Sleep: An Adventure in Digital Art

I've started blogging on my agmoore2 account again. It has been more than a year since my last post on this account. I hope to experiment and explore here. The results may be less than stellar, but will offer the opportunity to challenge my skill set.

Today I present the first post on my resurrected blog.

The animated picture was derived from a digital painting I created maybe five years ago. The painting, though crudely executed, reflected a memory from childhood.

I was ill and in bed. I could see the kitchen from where I lay. The wall behind me was blue and covered by white imprints of a foam sponge. I had painted the wall myself, with my sisters. We had fun splattering white paint randomly.

There was a hot plate on a scratched wooden table, and a cat (actually yellow) nursing kittens in a box. As I dreamed in fevered sleep, the house came alive.

I used a newsprint filter on GIMP on the original picture, and made layers using Paint 3D. The GIF was created with GIMP.

I hope you enjoy my eccentric excursion down memory lane.