The high key group at redbubble just finished off their latest challenge just in time for the holidays! Properly titled Happy Holidays, this challenge turned out some beautiful holiday images.
First place went to monocotylidono with Guided by the Light
The rest are as followed:
All Decked Up for Christmas by Johanne Brunet
Robin in Woolies by Honor Kyne
Blind Rapture by Susan Bergstrom
Happy Holidays!
Since I started working on my scuba diving designs, which needed to be vectorized to make good t-shirts, I’ve been screwing around in our sign program drawing other designs too. I can’t quite get the whole drawing and vectorizing in Photoshop, so I have to make do with this other program. So once again, I’m gonna self-promote and share some of my new vector designs! A couple of these are available as t-shirts at my Redbubble gallery, and all are available on multiple products at my Zazzle store.
With my first series of vector image product, I would like to introduce you to Pynki Q! She’s just a lil blob of a thing I drew playing in the sign program.
As you can see, she’s available on stickers, in which you can change the background color. Also she has her own mug, shirts, and more!
And then there’s Pynki Q’s brother (or just the bluer version of Pynki Q), Pynki Q Blue!
Pynki Q Blue is also featured on stickers and is featured in his very own Birthday card!
And here is someone else I would like to introduce you too, he comes in several different colors, but is always happy to see you. I introduce to you Mr. Happy Bones! (I know, the names are gay!)
I also made a few customizable cards with a lovely floral vector I drew, that is also available on shirts. Just click the customize it button, and you can change the background color and the text to fit your needs!
And then there’s the lovely butterfly.
And a cute lil fishy!
The lil fishy lead me to draw this mini scuba cartoon, which I feel is a little better than the last one I tried. It is also available as a mug, sticker, and postcard.
I have a few more drawings done, including a guitar and a frog, but just haven’t uploaded and made anything with them yet. I hope you enjoyed my little preview of some of my new products.
If you haven’t noticed (and if you’re reading this, that’s not possible) I opened up a Zazzle store. It started just for my new Christmas images, then I brought in my older existing photography and digital abstracts, and now I’ve spread out to Scuba Diving designs! Why? Well, I was looking through Zazzle’s Scuba lines and noticed NOTHING for Michigan Great Lakes Diving. Can you believe it? I found state diver’s down flags for almost any other states but our glorious state! I just couldn’t have that! So I spent some time and created a Great Lakes/Michigan Diver’s Line.
So far I have the 4 basic designs made that I have spread out and tweaked on different products. I actually got to design some t-shirts! I was so excited! T-shirt designs don’t really usually turn out for me because I’m more apt at photography and photoshop manipulation, not so great with the whole vector image scene. These guys were fairly simple vectors though.
Now onto the Michigan Great Lakes Designs!
Mugs
Shirts
Of course there are slight variations, and different colors available.
Other Michigan Diver Stuff
To view all products visit the Art by Karri Store
Since I’m on the scuba diving subject, here are some other neat shirts I came across by other artists.
The Challenge: Using a particular stock image, and using it to create brushes, textures, and or layers on your own image, to create a work of art.
The Goal: Well, to make the most creative, eye-pleasing work of art, of course!
This was A Photographer’s Craft’s latest challenge. Once again I took the challenge. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds, trust me. Especially since, at the time, I was in my slump. The stock image we had to use was this:
The Catch: Not only did we have to try and be creative, we had to remember and share our processes in creating our pieces! Almost sounds like school huh? You can find the forum thread with these details here.
Being in a slump as I was, I didn’t have any new photography to play with, nor was I in the mood to take any. So, I dug through a bunch of “junk” images, old photographs I had no intention on using, but haven’t deleted them yet, you know the type. I came acrossed a photo I took this past summer of one of my miniture roses. Here’s what I started with:
And since I’m too lazy to go through all the steps I did again, I will just copy and paste what I wrote in the forum 
Let’s see if I can fully remember this.
1. Overlayed a different texture over my original image. (Hey, there was no rule stating I couldn’t use additional textures!)
2. Did a layer mask and erased the textures from the actual flowers.
3. Played with the channel mixer.
4. Brought the stock image onto my image, free transformed it much larger than my image.
5. Flipped the stock image horizontally, moved it to where I wanted it.
6. Decreased the Red channel’s saturation on the stock image, almost all the way down.
7. “Overlayed” the stock image onto my image.
8. Did another layer mask to clean up over the flowers, so the stock image was behind the flowers.
9. Did a little dodge and burn (baby).
10. Went back to the stock image and did a select color rage on the background (the blue sky) Copied it, and pasted it on my image.
11. Set the new layer over as “Pin light”
12. Flattened image
13. Decreased saturation a little, upped the brightness, decreased contrast.
14. Did a little more burning.
15. Added a sepia photo filter.
16. Created a new layer, used a faux text paintbrush for the writing, switched that layer to “Overlay”
17. Adjusted the brightness/contrast again, this time increasing contrast a tad.And Done!
And my final image, and entry was:
I didn’t win, but I did take 3rd place!
The piece that took 1st place was:
Ode to Banksy by Adrian Rachele
The rest of then entries were:
A Year of Novembers by Dana DiPasquale
afraid of the light by andreasphoto
autumn collage by Adriana Glackin
Ghosts of the New Desert by smallfox
Breath in Deeply Autumn Wind by Freelancer
Memories of Autumn by Misti Hymas
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All of my work can be puchased as premium art cards, and most are available as matted prints, laminated prints, mounted prints, canvas prints, framed prints, and posters. All in varying sizes. To see more work and/or purchase click here. (or click on a particular image)
Example Card:
Or, if you are more interested in bulk items, or other products such as postcards, magnets, mugs, US postage, and more, visit the Art by Karri Store.
Example Product:
For those of you who don’t know, I also am one of the hosts of Redbubble’s High Key group. High Key is a style of photography/editing in which the image has prominant high key tones. If you would like to learn more about it, check out the groups forum.
The High Key Group just finished it’s first challenge, The Innocence of Youth- A Child’s Portrait. The rules were simple, all entries had to be high key, and a picture of a child(ren).
The Top 10
1st Place: My Dance by Rosina Lamberti
Such Potential by Damian Riches
Every Little Girl Should Have Fairy Wings… by Martie Venter
Beautiful Dreamer by Corinne Noon
Sibling Love by Karri Klawiter
Congratulations to winners!
Be sure to check out the artists other works too!!
I am one of the hosts from Redbubble’s Arachnid Group. We recently hosted a challenge titled Color on Color: Camouflage. The rules to this challenge was to take or create (we welcome all art, just ends up mostly photographs) an image, in which the Arachnid had to be the same color as its background. i.e. A green spider on a green leaf, or a brown scorpion on brown dirt. You get the gist of it.
We only had 18 entries this time around, but they were a great 18 entries. If you would like to see all the entries, follow this link. Don’t forget to take a look at the artist’s other work. Their linked names will take you to their profiles.
On to the top 10 images:
1st place went to Gozza with her beautiful piece, Practically Invisible
The rest are as followed:
You Have to Look Twice… by Ann Palframan
Color Coordinated Spider by LoisBryan
Goldenrod Crab Spider #3 by KaneSlater
Goldenrod Crab Spider by Leyla S. Ismet
Come Closer…I’m waiting… by Yool
I would like to thank the participants for their outstanding work!
Congratulations to you all!
I know, I know, I know, my last several posts were about Christmas cards. But what can I say? They are just so much fun to make! Here’s my latest set, available in my Zazzle Store.
Simple, yet satisfying
I put together 2 more Christmas cards today. They are both available as high quality art cards at Redbubble, and in bulk on Zazzle.
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On to the cards!
(note: clicking on the card images will take you to my Redbubble work, not Zazzle)
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