Shades of Gray Canvas Print

I love gray. There are so many shades of it. I started this with a basic checkerboard grid and then layered and twisted it around. I decreased the contract and desaturated it, then introduced hints of color back in. This appeals to me, I find the soft shades and flowing lines quite soothing. Created in PSE 10.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...