SUNDAY SYNERGY

I loved this Sunday Play Date. Never mind I've been playing all weekend with John Mora's rendition of my photo of egret at the marsh

I converted his cave painting into a colorful fabric quilt by using a simple hue/saturation adjustment layer and cranking the colors up loud

When I play with John's imagery I like to make one mandala simply from his patternings, which lend themselves so well to my own geometric reinterpretations. Bird head becomes bird he.art. This could be a very fancy kind of embroidered badge. Girl Scouts would be envious. Ha!

Bird Love - (Circles of Fun series) - Mora/O'Kieffe 2008


Exploring more of John's quilting revealed a sort of stained glass abstraction

Bird Under Glass - (Circles of Fun series) - O'Kieffe/Mora 2008


But when I overlayed the image above with a mandala created from a wild purple aster...voila!


Sunburst Mandala - Circles of Fun series - Sue/John playdate fun 2008

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A question was raised about taking art from my blog for the purpose of collaboration. The art that I make in cahoots with John Mora is available for your own interpretation. The rest is not. Please and thank you. The Management.

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On another note, I really do intend to offer up more Photoshop tutorials in the near future. What would you like me to write about?

PLAYTIME

Surely You Jest Mandala - (Healing in Circles series) - © 2006 Sue O'Kieffe

I don't know about you, but I have been thinking wayyyyy too much about too many serious things to the point where I think my head might just explode and all I really want to do is swing on the swings and eat cotton candy and watch the clouds go by and roll down the hills and who cares if I get grass stains on my white bermuda shorts? It's playtime!

So my friend SusieSoo and I want to pull you up out of your computer chairs and push you out the door and invite you to feel the sun on your face and let's go fly kites. Last one in the pool is a rotten egg!

Creative playing

CRYSTAL PORTAL MANDALA
© Sue O'Kieffe 2007

Creating this mandala was all about playtime. What inspired me was thinking about messages and language and the history that crystals hold within them about the earth. If crystals have stories to share with us, how would they look visually/graphically? Could we step through this portal to find the answer? I see the markings along the rim as encrypted messages, perhaps an invitation. What does it say to you?

I used an Arkansas crytal point as the source image for this mandala.