Sacred Circle Mandalas: synergy

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

MORA .SUE OKIEFFE

Ever since I began making digital art I have wanted to collaborate with another digital artist and my wish came true this past week. If you have never seen John Mora's most intriguing art which I am still not sure how he creates (and leaves me tilting my head this way and that when I look at it), I hope you will skee.daddle on over and be awed for yourself. Anyway, John has said feel free to borrow and so I did. I was really attracted to the colors of this image