pat625: thank you .
oldmangrumpy: thank you, that's nice to hear. edit: and i keep forgetting to write it, but i think you're all underestimating the power of pete seeger's (and joe hickerson's) work - at least here in sweden new generations still learn that song, it's a classic.

If I may digress. . .

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

It seems I heard Peter, Paul & Mary sing it mostly. I was surprised to find out how many people and groups had a rendition of it.

Great song!
Subject: Poster Art

Thanks Pat, sad lovely song.

pat625: peter, paul and mary sang the first version i ever heard, but my dad sang the best one - or at least the one i loved most, which isn't necessarily the same thing... this is turning into a real nostalgia thread !

Pat625 Ahhhhh..... memory lane! I have so loved that song for so long. Don't care which singer I was listening to, I just loved it!

All I did was ask where have all the paisleys gone .... well they are back. Here you are Anmal, 'path blend' and your fabulous paisley patterns.

well, I found Aladdin's lamp, but. . . . instead of a genie, I got:

Pat625 - just so innovative and attractive; very well done.

Thank you so much. I keep trying to find something different, but i'm not too artsy so lacking skills.

Pat, What a nice outcome!

Thank you Issabella.

Hello AnMal,

Thank you! Yes, my paisley is made up from a fractal brush (hawksmont.abr-001), which at the time, was the closest thing I had to a paintbrush paisley. I used glass bubble texture for the background

pat625: ooooh, i love your version of aladdin's lamp! if i found aladdin's lamp and rubbed it it would certainly look something like your picture . stop saying you're not creative, though - its quite obvious you are creative, or you wouldn't compose nice looking images the way you do.

oldmangrumpy: your latest has a really nice volume to it - it's like advanced origami out of shiny paisley patterned paper or something.

liz-ard: i thought it looked rather fractally . nice use of the brush!

My intentions were to make a path blend image for that thread. All of my creations looked like nonsense until I remembered a tried and true friend. . . .the Paisley!

Pat625 - that is a really beautiful image Pat; cannot go wrong with paisley ... and you were asking me to write tuts ... now its your turn

And what's all this about you not being artistic?

Anmal - thank you; it's all about your patterns.

OMG: Thank you very much. I am trying to learn. We older folks must keep our minds active!!!

pat625: very nice effect! it would be fun to play with this as a whole pattern, with lots of units like these spread out over a big surface. and it would be fun to play with different gradients too.

finally! i got my path blending to render really neatly and with the resulting paisley i made this little thingy that won't be of any at all use to me but that i just love . rainbow paisleys, woooohooo!

Very nice AnMal. I understand your joy. I just recently have had some success with the Path Blend script. I really had to play with it to see just how it works!