Well, I must confess that I have 27 images for my summary “collage”, with 3 paintings left to go.
I thought I had 28 paintings but I couldn’t find the Day 16 painting anywhere. That’s because I skipped Day 16 to celebrate Rosh Hashana (it’s coming back to me now…).
This morning I started by pulling all the images together and resizing them for easy uploading. After experimenting with various templates, I designed my own custom collage layout on picmonkey.com (a useful free site for creating Facebook banners too) to post on Leslie Saeta’s Looking Back on 30 Paintings in September blog before the upload link closed.
This was my favorite collage, which I posted.
As with most computer tasks, it took longer than expected – even though I had done this once before. And I never did figure out how to add the border and caption to the collage like I did after the January Challenge, which you can see here.
Nevertheless, I was so pleased with the layout and myself for all that I had accomplished – until I realized my Mom’s birthday cupcake was missing, as were the drawings. Here are all 27 works in an earlier version using a pic monkey template as the base.
Now I’m going to take a break, order a new LED TV to replace the one that broke 3 weeks ago (back to reality), and try that first layout one more time (the perfectionist in me is showing again). I’ll give it an hour, then I’ll put the collage aside to get to work on another painting.
I have the luxury of painting for 3 more days this week, and am looking forward to it. See you tomorrow.
P.S. At 8pm, here’s what I came up with. Everything is here, and the macaroons are larger, but I think I like the simplicity first one even with its missing images. Probably no one else would even notice, and maybe I’m just talking to myself… Which one would you use on a future postcard?
