Flying Horse

This is my fabric postcard for SPA challenge "Fabric". This is a photo of a section of an art quilt that I have been working on (forever) . This section of quilt is made up of Batik fabrics (Andover), decorative machine stitching and an enamel flying horse piece that I found at a bead show. I love to sew but it is so hard to get into it in the summer. Once fall rolls around I will try to get back to it. I started this quilt long before I was blogging- so we'll see!

Twilight

This is my entry for Inspire Me Thursday "Owl". This is a digital collage made from scanned images with artistic filters. A great horned owl at twilight overlooks the forest.

Red Flowers

This is a digital collage made up from photos of some beautiful red flowering bulbs (can't remember the name!) that have bloomed in my yard recently. When I saw TGIF's theme of "RedFlowers" it prompted me to take some photos! There were some great shadows on the petals but the background was gritty so I erased it out leaving a hint of the display.

Paintscape

This is my entry for The Three Muses challenge this week which is "Surreal". This was a wonderful challenge for me as I'm always trying to make "sense" of things and by the definition of surreal - things are dreamlike or non-sensical. In this digital collage I tried to import elements that would represent an underwater dream world that is controlled and "painted" by a presence outside of that world. The woman appears a bit captive yet in awe of her strange but colorful world. When creating this piece it was hard to distinguish fantasy from surrealism and I really want to try to explore and work on this form of art expression some more . Totally fun!

In The Garden

This is a digital ATC collage for TMTA "In The Garden". It is made from a photo of my grapevine trellis from my yard as the background and I added a page from one of my faerie journals.

Nesting

This is my entry for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge- "Nests". It is a digital collage made up from scanned AB decorative paper images, my photo of some quail eggs digitally altered and I scanned the definition from a dictionary erasing out the background.

I got to thinking about "nests" per se and beyond the traditional definition, the word has a deeper and changing meaning in our lives. We leave the nest (fledge) when we are ready, we then (build )a nest for our own young , they leave us with an (empty) nest, and into our later years we build our nest (egg)-retirement. Kind of a wonderful full circle aspect of our lives!

Bouquet Tag

This is my entry for the Tag It On Challenge "Say It With Flowers". I cut out flower shapes from decorative paper and formed tags. I then rubber stamped (Martha Stewart line) fern images in mauve and peacock green inks. The background display is a decorative iron piece in my home. I added a posterized effect to this photo from photoshop for a painting/poster feel.