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Summer Art⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC is this:

Today is Summer, make summer art today

Well, this week Glasgow is back to dreich rainy days, so instead of heading outside with my camera I searched my Flickr archives for a sunny image and chose this one:

189/365 Sunflower
189/365 Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

I downloaded it and cropped it, then headed over to Lunapic to play around with it. Here it is with the heat map filter.

Heat Map Sunflower
Heat Map Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Starry Night⤴

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Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn

sunflower
sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

And ran it through a Lunapic Van Gogh filter

Van Gogh Sunflower
Van Gogh Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I went back to Lunapic and used the Starry filter

Starry Starry Sunflower
Starry Starry Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I thought I’d like to add some visuals, so I added  the Sparkles Effect

Some days I remix with others, and other days I riff off my own remixes. While I was doing all of this I was also listening to this