Digital Art Quirks - Stock Photo Challenge

Laurel hosted the stock photo challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks and this is what I did with it. It's called, not surprisingly, Eye Eye.

Credit to L Avi at Stockxchnge for the stock photo and to Artsy Fartsy Queen at Flickr for her (free to use) Eyes Collage sheet.

Thank you for looking.

Theme Thursday - Beach - Nautical Theme

A nautical theme is the order of the day at Theme Thursday this week.

Credit must go to Takeabreak for this wonderful image of the three bathers and to Sailor and Lula for the beach elements.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Love at First Sight

Week 25 of the Collage Play with Crowabout challenge.

All elements of my collage are courtesy of Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout.

Font : Persimmon

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Digital Art Quirks - Technique Challenge No 2

There's a new techniques challenge at DAQ hosted by Donna where this week we learned how to create a line drawing from an image of our choice.

www.digitalartquirks.com

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Sunday Postcard Art - Mardi Gras

My entry for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

The very skinny ladies (much altered) are courtesy of MJ Tripsa (free to use image at CC Flickr), Madam Mim for the background, Kubivet for the window and 51291 for the wonderful range of masks.

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Gothic Arch - Tea Time

Tea time is the theme this week for the Gothic Arch challenge, and as the Mad Hatter had a very famous tea party I thought you might like to see it.

The backgrounds (both inside and outside of the arch) are courtesy of Irene Alexeeva and the stamp is by SherrieJD and Tangie Baxter.

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Daily Art Stop - Paris

Created for the Daily Art Stop Wednesday challenge of Paris.

Background courtesy of Ginger Scraps. All other elements are by Rachness.

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Thank God It's Friday - Hands

Hands is the theme at TGIF this week.

I used a handprint brush as a template and added the background and the script both courtesy of Takeabreak (free to use) at Flickr.

Font : Slugfest

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Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt

This is my all time most favourite painting ..... ever. I made a fridge magnet so I can look at it every day.

The Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt is courtesy of Freeparking who provided (a free to use image on CC Flickr). Credit also to Kubivet for the window frame and the flowers.

Click to enlarge if you want to see the detail.

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Fidget's Freaky Friday Collage Challenge

A new collage challenge on Flickr and this is the first week.

Credit for everything other than the tree to Fidgetrainbowtree's free to use images at Flickr.

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Think Monday Think ATC - Roofs of Our World

Roofs of our world is the theme this week at Think Monday Think ATC.

I duplicated layers, added a hard light blend, and added a poster edge filter.

Photograph is my own and is a view of a house at the very dramatic village of Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire.

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Quirkle 76 - Gypsy

Kimmie is the host for the Quirkle at Digital Art Quirks this week and she has chosen the theme of Gypsy. She asked us to use :

1 Beads
2 A flower
3 Something pink.

Here's mine.

Credit to Deejay Marlon for the image of the girl (CC at Flickr), Eifie's Designs for the curtain and window, Sweet Blossom's Design for the background, Aprilmouse for the flower and beads, and Shawn Headley for the diamond rain.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - I Want You For My Valentine

For Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play With Crowabout on Flickr.

All elements are from Nancy's collage sheet.

Speech bubble shape from PS.

Font : Junk Culture.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Hearts

Hearts is the theme at Sunday Postcard Art this week, and Mabel wanted to get involved, so she's sending a belated Happy Valentine greeting to you all.

Credit to Little Dragon, Design by Sassy, Designs by Helly, Scrapkitten and Just2morethings.blogspot for the background and elements.

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Artarazzi - Me, Myself and Eye

Me, myself and I is the theme at Artarazzi this week. Vron asked us to create something that included a photograph of our self.

This is me blinking into the camera and the sun aged about 3. I have lots of photos of me doing this same thing.

In case you're wondering what the journaling says, it's a little rhyme my Grandma used to say to me around about this time :

There was a little girl, who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
When she was good she was very very good
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Mmmmm.

Credit to Happy Scrap for the background. The card was Googled.

Fonts : Journaling hand, Ransom and Sketch Rockwell.

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Make a Moo Or Two - Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette is the theme at Make a Moo Or Two this week.

Credit to Takeabreak for the lady.

The font is : Guild of Professional Actors.

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Art on the Dark Side - Carousel

I once got on a carousel horse with my grand daughter, but had to swap places with hubby as I just couldn't do it!!! Aaaagh.

Credit to Takeabreak for the ladies and to Michael in Flagstaff for the carousel horse (both in the public domain).

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Frameworthy - Gloria

The task at for the Frameworthy Challenge at Scrapbook Graphics this week was essentially to create a picture that resembled fabric. I'm not sure I've achieved that but I did enjoy doing it.

Credit to SilentLadiesandGents.com for Gloria and the background is courtesy of the WaterLO Project designers (both of which were layered, blended and filtered).

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Digital Art Quirks Stock Photo Challenge - Diving

Bev is the host for the stock photo challenge this week and she chose an image that looked like blood in water by Lucretious at Stockxchnge. I layered this and blended it to give it a rich orange colour.

I then used a torn paper image by Booland Designs, some paper curls by Irene Alexeeva and and l blended these with a script background by Takeabreak at Flickr. Finally, I added a couple of divers, also by Takeabreak and used them to give the impression of diving into the stock photo impression of fluid.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Play

It's week 23 of Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout.

Here is my interpretation.

All elements are courtesy of Nancy Baumiller who provided the collage sheet.

Fonts used are FG Tina, FG Adam, Eight Track Program 3, and Doodolonomy Fred.

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Think Monday Think ATC - Mail

My contribution for the TMTA challenge this week.

The children, looking none too happy, are courtesy of the very generous Playing With Brushes from Flickr (in the public domain).

The postcards and letters are from my own collection.

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Quirkle 75 - Grunge

Lumilyon hosted the Quirkle again this week and gave us the lyrics of a song and the challenge was to illustrate 3 of the lines.

I chose 9 Bright Shiners, 6 Proud Walkers and One (is one and all alone).

See the lyrics here

Credit to Takeabreak for the girl, David Boyle for the Old People sign, Mike Baird for the Walkers and Vizzzual.com for the traffic lights.

I also used brushes by Neveryph 1 to get the grunge background and by 500ml for the People Walking sign. Mabel is also in there somewhere and she is one of the family and her photo belongs to me.

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Artarazzi - Challenge 9

I am the guest host at Artarazzi this week for Challenge 9 and I chose an illustration from the Art of Costume Design, a vintage magazine courtesy of Takeabreak at Flickr.

I gave my elegant lady some definition, added a brackground, gloves, fan, crown and flowers all courtesy of Irene Alexeeva, and put her in the spotlight courtesy of Fiddlette Designs theatrical curtains.

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Theme Thursday - Borders

Sometimes I don't know where it comes from but it definitely wants to get out! So here's my entry for the theme of borders at Theme Thursday.

The background, the borders and the sign were all done with brushes by 500ml and Neveryph 1.

The women are courtesy of Takeabreak at Flickr, other bits are magazine clippings.

Thank you for looking.

Collage Play with Crowabout - Food

For Challenge 22 of Nancy Baumiller's collage challenge.

All elements other than the two custom shapes (arrows) were courtesy of Nancy (Crowabout).

Fonts used were Artistamp, Brush Script, Chalkboard and Agent Red.

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Gothic Arch - Tag

The theme this week was to incorporate a tag into the arch.

I used Irene Alexeeva backgrounds and elements to create this.

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Stock Photo 60 - DAQ

It was Nevermore's turn to host the stock photo challenge at Quirks this week and she chose a pair of eyes by Neil-S at Stockxchnge.com.

I thought the eyes needed to be peeping out of somewhere, a door or letter box and so this idea came to me. She was guiltily peeping from the Post box after creating so much graffiti. Again I used Gouzinette and Akiloune's Street Spirit kit for the background. The Post box is from a photo.

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Quirkle 74 - Digital Art Quirks

It was Lumilyon's turn to host the Quirk challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks where she asked us to try Reverse Graffiti. The idea is to make art by cleaning areas of dirty wall by using stencils and acid to create images. As we were required to do this digitally it remained a very safe process!

I used Street Spirit kit by Gouzinette and Akiloune, and two custom shapes in Photoshop.

To achieve reverse graffiti I desaturated where necessary, inverted to get white and chose overlay or hard mix blends and reduced visibility to create a see through effect.

Thank you for looking.

Artarazzi - John Waterhouse

Vron across at Artarazzi Challenge blog gave us a John Waterhouse picture this week. Along with the picture she asked us to use a dash of orange.

This is my interpretation. (It does rain a lot here in the UK.)

I used the John Waterhouse picture which I altered, the orange flower and the background (much altered) are from the lovely designers at the WaterLO Project, and the rain drops are courtesy of Kubivet.

Thank you for looking.

Theme Thursday - Alice Gets Smaller

There was an open theme this week at Theme Thursday, the only stipulation being whatever was created should be 4 x 4 inches. I chose an Alice theme.

Credit to Tangie Baxter and Sherriejd for all elements other than the arched door.

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Mixed Media Monday - Britain

This week MMM asked for a picture that best represented where we each came from.

The Union Jack came to mind first and then of course Daffodils followed closely by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. So here we are.

The field of Daffs is one of my own photos, Tartx provided the Alice pngs, and the flag was Googled.

Thank you for looking.

Sunday Postcard Art - Cats

This is what came to mind when I saw this week's theme and is as near to a valentine page as I'm ever likely to get. {smile}

Romeo Cat is courtesy of Irene Alexeeva, whilst the other elements, including Miss Cat and Would-like-to-be Romeo Cat are courtesy of Rachness Designs.

Thank you for looking.

Collage Play with Crowabout - Where Your Creative Soul Begins

This is my second entry for a Collage Play With Crowabout challenge, and I love doing them.

All the elements for this collage were courtesy of Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout who provided them for Challenge 21.

The font used is Arno Pro.

Thank you for looking.

{in a small whisper with a big cheesy grin} I won the challenge last week and await my goodies in the post. Yaay.

Simply Skinnies - Fashion

This is my entry for this week's Simply Skinnies challenge and the theme is fashion.

I think it's safe to say this particular lady likes her hats.

I used a background image by Happy Scrap which I duplicated and blended.

The lady is courtesy of the very generous Takeabreak (public domain) at Flickr. I duplicated her also, used a hard light blend and finally used a poster filter to get this look.

The font is Arno Pro.

Thank you for looking

Make A Moo Or Two - Buildings

The guest host at Make a Moo or Two this week chose buildings as the theme.

Alice looks quite cosy in here don't you think?

Credit to Donna Miller for the backgrounds and the book, Happy Scrap for the bird, Irene Alexeeva for the paper curl, and Grandma's Graphics for the copyright free Sir John Tenniel illustration.

Font is Arno Pro.

Stock Photo 59 - Digital Art Quirks

Helen hosted the stock photo challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks and chose the three chairs below.

They were part of a larger image so I used the magnetic tool to draw round them and cut away as much of the background as I could, and the eraser tool to carefully erase between the arms. The image in its raw state was very small so I duplicated three times to get some depth of colour to enable me to bring it up to a usable size.

After that it was relatively plain sailing as Gouzi-Akiloune's Street Spirit kit provided the rest.

The stock photo was courtesy of Stockxchnge by Sundstrom.

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Artarazzi - Challenge 6

The challenge was hosted this week by Bev who chose a very interesting stock photo from Stockxchange.

I like stock photos as they always inspire me and this is mine for this week's challenge.

Credit to Tangie Baxter for the 1920s lady, Aprilmouse for the background and to sxchange 1131992 for the amazing stock photo.

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Mabel Knows How to Party

It was my turn to host the Quirkle challenge this week.

I asked those entering the challenge to use :

1 A stripey leg (or two)
2 A crown
3 Something red.

Here's what I came up with. That wicked Mabel strikes again.

Credit goes to Franco Folini and Oracio Alvardo for the house and legs. The background is Booland Designs and the rest, excluding Mabel, is from the wonderfully talented and generous Irene Alexeeva.

Thank you for looking.

Collage Play with Crowabout - Wake My Muse

I'm a member of the Flickr website and I've found the most wonderful challenge on there called Collage Play with Crowabout.

Each week she supplies a collage sheet and the challenge is to use 3 or more pieces from the sheet to create some kind of collage.

This is my very first attempt and I'm sure it will open up lots more creative possibilities for me.

So credit to Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout for all the collage elements, except for the lime background which is my own and the fonts used : Budmo Jiggler, Baron Kuffner, Futura and Tom's Handwriting.

Thank you for looking.

Make A Moo Or Two - Circles

This is my interpretation of Circles for the Make A Moo Or Two challenge this week.

Credit to Donna Miller for the background, hat, bow, and rubber bands. The face is Flickr copyright free, and the stamp is a BVA-LYO brush.

Font used is Silom.

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Art Creation Friday - School Days

For Art Creation Friday's 9th challenge, we were given a picture of this young girl and this is what I came up with after a number of layers and blends.

The window (very much altered) is credit of Kubivet.

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Simply Skinnies - Hollywood

I chose Bet Davies as my Hollywood idol for the theme at Simply Skinnies this week. She was such a beautiful woman don't you think?

Credit to SilentLadiesAndGentlemen for Bet and to Kubivet for the film elements and backgrounds.

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Theme Thursday - Couples

The theme this week is couples and I chose the show biz variety.

All images are courtesy of The Queen's Dresser Drawers a lovely website of copyright free images. You can find it at the bottom of my blog.

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Artarazzi Challenge

This week at Artarazzi Vron asked us to use the photo of the three ladies by Barbara Moustafa at Deviant Arts as the base for our work, and this is what came to mind for me.

Madam Mim provided the background and the curtains and audience are from Sailor and Lula (everything altered).

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Gothic Arch - Grunge

The theme at Gothic Arches this week is Grunge, and not to be outdone Mabel dons a hoody, sprays a few cans of graffiti then settles down to read the news.

Credit to Gouzi-Akiloune for use of his Free Spirit grunge kit.

Sunday Postcard Art - Winter Mystical

A Winter kit called Snow Is Glistening from Joanne Cinnamon at My Digital Addiction was used to create this Wintery scene.

Font : Bradley Hand ITC

A Moo Or Two - Winter Frost

The theme this week is Winter Frost, though making sure it didn't take a backward step into a Christmas scene was quite difficult.

Here in the UK we've been in the grip of a fierce deep freeze since Christmas Eve and this little Moo just says freezing weather to me and I hope it does for you.

Credit to the wonderful designers of the WaterLO Project.

Theme Thursday - Vintage Love

Sometimes your muse takes you places you never thought to go and this is one of those times. Albert came to mind and as soon as he did it occurred to me that his love might always be divided. So here it is.

Albert and Mrs Einstein were Googled and to some extent altered, and I made the hearts.

Font used : Papyrus

Artarazzi - Challenge 4

This week we were given an image of Marilyn and asked to produce something arty.

Several layers , blends and filters later this is what I came up with.

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Mixed Media Monday - Moon

Maria is the guest host at Mixed Media Monday this week and she's chosen Moon as the theme and that made me think of this nursery rhyme.

The cow is courtesy of Kendrive, the moon is from Paper Relics, other bits were Googled and altered.

I created the background using Vanilla Sky brushes and overlayed with a filter.

Font is Prissy Frat Boy.