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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 4, 2011 8:51:26 GMT -6
This picture was an attempt to combine two things I think can be beautiful - an arrangement of flowers and fireworks - I tried to draw flowers in a way that would be like fireworks, hence the title.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 4, 2011 20:24:21 GMT -6
Awesome, Tim! Here's a companion haiku for you:
nature's fireworks explode in summer sun lifting spirits
Brigid
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 2:42:21 GMT -6
Not only do I like it, but while I tend to go for longer forms of poetry, in this case I think you have choosen exactly the right form to respond to the picture in - there is something zen about flowers forming a firework display ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 5, 2011 13:36:44 GMT -6
You're so right, Tim. Without nature we'd just be a bunch of automatons stuck in our own heads. However, I'd be willing to bet that you could write a nice rhyming poem on the subject of these beautiful flowers. Dare I say, I challenge you to do so?
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 18:23:19 GMT -6
Let me see - I tend to let the poem come to me rather than me going to the poem so I'll have to see if I find a poem for this. ;D
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 6, 2011 1:02:52 GMT -6
When poetry seeks me, the rhythm and rhyme comes to me unfolding as I write but when I seek the poem, it is a much harder road because it is beng forced rather than flowing naturally, but I have done my best.
In colour bright And subtle hue Hidden at night Now touched with dew Explode with light Are born anew
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 6, 2011 20:41:11 GMT -6
Awesome, Tim! I knew you could do it!
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 7, 2011 1:49:02 GMT -6
sometimes, but in general I fear I am not likely to do it - I write what comes to me and usually don't write if I have to force it. Now if I see a picture and something pops into my head then I'll write, but only then. This one was a favour to you because you have been so nice as to set this site up.
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Post by Callisse J. DeTerre on Mar 26, 2011 19:34:33 GMT -6
This has more the texture of an oil painting than the water color effect of some of your other pics I've seen so far. What software do you use? Does it have a built-in feature to create that effect or do you create the texture pixel by pixel?
Re: your poem - I understand what you mean about letting a poem come to you, but I have found that prompting myself to write, challenging myself in that way, ultimately has improved my ability to refine all of my writing. Also, even the "forced" poetry sometimes re-emerges later reworked by inspiration or in bits and pieces from the compendium of my experiences into a poem spilled forth "naturally".
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 27, 2011 12:19:50 GMT -6
I use Photshop version 4 I have tried later versions of the program but find I do not like them so I stick with the very early version. It has a lot of tools for texturing although I seldom use any one tool but rather I combine many tool to get just the effect I want and of course there is also the exact way I choose to draw it in the first place that effects the look - kind of hard to put it into words since it is a complex process wit many steps.
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