MACJR'S Pages for Tammy-Vicky

— Overnight Transmutation —

2016 Updated Version

A Diamond Rose for Tammy-Vicky

If I had magical powers, and the cash to buy you some fresh cut flowers, I would send you a bouquet of mixed flowers, and have them transmute into gold and silver as you slept that night.

I sent you a wallpaper of a larger cut of this work, way back when. That wallpaper probably looks rather faded on your screens these days though. This version of, the newly titled, Overnight Transmutation, has had the contrast levels boosted up and the bright levels lowered a bit.

This work is actually a failed piece of art. I was originally trying to turn the flowers into gold, but I could never get them to look right. The silver version turned out better, but the goal was to have the larger flowers and foliage in gold, while having the smaller flowers silver, making it look like a river of silver small flowers running between the larger gold flowers and foliage. But, as I said, the gold parts never turned out right, no matter how hard I tried. I found it much easier to turn a single flower and stem into gold, but I never mastered turning a whole bunch of flowers into gold, all at once. Oh well.

In the end, I merged one of my better gold and silver merged efforts into a copy of the original photo to make something different, which is what I made into that wallpaper image and sent to you for your birthday, privately, back in 2007. I never did post a copy of the original version of this work online. Now, I have posted this new version of Overnight Transmutation online, but only here on these private pages.

Love,

Michael A. Crane, Jr.
January 08, 2016