Saturday, September 11, 2010

Monday, September 6, 2010

Touch Understanding


"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, as a moth brushes a window with its wing."

Photo edited with Camera Bag, Lo-Mo, PhotoStudio.

- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Just When I Thought I Had Tried Everyhing

Just when I thought I had tried everything...well most everything, Pam Carriker introduced hand carved stamps into the art mix in her 365 Journal class!

Using images and photos from previous journal pages , I traced cone flowers and lettering and combined them with some doodling to create this stamp. Transfer the image to the linoleum block and carve...


Of course we have to take photos of everything, and then in turn I have to edited photos with assorted iPhone apps.


We start with your basic stamped image and then apply PhotoStudio.....


And no photo editing is complete without a trip through CinemaFX


Back to the drawing board!

Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Monday, August 16, 2010

Celebrating 57


























Playing with photos and iPhone apps, a great way to finish a great day.





















- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Neon along the Morgan Ford

It's addictive, iPhone photography...I can't just take a photo.


























I can't just crop it or adjust the contrast.






















So many photo apps.... And only 7 gigs of space remaining.























Time to weed the collection.


Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Artful Blogging - that's my photo!

A confession: as I write there are 3,562 photos on my 16 gig iPhone. Yes, I've saved them to my computer, but I can't bear to delete them from the phone.




























This photo was taken in Washington D.C. During the great blizzard of 2010. It was taken outside of The Natural History Museum. It had just started snowing.

I love the iPhone Camera and all the photo apps. I think I have 27. Most every photo I take is processed through at least two apps , and usually more. Which explains the enormous number of photos on my phone.

This photo was posted to Chrysti's and Susan 's Echo challenge. A biweekly photo prompt. My photo represents "dim". You can see more Echo photos by clicking on the Echo link in the sidebar.

I am honored to have it included in Chrysti's article in the Autumn 2010 Artful Blogger Magazine. My copy arrived today. I have been stalking the mail carrier since August 1.





























I have a wonderful Digital SLR Canon EOS 30, that I enjoy using. I also enjoy editing with Photoshop Elements, but there is something about the immediate gratification received while shooting and editing and blogging with my phone that I am unable to resist.

Warning to family and friends, I'll just happen to have my copy of the magazine in my possession for the next several weeks. Bear with me. Thanks!
Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Fun iPhone editing

More iPhone editing fun from the OHP mission trip to Georgia. Posted from my phone, later I'll edit from the computer and make the photos larger!





































- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Gabby & Malena

























Oak Hill Presbyterian Church has an incredible youth group. They've teamed up with the older folks and headed out to Griffin, GA to help with home repairs for families in need.

So far we've painted a bathroom and have been replacing a front porch. I use the term "we" loosely. I did dig a hole under the porch! But my best work is posting photos on facebook that I have edited at length with my iPhone apps. I really like this one of Gabby and Malena with the cat. They were taking a break from bathroom painting a posed for this shot, I edited it with Camera Bag - Magazine.

Blogging with the iPhone is great but I can't make the pictures shout from the page, I really want them bigger, so I may do some editing when I get back to St. Louis.
- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Project 365 Photo Journal

One photo each day with your iPhone. I love it. How many photo apps do you have? Can you have too many? Some people collect shoes.....others iPhone apps, they're cheaper and take up less space.





- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Echo - Stripes

“If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance”




 
 
 
 
 
 
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends”
Czech Proverb
 





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
“Trash has given us an appetite for art” Pauline Kael

























“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”



Mother Teresa of Calcutta









 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another”
Thomas Jefferson  

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Check out more Echo photos by clicking on the links at the right
Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Echo - Market
















“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it”
Thomas Walker

"Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke." - Bette Davis in All About Eve




The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.                   



Marcus Aurelius




Click on the link at right to find more Echo results on Chrysti and Susan's blogs!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Artist Statement - Journal 365



Artist Statement - Journal 365

paper, textiles, fiber and stuff
that's what my ART is made of
I am inspired by vintage photos and images
cast-off quits, linens and bluejeans,
I enjoy making new and repurposed projects
with paint, ink, paper, rubber stamps
repurposed fabric, embroidery,
quilted arts
As an emgering mixed-media artist
I continue to explore the conflict between
decorative and useful
new and repurposed

bonniebluedenim is Donna Cook



do justice
love kindness
walk humbly



create


the portrait image above is made from a photo taken in 1976 
 of Donna Cook
with a pinhole camera
it has been photo copied and adhered to the journal
and painted over with acrylic paint
it of course does not look like Donna Cook

Friday, June 11, 2010

Echo - Rouge


I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift would be curiosity."
Eleanor Roosevelt


Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.



Albert Schweitzer






We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 Be sure to check out Chrysti's blog, and Susan's blog to see more Echo results.

Also check out the The Echo Flickr Group