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| My Clarksville VA, created on iPad, SketchBook app |
Easter is here so I'm eating blue chicken peeps and my front porch is decorated with yellow wooden ducks.
This is one of my first iPad projects from August. I took a photo of our downtown with my iPad, then removed the moving cars using Corel on my desktop, and sent it back to my iPad. The photo is one layer; the duck is a second layer. It's fun making the duck larger (he blocks the lake) or smaller and ducking into the Pizza Pub.
Happy Easter.
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Lovely photo! Reminds me of my former hometown of Pacific Grove.
ReplyDeleteThe duck looks so natural that I assumed at first glance that it was someone in costume and not drawn! Happy Easter, enjoy some peeps for me.
Thanks Gail. I probably should have left him walking across the traffic light pole. He's been everyplace--on tops of the buildings, lying in the street, getting into cars......fun. Three peeps is usually my max; haven't opened them yet.
DeleteI always thought it should be the Easter Duck.
ReplyDeleteQuack!
SamArtDog; I guess I'm remembering all those poor little dyed ducks--I know I had a few as a child. None survived; I cried.
DeleteThis is quite delightful .....and makes me want a duck walking down my street too!
ReplyDeleteYou can have a duck in your town, Celeste. Just paint one like I did. Happy Easter.
DeleteWe got ducks one easter...then we had to bring them to a local retirement home that had a duck pond in the front and let them go when they got big. Sigh... Love your quirky sense of humor, Hallie!
ReplyDeleteHi CrimsonLeaves. I've been living with that "quirky" label for a long time--got it in a review of one of my first sculpture shows.
DeleteHappy Easter Hallie! Your photo is FUN !
ReplyDeleteThank you Jane. Happy Easter to you.
DeleteIf it helps any (?), I think they left the ducks alone. It was the little chickies who dyed. I know people who got a plain yellow little ducky along with their blue and pink chicks. The chicks croaked; the duck never left. The kids grew up and went away to college, but to this day, the duck still guards the front yard.
ReplyDeleteSam, it helps. You're right--it was dyed baby chickens. BUT the cute little duck my kids got didn't make it. We were visiting my parents and left the duck on the back porch at night. He had been going in and out of my boots all day to nap so I left my boots on the porch for him. Easter morning, he was dead in my boot--probably smothered. My kids call me a duck killer! He didn't grow up to be a guard duck.
DeleteYou started my day with a chuckle. I laughed out loud when I saw your duck on the street.I love the playfulness of your work.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I gave you a chuckle, lifeartist. I need to stop playing around and get to painting--too much fun with the iPad.
DeleteQuack......love this, Hallie. It would make a great card if you ever wanted to print it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Carole. That's a good idea.
DeleteHallie- I just love the juxtaposition of this very large duck against small town USA. It's as if it points to some absurdity or perhaps a sense of humor within the town.
ReplyDeleteI like that it's not completely blended into the scene- the duck sticks out as it should.
It's really fantastic!!!
I ate a bunch of candy malted milk eggs. By a bunch, I mean a disgusting load of them. I finally had to throw out the rest of the bag before it got devoured... by me.
Hope you had a good Easter.
Hi PAMO. Thanks--your take on this is good. When I painted the duck and put him into downtown, I wasn't really thinking about Easter but about the interesting people I know.
ReplyDeleteI ate three peeps; Dave ate two--the remaining five are sitting on the kitchen counter. You can have the malted eggs; they're a bit too "milky" for me. Hope you had a nice Easter.
Just dropping by to SOVA to say hello! :)
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