Explored - a random mixture of my photos!

Some snaps, taken on the way to the supermarket, the day after Storm Ciarán.

The quickest Photoshop ever! Open - copy apply 'find edges' to the top copy - apply a 'color gradient' to the original - merge and save. OK I did add my little digital artwork logo.

Each participant in the Run was presented at the finish with a 'goody' bag. Unlike the cars, some of which had a great deal of stowage capacity, the cyclists had nowhere to put them apart from their handle bars.

This is a first attempt at depicting the artworks in the Turner Prize 2023 Finalists' exhibition in the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. I shall not be either regurgitating the descriptions/explanations of the four works, which are readily available on-line, or making my own commentary on them. One I really liked and understood, the rest did not appeal to me. I have to say that if these were the best examples of British contemporary art in 2023 I am clearly on totally the wrong page of the 'How to do art' manual.

Jesse Darling is the 2023 Turner Prize Winner. This collage shows most of the small works on the walls around the gallery. The main or larger works are shown elsewhere in this album.

It's a pity that this little machine can't scrub walls! It was travelling on the route of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. None of the vehicles was horse-drawn, so it wasn't needed for droppings removal. From the commentary at the finish line, several cars lost parts on the way down from London, so it might have swept up some valuable antiques! This qualifies for World of Bins as it is a bin on wheels!

This abstract has been created in Photoshop Elements, using a couple of free 'brushes'. These are more like stamps. The loop shapes are from one brush used either single dabs or trailed across resulting in the spring or net-like shapes. With these shapes highlighted a rainbow effect was sprayed across these layers and then they were merged together. The other wavelike brush starts a single stamp that is then stretched across the width of the image. A second one is stretched into a different shaped wave. The various shapes are then given 'drop shadows' and the layers are finally compressed into the 2D image.