Institutuional Discipline...

...But what KIND of institution?  You decide!

Hi folks.  Every now and then somebody sends me a picture or piece of writing which inspires me and demands to be adapted and perhaps extended in some way.  It might be something entirely innocent but which nevertheless can be interpreted - or be able to be interpreted - in an entirely different way.  And such was the case with the image I received in my email yesterday (many thanks for that, Robin!).  As always we must assume all are of marriageable age (I hate that term, but one has to use it, as I often do in my discipline / corporal punishment / spanking writing, to avoid the unwanted attentions of Plod).  Click to enlarge (obviously)

Now changing the colour of an object or item of clothing, say - which was the original request in this case; changing the colour of the gymslips from navy blue to bottle green - is usually the easy bit. Although yesterday's thing turned out to suffer all manner of complications, because of all those bright highlights and deep shadowing.  And the are limits. 

For example, when I took it a stage further for my own amusement, added a nurse figure (which you'll have seen before) and rearranged things, although I was happy enough initially I then decided I wanted to make the nurse's dress navy blue.  But try as I may I couldn't get it the blessed thing dark enough without all manner of defects becoming visible.  The dress was originally a sort of light sea green and the image came from a catalogue which I scanned a good few years back. The colour change was partly to disguise the source - I have navy blue versions I could have used directly.  I suspect the defects which become visible are likely artifacts from the scanning process, some kind of aliasing caused by moire patterning due to an interaction between the scanning and the fine detail in the fabric itself. 

I am not sure why exactly why - something you might like to discuss perhaps - but I would definitely have preferred navy blue if I had been able to achieve it. I would like her to look a little older too, but still attractive (that seems to be important, too). That's not the model's original face of course.  It's an amalgam of three different faces and hair using features of each.  And the cap has been changed too. It originally had a straight flat top.  One approach I could have tried - and has worked in the past - is to desaturate the image to black and white monochrome first, and then colourise it.  I might give that a try at some point, but for now it's back to the writing.  

I have discovered a really cheap but quiet and well kept pub down the road a ways in Tottenham.  Called 'The Elbow Room', one can get a pint of fine hand-pulled real ale there for a thoroughly reasonable £2.10 (£1.95 on Tuesdays).  AND they have a loyalty car