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I wanted to fool around a bit more before I proceed with the next lessons in my digital art class.

I feel like I'm still floundering, trying to get a feel for when I might want to do this, or that..........

Last night I took my sepia cupola from last weekend, and added a yellow zinnia. thinking it might be sort of sun-like. Or something.

The zinnia layer was hard-light blended, and then I lightened the shadows 100%....






Here is this morning's effort.

My daisy pic, a radial gradient, and a free-to-use Dover graphic.

Naturally, I have no idea how I achieved this..................

Having put it up, I noticed that the gradient wasn't centered on the daisy.

Argh.





I thought I was just moving stuff, but............

Not liking this as well; miss those dark corners.............





Different yet again, but, overall, I think I like it best of the three........

And peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars.........



(looks like it should be on the wall in that house with the Incense, Peppermints house numbers we saw last week, no?)




I found myself very resistant to working on this stuff.

It seemed to me that it should Have A Point, rather than Just Be, and I really (really!) don't want this stuff to have to Have A Point.

Essentially all the rest of my life Has A Point. And I want it that way!

But when I do this sort of stuff, I really want it to NOT Have A Point. I want it to Just Be. I want it to be alllllll about "do I like it better like this, or like that?"

I want it to be (essentially) all about right-brain, not left.

I know how to do that. I know how to put things together in pleasing ways, going strictly on "do I like it?"

Now I need to get that analytical thing disengaged for things that happen via this digital-combination process............

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