Just for fun I thought I’d show you some images of a digital art piece I recently created. I think it’s fun to see the different stages from beginning to end! This was another small piece I made on my smart phone, I keep flipping back & forth between calling them kaleidoscopes and mandalas, I guess they could be either. Or both! Here is the beginning of the process:
I decided I wasn’t fond of it with a black background so I changed that to white and kept going, adding a thick layer of black design on the top:
It continued along with these steps:
I let the program choose some of the colors (although I could delete any I didn’t care for) until the end, when I decided which ones to use. Once I was done with it in the phone I sent it to Photoshop where I continued to play:
Sometimes I question if I’ve done too much, I rather like it back at image #3! A few final tweeks and this is where I stopped:
Which reminds me of these quotes:
A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places. (Paul Gardner)
Art is never finished, only abandoned. (Leonardo da Vinci)
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