Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

In an earlier post, I showed you some of the photos I took in a local florist’s garden area.  Since I was making a quilt with this as my inspiration source, my dilemma was editing the imagery down to something useful, but still visually pleasing.  I decided to use a compilation of images, and began to work in my computer, creating a composite image.

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I started with an arrangement of all my favorite things:

Hmm.  No.  That was just too busy.

Version #2:

That was better.  I liked the over sized bottles and their transparency, but wondered how difficult it would be to achieve.

Version #3:

Not bad.  In this version, I kicked up the hot pink bougainvillea (flowers) quite a bit.  This is about how they’d look at their peak, and one of my favorite parts of this small garden.

I decided to go with this version.  And, since this is a collaboration with a painter, I thought depicting it with stitching and paint would be appropriate.   Definitely new territory for me, and I had some hesitancy about it.  But, I thought it was worth a shot.

In future posts I’ll show you my progress.

Ellen Lindner