Three Muses: Moon

 

Image credits: mediamilitia, holliewood, wikimedia commons, last door down the hall, rubyblossom.

Collage Obsession: Number 13

Our inspiration this week was to use the "unlucky" number 13 as our collage theme. My digital piece was inspired by ancient maps showing the fearsome creatures that a traveler might encounter in those times.

Image credits: ingrid taylar and ken ratcliff (flickr creative commons); holliewood; artefacts; dover; wikipedia.

Take a Word: Album

 I took the opportunity of this week's "Album" theme to create another digital heritage-themed collage. The background paper, label, and journaling background are from alluneed. I am almost positive the picture was taken by my father.

Sunday Postcard Art and Gothic Arch Challenges

 

The Sunday Postcard Art theme this week is Autumn Leaves, and Gothic Arch's is... Autumn. Hmmm, wonder why? :)  The digital collage above is for both challenges. Happy Autumn, everyone! I wish Autumn would stay forever and we'd never have to get into...(ugh) Winter.

Image credits: Woman's face is from my own watercolor sketch (for Jane Davenport's online "Supplies Me" class); other images from dezinaworld and digital whisper.

Nostalgic Collage: Gothic Arch/Vintage Image

http://nostalgiccollage.blogspot.com/
There's a "new" (or rather, renewed) challenge in town! The challenge this week was to create a collage using a Gothic arch image and a vintage image. Here's my digital collage contribution.

Image credits: joessistah, green paper. Lace digital brush is by "cs"--sorry, I don't have the full info.

Inspiration Avenue: Keys

 

Image credits: woman's face is from my own colored pencil sketch; soartful, dover, wikimedia commons, victorian vignettes, holliewood.

Three Muses: Doorway

Image credits: pringle hill studio, irena alexeeva, finecrafted designs; background photo of Chinese bamboo pathway by Ryan Pollack.

Collage Obsession: "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

Image credits to Holliewood Sweet Shoppe digital kit-- the perfect solution for this challenge!

Take a Word: Male

  

Few people are aware that famous circus strongman "Mighty Joe" McGraw had a soft spot in his mighty heart for his pet owl, whom he took everywhere (Oscar even had his own little matching set of luggage!).

Image credits: dezinaworld, taluulas, graphicsfairy, artfreebies, dover designs.

Sunday Postcard Art: Pierrot

A Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell'Arte whose origins are in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot

Image credits: magazineart.org (vintage Theater Magazine images); finecrafted, obsidian dawn.  

Three Muses Challenge: Autumn

Image credits: Dover, obsidian dawn.

Collage Obsession: Peace

This is such an appropriate theme for the anniversary of 9/11. To me, it is inexpressibly sad that peace is so elusive. But I can express my own hope, in the collage below.

Image credits: graphicsfairy, my own background photograph and rainbow.

Take a Word: Music

Image credits: artfreebies, wikimedia commons, graphicsfairy.

Sunday Postcard Art: "Pink"

 

The sketch of the young lady is my original art. The background is a digital collage I did for the recent "Summer of Color" challenge using pink. It includes a scan of a hand-textured journal cover I once made, and bird images from graphicsfairy.

Three Muses Challenge: Words

This week's challenge was to use words in any way we wished. Here's a quote I really like. Coincidentally, it concerns COLOR, something else I really like :). Credit for crayon image: Wikimedia Commons.

Inspiration Avenue: Patterns

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This piece may look like it "means" something heavy, but really I was just playing with patterns and shapes. The horizontal curved stripes are from a photo I took of the inside of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The diamond grid pattern is from a photo I took of an iron cafe chair in San Antonio. Part of the grid is filled with a pattern from a Hero Arts stone carving image. The outline of the "martial arts" fighting woman is from Broderbund Clip Art, and her lined crumpled notebook paper texture is from grungetextures. I like the contrast between her strong stance and the more fragile paper.

Take a Word: Butterflies

Image credits: "Embellished eye" design- my original art. Other credits: mediamilitia, dover, graphicsfairy.

Collage Obsession: Sloth

Rick is continuing with his seven deadly sins theme. This week is "sloth." As you can see, I've created quite a lazy group here.

Image credits: Background tree- my photo; other credits--dover designs, graphicsfairy.

Sunday Postcard Art: Jane Austen

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 Image credits: Google images, dover designs.