TAKE A WORD

RAVEN is our word for inspiration this week at Take a Word and that reminded me of the one I saw in my garden the other day!

Credit to Bluesse at Deviant Art, Irene Alexeeva and Finecrafted Design.

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THREE MUSES

This week we have WORD ART as our theme at the Three Muses and that, for some reason, had me stumped for a while, until my Muse, who knows me best,  reminded me of this little poem by Jenny Joseph.  And she is right of course, I do aspire to one day wearing that red hat!

Credit to Hidden Vintage, Holliewood Studio, Irene Alexeeva and Obsidian Dawn.

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DIGITALMANIA

INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF CSABA MARKUS

I found Markus a difficult artist to emulate as he has such a distinct and original style.  After a whole afternoon of trying I almost gave up but this Botticelli beauty just wanted to be reborn.  I chose a similar colour scheme to what Csaba Markus favours and concentrated on the hair as he often does.

However, this one took on a life of its own and my Muse wanted to give Mary an updated hairstyle and who am I to argue.  I 'cut' a square from a texture and used the warp tool to morph it into a modern day bob of hair for one side of her face.  Then duplicated, reversed, warped and morphed to create the other side.  Much adding of elements, duplicating, layering and blending later she began to look like a modern day beauty and I was fairly happy with the result.  I finished with a soft textured filter from Photoshop.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs, Playing with Brushes and Botticelli, of course.

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TAKE A WORD

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Our word for inspiration this week is NUMBERS and that got me thinking about how sometimes even counting on ONE is a difficult task ...... for a hungry little bird at least!  Hang on though ..... perhaps he ate this one up before I looked out of my window.    We shall never know!  :D

Credit to RubyBlossom for her generosity at Flickr.

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THREE MUSES

A bit late this week, but here at last, my contribution for Marie's theme of VINTAGE BATHING BEAUTIES at the Three Muses.

I wonder if she would be miffed to be described as vintage?   Well, she would have been considered at the height of fashion ....... 60 or so years ago!

Credit to the late Susie Que for sourcing the lovely '50s pin up girl and to Beth Rimmer for the backgrounds.

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TAKE A WORD

Marie has chosen TIME as our word for inspiration for this week and that made me think of SPRING TIME so here we are.  I wanted to 'tweak' this a little more but I ran out of TIME! 

Credit to Minette143, Ruby Blossom and Bluesse.

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THREE MUSES

I bet when John William Waterhouse painted this beautiful lady he never thought she would swap her gentle boat on the river for a trip on a steampunk airship with all the  trimmings.  Ahhh, the magic of Photoshop!   :D

Our theme across at the Three Muses is STEAMPUNK this week and this is my interpretation.

Credit to Marta Van Eck, Finecrafted Designs, Beth Rimmer and Mr Whiskers.

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TAKE A WORD

This week we are invited to create a SKINNY card for the Take a Word challenge and that reminded me of the other day when I heard music coming from my house as I came up the path with my shopping.  It sounded, for all the world,  as though there was some jazz jamming going on around my piano.  In my mind I saw trumpets and colour, cigarette smoke and happy dancers but ......... alas when I stepped through the door the piano lid was closed and the room was quiet.  Mmmmmmm I'll keep taking the tablets!

HAPPY EASTER one and all!

Credit to Finecrafted Designs.

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DIGITALMANIA

This week we are looking at the work of John Waterhouse at Digitalmania across at Flickr.  Now, in my opinion, Mr W just cannot be bettered so my inspiration was to create a little bit of 'something' using a section of his water nymphs.

Credit to Cali Designs and 'himself' of course!

DIGITALMANIA

This week, at Digitalmania across at Flickr,  Marie challenged us to take inspiration from the work of LK Perrella.  I liked her Faces and Folly series and created this by adapting, layering and blending a number of pictures by famous painters to create this Perrella inspired piece.  Perhaps you can recognise a bit of Van Gogh, a slice of Klimt and a touch of Botticelli hidden in this piece!

Credit to Dover.

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THREE MUSES

This week we have UMBRELLA as our theme at the Three Muses and that made me think about the song : Singing in the Rain.  This is my interpretation.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs.

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TAKE A WORD

It's almost Easter and Marie has chosen EGG as our word for inspiration at Take a Word this week and that reminded me that EGGs should avoid walls at all costs.  :D

I'm not sure where this came from but I'm blaming it on the Muse!

Credit to Holliewood Studio, Irene Alexeeva, Efie, GraphicsFuel and Numb Bum for the various elements and backgrounds.

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