< flower >

[rayheinrich]

       

                                      < flower >

                                in my dream there's a sidewalk
                                a long stretch of sidewalk
                                a sidewalk quite straight
                                and quite hot in the sun
                                there's a sky with this sun
                                and some clouds in this sky
                                and a tree on my left
                                with its branches and leaves
                                and a house and a yard
                                with its grass busy growing
                                and flowers and flowers
                                all bright and all flowing
                                and flowers and flowers
                                and flowers and you
                               
                                        - - -



"Free-Ranging Allowed, Creative Responses Encouraged" (i.e. It's OK to go off-topic. In this thread)

Image: "sun/flower" - crayon on white poster board, scanned and color averaged

I'll see your deep mania and raise you.

[Brownlie]

       

                                      < flower >

                                in my dream there's a sidewalk
                                a long stretch of sidewalk
                                a sidewalk quite straight
                                and quite hot in the sun
                                there's a sky with this sun
                                and some clouds in this sky
                                and a tree on my left
                                with its branches and leaves
                                and a house and a yard
                                with its grass busy growing
                                and flowers and flowers
                                all bright and all blooming
                                and flowers and flowers
                                and flowers and you
                               
                                        - - -




Image: "sun/flower" - crayon on cardboard, scanned and color averaged

I'll see your deep mania and raise you.

Sun is a laden word

[rayheinrich]

Sun is a laden word

As well it should be:

Mass: 1.98892 x 10^30 kg
Diameter: 1,391,000 km
Radius: 695,500 km
Surface gravity: 27.94 g
Volume: 1.412 x 10^18 km3
Density: 1.622 x 10^5 kg/m3

[justcloudy]

Reads to me like small town America in the summer. Picturesque and lovely. Thanks for sharing!

[ChristopherSea]

Ray, The sunflower looks like it was rendered in watercolor more than crayon. It must be the color averaging. The visual and witten media pair well!

I don't know how you post the different media together. I have tried to post one of my paintings with a poem, but I fail to understand the mechanics of doing it on this site. I'm not very computer savy./Chris

[rayheinrich]

Reads to me like small town America in the summer. Picturesque and lovely. Thanks for sharing!

I wrote this poem a long time ago for a dear love of mine.
I came across it recently and decided to make an image for it.
Considering the circumstances, and that this poem reads a bit
like a "Dick and Jane" reading primer, I decided to use kid's
crayons and white poster board. Not satisfied, I scanned it
and mapped the colors to a more limited palette. There's another
of my images on PigPen that's derived using a similar process:
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=12785

And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque).

Ray, The sunflower looks like it was rendered in watercolor more than crayon. It must be the color averaging. The visual and written media pair well!

Yes, it was the color averaging (actually mapping), see above.

I don't know how you post the different media together. I have tried to post one of my paintings with a poem, but I fail to understand the mechanics of doing it on this site. I'm not very computer savvy./Chris

If you have the picture's web location (URL), you just put a square bracketed
'img' on the front and a '/img' on the end. Here's what I typed to get
the above image of Baytown (my industrially themed home town and the home
of North America's largest petroleum refinery the edge of which sits about six
blocks from the house):

Code:

[font=Courier]
And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque):
[/font]
[img]http://wordbiscuit.com/images/baytown072.jpg[/img]

[ChristopherSea]

Reads to me like small town America in the summer. Picturesque and lovely. Thanks for sharing!

I wrote this poem a long time ago for a dear love of mine.
I came across it recently and decided to make an image for it.
Considering the circumstances, and that this poem reads a bit
like a "Dick and Jane" reading primer, I decided to use kid's
crayons and white poster board. Not satisfied, I scanned it
and mapped the colors to a more limited palette. There's another
of my images on PigPen that's derived using a similar process:
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=12785

And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque).

Ray, The sunflower looks like it was rendered in watercolor more than crayon. It must be the color averaging. The visual and written media pair well!

Yes, it was the color averaging (actually mapping), see above.

I don't know how you post the different media together. I have tried to post one of my paintings with a poem, but I fail to understand the mechanics of doing it on this site. I'm not very computer savvy./Chris

If you have the picture's web location (URL), you just put a square bracketed
'img' on the front and a '/img' on the end. Here's what I typed to get
the above image of Baytown (my industrially themed home town and the home
of North America's largest petroleum refinery the edge of which sits about six
blocks from the house):

Code:

[font=Courier]
And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque):
[/font]
[img]http://wordbiscuit.com/images/baytown072.jpg[/img]

Thanks for the instructions. I see my problem. My paintings are all jpegs in a folder on my desktop. They aren't posted on the Web or have a URL. I suppose that I could put them on FaceBook and retrieve them from there.

[rayheinrich]

Thanks for the instructions. I see my problem. My paintings are all jpegs in a folder on my desktop. They aren't posted on the Web or have a URL. I suppose that I could put them on FaceBook and retrieve them from there.

Oops, right, your image has to be on a website so it will
have an address (URL) you can paste into your PigPen poem,
reply, etc.

Facebook doesn't work on PigPen for me (maybe it does for someone else?)
Longer Comment:

If you right-click on a photo from YOUR OWN Facebook album
and click on "Copy Link Location" Facebook will put an
incredibly long link to it in your clipboard.

If you paste this link into your browser's address box it will
show you the photo. BUT, the link doesn't work on a lot of
message boards. PigPen is one of them. Rats.

But there are free photo sites where it does work.
A simple-to-use one that works is called "tinypic.com".

------------------------------------------------------------------
Instructions:
1. Go to their site, click the "Browse" button and use
the window that appears to find and select a .jpg file
from your computer.

2. Click the "Resize" pulldown and select 640x480 or
any of the other sizes. (This DOES NOT affect the one
on your computer, only the one on the website.)

3. Click "UPLOAD".

4. The screen that appears will have a section that's titled
"Grab Your Code". Look for the yellow box that's titled
"IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards". It will look like
this (except the "x57dhc" part will be different):

Code:

[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/x57dhc.jpg[/IMG]

5. Copy it and paste it into the edit box of any PigPen reply,
new post, etc. and your photo should appear when you click
"Preview Post" or "Post Reply".
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


P.S. And yes, tinypic.com has private folders and all that
stuff if you sign up (it's still free). There are quite a
few other sites that do the above and better; I chose
tinypic because it was the simplest.

P.P.S. Would love to see your new watercolor.

[ChristopherSea]

Thanks for the instructions. I see my problem. My paintings are all jpegs in a folder on my desktop. They aren't posted on the Web or have a URL. I suppose that I could put them on FaceBook and retrieve them from there.

Oops, right, your image has to be on a website so it will
have an address (URL) you can paste into your PigPen poem,
reply, etc.

Facebook doesn't work on PigPen for me (maybe it does for someone else?)
Longer Comment:

If you right-click on a photo from YOUR OWN Facebook album
and click on "Copy Link Location" Facebook will put an
incredibly long link to it in your clipboard.

If you paste this link into your browser's address box it will
show you the photo. BUT, the link doesn't work on a lot of
message boards. PigPen is one of them. Rats.

But there are free photo sites where it does work.
A simple-to-use one that works is called "tinypic.com".

------------------------------------------------------------------
Instructions:
1. Go to their site, click the "Browse" button and use
the window that appears to find and select a .jpg file
from your computer.

2. Click the "Resize" pulldown and select 640x480 or
any of the other sizes. (This DOES NOT affect the one
on your computer, only the one on the website.)

3. Click "UPLOAD".

4. The screen that appears will have a section that's titled
"Grab Your Code". Look for the yellow box that's titled
"IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards". It will look like
this (except the "x57dhc" part will be different):

Code:

[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/x57dhc.jpg[/IMG]

5. Copy it and paste it into the edit box of any PigPen reply,
new post, etc. and your photo should appear when you click
"Preview Post" or "Post Reply".
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


P.S. And yes, tinypic.com has private folders and all that
stuff if you sign up (it's still free). There are quite a
few other sites that do the above and better; I chose
tinypic because it was the simplest.

P.P.S. Would love to see your new watercolor.

Thank you so much Ray! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this protocol to a computer illiterate. If I am successful, I will post a new watercolor below./Chris



It worked and it is huge!

[rayheinrich]

Thank you so much Ray! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this protocol to a computer illiterate. If I am successful, I will post a new watercolor below./Chris



It worked and it is huge!

Wow! Composition, line, contrast, color, that bit of magic
abstraction hiding in the shadows; and oh, yeah, beautiful
flowers. I'm twice envious. First the beauty, and second
the execution. I love watercolors, but they are so damn
hard (for me). I have to cheat. I use such vast quantities
of opaque white to cover my mistakes that they end up
looking more like flat oil paintings than luminous watercolors.
Thank the gods for Photoshop!

Any others on the web? Would love to see them.

[ChristopherSea]

Thank you so much Ray! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this protocol to a computer illiterate. If I am successful, I will post a new watercolor below./Chris



It worked and it is huge!

Wow! Composition, line, contrast, color, that bit of magic
abstraction hiding in the shadows; and oh, yeah, beautiful
flowers. I'm twice envious. First the beauty, and second
the execution. I love watercolors, but they are so damn
hard (for me). I have to cheat. I use such vast quantities
of opaque white to cover my mistakes that they end up
looking more like flat oil paintings than luminous watercolors.
Thank the gods for Photoshop!

Any others on the web? Would love to see them.

Thanks, sounds like a description of your free verse! I found the key to working with watercolors is too accept certain mishaps as happy accidents. Therefore, you have to be ready for a self-evolving composition. Also, I don't paint el fresco or speed paint or work too much wet-on-wet. It's all about layers to create texture, depth and detail in color. Allow drying time between washes.

I have other works on FaceBook: Christopher Sea, photos, albums, My Watercolors. Perhaps I'll make a tinypic.com account to store them. Cheers/Chris

[rayheinrich]

... I found the key to working with watercolors is too accept certain mishaps as happy accidents....

and in this life...         how i wish.

I have other works on FaceBook: Christopher Sea, photos, albums, My Watercolors. Perhaps I'll make a tinypic.com account to store them. Cheers/Chris

While 'Midst the Rhododendron' remains my fave, the one that
everybody loves I love as well: 'Moon Shadows'.
Other faves: 'Magic of the forest floor' (reminds me of my
grandpap's collages), 'Yin and Yang' (well, wouldn't you know),
'Tree over Stream' (what incredible detail), 'Cherrie Blossoms'
(of course it's been done a zillion times, but so has love;
and love, whenever it happens, is beautiful), Poppies (lost in
their sways), Peonies (REM sleep channels a clean, clear Asia).
Ha, ha, yeah, I'm SO cute; but that not withstanding, you got
a nice hand.

[ChristopherSea]

... I found the key to working with watercolors is too accept certain mishaps as happy accidents....

and in this life...         how i wish.

I have other works on FaceBook: Christopher Sea, photos, albums, My Watercolors. Perhaps I'll make a tinypic.com account to store them. Cheers/Chris

While 'Midst the Rhododendron' remains my fave, the one that
everybody loves I love as well: 'Moon Shadows'.
Other faves: 'Magic of the forest floor' (reminds me of my
grandpap's collages), 'Yin and Yang' (well, wouldn't you know),
'Tree over Stream' (what incredible detail), 'Cherrie Blossoms'
(of course it's been done a zillion times, but so has love;
and love, whenever it happens, is beautiful), Poppies (lost in
their sways), Peonies (REM sleep channels a clean, clear Asia).
Ha, ha, yeah, I'm SO cute; but that not withstanding, you got
a nice hand.

Much obliged for the portfolio review! I appreciate your kind words on my work.