Quirkle 81 - A Change Is As Good As A Rest

Marie (Ozstuff) hosted the Quirkle challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks. She wanted to see some altered art with a mismatch of heads on shoulders, she also asked for a moon, and a tree made up from paper.

Meet Mabel's sisters Edna and Lily who like to show off their head changing skills, believing a change is as good as a rest.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for the people parts (free to use) on her blog. Altered Souls for the moon, Booland Designs for the backgrounds (altered) and the dress. The tree is a standard PS shape which I've filled with a postcard from my own collection.

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Famous Artists ATC Challenge - Cuckoos In The Nest

For Artsyfartsyqueen's Famous Artists ATC Challenge on Flickr. This week we were inspired by James C Christensen's The Nest.

This is my interpretation.

Credit to Kubivet for the trees, butterflies, couple with child and flowers, the wonderful designers of the WaterLO Project provided the water, sky, stones and bushes. The nest and other figures are courtesy of Artsyfartsyqueen.


Christensen's original painting : The Nest.

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Self Portrait - Make It Mondays

Here's me showing off my lovely stripey socks, patent shoes and wonderfully expensive crown.

Credit to Artsyfartstyqueen for the legs, arms and crown.

The rest, of course, is ME.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - There's Just One

Week 28 of Collage Play with Crowabout.

Collage sheet was courtesy of Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout.

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Altered Artspirations Challenge - Postage Stamp

Created for this new challenge at Scrapbookgraphics where this week the theme was stamps. We were also asked to try to make it 'out of bounds' so little Miss Mona appears to be stepping out of the stamp.

Credit to Aprilmouse for the stamp background, Artsyfartsyqueen for the Mona Lisa head, the hat, the pink hair, the bottle and the wine glass. The rest of Mona was Googled.

Postage marks are courtesy of Obsidian Dawn.

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Artarazzi - Challenges 13 and 14

I never managed to complete last week's challenge set by Ozstuff so I've combined the lovely background she chose with the Japanese lady chosen for this week's challenge by Vron.

The Japanese lady appears to be part of a fresco that's peeling away from the wall. Well that's what it's meant to be!

Credit to Art e Zines for the lady.

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Gothic Arch - Mother and Child

The theme this week is mother and child at Gothic Arches.

I was inspired by the Gustav Klimt picture Three Ages of Woman.

I extracted and duplicated the mother and child from Klimt's Three Ages of Woman and used an Overlay blend to brighten the image. I created the Arch background with brushes by Graphicxtras and Vanilla Dreams which I then duplicated and blended again to achieve a pleasing colour. I added the background which is courtesy of Booland Designs. Finally I added a Poster Edges filter to give definition to the lines of the mother and child.

Credit to Freeparking for the Klimt image (free to use) at Flickr.

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Digital Art Quirks - Stock Photo Challenge

This is Mabel Unzipped.

Credit to Kisks for the background and Zip Clix for the zip (both from Stockxchnge). Mabel is part of the family.

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Make a Moo Or Two - Puzzles

Puzzles are the theme at Make a Moo Or Two this week and of course Mabel wanted to get in on the act. So here she is showing how she's transformed when she gets her war paint on. She's such a show off.

Credit to Firestock at Flickr for (the free to use) image of Marilyn. The puzzle shapes are standard shapes from Photoshop.

Font is Ransom.


Oh, and of course, Mabel is part of the family.

Famous Artists ATC Challenge - False Magic

This week's Famous Artist ATC challenge by Artsyfartsyqueen across at Flickr was influenced by James Christensen's False Magic.

Credit to Theeye-cz for the money line, Linder6580 for the archway (both from Stockxchnge). Also to Madam Mim for the 'floor' background. All other elements are courtesy of collage sheets by Artsyfartsyqueen.

Christensen's Original Painting

Collage Play with Crowabout - Smile

Week 27 of the Collage Play with Crowabout Challenge.

As always credit to Nancy Baumiller (Crowabout) for the collage sheet.

Brushes : Vanilla Dreams for the star brush and gfxgurl for the girl brush.

Fonts : Tekton Pro and Ransom.

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Mixed Media Monday - The Written Word

Credit to the very talented designers of the WaterLO Project for all the element other than the angels from the Birth of Venus and they were Googled.

Font : Tekton Pro.

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Gothic Arch - Fantacy

For this week's Gothic Arch challenge.

Credit to Lisbonlioness for the background, to Vicki of A Work in Progress for the purple background, and to Obsidian Dawn who provided the Pixie brush.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Words of Wisdom

I chose a quote by Sir Winston Churchill for my words of wisdom for this week's challenge theme.

The quote is : An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

I've interpreted it in a humourous way though I think the quote has a much deeper darker meaning.

Credit to Kubivet for the blended backgrounds, J2M for the text path, the crocs and croc sign were Googled.

Font : Tekton Pro.

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Famous Artists ATC Challenge - Burden of The Responsible Man

I created this for a challenge across at Flickr hosted by Artsyfartsyqueen.

This week we were to create an ATC in the style of James C Christensens' Burden of The Responsible Man.

This is my contribution.

Credit to Takeabreak (free to use) for the face and the legs at Flickr. Also to PaperMoonsKitz for the cakes and chocolates, the remaining elements are courtesy of Effie's Designs, and the background is by Madam Mim.

Christensen's Original Painting

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Tea Dance

Week 26 of Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout across at Flickr.

All elements are courtesy of Nancy.

Font : FG Vilma

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Fidget's Freaky Friday Collage Challenge - Week 2

It's week 2 and Fidgetrainbowtree has provided a brilliant collage sheet to get the creative juices flowing.

This is what I came up with. It's called How Big?

All elements are courtesy of Fidgetrainbowtree.

Font used : Rockford

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Artarazzi - Surreal

Marie is the host at Artarazzi this week and she's chosen the wonderful theme of Surreal. So one very relaxing and enjoyable Sunday afternoon later here is what I came up with. I'll call it : When one door closes

Credit goes to 'andthenpatterns' for the tunnel, 'rumpleteaser' for the hand and 'freeparking' for the lady (all from CC Flickr). Credit also to Artsy Fartsy Queen from Flickr for her (free to use) mouths and doors, both from her collage sheets.

The brushes used in the background are courtesy of Neveryph.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.