Texture Tuesday ~ Vintage

This week at KimKlassenCafe, the theme was "Vintage." I first thought of taking a shot of my Dad's old Underwood typewriter (which I believe originally belonged to my grandfather), but then I remembered taking these detail shots of a gorgeous old Chevrolet outside my mother-in-law's home a few years ago. My dream car is a 1957 Chevy convertible in this vivid shade of turquoise, so imagine my delight when I spotted this baby!

All of these images use the following textures and blending modes:


Yesteryear - overlay blending mode @ 67%
Yesteryear - multiply blending mode @ 73%
KK Trust - multiply blending mode @ 14%
Chamomile - multiply blending mode @ 14%


All textures by Kim Klassen and can be found at www.kimklassencafe.com


~klb

Amelia Ann

Some recent photos of my adorable granddaughter!

Easter 2011

Alaska Zoo, Mother's Day 2011

Mother's Day 2011, 20 months old

~ klb

Boomer

This handsome cat is a resident pet at the Chugiak Senior Center in Chugiak, Alaska.  I was a volunteer there for about four years, co-hosting a paper-crafting class for a group of seniors and disabled adults. Boomer is a bright orange tabby with piercing eyes the color of green grapes. I cropped the photo, changed it to B&W and used four textures, including "Love" and "Warm Sun" by Kim Klassen.

~ klb

Texture Tuesday Photo

Here is my entry for this week -- a budding lilac bush in our yard. I used two textures by Kim Klassen: "Love" (multiply blending mode @ 73%) and "Warm Sun" (soft light blending mode @ 65%).

~ klb

Mother's Day

Had an absolutely wonderful day with my three youngest kids, their spouses and children, both sets of in-laws and dear friends who are as close as family... We went to the Alaska Zoo, had lunch at IHOP and went through the Alaska Big Game Park out near Portage Glacier.  A long and blessed day :)  I took close to 400 photos and a few video clips, but am waaay too tired to process them tonight!


Here's one of my favorites, though -- a lovely bouquet of flowers from my daughter Jenni's dear girlfriend, Cinnamon. All I did to this was crop a little, brighten it up some, added a little diffuse glow (filter) and clip it to a photo mask (which I made from a couple digital brushes).


TFL ~ klb

New Textured Photos

All three of these use Kim Klassen's "Love" and "Sweet Treat" textures - along with a couple other textures from Flickr contributors. I made the clipping masks using a variety of digital brushes.

~ klb

Texture Tuesday Photo

Okay, I'm a few days late, but hope you all like my submission :)  About a month ago, when we still had quite a bit of snow and temps below freezing, I spotted these cute little buggers growing along the top of the fence that separates our condo building from the one next door. It's hard to tell from this photo, but they are extremely tiny - the round white spots are actually regular-sized nail heads - and the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw them was... "Shrek Ears!"

Credits:
I used a variety of textures, but the two of Kim Klassen's that I used were "Sweet Treat" and "Silence." Both were "soft light" blending mode at 100%. The clipping mask/frame is one I made using a few digital brushes. Fonts are "Beyond Wonderland" (Shrek Ears!) and "CK Footnote" (date).


~ klb

Texture Tuesday Challenge ~ April 19, 2011

I'm a member of this really fun and creative site called Kim Klassen Cafe'. Kim is an amazing artist, specializing in creating and using digital textures for photos. She has classes, tutorials, designer texture sets one can purchase and even has free textures for those who subscribe to her "Texture Lovin' List." Each Tuesday, Kim has a challenge using one or more of her textures. Today, we are to use two of her textures on one of our photos and share the link on her site so all can visit and applaud our efforts!


Here is my photo for this week's challenge --

I used Kim's "Slience" texture - multiply blending mode @ 100% opacity and "Sweettreat" texture - multiply blending mode @ 70%. I used the "High Pass" filter to sharpen the branch and ice drop a bit and lightened up the background a bit, as well (Kim shared a tutorial today explaining how to do these steps). Clipping mask was made from corner brushes ("brushes_by_Affaleen") and border brushes (designer unknown). Fonts are CAC Shishoni Brush and Century Gothic.

Here's the original - SoC - image --

~ klb

Newest Textured Photos

"Bed on a Workday Morning"
Textures: Kim Klassen - "Warm Texture" & Jerry Jones/Skeletal Mess
Brushes: brushes_by_kaffaleen
Fonts: Arabian Typesetting, Mistral, Century Gothic

"Spring Blooms in my Kitchen"
Textures: Kim Klassen - "Sweettreat" & "Chamomile"
Brushes: brushes-by-kaffaleen; border brushes unknown

Textured Photos

My current digital interest is adding textures to my photos. Some of these images are duplicated, but if you look closely, you'll see they are not identical, due to the variety of textures and blending modes used. It is my hope that I might find a market for this type of artistic style and bring in a little income while sharing the beauty and majesty of GOD's creation.

The Neptune ~ Prince William Sound

The Neptune in sepia

Prince William Sound

WWII Bunker, Whittier AK

Outside Alamosa Colorado

Mt. Rushmore

Tree in D.C. ~ taken by my daughter, Jenni

Another D.C. tree taken by daughter, Jenni

3rd and Final D.C. tree

Moose in my backyard 

Alaska Botanical Garden

Alaska Botanical Garden

Wooden Bridge, South Dakota

Life is a Highway ~ South Dakota

South Dakota

Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm

South Dakota

Tatonka ~ The Badlands

Beauty in the Badlands

Seward Hwy, Southcentral AK

The Big Island of Hawai'i