Abundance

[Nancy Bell]

I have a lot of time as I sit and wait for contractors each day. The silver lining is that I am understanding more what the filters and effects can do.

The koi selection is from a much larger image of a huge koi pond. To that I applied pixel bender, oil paint. When I want to simplify images with other filters I find oil paint a good start that blends some of the details that can get magnified with each different filter and make the final image too busy and cluttered. Then I really love Fractalius so I applied a layer of that. Then Nik bicolor user defined, topaz clean, topaz adjust vintage, topaz adjust stylized collection dark night, added a bkgd and then a nik image border. Whew!

The kanji means "abundance".

[Dan Brown]

Very unique and creative, Nancy! Contemporary Asian? OOTB for sure. This is OOTB as an Asian piece! So, OOTB-OOTB!

[denise ippolito]

Nancy I agree w/ Dan it has a very contemporary look to it that I love. The fish have a very soft serene look to them.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Nancy, waiting for the contractors is a good thing:S3: I love the creative thinking that went into this one - especially the abstract look to the koi. Nice work.

[Nancy Bell]

Thank you Dan, Denise and Cheryl. I want to share this sign that was in the pond with the koi. I get the general meaning but certainly do not understand the actual words :eek3:!. This is in Chengdu, China. I was in China in May, 2008 when that huge earthquake hit so my trip certainly did not go as planned. But it was still quite the experience.

[Judy Howle]

I like what you did with the fish; contemporary Asian is an accurate description. I like the colors of the fish and background. That is strange wording on the sign!

[Indranil Sircar]

This is outstanding! I really like the contemporary look... excellent processing.

[John Storjohann]

Nancy, I really like the image of the koi...Denise is right...very serene, with subtle colors and graceful lines...nicely done!

[Nancy Bell]

Thank you Judy, Indranil and John. I could not make the koi image stand on its own so I needed to create some sort of supporting bkgd. It was a fun process.

[Mitch Carucci]

This really works for me. Thumbs up.