Virtual Studio Tour 2020

 This year has been different to say the least!

The Artist's Studio Tour will be held virtually. So that means everyone in the world will have access to viewing our art this year. How cool is that?!? 

Information about about the Studio Tour can be found at lubbockstudiotour.org

This piece in coated with encaustic wax. I'll be posting a video of my process soon.

My artwork is always on display inside my hair salon at 12118 Slide Rd. (Roxi's Hair Studio) I have tons of wall space so it is a perfect gallery setup. 

I will be posting updates on my Facebook page throughout the week and weekend, Roxi's Photographic Art.  You can always send me a message there for more info or to arrange a purchase.

Mobile Art Monday No. 39

So far this is my favorite mobile art piece this year.

It is a collage of these two photos.

I cropped and edited the barn in Snapseed. This app always amazes me. She was also edited to tone down the highlights and lighten the shadows. I used Retouch to clone out the gray barn.

Then I opened it in Leonardo and added the girl photo on a new layer. She was carefully masked away from her background. It was a bit difficult to try and 'paint' in a shadow on a new layer underneath her but I knew it wouldn't need to be perfect.

Next, into Distressedfx for a flock of birds. I reduced the opacity a bit. In fact Distressedfx owner, Cheryl Tarrant asked to show this image on her website as it's undergoing some updating.

Then off to Brushstroke for a slight painterly effect using brush effect S3.

By now you know Stackables is one of my favorite apps. 

After a little play around I came up with this formula. You can save it to your Stackables app and use it on your images. Down load 'Rural Life' from this link and save it to your Dropbox. 

Now on your device, open Dropbox and click the file. Use the 'Open in' option and choose Stackables. It will ask if you want to import the formula, tap 'Import'. 

You will find it under the formula image with the heart. Click on the formula to apply it, then the wrench icon to make any changes you like.

This formula is not 'yellow' like my image appears so if you need to add some warmth, click on the add layer, click the third icon and choose 'Petals'.

This is the landscape using the original formula without 'petals'.

I'll leave you with another Stackables version that I liked.

Hope you're having a great Mobile Art Monday.

Mobile Art Monday No. 4

And of course I have another Mobile Art Monday featuring Stackables but today I'm combining it with Lenslight. It's often hard to choose a favorite if you keep editing a photo differently, but today my mood says pick this one.

 I just so happened upon 5 formulas in Stackables that were perfect without tweaking for my shot. Most of the time I don't mind natural lens flares, but this was not one. I'd call it nasty. Here's my original with some teaks in Snapseed to bring out the shadows.

Here are the five edits in Stackables.

In Lenslight, I added new flares to cover/enhance the bad flair.

Here are the 4 layers of flares used in my very first image.

It's possible to manipulate the flares to your needs: size, opacity, color and aspect. Come back on Wednesday to see a complete tutorial on using Lenslight. I believe it totally rescued these images and gave them a creative boost as well.

Beauty in Death

I find that I'm drawn to things that are old... and dead. Not in a morbid sort of way, but I see the beauty that is there and imagine what was.

Textured with Kim Klassen's Sybil, and Postale.

Linda Sattgast's warming action.

Corner brush work, Fragments

Fonts: Mutlu and Windsong.

Digital scrap book pieces from Courtney's Digiscrappin, 'Garden Notebook'. See her store here.

Linking up with Kim for Texture Tuesday.

Roxi, the Explorer

Explore, discover, create
Seeing things through new/old eyes
It took a trip to my home town to reconnect with my core being. I'm an explorer.
I love to look for things I've not seen before.  I took my camera out early one morning to capture the light and headed to the river. Little did I know I would revisit the land of magic.

My Mom would call it snooping.

One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to 'go down to the river.' It was a little creek on our farm that flowed in a curve behind the barn and beyond the garden. Not only could I look for 'wildlife' but we had an incredible 'junk' pile hidden behind some apple trees. My grandpa planted those trees and built the barn when he farmed that land, so this pile had many old treasures.

(Kim Klassen Abstract texture)

Two old cars from the 40s sat ready for my brothers and I to play in. I saw beauty then after they had been discarded. A little further away was the ever-loved Crossing, where the prairie road crossed the creek to access the rest of the farm. We would wade in the water as it flowed over the road or try to catch minnows or frogs.

I could spend hours in our attic looking through things Mom had stashed away. I remember finding the 'suit' she wore to get married in and thinking that was strange she didn't wear a dress.

ahhh, childhood memories


The river called and off I went...
The junk pile has long since been buried and a new one started by my brother and his son.
The barn and shop now store odd things instead of animals.
The house has been replaced so there is no attic to ponder yesterday.

The river spilled it's water over the crossing and because it was June, the vegetation was in abundance as maybe the ticks were too. I never get home in the summer time so this was a treat for the eyes. Just seeing the foxtails made my heart sing. Oh how I loved those little things. And proceeded to take their portraits.