Nature Reflections II
I am being inspired by Sue O’Kieffe’s mandalas to share this digital painting with you today. Sue’s mandalas are very different from this, but tonight after looking at her blog, Sacred Circle Mandalas, the vibrancy in her latest mandala sent me searching for a similar “feel” in my own work.
Nature Reflections II, Digital © Diane Clancy
This image was created in Studio Artist (SA) from a pretty photograph of yellow and blue birds. This program specializes in transformation of images. If you would like to see another variation made from the same photograph, you can check out post Nature Reflections I. There you can find the start of the following conversation.
I have been asked the difference between SA and Photoshop. SA is vector based, like Illustrator, rather than bitmap or pixel based like Photoshop. In a vector based program, one can make a circle and it is determined by a mathematical formula. If one enlarges it to as big as a house, it is still a perfect circle since it is created by a formula or vector.
With a bitmap image, when one increases the size, the circle will get ragged because it is based on a certain number of little squares next to each other. When one makes those squares bigger, all the jagged edges of the squares are more obvious. Truly the circle never was a circle, but a circle drawn by squares.
More about this another day … I love the vibrancy of the colors – especially the purple.
– Diane Clancy
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Hi Diane,
I never would have guessed this was vector graphics from the visual information I have from your digital painting. I never really have mastered the fine art of drawing with rubber bands, either. I am intrigued by how this program might work. A demo might be fun.
The colors remind me of that time right after sunset, when there is a bit of afterglow, but everything is mostly dark. It has a dreamlike quality.
~Sue O’Kieffe
Hi Sue –
Do you mean for me to make a demo as a post? or a computer program demo?
Thanks for asking.
– Diane Clancy
Hi Diane,
I meant as a post with screen shots. Would that be possible?
~Sue
Hi Sue –
Sure – I can do that … not immediately, but soon. Thank you for asking.
– Diane Clancy