THE THREE MUSES

KIRKSTALL ABBEY

This week we have WINDOWS and DOORS as our theme for inspiration at the Three Muses.

This is one of my own photos taken during a recent visit to the 11th century Abbey at Kirkstall, a mere stone's throw from home.  Marvel at those vaulted archways, magnificent pillars and see the light flooding in through ancient windows and doors.  Who could improve on that?  Not me.

If you could use this in your artwork please feel free to download.


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TAKE A WORD

Our word for inspiration at TAKE A WORD this week is BUTTERFLIES so here is my interpretation.

Credit to SweetDigiCreations, CaliDesigns and the WaterLO Project.

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STEAMPUNK MAKEOVER

What fun I've had giving two of the world's 'beautiful people' a lovely steampunk makeover!  :D

Credit to FinecraftedDesigns, MrWhiskers, Altered Emporium and Marta Van Eck.

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DIGITALMANIA

 WISH YOU WERE HERE

This week we are making MAIL ART for the Digitalmania challenge.

Here in the Yorkshire area, it was the custom for all the woollen mills and factories to close down at the same time for a week during the summer. The thousands of workers took this opportunity to climb aboard the trains and take their annual holiday at the seaside.

I have many postcards from the 1950s, '60s and '70s with messages such as the one here.

Credit to BethRimmer.

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WOOHOO - SWAPS

IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

SEEING WHAT'S INSIDE

 STEAMY PUNK

 THE ART OF EGGS

THE GREEN EGG

LET A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA

Do you ever look at the work of a particular artist and covet it?  Me too.   Grannie Annie (Deann) from the Whimsey Asylum blog is one such artist.  She creates some absolutely stunning art and is generous enough to occasionally swap art with me.  So imagine the smile on my face when I found these in my mailbox today.  Wowee, absolutely FRAMEWORTHY! 

Thank you, my friend.

TAKE A WORD

This week Rian has encouraged us to get MESSY by using lots and lots of layers in our art work.  Here is how my layering turned out.  Great fun.

Credit to BethRimmer.

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This week our theme is ALONE which initially made me think along the lines of highlighting a single person or object, or depicting solitude or isolation until I remembered the series of photos I had taken at the Yorkshire Sculpture last year.  A series of sitting figures, by Anish Kapoor, were dotted around the landscape, some sitting alone, others sitting in pairs, all much larger than life.  I chose a pair of sculptures and created a warm balmy evening for them somewhere around dusk just as the moon has risen where they can enjoy being alone.  :D

I think the first version, with the figures leading the viewer's eye into the picture, has the most satisfying composition.  But what do you think?

 

Thank you, Bev, for a thought provoking theme.

Credit to RubyBlossom and JoesSistah for the backgrounds (blended), whilst the sculptures are from one of my own photos.

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TAKE A WORD

Was it a bird or was it a plane?  Nope, it was definitely a witch traveling across the sky last full moon! I wonder where she was off to in such a hurry?

Our word for inspiration this week is MOON.  Thanks, Marie.

Credit to HolliewoodStudio and IreneAlexeeva for their images of the moon which were blended together by me.  The witch is free to use clipart.

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DIGITALMANIA

This week we are inspired by the work of BEN GOOSSENS at Digitalmania across at Flickr.

This is me being inspired!!

Credits can be found on my Flickr page

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Marie, has challenged us to get creative with her theme of BIRDS OF A FEATHER this week and that reminded me of a show I saw recently of the very same name.    The audience were spellbound!

Credit to Finecrafted Designs and Beth Rimmer at Deviantscrap.

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TAKE A WORD

BLUE is our word for inspiration this week at Take A Word which I thought was a great opportunity to play around with layers.  Using two blue flower backgrounds by NumbBumm I layered one on top of the other with an Overlay blend.  The face detail layer, courtesy of Efie,  was given a Luminosity blend, then the layer was duplicated and a Lighter Colour blend was used to bring out the detail.  A Plastic Wrap filter completed the effect.

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THREATENING WEATHER

Here is my interpretation on WEATHER OR NOT the theme I chose for the Three Muses this week. 

I take no responsibility for this, my Muse made me do it ......... honest!  :D

Credit to Bluesse at Deviant Art and to the ladies at the Water LO Project.

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TAKE A WORD

MUSIC

Music is our word for inspiration this week and that made think of Beethoven and how he continued to create music even when he had become deaf.

Here is my 'slightly' tongue in cheek take on the theme.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs, Honey Designs and Pixel Music.

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