It has been a bit of an odd week for me. The weather has been all over the place, so I have not had much chance to get out and about with my camera. I have been working on other projects in the meantime and have also managed to fit in some drawing as well. Todays offerings reflect this with a mixture of media. We are supposed to have a decent weekend weather wise so I may be able to get out with the camera again, we shall see

Sunlight And Shadow
This piece developed from a photograph which I had taken earlier in the week. I was playing around with it in photoshop when I hit on a combination of filters and layer blending settings which gave a very painterly look to the image. This is the shadow image on the right. I then decided to see if I could lighten it and pull out some of the details in the image, with the image on the left being my final choice. When put together it looks like a painting of the same place at two different times of day.

Sunlight At Last
On my way to the local shop I spotted these beautiful flowers valiantly growing through a hedge. I am not sure what they are, but I like them so stopped to take a couple of photographs.

Scrabble World
We haven't played much scrabble recently as my youngest daughter has been revising for SATS, but now that exams are out of the way the scrabble board has come back out. As is usual for me I doodled while I kept score. I started out with a piece of paper in my sketchbook which had been randomly printed with a stamp. Everything in the image was a word on the board.

Distorted Perception
As an artist one of the most annoying parts of ME/CFS is visual disturbances. They can take various forms including sparkling lights, dark floating blobs, blurring, interference patterns and colour changes. It is usually difficult if not impossible for me to draw or work when I get them and this was annoying me. I decided to try and depict one of the ways in which it affects me to show other people, especially doctors who generally don't 'get it'. I started this with a section from an experiment with watercolour and ink which I scanned into photoshop before starting to manipulate it. I get this sort of weird visual effect if I am having a 'bad eye day' and I get dizzy as well