It’s the third Thursday of the month, and it’s time for me to post a selection from My Secret Stash–sketchbook drawings, comics roughs, reference photos, and other marginal stuff– on Patreon.
David Chelsea is listening to:
The Cuckoo’s Calling
by Robert Galbraith
This month, it’s a selection of pieces from one of my side preoccupations, kaleidoscopic designs created in Photoshop. My usual practice is to scour the Internet for images that promise to generate interesting patterns when repeated infinitely in kaleidoscopic symmetry. This post tells you a little bit about my interest in these kind of designs, and my method for creating them.
Just occasionally, I like to create these patterns from images with nudity or directly sexual content, because why not? Totally NSFW, of course, but your boss may have some trouble identifying them as such once I give them kaleidoscopic treatment.
Here are members of the dance troupe Pilobolus in a very chilly group hug. As a kaleidoscopic pattern, they look more like an assembly of mutant frogs:
Appropriately enough, a kaleidoscopic version of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s painting The Turkish bath looks like a pattern for an Oriental rug:
A Diane Arbus photo of a rather square-looking nudist couple morphs into some fine 1960s psychedelia:
I like this screen capture from Paris Hilton’s notorious sex tape, not for its erotic content, but for its acid green palette (the result of shooting in night vision). I think the results would have pleased William Morris:
You can see these examples and many more full-sized (and download them as well- I happen to think they make fine desktop monitor images) on my Patreon page. Unfortunately, Patreon does not seem to have the ability to create albums, so I have just posted the images individually. Also in this batch: Egon Schiele, Tonya Harding, Abu Graib, Naked Mole Rats, John & Yoko, Marilyn Chambers and John Holmes, Last Tango In Paris, Nastassia Kinski and a snake, and Scarlett Johansson’s selfie.
Membership has its privileges; all Secret Stash material is viewable by Patreon sponsors at the $4.99 level and above.
And while you’re there, check out last month’s Secret Stash- NSFW envelopes, and 1970s flyers from Portland’s Storefront Theater, and the free content- two new comic stories featuring Snow Angel, and a sketchbook comic from 1974 featuring Piggola.
