Venetian Arch Postcard

This is my entry for the Gothic Arches challenge this week where the theme is "Correspondence".

Schools of Thought

Phrenology. Hum... I definately had to look this up. This subject being the theme for this week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge ; I had no idea what it was- so learning something new was great! Phrenology is a belief that personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. Considered a fringe or pseudo-science, believers contend that the mind has a set of different mental faculties, with each particular faculty represented in a different area of the brain (hence the numbering) . My digital collage postcard is blended with antique map images and human figure (flickr -free) with added artistic filters in Photoshop.

Fire and Ice - Imbolc

This is my entry for the 4x4 Friday Challenge which focuses on the midwinter sabbat of Imbolc. This is a time of turning ; the season turning from ice to the slow warming of the sun- renewing life and new growth. My image (Dover) represents Brigid dreaming of the returning sun while signs of winter (ice crystals) are still present.

The Journey

This is my entry for The Three Muses Challenge this week (Quotes and Quips) which required that we create art around one of our favorite quotes. I am not sure who originally coined the phrase "It is not the destination but the journey" and it has been rephrased in numerous ways- but I like what it says. Isn't it truly what we learn and experience along our path (metaphorically and real) that really matters. If and when we do reach our "destination" we are bigger and better than when we set out-having grown from the experience.
I created this piece using a personal photo I took (from a road trip 30 years ago to the Grand Canyon) symbolizing someone young , inexperienced and with an open road ahead. Looking back I remember wondering where the Canyon was; (as it was we fell into it at the end of this road) and we had in fact been "there" the whole time. Good times.

Games People Play

This is my entry for the Mixed Media Monday Challenge " Games People Play" theme. This is a digital collage using a rubber stamp image (Lost Coast Designs) game board background, chess and domino images (personal photos cropped , colored and layered). Artistic brushes in Photoshop.

Weathered Beauty

This is my entry for the Sunday Postcard Art Challenge where the theme is "Time". This digital collage represents age worn beauty in art and architecture that actually captures a (timeless) sense of beauty and story. Generations past and present relate to the visual impact of a piece transcending the years of weathering. Through time art becomes "relevant" for the observer.

A Day With the Gulls

When I saw the theme for this week's 4x4 Friday (A Boy and a Bird) I right away thought of a photo I had taken of my son who was 2 at the time and some seagulls and how he was fascinated by them. I overlayed the photo after cropping onto a background (artist papers - Christine Adolph) and added fresco and paint daubs filters. A sort of digital scrapbooking.