Chrysalis

This is my entry for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week ( Insects). Multilayers of photo images (e-vint, Kit and kaboodle) over background from scrapbookgraphics. Inverted layers and color burn filters. Moths are a photoshop brush randomly scattered. She is caught up in a fluttering explosion of a cocoon awakening at dusk. A bit of a fractured, frozen dreamscape.

Firebird

This is my entry for the Digital Whisper challenge this week where the theme is "Movement". We were given an image that displayed what I saw as fire or a branch ablaze and interpreted it this way . I added wings and red gradient hues for a "Phoenix rising" kind of dance.

Luna Tarot

I never turn down the opportunity to explore the tarot and decided to make a digital tarot card for the theme at The Three Muses this week (cards). I made a whole set of tarot ( major arcana) last year when learning photoshop and with this new one I tried to incorporate a few of the new skills I have worked on. The Moon, decidedly feminine and luminous is represented here along with the wolf ( singing his song to the moon) in the greater cosmos in the background. I have always been drawn to this card for its symbolism and deep, mysterious connections to the rhythms of life.

The image is from Lunagirl, background from scrapbookgraphics, moon and wolf from wikimedia all cropped, colored and layered with multi filters added in Photoshop.

Jardin

This is my digital entry for the Mixed Media Monday challenge "Marie Antoinette". I decided to put Marie ( image from wikimedia) in a garden setting with the roses that she loved. The roses are a personal photo of my own flowers cropped and layered. The background is from scrapbookgraphics, ironwork from Lorie Davison and the ivy is a cool photoshop (special effects)brush that I added . Mixed multiply and gradient hues helped create a rich, shadowed color and effect.

Eve In the Garden

After making the "Naomi" piece I wanted to continue with the "Ancient" theme and was drawn to this image (wikimedia commons) and decided to explore the story of Eve with this digital collage. It is actually an image of Lilith with the serpent and I added vintage botanical clippings and multi digital overlays for the effect of a garden. Poor Eve - she has always been to blame for so many evils.... I like to think of her as the original goddess, one who had sensitivity and appreciation of all plants and animals , one who wasn't afraid of the wonders of the garden.

Naomi

This is my entry for the Digital Whisper challenge "Ancient" in which we were given a beautiful old scroll type texture (thanks Kimmie) that I used as a background for this piece. I added an image from e-vint along with script, digital beads and multply and soft light filters all blended and layered in Photoshop.

Moonshadow

I'm being followed by a moon shadow

moon shadow -moon shadow

leaping and hopping on a moon shadow

moon shadow - moon shadow

-Cat Stevens

This is my entry for the 4x4friday challenge this week. Digital collage with my own dragonfly background, free image from (e-vint). Moon photo googled and all images converted to black and white and digital overlay added for soft color.