Tag: peggy collins gallery
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Poppies
I used one of my older photographs of California poppies and jazzed it up with a painted background, trying to give it a dreamy look. I can get lost in this technique…I’ll be using it more often for future images. SEE MORE HERE
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Anna’s Hummingbird with Winter Bud
I’m taking a year-long course called Phlorography Online 2022 where many teachers share techniques for expanding the student’s photographic repertoire. For my hummingbird photograph above I practised creating a hand-painted background digitally and finished the image with a slight canvas texture. Anna’s hummingbirds spend the winter on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, where…
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A Sunflower for Ukraine
Today’s image is a tribute to the people of Ukraine…a bright yellow sunflower against a blue sky. Ukraine’s national flower is the sunflower and their flag’s colors are yellow and blue. May peace reign again very soon. SEE MORE HERE
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Sunflower Cat
Today the world continues to feel deep concern for the situation in the Ukraine. Over and over again the suffering of the Ukrainian people comes to mind. Over and over again I count my own blessings as I sit here, safe in my home. As you probably know, the sunflower is the national flower of…
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Fractal Art
Occasionally I like to create fractal art. Here’s my latest, bursting with color. SEE MORE HERE
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Abstract Pit Bull
This is my third and (maybe) final version of Nirvana, the pit bull puppy I met on my morning walk recently. This work is the closest to her actual gray color but I spruced her up with some blue sparkles. She actually has those mesmerizing gray eyes so I didn’t mess with them much. The…
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Tribute to Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Nirvana the Pit Bull
As promised, here is my second work featuring the beautiful Nirvana, a pit bull I met on my morning walk. In this version I decided to create a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting, “The Starry Night”, including a blue Nirvana. “The Starry Night” was painted in 1889. It depicts Van Gogh’s view from…
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Nirvana the Pit Bull
My latest pup portrait is of a pit bull named Nirvana. I met this beautiful gray pit bull puppy on one of my morning walks recently and asked the owner if I could create some artwork for her. I actually ended up doing a couple of different versions but this is the first…I’ll share the…
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Chickadee in Snow
After a couple of weeks or more of nicer weather, the forecast is for our temperature to dip below freezing again for five days or so. We might even get some snow. No, say it isn’t so! Some flowers have already started to come up so they’re about to get a rude shock. I took…