"That's no moon."

In light of the sale of Lucasfilms to Disney I decided to make this picture.

I have always been a fan of STAR WARS, the original trilogy. I'm not certain how I feel about the sell of Lucasfilm to Disney. My personal story goes that when I was a toddler I was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, also known as bone marrow cancer, I went through chemotherapy from the age of 2 1/2 to the age of 5 and movies were the one thing that could allow me an escape the hospital bed for a brief time. One of the most watched movies was STAR WARS Episode 4 A New Hope, although Disney makes good films I'm just not certain how I feel about the sale. It just doesn't seem right to watch a Star Wars film without the drum cadence of 20th Century Fox at the beginning.

Lotus Pad

LOTUS PAD

It has been awhile since I last posted, I have been hard at work trying to complete three pieces for the art competition and have decided to aim at creating five pieces and send in my best three. So I thought it might be a good time to take a break and add another entry. I am still busy creating and I have new techniques to learn, but here is one of my other geometric pieces. I intend to go further with this piece by making it larger and adding origami koi fish so that it looks like you're looking down on a pond.

Cosmic Circles

I like the stained glass effect that I achieved with this one this was another frame created by using the circle shape tool in Photoshop. I created one frame and then duplicated it and rotated the second frame until I found the shape I liked. I played with the pattern and overlay features in the layer effects when filling in the individual sections.

Bejeweled Marble

I created the frame using the circle shape and merged each circle layer together with Photoshop. Then  using the select tool chose each section and created a new layer to fill in each individual space with the fill bucket, merging each of the same colors into a single layer, then played with the layer effects using the bevel and contour feature on each layer.