THREE MUSES

This week SPRING is our theme for inspiration at the Three Muses.  Meet Martha whose head is bursting with excitement at the thought of it!

Credit to Beth Rimmer and Finecrafted Designs (both from Deviantscrap).

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TAKE A WORD

Marie has chosen HAT as our word for inspiration at Take A Word this week and that  reminded me of the very strange girl I saw the other day.  It was 4 o'clock so definitely time for tea but there she sat in the sunshine pouring herself an nicecool icecool Coke!  "Lovely hat", I said as I past by!

Credit to Beth Rimmer at Deviantscrap and Bluesse at Deviantart.

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THREE MUSES

 

Clowns

 

There's No Place Like Home

Alice's Place

I was having so much fun making HOUSE TAGs for the Three Muses, I made three.  Hope you like!

Credit to Beth Rimmer, Finecrafted Designs, Holliewood Studio and Irene Alexeeva.

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TAKE A WORD - ANGELS

This week Marie has chosen ANGELS as our word for inspiration at Take a Word and that reminded me of the strange sight I saw on my walk the other day.  It was raining cats and dogs and as I glanced up from beneath my umbrella I thought I saw a winged creature, soaked to the skin, and huddled before a small open fire.  I blinked and looked again but there was nothing there and I realized it must have been an angel OR perhaps indigestion!!!

Credit to Finecrafted Designs.

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THREE MUSES - ONE

This week Bev has chosen the theme of ONE at the Three Muses.  Here is my very frivolous interpretation on ONE.  Thanks for a great theme, Bev.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs.

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DIGITALMANIA - JOSEPH CORNELL

This week, across at Digitalmania, we are exploring the artist Joseph Cornell and his shadow boxes.  This is my interpretation on a digital shadow box.

Credit to Bluesse at Deviant Art.

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TAKE A WORD - GREEN

Marie has chosen GREEN as our word for inspiration at Take a Word this week and that reminded me of  St Patrick's Day and the Irish cousins!

Credit to Hidden Vintage for the shamrock and the Irish cousins.

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THREE MUSES - TWO

Marie has chosen TWO as our theme this week at the Three Muses and that reminded me of the lovely breakfast I had this morning.  A boiled egg and soldiers .... TWO of them!  Yum.  Yum.

Thanks Marie for helping me realise that the term boiled egg and soldiers wouldn't be a universal one.  So may I explain, for those who didn't see Marie's explanation.  Here in the UK children eat a soft boiled egg with finger sized slices of either buttered bread or toast (soldiers) which they dip into their egg.

Truth is I never did grow up ...... and apologies if I offended anyone!


Credit to Irene Alexeeva and Kubivet.

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TAKE A WORD - MASCULINE

This week Marie has chosen MASCULINE as our word for inspiration and usually at this point I get a little twinkle in my eye and create something quirky.  This week, however, I was in a different kind of mood entirely and wanted to just play in Photoshop.

So starting with a greyscale image of John Lennon I found on the web, I extracted him from the background, increased the brightness by around 50% to remove detail and to increase the light within his face, added contrast by around 10% for clarity before experimenting in colour variations until I created this lovely purple blue.  Finally, I  added a sharpen edges filter to lift and highlight and accentuate his bone structure and his signature round rimmed glasses.  Ta daa!

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DIGITALMANIA - STIELER

 

As a follow on from last week's look at layering and blending on Digitalmania, this week we used the portraits of Karl Joseph Stieler as stock to practice our new skills.

I chose this Stieler portrait to play with and ended up with two interpretations.  I chose the one above for the challenge on Flickr but thought I would show you the other one here too.

Credits can be found on my Flickr page.

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