Friday, August 23, 2013

Focus on Life: Week 34 ~ Add something

Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime is hosting a year long challenge which is... sublime... as you'd expect with such a studio name. The challenge is named 'Focusing on Life' and every week Sally is sending a prompt on what should we focus the following week.

This week we are to take a picture and... 'add something' to it. As in - explore our editing applications and play with them :)

Play I can do any day! What picture to choose now?!

That wasn't very hard - this week I've discovered the 'Music in the park' series at Royal Botanical Garden... yes, almost at the end of the summer... but it's better late than never, isn't it? The music is on Wednesdays evenings and it is jazz / blues.

What can be better than listening to music while admiring the blooming gardens, royally attended and cared for? It's listening to music in a fragrant park (the roses are still in bloom) while going through an exhibition! Every year it seems our RBG hosts the Zumbasculpt, an exhibition of Zimbabwe traditional sculpture: mostly cut in soapstone, in incredible Brancusi-like curves.

Focus on life: week 34 ~ Zimbasculpt @ Royal Botanical Gardens :: All Pretty Things
Photo attributed to William :)
 Since I'd love to learn to draw properly I thought this 'add-on' will work best: sketch (from Picasa).

Focus on life: week 34 ~ Zimbasculpt @ Royal Botanical Gardens :: All Pretty Things

Thank you for visiting, I hope you could imagine the lush vegetation and the soft sounds of jazz while we walked through the exhibition.

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P.S. If you'd like to know why I said the sculptures are Brancusi-like, please come back next week, I will post more pictures of the sculptures and you'll understand better :)

15 comments:

  1. Love the sculpture and the :Music in the Park' series sounds wonderful.

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  2. Those are neat sculptures that you captured Alicia. I like the pencil that you applied.

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  3. That sculpture is amazing. And your sketch treatment really complements the angular lines. Great post!

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  4. THat echanecia is gorgeous... mine isn't blooming yet but I only have one flower as the deer ate it! I think they look great as a pencil drawing too!

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  5. I love the sculpture and I think it's a perfect shot to practice drawing from!

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  6. Beautiful shot! Now that you have reduced it to a "sketch" try really sketching it! This is a great start!

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  7. A fellow Picasa sketcher - love both images :)
    Have a great week!

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  8. I love editing in Picasa and your effect using the sketch is wonderful! Looks like a lovely garden to visit.

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  9. I'm sure that was a marvelous way to spend a day.

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  10. Wow - this is so cool. The sculpture itself is great and your Picassa sketch is super! I'd love going to those gardens too, especially if the music they played was jazz/blues!

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  11. What a great sculpture!!!! And I love the sketch effect as well!!! I love visiting gardens but the rest of my family is not so enthused as I am.

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  12. That worked perfectly. What a wonderful sculpture and garden. I'd love to take a walk there.

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  13. I love the "pencil drawing" effect. Great. The original is pretty wonderful as well.

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  14. That is a perfect effect for your photo, what a lovely place to spend an evening!!!

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