Inspiration Can Come from Anywhere: Part 2

In this section on “Inspiration Can Come from Anywhere”, I am going to write about the transition from room divider to poster image that the “Beware of Dog” panel went through.

To add more interest and to just have more fun, I decided to add a border around the original image of the “Beware of Dog”. This process took a lot of steps, but was a wildly rewarding part of the journey.

I work in Photoshop which I find far more entertaining than any computer game I have ever tried.

I took the photo of the “Beware of Dog” and set it up on a clipboard in Photoshop and started adding different widths and colors of borders until I was satisfied with how the whole arrangement looked.

Since I had used runes in the palms on the original image, I decided to create a series of runes out of coyote toe bones. I found the coyote toe bones at one of the shows in Tucson that happens during the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Let me tell you, there is a lot more than gems and minerals in Tucson during this series of shows that happens twice a year, but the best time to go is in February to the winter show.

There must be 40 different shows going on in Tucson at this time and there are some very interesting shows to see.

I found the coyote toe bones at the Electric Park show that is very near The Best Bead Show where Frantz Art Glass has a booth every year.

The Electric Park show has a very unique blend of rocks, butterflies, bones and what-nots for sale. I was really jazzed when I found the coyote toe bones because they were so beautiful and regularly shaped.

To create runes for the border of the poster image, I photographed the toe bones arranged to represent different runes. This went pretty smoothly, but it gave me chills while I was taking the photos. As an after thought, I decided to take some photos of just single bones encase I came up with some way to use it later on.

Well, as it turned out, I went wild over the way the toe bones worked as runes and I decided to make a whole alphabet out of toe bones that I used to make a statement at the top of the poster image.

It was so intriguing to create the bone alphabet that I spent hours and hours making the letters and setting them up so that I could drag and drop them anywhere on my image. The statement that I placed at the top of the poster image goes like this: “The Wisdom of the Universe is Stored in Stones and Bones”.

To finish off the border design, I placed copper leaf palm prints in each corner of the poster image that have the same runes on them that occur in the original center image. The toe bone runes that cover three sides of the border are not arranged to create a group meaning, but instead are use for their separate essential meanings. I placed a couple of little runes in red at the end of the ‘stones and bones’ statement, just because it felt right.

Prints of “Beware of Dog” are available for purchase. Contact me through my website which you can reach by clicking on the dog logo at the top of this post.