Midnight Fae

Dark Faeries are the subject here for the Art on the Darkside Challenge this week.  Not entirely sinister but perhaps a bit mischievous this fairy is out and about on bright moonlit night after midnight.

 

Imagery credits go to Vintage blog, Hollie and Beth at Deviant Scrap, old script from Dover and photoshop painting and brushes.

Pole Star

This is my entry for the challenge at The Three Muses this week "outside the frame/birds".  And a challenge this was!  The wonders of digital art and the tools of Photoshop lend the magic to make fanciful dreams come true.  Layers and layers on top and underneath; outside and in; create a sense of depth and expanding outside the confines of your picture.  Not an easy task but fun!  I learned how to get rid of those dreaded border lines around my art in (advanced settings for blogger template) and I created the piece 12x12 on a complete black background so to fade into the background color of my blog. Hence creating an effect of floating or moving beyond the frame.  Imagery credits go to Dover Books, Beth Rimmer and Hollie at (Deviant scrap) and photoshop brushes.

Portrait

  Lots of layers and elements bring back a time of elegance and reminiscence.  Imagery from Magic Moonlight, Christine Renee overlay and photoshop brushes.

My Heart Belongs to You

This is my entry for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge where the theme is "My Heart Belongs to You" in honor of Valentine's Day.  This is a digital collage that I created for my husband this year (still a surprise) and printed it up on glossy Photopaper and framed.  Imagery credits go to Dover books, graphic 45 papers, Lorie Davison at scrapbookgraphics and personal postage stamps and ephemera from my collection.
HappyValentine's Day to all!

Rendezvous

This is my entry for the 4x4friday challenge "Heart and House" with a little Valentine's Day feeling to it! A digital collage with multiple layers and imagery from Dover Books (the wonderful Edward Lear), Lorie Davison , Graphic 45 and Rosey Posey/Murphy( row houses).  All elements blended in PSE, multiply and gradient filters applied.  Love is in the air!

Magic and Mayhem

Rooms may be

using us.  We

may be the agents

of doorknobs'

purposes, obeying

imperatives china

dreams up or

pacing dimensions

determined by

cabinets.  And if

we're their instruments-
the valves of their
furious trumpets,
conscripted but
ignorant of it-
the strange, unaccountable
things we betray
were never our secrets
anyway.
               Kay Ryan

Imagery credits go to Finecrafted designs with Michael DeMeng , Holliewood,  Downunder Studios and Lorie Davison at Deviant Art and Graphic 45 paper.

Pathways

I recently got a wonderful new digital kit from Finecrafted Designs at Deviant art entitled "warrior women" and this is my tribute to Joan of Arc using imagery from the new kit, personal photos, vintage botanical prints and imagery from Rebecca McMeen and Christine Rennee.

"The path of the Warrior
is lifelong
and mastery is often simply
staying on the path"....... Richard Strozzi Heckler


Wise words and thoughtful ones. When you get to my age (57) you tend to look back at your past and reflect on whether you followed your early pathways of young adulthood or not. Many do and I admire the ability to find your calling early on and pursue with gusto. But some of us take a more labyrinthian course , a few twists and turns along the way (keeping life interesting)... I think we all eventually get to the center of the maze becoming the people we are, shedding some armor and gaining insight towards who we really are. I may not have followed (some) of my dreams as they were not particularly realistic but I created new pathways when I came to a dead end resulting in an ever-evolving quest.