Building a Castle Part 1

Inspired by lesson 9, “Water: moats and reflections” in How to Cheat in Photoshop, I decided to recreate how this York tower may have looked when it was in use.

Scanning my original photo at a large size, and high resolution, gave me lots of pixels to work with. I duplicated the original image on another layer, so I still have the original to go back to if needed. I then hid the original layer so it won't get confused with the changes.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lucy-synk/29/845/689https://www.facebook.com/lucy.synkTime to dust off this blog and get posting again! I've been really busy working at Home Depot while taking a few more classes at Grand Rapids Community College to refine my digital skills. I am now job-hunting like crazy! Looking for either full-time work, or long-term contract work.

To start, here is the mid-term I did for my InDesign class. I had taken InDesign years before, but needed to get the rust out, and update my skills for the Creative Cloud version. Only the logo and photos of products were supplied, with a photo of the final look we were to create. It demonstrates my abilities to format text, use text and graphic frames, and interface InDesign with Photoshop, among other skills.

1st abstract multi-media piece

This is my very first abstract multi-media piece! I don't have a name for it yet. Acrylic, ribbon, aluminum foil, confetti and a rice-like paper are all included in it.

Cousins gone fishing.

My Mom commissioned this photo of my cousins after their mother, her sister, died. As often happens, in the original shots taken decades ago, only one boy is standing in a good position in each. So hard to get kids to stand still! So I used Photoshop to bring the best of both photos together. Now they have one picture to cherish the memory with!

Here I am working on the mural

Here I am working on the Redwood Mural

I am getting ready to leave the mural a while to work on other projects, and to prepare a press release. Here I am working on it, this will be included in the press release.

Working on Redwood midground

I am starting to add detail and more color definition to the midground of the Redwoods mural. Not happy with how the dead log was looking, I opened the area under it to show it's at the edge of a valley. Also lightened it up and have started adding a few plants.  Got more of a feeling of depth now.

New Details of Redwood Mural







After a brief break, I've gone back to the mural. Done a lot more work on the tree trunks, and blocking in forground. Looks very heavy right now- but more leaves and light will change that. The funny looking squiggly thing on the right hand wall is the root ball of the fallen tree- it will be more obvious once it's finished. It's getting more difficult to capture the details, so now taking a picture of each wall separately. Will start doing close-ups once there's small details added.