Three Muses: Altered Photo

Image credits: last door down the hall, harper designs, dover designs, graphicsfairy.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have a healthy, safe, and fulfilling year.

Take a Word: Numbers

Three Muses: Mail Art

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Take a Word: Red and Green

Women (altered) are from Tumblefish Studios. All patterns are mine.

Three Muses: Lighthouse

Black and white lighthouse image from graphics fairy. Background adapted from my photo of sunrise at the beach in North Carolina.

Sunday Postcard Art and Take a Word: Winter

Collage Obsession: Black Dress

 Fun challenge! The original dress form image (altered by me) is from Graphics Fairy.

Three Muses: VintageGothic Arch

Take a Word: Angel

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I was on my iPad when I saw this week's challenge theme, which prompted me to use a drawing app to try to create a piece for the theme. After I drew the angel, I embellished her in Photoshop Elements with more color and my own drawn/painted patterns, and added a background adapted from my own design. Time-consuming, but such fun on a gray and rainy Saturday!

(Sorry for the multiple postings for this piece.Operator error!)

Collage Obsession: Smile

I love the soft smile on this woman's face. Her image is adapted from a Moonlight Magic Studio image.  The flowers are from a photo of mine.

Three Muses: Whirls, Twirls, and Splatters

 

Dancer image: Lisa's Altered Art. Frame: Holliewood studios.

Take a Word: Doors

 

 These houses were digitally collaged with my own patterns and patterns from other sources.  The doors are scanned chipboard doors from Maya Road, altered by me.

Collage Obsession: Fascination

Image credits: last door down the hall, dover designs, holliewood.

Three Muses: Silhouette

Stork image adapted from joessistah. Background consists of two photos that I took at Yellowstone, blended together. I love the way the water in the background peeks through the silhouette and suggests feathers! Another happy accident :).

Take a Word: Organic

In this digital collage, I layered and blended a botanical tulip drawing from vintage moth with an original leafy doodle of my own. The original botanical print was in sepia tones with a little yellow; my leafy sketch was in shades of green on a red background. I like the way the colors of my sketch peek through the flowers, and the way my vines provide a delicate, neutral background for the piece. A fun experiment!

Sunday Postcard Art: Mustaches

Statue image (altered): holliewood.

Collage Obsession: Headdress

Quite a challenge this week! We were to incorporate a "headdress" into our collages, taking inspiration from hairdo's of the past. I love these unusual themes, though they tend to keep me up late at night, fooling around with Photoshop Elements. Image of the woman below from magazineart.org. Beehive image from Google images. Bees from Graphics Fairy. Alterations by me :).

Three Muses: Time Quote

I couldn't resist using a circus-related quote for this challenge, since I haven't done a circus themed piece in quite awhile (and, as you know, I love them).

Image credits: vintage-images.com, last door down the hall.

Take a Word: Mona Lisa

This is always one of my favorite themes. Each time I have to think harder to come up with a "new" Mona.

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Sunday Postcard Art: Shoes

Sometimes even a rabbit needs a little help. Image credits: graphicsfairy, google images, holliewood.

Collage Obsession: Transportation

"Training Wheels"

Storks from joessistah, background from deviant scrap.

Three Muses: White Space

This week we were asked to leave some "white space" in our collage (doesn't have to be white, but an open area of one color). This was a real challenge for me! (I like pattern and colors and embellishments). So I stepped a tiny bit outside my comfort zone. Here's my "blue-gray  space" collage. Image credits: holliewood designs.

Take a Word: Pink

Image credits: dover designs, lisa's altered art, hero arts

Sunday Postcard Art: Games

 

This was fun!!! Image credits: Google images.

Collage Obsession: Long Hair

An unusual and fun theme for Collage Obsession this week: Long Hair. My collage features a mermaid stamp that I carved (I gave her some temporary hair extensions to fit the theme), and digitally layered Gelli print backgrounds.

Three Muses: Freestyle/ Art

This week the Three Muses have challenged us to create a freestyle collage, using the word "art" in some way. My contribution is shown below. Background is my design.

Sunday Postcard Art: Labels

Sunday Postcard Art has an original theme this week: Labels. Here's my digital collage.

Farewell to Soartful: Owl Challenge

After five inspiring years, the Soartful Challenge is ending. I loved being part of the design team with Patti, Peggy, and Sheila, but it was time for us to move on to other creative endeavors. The final theme is "Owls."  Below is my collage. Owl drawing is mine.

Collage Obsession: Bride

I'm glad Halloween is tomorrow, because I'm ready to move on from the dark, creepy collages I've been creating! Here's the last one, for Collage Obsession's theme of "Bride."
Main image (altered) from Flickr Creative Commons (WinterStephan).

Digital Whisper: Web

This is for the Digital Whisper challenge, a new one I'm participating in. The web image was from Google search, the patterns are mine. I applied many filters/effects/blending modes, some by accident :)

Sunday Postcard Art: Orange and Black

"The Fashionable Pumpkin"

(Inspired by a great TV show, "Orange is the New Black.")

Three Muses: Shades of Blue

 

Image credits: finecrafted designs

Sunday Postcard Art: "Monster Mash!"

I remember this song well! And there was a dance to go along with it. Here are my monster-y ladies doing their version of it. Image credits: magazineart.org (altered).

Collage Obsession: Raven

Silhouette image of raven provided by Collage Obsession; patterns are mine.

Three Muses: The Printed Word

"Well Read"

Image credits: graphicsfairy

Sunday Postcard Art: Potion

Take a Word: Umbrella

 

Image credits: lisa's altered Art, rubyblossom

Collage Obsession: Shades of Orange

Image credits: mediamilitia, graphicsfairy, kim klassen texture

Sunday Postcard Art: Spooky

I can hardly believe it's October already! Sunday Postcard Art has challenged us to make "spooky" art. Here's my attempt.

"Order of the Opus Gluei" challenge: Time

During my break, I started creating mini-collages with some of my Gelli prints (they were taking over my house!). So I thought I'd enter a couple of "hands-on" art challenges in addition to digital ones. This one is for the "Opus Gluei" challenge theme of "Time."
The collage was hand-created with altered map and clock images, Gelli print strips, and altered chipboard for the dimensional clock. I added the word "Time" digitally.

 

I'm Back! Presenting Collage Obsession: Diva

I'm finally back after my long break. I missed my online friends so much that I just had to jump back into the challenges after my busy summer. I decided, however, not to continue on the design teams for Collage Obsession and Soartful. This will give me more time to devote to the hands-on art I've been doing lately, in addition to participating in some of the digital challenges again. Thanks to all my blogging friends who kept in touch with me!

Here's my collage for this week's Diva challenge at the newly revived Collage Obsession site. Thank you, Kirsi, for keeping this challenge going. We were given the image of the woman, and I added the animals (divas themselves, apparently) and other touches.

Soartful Challenge: Eyeglasses/Spectacles

It's my turn again to host the Soartful challenge. Here's my creation for the month of August--see if you can spot all of the eyeglasses!  Please stop by Soartful and participate, or just browse the creative art that people are posting.

Taking a Break

To my faithful readers:

It just occurred to me that I haven't posted anything on this blog for a while. Hopefully this hiatus will be temporary. This is quite a busy summer for me. Among other things, I've been preparing to lead another Gelli workshop this Friday; getting ready for our son's August wedding in Austin (designing rehearsal party invitations and photo displays); and doing lots of fun homework for Joanne Sharpe's latest online lettering class (see below). So, digital art has taken a lower priority than usual. Hopefully I'll be back to blogging in the fall, maybe with a somewhat broader focus.

Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Three Muses: Bicycle and Something Yellow

Image credits: graphics fairy (cyclists)

Soartful Challenge: Feathers!

A new monthly challenge at Soartful starts today! Please join in, and check the challenge blog to see the beautiful art that will be created!

 

Image credits: harper designs, lisa's altered art, graphicsfairy, joessistah, my ocean photo.

Three Muses: Vintage Family

I think I'm glad I'm not related to these people...

"Extended Family"

Image credits: last door down the hall.

Take a Word: Altering Mona

Our challenge this week is to alter the Mona Lisa in some way. I've transported her into Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss," where she seems quite blissful.

Sunday Postcard Art: Put a Hat on It!

Image credits: dover designs, graphicsfairy, deviant scrap

Three Muses: Dancers

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Image credits: lisa's altered art, joessistah, my flower photo.

Sunday Postcard Art: Frida Kahlo

Image credits: Window image by Irene Alexeeva. Sketch and patterns are mine.