All at sea

Our most recent game of Connections was entitled Boat. Jenny provided the starting image and gave general guidance for us to follow as the rounds progressed. Jenny, Pat, Erica, Linda, Liz and I took part and we were pleased Lesley could re-join us from Round 4.

Jenny asked us to combine Boat with an image of own choice in Round 3.  I added a lightship (see above top right) and admittedly became a bit obsessed with the cabin windows for a couple of rounds!  Seagulls, buoys, a street lamp in the shape of shells and two men in a boat were also used by other DOT members.

In Round 4 Jenny wanted to see some evidence of the original boat in our images (lest it had disappeared completely) and in Round 5 we could introduce nautical equipment, hence netting, rigging, floats, anchor, lighthouses and compasses were added.  This produced some interesting results and kept the game alive. In Round 6 we included words or poetry on a nautical theme which gave us a chance to do some research, manipulate text and play with words.  The final round asked for an impression of waves or water in our images so Erica was creating sea spray using text, Jenny used the paint brush tool and Linda added an image of choppy water. Pat, Lesley and I all used distort (liquify, twirl and wave) and Liz used rotation.

Many thanks to Jenny for her good choice of design criteria. Here are some of the images I produced this time around.