Edit This 72

ooh this one looks challenging! Congrats Mike on winning the last one!

Very challenging, thanks Abbie!

I noticed this car going in the wrong direction, in the streets of Jolly Old England




Perhaps, I'll have it get into an accident with the car it's nose to nose with.

Doing a bit of perspective altering

And

Checking in on the Sale Leisure Centre

I came up with this, still needing some tinkering, image

My first entry for Abbie Shore's "Edit This 72" contest. They always said we'd be visited by "little green men" from outer space, but when the aliens finally arrived they were far from little, certainly weren't men and the only thing green about them were their toenails!

Google Street View

these are absolutely amazing! Well done guys!

inspiring entries so far! I am kind of dealing with editors block atm... but hopefully not for long.

I am curious though, I looked up the location on google, and there is a rock climbing wall? On the side..? What is that? Its like they took the side of a mountain and put a building against it. Was there something there at one point?


----Mike Savad

Corporate Headquarters

It is on the other side of the building

Health and safety do not allow its use now as it basically drops onto a road. But you could climb up and get strength, practice mountaineering. I go swimming here but use another gym elsewhere for my weightlifting.

So it was for rock climbing at one point? That's kind of odd in the middle of no where sort of.


----Mike Savad

It is very understandable. That is a fitness centre and that is a way to keep fit

Classic cars grand prix race.

I changed it to an impressionism type of art.

This is my first entry for Abbie Shores' Edit This 72 challenge. I flooded the street with digital manipulation... I changed the sign of the store to "SPORTS", I added an additional sign as the store tries to take advantage of the flooding situation, I added a guy paddling in a canoe, another wading up to his behind, a guy near the store in his new hip boots, and a girl floating nonchalantly down the street in an inner tube. At the middle left, I added a "Street Closed" street sign and two traffic cones.

Edit this 72 for Abbie Shores. Thank you for the photo, Abbie.
I first took this photo to Procreate and painted the road, sidewalks...then took it to another program to remove the cars and people. I started added effects, and I felt I wanted something historical. Ever wonder about historical mysticism? To me, it is a fascinating subject to read about. I felt led intuitively to add a strong female presence to it. I never know where the creative process will take me.

What the original urban planning sketch for this building might have looked like.

Awesome work! Well done everyone

Sinkhole Accident

The world had become a wasteland of destruction and despair. Buildings lay in ruins, roads were impassable, and the landscape was dotted with remnants of a once thriving civilization. In the midst of it all, a small group of survivors struggled to eke out a living in a world that had seemingly turned against them.

Every day was a battle for survival. Food was scarce, and clean water was even harder to come by. The survivors scavenged what they could from the ruins of the old world, but it was never enough. Very little left was on the stores shelves, every building was broken, cracked or just too dangerous to go near.

Every day was a struggle, to create a new way of life living in the ruins. All they could do is to move forward to survive


----Mike Savad

Here is the result that happened to the 2 actual nose to nose autos in the left of the original photograph.

Inspired by a Mario Carta Painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/la-dama-de-rojo-mario-carta.html

I came up with this image

I love Bob's "Sinkhole Accident". I actually laughed out loud!

O my gosh I never realised a place of fitness could be so unfit for use ROFL. I love them...absolutely love them!

One more from me.

Fun Place

The Sales Leisure Center of England has opened a new branch in Venice Italy for those who like to stay fit while they travel. The buildings all look alike so you will instantly recognize them when you pull up in your boat for an early morning workout and it will feel like a home away from home to Brits abroad.

Abbie Shores' Edit This Challenge 72... 2nd entry. On this version, I added a watercolor effect to the image. I also included a white border simulating a painted edge.

Abbie Shores' Edit This 72 Challenge third entry. This version has an art gallery theme. I added adds of Andrew Wyeth's watercolor images on the front of the building which I renamed, UK Art Gallery and also added a sign indicating it's Andrew Wyeth's gallery showing of watercolor Art. (I saw one of his watercolor galleries at the Walters Art Gallery museum in Baltimore Maryland some years ago). I darkened the image to create an evening atmosphere so that the many lights I added would show more easily. I also changed the front of the entryway.

Andrew Newell Wyeth was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. Wikipedia

Born: July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford Township, PA
Died: January 16, 2009, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Periods: Realism, Modern art, Regionalism
Children: Jamie Wyeth, Nicholas Wyeth
Siblings: Henriette Wyeth, Carolyn Wyeth, Nathaniel Wyeth, Ann Wyeth McCoy
Parents: N. C. Wyeth, Carolyn Bockius Wyeth

My last one, I think...Thank you, Abbie

My second entry for Abbie Shores' "Edit This 72" contest. The importance of a good vocabulary cannot be overstated. Case in point, had this hapless schlub been familiar with the word "philanderer" he would have quickened his pace instead of slowing down, thereby avoiding the wrath of his 50 foot scorned girlfriend!

Awesome work, everyone...love seeing all the different creative choices!

Used a pic to paint effect after cropping image.

I honed in what most have avoided. I'm a nature lover, not a city dweller. I love walnut trees. So I cropped out an extra wide view of the walnut tree limbs without any buildings in the picture. I used an aged weathered photo effect to give it some color.

Oh. Wow! These are superb!

A little rain can't stop Italian food lovers!

I took my walnut tree image a step further by converting it to a neurographic piece.
I simplified the lines of the tree to find the essence of its shape, applied neurographic rules (lines travel from edge to edge and all line intersections are rounded). I restored the walnuts as they appeared in the original and topped it of with a calming background.



https://fineartamerica.com/featured/edit-this-72-walnut-tree-in-neurographic-style-only-a-fine-day.html

This is my entry for Edit This 72. I love colors and so the white detail became a Graffiti wall, all about love. After all, the first modern Graffiti was done by a boy who wrote his name everywhere trying to impress a girl that he liked!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/graffiti-love-lucia-waterson.html?newartwork=true


Thanks a lot Abbie!

I don't have an "edit this" type of skill set, but I've gotten into the habit of 1) seeing the contest entries first, 2) trying to imagine the what the original image might look like from the entries, 3) looking up the original through these threads and 4) always (usually) being way off b/c the entries are always very imaginative!

Quite entertaining... good work all.