Icon post :)

[sigune]

Some time ago, I amused myself with making a number of icons out of pictures that I like. You can find the lot of them (= 37) here, but below are a few samples. Please feel free to use any that you like. (This is my first time using my LJ Scrapbook. If there is anything that doesn't work, please let me know and I'll try and sort it out as fast as I can...)

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Some of them look odd in the gallery, but click them and you'll see the real thing :). Oh - and when I made the woman with the moon sickle I had lunafishin mind, so if she'd claim that one I'd rather nobody else did.

Comments

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Ahhh-- look at that pretty background. Your journal is just getting so very beautiful-- it's like a piece of art of itself. :-)
I nicked 'leaves' and 'marigold' and kept my fingers off the others. I'll copy your idea and make icons out of the art I love the most. Doesn't have to be Snape all the time...

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your help, Sylvana! I would never have been able to figure these things out by myself... I tried a lot of different things with my own art, but I couldn't get it to look decent. Now Morris's wallpaper turns out to look just as good on LJs as on walls, so that stays :). You are a Morris fan too, then, by the look of the icons you picked?

I'm looking forward to your art icons!

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult. First, I don't have your eye for cropping. Second, my fav art is mostly expressionist, cubist and abstact. It looks so ... confusing if you select a small part from that... But it's a lot of fun.
At the moment I'm on a little Holbein trip, since there's a Holbein exhibition in Basel and I'm rather miffed that I won't have the time to go and look...

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Yes, some things definitely work better than others... Much as I love black and white, it's a lot more difficult to make an attractive b/w icon than to make a coloured one. Then, also, pictures that allow you to zoom in to a detail yield better results than others. If you try (or have to) show too much, it just doesn't look good. You have to 'say' a lot in a small space. Sometimes it doesn't matter that the image isn't recognisable, but at other times it does.

But it's certainly fun to experiment :). The red horse certainly looks good! (Is that Die Brücke? I'm an ignoramus when it comes to Expressionism, though I do like it.)

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

It's 'Blaue Reiter' actually. The horse is by Franz Marc. I love his paintings.

[stephanie206.livejournal.com]

Doesn't have to be Snape all the time...

WHAT?!? I don't believe it. Nope, not for a second! ;D

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Giggle. You mean that's bad for my obsession? ;-)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. Now that icon...

*dies laughing*

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Heheh. That has been floating in my head for a while. I finally made it over the weekend. Take it if you want it. I think I'll upload it to that icon site, too.

[stephanie206.livejournal.com]

Nothing that feeds a Snape obsession can possibly be bad.

I <3 your icon oh-so-muchly.

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-)
That icon is up for grabs. I put it on the Snape icon archive, too. S

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Oh! And now you have a Beardsley icon too! Whee! :)

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Wonderful Holbein icon sylvana! I've seen the version of this painting in the Louvre. *icon love*

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I so wish I could go to Basel and see the exhibition. It's not too far from where I live.

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Just spotted the Snape wig icon too *laughing* That was one hot Texas tango video. Phew! And I've only seen the screencaps.

So you live in Germany? Your Holbein icon prompted me to finally finish some spoof Holbein tribute art that I've been at for 5 years
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32349099/
*more Holbein love*

What a pity you can't go to see the exhibition. Perhaps you can get hold of the catalogue or something to make up for it. That's what I did when I couldn't get to a Matisse and fabrics exhibition last year in London.

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

That Spoof looks great! What fun!
Great idea with the catalogue, I'll try that.

And that Texas tango is to blame for all those too many Tango scenes in Snape fics, I think.