I’ve been traveling a lot the last few days and I’ve made some pictures on the way that I’ve hoped to be able to use as contraptions. One of them was obviously of my coffee cup and the train window, but it made me think what else could be visible outside. I’ve pondered a space journey, but this came out best. I’ve tried to manipulate the shadows on the cup and the table to reflect the new vista.

Combining what I’ve already learned with a new tutorial on the splatters and some advanced layerstacking, I’ve come up with this little diddle here. I like the wild quality it has, the chaos if you will.

Originally I think 101 stands for year 1, class 1, basically meaning starting at the basics. That’s what I did today when I tried out the 3d options that Photoshop offers. I’m not entirely happy with it yet. there is a “plane” behind the 3d objects that i think is the original outline of the letter. Also, the I is too deep when compared to the other letters. But for now this will do.

A couple of days ago I used a picture of a flower I made in Roos Wijnen her garden last summer. It inspired me to do a bit more with it, but I also wanted to keep the original as a comparison for how much it changed. Using a layer mask with agradient, smart objects and the raw camera filter i think I managed to get quite a nice result.

Yesterday someone commented that i should do something with Dr Who in it. Now I happened to have this Sonic Spork lying around (as apposed to his Sonic Screwdriver), which i decided to have some fun with. So I’ll leave you with this question, what would be the better digging device?