It's been a while...

Just in case anyone is still checking this blog, I haven't totally disappeared. I've been doing some serious jobhunting, and I'm still not sure whether this is going to be CovBlog for much longer. More like 'WhereonearthnextBlog?'

This flat has really inhibited my painting - I'd got into throwing paint around rather energetically in the old place. But recently I've started photo-manipulation with Paint Shop Pro. So I thought I'd see if Blogger can cope with the images too. Seems that it can. As you can see, I'm having fun with the solarisation tool. 'Coloured pencil' is interesting and unpredictable, and quite unlike a real coloured pencil, which is good. I've also worked out a way to split images into black and white and take out the black and mix it up with other bits of the image manipulated in different ways. This all reminds me of the processes I used when I used to do etching - but much, much, cleaner! My computer can just about manage this, but it's just as well I've got Belle and Sebastian playing, so I can really listen to the lyrics whilst computer processes something.