NFTShowroom partnered with @alienarthive for a July Earth, Water, Air, and Fire CHALLENGE. According to the challenge post, NFTShowroom will feature all the month's four elements themed Art minted on the NFT Showroom home page / twitter and Alien Art Hive will be curating participants' blog posts.
This challenge is for the full month of July. To join in check out NFTShowroom's challenge post here: nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for July: The Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire)
To participate:
- Make art incorporating the Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, or Fire) themes
- mint it on https://nftshowroom.com/
- make a blog post about it in Alien Art Hive
- use nftshowroom& in your tags
Below is my collage design depicting the AIR theme.
For this project, I didn't mint it. I may decide to tokenize later.
The design is titled All I Need Is the Air That I Breathe. My title was taken from a popular 60s era song that I like. The serene nature of the tune gave me inspiration to turn my theme dark without the light and breezy clouds and sunshine that one thinks of when we visualize air elements.
In my theme, the primary image is that of a female who floats in the midnight realm above the landscape. Her purpose for being is only know to herself and the entity that willed her into being. She is of the fowl that occupy space in the atmosphere.
Often when I dwell on life, I think of being free of responsibilities, struggles, hardships, and challenges. Free to roam the Earth like the birds, not caring for only the day. Tomorrow will take care of itself if I'm here to experience it.
In completing my design, I uploaded all images into Canva, my design program. With the tools available, I'm able to blend the various type images. I leave with you my procedures which began with a blank, white canvas. I then added layers of elements in accordance with my upgraded Annual Pro Membership that includes tools to remove backgrounds, detach elements from the background, colorize, resize, filter, duplicate, and reposition items.
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Images I included in my theme are listed below. I was able to locate a pure fractal I created in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X. This fractal provided the ethereal atmosphere in the atmosphere as it was designed from the Gaussian Blur feature. Two images I retrieved from the stable diffusion programs StarryAI and Night Cafe. The remaining images are free-sourced.
| StarryAi | Night Cafe | Free | Free | Owned by me |
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| Text Input: "Large ethereal and beauty butterfly full bodied facing sideways and front in blue." Style: Fantasy | Text input: "Ethereal Crow with large eyes and wings spread extra wide." Style: Stable Diffusion 1.5 | Female in the cloudy night Source | Eagle in the clouds Source | Pure Fractal titled "Gaussian Blur - Blue and White" Source |
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Below is my completed design for the July AIR Challenge:
Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media project.
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.
Si se incluye traducción, utilizo DeepL para ayudar a mis lectores.
Gracias por su paciencia y comprensión.