I am a big art Deco fan, and thought it would be fun to start a thread here in Gimp Chat.
A brief description

Art Deco (/ˌɑrt ˈdɛkoʊ/), or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s, flourished internationally during the 30s and 40s, then waned in the post-World War II era.[1] It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colors, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation.

As lame as it looks to me now, this is one of the first Deco wallpapers I made and posted years ago

Here is one I did with messing around with different glass textures and patterns

Kind of lame when I look at it now

This is one that people seemed to like using the Plastic and glass plugin I got from here. Its simple, but I think the females liked it, kind of a modern plastic deco look

I know very little, and dont really follow astrology, but I thought the theam would go well with art deco.
This is my sign, I think it turned out pretty good

This is one I am currently working on, thought I would post it and see what you think
I am having a hard time deciding which colors to use for the glass, is it to bright?

I would love to see some other peoples Art Deco, made with gimp

Thank you so much Norseman143, I think that it's going to be a very nice thread. I love many of your posts.

Agree with Issabella. The colors are bright and shiny. Could lighten up the gloomiest of days!

excellent outcomes, Norseman !
probably OMG (and his ...girl-pupils Pat and Issabella) will provide input to this thread

OK Norseman143, if you love art deco then you have probably heard of Napier in New Zealand, which has a significant art deco heritage. Here is my contribution (of course in glass right now) of a replica of one of these little mushroom things they have standing in the main streets -



Dinasset ... you stole my thunder

@Norseman143: I like Art Deco . Very nice stuff so far Norseman143, my favourite out of yours is the first one I think.

@Oldmangrumpy: Very nice outcome OMG, you have good skills with those plug-ins!

Hallo Norseman143,
I would love to do it, but alone I would never the idea how do it. I need more Tutorials for it and more exercise with like tools Bevel Reflect Logo.

Here my first try. I tried to do it the closest to the idea in this thread. Thanks Norseman143.

Issabella - very authentic and of course well composed

Norseman143 - I think you have now weened me off glass effects ... well almost anyway; I am an Art Deco neophyte, so looked at some art deco posters from NZ and borrowed some ideas ...



I am sure somebody will advise if it does not comply with the style and I admit there are some jagged edges, but it is a start

I think thats a great example of Art Deco, it looks great. I really like the green effect you have on the frame

Thanks, I did that about 3 years ago, and posted it on the wallpaper site I belong to
I think all I did was used gradients and beveled it. I was just learning Gimp back then

Its really not that hard, If I can do it, anyone can. I make mine on a 1366 by 768 canvas because thats the size of my screen, which is huge, so you notice every mistake ha ha

I would suggest just googleing art deco, and you will see a lot of examples to give you Ideas. Or think of the Chrysler building or the Empire state building

There is a lot of metal and glass, which makes it so good with Gimp. There is a plastic and glass plug in, that works really good with getting art deco effects
You can find a lot of patterns if you go to Fontspace and try find catys deco dings, and another one which I cant really remember the name right now, but, you can download them and make brushes with them, and plat around with the different effects, its really fun

That looks really good, I really like the glass effects you got going there

There are many people who dont really know what art deco is. But what you have is perfect example of art deco art
If you went to any art deco building, that would fit perfectly