Fantastical 