Inspiration Avenue: Over the Rainbow

Here I combined a photo I took of the morning Montana sun peeking through clouds over the mountains and water, with a rainbow image I created. I gave it a pastel effect to soften the whole image.

So-Artful Challenge: Three Bears

My digital collage; cafe photo by Nelson Pollack

Image provided by So-artful/Dezinaworld

 

 

 

 

This was such an appropriate challenge for me this week. We ate many delicious meals at the "Three Bear" cafe in West Yellowstone, Montana last week. Looks like these patrons enjoyed the food too!

Take a Word: Wings

The lines of the bird are filled with my original patterns. Other image credits: deviant scrap, layersofcolor.

Collage Obsession: Surrealism, Using Old Collage

New Collage

 

 

 

Older Collage

For this challenge, we were asked to use one of our older Collage Obsession entries, in its entirety, in a new, surrealistic piece. I altered my "Music" digital collage by adding some very musical creatures.

Sunday Postcard Art: Happy Hour

Image credits: google images, milla, beth rimmer, dover, divas d'este.

"Glass" Collage

I created this digital collage for a Flickr group challenge where the theme was "Glass." The main image is from a photo I took a while ago of a colored glass window exhibit at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. The images of women are from Moonlight Magic Studios.

Theme Thursday: Numbers

Image credits: vintage moth, artfreebies, crowabout, holliewood, anna corba, firstfloorlflat, dover, flickr collage images.

Three Muses: Eggs

No doubt this digital collage was inspired by all the rain we've been getting here in Maryland. At least it's raining water here, not eggs!

Image credits: last door down the hall, deviant scrap, broderbund clipart, peggy gatto, google images, joessistah.

New Challenge! 52 Starlets: Maureen O'Sullivan

"Missouri's Lilac" has started a fun new challenge, using classic "starlets" as inspiration. http://starletschallenge.blogspot.com/

This week's theme is Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane in the early Tarzan movies. I altered a digital collage I had done some time ago (featuring a woman by Mucha surrounded by wild animals in a jungle) by adding Maureen's face. She fits right in! Most images are from Dover Designs.

Inspiration Avenue: Tropical

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For this digital collage, I used a scan of a mixed media collage I created some time ago and named "Rainforest." I blended the image with a background of tropical plants from Dover Designs. A very satisfying result.

Collage Obsession: Swans

Background image of lake in China: photo by Ryan Pollack.
Dancer and swan images: flickr creative commons.

Take a Word: Oriental (Two Versions)

For the top collage, I combined several Chinese images from Dover Designs.
I then used various PSE filters and effects to produce a different, softer effect in the second collage--almost like a tapestry.

Sunday Postcard Art: Dada/ Surrealist

This was a tough one for me. Way outside my comfort zone. I basically started combining random images and let them lead me where they wanted to go (the results are creepy, I know). Subconsciously I was aware that the Dada movement expressed anti-war sentiment, so that may be in this piece somewhere too. Anyone want to offer their interpretation of this strange concoction?

Image credits upon request.

So-Artful Challenge: Marie Antoinette

digital collage

original image

This week, Soartful challenged us to use a portrait of Marie in our art creation.  Other image credits: Holliewood.

Three Muses: Altering Mona

Our challenge this week was to alter an image of the Mona Lisa. In my digital collage, Mona is channeling her inner "Frida." Image credits: Google images.

Inspiration Avenue: Symbolic Art

Some time ago, I created a piece of Zentangle-inspired art in black and white. I realized after the fact that among the designs was an abstract Star of David, symbol of the Jewish faith. For this challenge, I took the star image, and used PSE 5 to add some of my original pattern fills. A very satisfying project.

So-Artful: Spanish Alley

original image

We were given the above image of a Spanish alley as inspiration. I decided to liven up the image with color, a beautiful woman, and some flowers. Image credits: dover, holliewood, wikimedia commons.

Take a Word: Chocolate

Mmmmm...such a yummy challenge. Image credits upon request.

Sunday Postcard Art: April Showers Bring May Flowers

 Happy Mother's Day to all! Image and brush credits for this digital collage: media militia, artzee chris, artfreebies, sunshine daisey, easyelements, obsidian dawn.

Also--if you're interested in seeing my latest portrait sketch, please stop by my previous blog post HERE It's Frida Kahlo, an intense and challenging subject!

Frida Kahlo Portrait

This is the latest graphite portrait sketch I've been working on in my Friday morning open studio class led by Carol Zika. I worked from a photograph by Imogen Cunningham. Sometimes when I draw portraits I get the distinct feeling the subject is staring at me (maybe saying something like, "My left eye is too big!"). Eerie...

For those who may not be familiar with Frida and her work, here's a Wikipedia link, she was a noted Mexican painter, known for her self-portraits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

Theme Thursday: Hands

Image credits: joessistah, jaqian (flickr creative commons), dover.

Three Muses: Stripes

Image credits: beth rimmer, graphicsfairy, dover, anna corba, holliewood.

Two Digital Collages

Collage Obsession: Strange Little People

my digital collage

  

original image

Rick St. Dennis provided us with the image of two children, which he encouraged us to use in a "strange" setting. I made them into carnival performers! Other image credits: vintage images, deviant scrap, fiddlette, flickr collage (mambus 2000).


Soartful: Image of Maude Feely (actress)

my digital collage

original image

We were challenged to use this image of the beautiful Ms. Feely in our art piece this week. I placed her in a stage setting, where I imagine she is very comfortable. Image credits: Paula Kesselring, fiddlette, beth rimmer.  

Take a Word: Exposed

This theme was a real challenge for me at first. I spent quite a while poring over my "library" of images. Then I remembered a site I'd recently discovered called magazineart.com, where images of vintage magazines are posted (for viewers' personal use, I presume). Here I combined the face and body from two different "Theatre Magazine" covers to get the desired effect. The mask is from njj4 (flickr creative commons). The final serendipitous effect was a  spotlight filter from Photoshop Elements.

Sunday Postcard Art: Weddings

The Pennywhistles, who also got married this week, were quite upset to be upstaged by William and Kate. Here they're demonstrating how much fun they had at their wedding.  Image credits: graphicsfairy, dover, last door down the hall.