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

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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

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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.