A Poem: Too Many Kisses

Today I write a poem and an essay about this art.

Too Many Kisses
Is there really such a thing?
Baci from Perugina
Besos from Barcelona
Warm soft petal kisses
melting a tough
rocky road heart
to your granite
and I, your fresnal lens
collecting lumens
bubbling...flowing
rock hard
ebb and flow
ebb and flow



Too Many Kisses by ~ravensartshack on deviantART
I am not sure what compelled me to make Too Many Kisses other than I had a kind muse.  I drew a bare bones of a sketch.  I took a photo with my nintendo dsi and used it as a sketch pad using only red and white colors.  It grew in GIMP and I added blue stripes.  I twisted my colors thinking about light traveling on my subject and the phsychological aspects to suggest movement.  I named my first image Red Hot Lips.  I wanted my image to grow.  The subject, a single pair of lips, was lonely and hungry.  I added four pairs of lips for a sense of symmetry in circle movement.  I also want to convey the sense of longing and the desire to return to that intial moment of pleasure.

Source: zazzle.com via Ann on Pinterest

Red Hot Lips mug by RavenKing
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Call for Poets and Creativity Prompt

Brevity Poetry Review is calling all poets to submit poems.  I just found this exciting link today.  Poems will be accepted on an ongoing basis.  Check it out. Brevity Poetry Review

Source: ravensartshack.deviantart.com via Ann on Pinterest

Hello there.  I am posting today my artwork as a creativity prompt.  I hope this blue lady inspires you to write either a poem, a short story or even an 8 bar piece of music.
I drew on paper with my favorite bic pen.  Will I be participating in this creativity prompt?  I too hope to write something.  There is no deadline and I hope this inspires you.
For more inspiration you can visit my favorites gallery.  There I collect my favorite images from other very talented artists ranging from graphic artists to  photographers.
http://ravensartshack.deviantart.com/favourites/


Psst...psst...I adapted Blue Mystery for a kindle case.  You can see her in both in my deviant gallery as well as my zazzle store.   I hope you like my design. :)
Happy Creating!

Blue Mystery kindle case by RavenKing
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My First Animation with GIMP

feature length: 25 seconds

This is a Raven's Art Shack exclusive peek at Blink.

The simplest form of animation involves the blinking of eyes. You need only two frames, one for closed eyes and one for open eyes. An animated .gif needs a minimum of two layers. I drew the original with red ball point on loose leaf paper. I captured her image with my digital camera and closed her eyes with the smudge tool from GIMP software (open source and free to download). I added the original image as a layer. I select save image as Blink with extension .gif. The window pops up and asks if I want to flatten or save as animation. If I flatten the image it will be a still picture. I select save as animation. I pump up the delay to 368 milliseconds and 410 milliseconds for the second animation. I select to completely replace the frame. Voila I have created my first animated .gif! Yeah!

Making an animated .gif picture is simple with Windows movie maker. Upload the picture to the software. Click and drag the image to the timeline. Each image takes about 5 seconds of timeline. I composed 25 seconds of music using LMMS software (open source and free to download) using about 12 bars of music at 140 bpm.

Why create an animated gif? This kinetic art form is simple and fun to create. In the future I plan to make my own book trailer after I finish writing my first novel.

P.S. Welcom blog hoppers!