450 Salem Western Avenue

If you've lived or worked or gone to school in the general Boston, North Shore, South Shore, etc. area, you're well-acquainted with the fabled public trans system, usually referred to as MBTA (pronounced as an actual 3-syllable word) in everyday parlance; the extensive MBTA network includes light rail, subway, buses and boats. The MBTA's current Route 450, West Lynn via Western, runs from Salem's Commuter Rail Station to Haymarket--same basic route as when I lived in the illustrious city of Salem on Boston's North Shore. In those days I always took the MBTA 450 whenever I was going into downtown Boston for a day or to school at UMass. Check out the link for history and fun facts! For all of those three years, I lived on Federal Street on the top floor of an amazing Federal-style house.

Sprouts - Five

Here's the last group of the groups, familiar to anyone who's seen my Earth Day Stamps:

Flowers 01 - 02 - 03

On all these color interaction images I'm blogging I used crosshatch and sprayed strokes Photoshop filters; on several that were very dark, I adjusted brightness and contrast. As usual, some that were pleasing on the Mac display are too dark on a typical PC. ...comments from July 2007.

trees: 01, 02 and 03

I did a couple other trees and maybe a few other others that I decided not to scan; the ones I scanned and Photoshopped were plenty enough to convey the general idea.

sky_01 and sky_02

sea_02 and sea_01

Here's another of the seven different drawings I made to demonstrate Color Interaction (the course basically was based on Johanness Itten's color theory); be assured, I have some interesting future plans for at least portions of some of these sketches!

Celebrate!

While I was taking a color theory course called "Color Interaction" a way long time ago, I drew a series of graphics to illustrate the theories we were studying. Now I've scanned and minimally Photoshopped the representational images I did for each one in different interactive color palettes (I also scanned and saved out each color strip, most of which included more colors than the image); I drew a total of seven pics--last week I blogged Houses - 5!; for today, here's a pair of celebratory balloon fantasies:



—please note I made the post time read 7/7/07 @ 7:07...