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Posted on 27/04/23 4:00:27 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3179 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Very nice Mariner...!! 
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Posted on 28/04/23 06:25:48 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3031 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Thanks Loyd. You have been very busy this week. well done! |
Posted on 28/04/23 07:56:16 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
I have been lurking in the background. For this challenge, I had no idea, so I went for totally cheating. AI to the rescue.  Firefly_old+woman preparing claws to cook_art,dramatic_light,chaotic_34439 by Vibeke Friis, on Flickr_________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 28/04/23 07:56:21 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7012 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
First to taste the pouch-pieds this week was GKB, with a sore-toed elephant. I like the idea, and that’s a really good sign, but given the angle of the barnacles wouldn’t it have made more sense to have an elephant in profile? I found the wedding entry to be truly, ah… truly… that’s to say… no, I can’t think of an appropriate adjective, sorry. I enjoyed the first of lwc's many posts, with the barbecuing sausages. Not sure I’d want my sausages with a fishy flavour, though. My favourite thing about the astronaut image is the fact that you’ve bothered to make the pieds twitch in the reflection in the helmet – now that’s real attention to detail. And they do indeed make fine claws for the creature from the black lagoon. A bizarre fantasy in the horror film poster entry – I wonder if it needs all that text over the top? I was very entertained by the multiple cooking methods entry, all very nicely done (the subtlety of the mirage effect over the wood logs is particularly effective). And the exploding microwave is fun. And a remarkably quick response to DavidMac’s request for a blender! An interesting newsprint effect on local chef Louise, but that’s a four-colour dot screen – just the one array at 45 degrees for black and white. I like DavidMac's flaming food tosser, but it does raise the question of whether a flame is actually translucent when something is partly obscured by it, as in the upper pied. Not sure it looks right – and there’s some distinctly brush-shaped masking on the lower pied! Most amused by your creative blackout image, though. A rather beautifully constructed Yin Yang symbol, very tasty. Bang on topic michael sinclair indeed! A very fine (if gender-fluid) Medusa. One of the snakes to the left of the chin goes translucent at one point but I won’t mention it. I like the blink. Extraordinary imagination from tooquilos, who sees the barnacles as roots of the pyramids – and not just any old pyramids, but coastal pyramids. Charming! Recipe time for Frank, with a step-by-step animated guide to cooking these critters, complete with French translation. So even the cats don’t want them? They don’t know what they’re missing. Or perhaps they do. Very entertaining, Frank. A modern-day witch from Ant Snell, and I’m glad to see she hasn’t swapped the cauldron for a microwave. Nicely done. A splendid pie from Josephine Harvatt, although I must admit to never having encountered stargazy pie before. It looks truly bizarre – almost as bizarre as my pousse pieds. I was wondering how Mariner would approach this image, but I never for a moment expected this. Goose necks with gooseneck barnacle heads – now that is extraordinary. Beautiful lighting, I like the girl’s translucent sleeves. And that cleaver wedged in the block of wood suggests a darker ending. Glorious. __________________________ I'm always impressed with the ingenuity of this Forum, and often surprised at how Challenges that seem impossible at first go on to generate the most entertaining results. It reminds me of when I used to do a dozen newspaper montages a week, and occasionally someone would phone and I'd run into a panic, having absolutely no idea how to create the illustration they'd asked for. Those always turned out to be my best images. |
Posted on 28/04/23 09:02:20 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3986 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
The brain works in mysterious ways. Once the idea popped into my head I couldn’t un-see it. 🤣🤣 Nice work everyone _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 28/04/23 09:18:45 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5619 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Good question. I never really thought about it. And yes to the brush strokes - careless. To be honest I really couldn't get to grips with this one. Pity when everyone else was being so inventive. Thanks Steve. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/04/23 09:18:46 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5619 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Double post removed. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/04/23 09:19:37 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3031 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Glorious. Thanks Steve. |
Posted on 28/04/23 10:30:37 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1738 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Thanks Steve. I too am impressed with the ingenuity of the entries on some of these seemingly illusive challenges. |
Posted on 28/04/23 3:39:53 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3179 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Doh!! I knew something was wrong with it, I just couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks Steve...! |
Posted on 30/04/23 10:16:08 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Cheers Steve _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
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