Another interesting website for creatives

Hi,

A quick post, I’ve joined artsicleΒ a site that I was put on to by those nice people at A Place For Creation. Hope that it’s of interest.

Best wishes

Leigh

 

A little news

Hi everyone,

I’ve not been able to get out and take more shots so I have little to work on at the moment a situation which is driving me nuts and one which I hope to rectify ASAP but I do have a few items of news.

I’ve spent a little time editing my pixels.com websiteΒ to include translation links for 35 different languages!. Edit:Β Correction make that 43 languages, I added a few more this morningΒ πŸ™‚Β .So if anyone’s ever filled with an uncontrollable desire to look at my website in, say, for example, Macedonian, then you can now do so to your heart’s content! Β πŸ™‚

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I’ve also got a new limited-time promotion running for five days

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I’d also very much appreciate it if you’d like to leave a comment on my feature on A Place For CreationΒ if you get a sec. which might help me gain some street-cred on that site :).

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And I’ve also been trying out some new tweets, well you’ve got to try haven’t you! πŸ™‚

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Just Art!

Hope everyone is keeping happy and well, thanks and best wishes

PS. I’ve also booked to attend a free evening event near my home town which I saw advertised which gives free advice on pricing, social media etc. to artists which I thought could be interesting and only involving two bus fares and I might even get a free cup of tea and a biscuit :). I’ll let you know how it went.

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New work: Market Square Monday

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Market Square Kingston upon Thames

It’s all done with smoke and mirrors

From suburbia to the open road.

Every once in a while I like to post a sort of “making of” series of shots from one of my painterly photo-blend works. This time I’ve chosen “The Wind In My Hair”.Β On a visit to a local town I spotted this chap in a sports car pulling out of a parking bay and thought it would make an interesting shot so I hurriedly raised my camera and took a few shots.

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Fabulous car!, dreary background!, so the first thing that I wanted to do was loose suburbia (oh if life was ever that straightforward!) πŸ™‚

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Then I started thinking of what backdrop I could use, I wanted a countryside background and remembered a very unremarkable shot that I’d taken a few weeks earlier at a different location so I added some motion blur to it:

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Then I put it all together:

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Added some radial blur on the car wheels and painterly effects and texture and some final black magic “tweaking” πŸ™‚ and this is the end work, “The Wind In My Hair”

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I hope that the owner would have liked it.

Best wishes,

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A Place For Creation

Hi,

Something that I hope is of interest to my fellow creatives. I recently joined a very interesting site that perhaps you already know of, “A Place For Creation” http://aplaceforcreation.com/ Β . You can view my profile at http://aplaceforcreation.com/profile/Leigh-Kemp/

I’ve been corresponding via their Creative Coach Facebook group with the site founder Gemma Louise Kimpton and she’s been extremely friendly and helpful. Looks like they’re building a nice friendly artistic community there.

Hope it’s of interest, check it out and mention my name if you get in touch with them.

Best wishes

Leigh

 

This little piggy’s off to market!

Hi,

Well not quite yet maybe but, given my spectacular lack of success to date in selling my work online, I’m seriously considering printing up a few of my local works when and if Β funds permit, getting a license to sell at a local market (yes you need a license for everything in this country except breathing but I’m sure that that will come in the fullness of time!) πŸ™‚ and trying my hand at the direct face-to-face direct sales method. I need to give some thought to my sales pitch, I think perhaps, “Please buy my work before we starve!” is a bit too “in your face”, honest, but too blunt so I’ll work on that aspect :).

I can see myself on a cold, wintery Saturday morning dressed in my finest winter togs, beanie hat, fingerless gloves and flask of hot tea , the later essential as I don’t function without it! :). What people miss out on online is my god-given charismatic charm, humour and wit and my “honest John” face LOL πŸ˜€ :D, time methinks to give it a go!.

Best wishes,

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New work: “Hmm, Time warp it is!”

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The force is strong in this one,Β Yoda meets Klimpt πŸ™‚

750,000 BIG thank you’s!

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I just noticed that I’ve got a truly unbelievable 750,000 photo views!!.

I never expected anything like that number of views when I first started posting my work on Flickr back in the summer of 2013. Actually I never expected anything, Instead I thought that a few close friends and perhaps other kindly folk might find my photos of some interest.

Thank you all very much for your friendship and for supporting and encouraging my work and for putting up with my eclectic artistic ramblings! πŸ™‚ .

Sincere best wishes,

Leigh

 

New work: “Kitsch Kats”

Hi,

Take a break, have some Kitsch Cats :).Β Another Klimtesque tribute..

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Chirpy chirpy tweet tweet! :)

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Hi,

I’ve been trying out some new tweets Β πŸ™‚

Best wishes

Leigh