I did my Still Life Journal on colored pencils, so they were the first still life collection I did. I first tried to make a pile, but had a lot of trouble with it, and decided to do other things. I am sad I didn't get to use my 5th, because it looks really good. I forgot to hide the logo of one of the colored pencils in Angles, but used the spot healing tool to hide it. I like how the blue pencil almost looks like it is floating.
I was running out of ideas, so I decided to grab random things and try to use them. The rubber bands and staples ended up looking really cool. The thin shadows of the bands were cool. The Fresco and Watercolor filters ended up looking kind of similar, but I think Fresco is darkness on the inside, contrasting the objects well the Watercolor hid it. In the other two I tried to do the opposite, and keep the whole thing really simple and clean.
These are a bunch of dried and fake flowers I found in my dining room. My first priority was hide this weird styrofoam heart in the pink flowers. I had a lot of trouble keeping the background clear, because I really liked them against the table, but any angle showed a really messy background. I also had to work around the glare from the windows, but it was really easy to think of cool ways to put them all together, and I really liked how it turned out.
I must have looked really weird grabbing every single piece of fruit we had in the kitchen and bringing it into the basement. I decided to only use two oranges, an apple, and a banana. The banana required a lot of gentle blurring and spot remover to look the way it does. Well I was cleaning up the banana, I noticed I could get rid of the stems on the other fruit and did it just for fun, and it looked really artificial when combined with the film grain filter.
I was trying my best to show how the different necklaces had different colors and patterns. I also tried to use leading lines, but looking back, that would have worked better if I had another element to lead towards. I was a little disappointed to use under painting, but I had decided Poster Edges and Plastic Wrap were going to be used with these at the very beginning. I also hadn't noticed how dark my shadow was on Piles, so I used the lightening tool a bit to hide it.