Digital Whisper Challenge: "Rose"

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I'm ending my wonderful birthday by posting my digital collage for this week's Digital Whisper challenge. We were given the image of the rose. I loved creating this piece--the mood it put me in, the colors I used, and the mood it expresses.

Three Muses Challenge: "Things With Wings"

This one was such fun. No particular image was provided; we just had to use the "wings" theme.

Image credits: Circus scene: artefacts; butterfly wings: Dover; elephants: Search Press, Ltd.

Collage Obsession Challenge: "Man"

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This is my entry for this week's Collage Obsession challenge on the theme of "Man." The image of the gentleman was provided (shown below my digital collage). I used his slightly bulging belly and foppish demeanor as inspiration. Those of you with sharp eyes may be able to see that I "enhanced" the roundness of his tummy using (appropriately) the "Bloat" setting in the Photoshop Elements Distort/Liquify filter.

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

So-Artful Challenge: "What Shall I Wear to the Witches' Ball?"

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For this challenge, we were given an image of an eerie woman with a spider, to inspire a Halloween-themed piece of art. I used the spider image (see if you can find it) and a different image of a woman, giving the digital collage a fashion theme.

Credits: graphicsfairy, Pringle Hill Studio, Dover Designs, vintage moth, Just Something I Made.

Happy Early Halloween!

Art Creations Friday Challenge: Girl With Pitcher

Well, it's getting harder to keep up with all these challenges! I didn't realize how many there were, and quite a few contributors (mostly women) seem to participate in all of them-- they're an amazingly talented group. Guess I didn't know what I was getting into :)...

Here's the digital collage I did for Art Creations Friday. We were given the image of the girl carrying the water pitcher. Other image credits are: Map: graphicsfairy; willow tree: artfreebies; stone texture: Dover; stucco texture: grunge textures; flowers: miss rheas.

Theme Thursday Challenge: "Pink"

To honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Theme Thursday's challenge this week was to create a piece of art with a "pink" theme. http://themethursday.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/thursday-challenge-pink/ .We were to choose our own images to use. This digital collage is my contribution.

An interesting note: After I placed the pink ribbon around the ladies and blended the layers, I realized there was a similarly styled (gray) ribbon around the neck of the lady in the center. I hadn't noticed that before...serendipitous. So of course I tinted it pink.

Image credits: Group of women: artefacts; Pink ribbon brush stamp: easyelements.

Three Muses Challenge: "Vintage"

For this challenge (http://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/three-muses-vintage-week-72.html) , I used a portrait of my maternal grandmother, Beckie Fox, as the centerpiece of my digital collage. I've been thinking a lot about her since last week, when our art journaling teacher asked the class to create a page on the theme of "a place we used to go, but no longer have access to." I immediately chose to write and create art about "Grandma's Kitchen." Beckie was born in Eastern Europe and came to the United States in the early 1900's. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband Harry, raising five daughters (whose families also remained in Baltimore), and becoming very active in the local Jewish community (and a fabulous cook).

I've been starting to create digital collages with some of the many "heritage" photos that are now in my possession, and this is one of my favorites so far.