Take a Word--Manuscripts

Sacred Words

Background from Shadowhouse, images from Google, Quote from the book of Job



Just for the Halloween-ness of it



Downloaded some new Halloween brush sets today, and have happlily been playng with them this afternoon.  I made the scarecrow brush from an image I found.

SPA--Haunted

 

Background image, 4 layers, each much altered, from Google Images.Text pieces from Graphics Fairy.  Beautiful lady from Art-e-ology

Photo Art Friday-Abstract from Nature

A morning glory vine, growing on a fencepost, reaching for the sun.
I used Bonnie's textures, Vintage Craquelure, Heavenly and Etched in Stone.
And I applied Smart Blur and Glowing Edges filters and used watercolor brushes,

Texture Tuesday

More Photoshop watercolors

The link to the free tutorial is here

I did play with some of the other preset brushes as well, and will continue to experiment.  I hope you will try it and let mw see what you created!

Halloween is coming!!!!!!

Three Muses--Birds

The bird image is a wallpaper background texture from The Sum of All Crafts. 

Embellished with PS brushes and blending modes.

Crazy Amigos--Not a card

A journal page

Take a Word--Blue

 

Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. painted with photoshop brushes.

Mandarin Orange Monday--Cable Cars

 

Took this photo several years ago in San Fransisco.

The car really was orange and yellow.  I used a -new to me- tool on this one,

Smart Blur , in the Blur Filters menu.  I set it to Overlay edge and played

with the threshold and radius sliders until I liked it. 



SPA--Bohemian

 

Done in Photoshop, with Impressionist filters plug-in, gradient maps, other filters and blending

modes.  The model waas found on Google Images

playing with Photoshop tutorials in PSElements

sometimes you have to hunt for the workarounds.

started with this

 

Several hours and lots of keystrokes later.

The Bride

'Love, Love!' I said, 'the day was long'--'Oh, long indeed,' she sighing said.
'I grow so jealous of the sun, since I am dead.'

(How sweet the air is in the night, how sweet, sweet, sweet the flowers seem--
But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!)

                                                                                                          ~Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Photo Art Friday--Aging Gracefully

This week's theme on PAF is Aging Gracefully.  This is a photo I took at the Carousel Museum in Bristol, CT.  Bonnie's textures Gratitude and Cinnamon were added.
The quote is from The Velveteen Rabbit.

Exploring with a Camera--Allowing Space

 

One of the many church steeples in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Linking tokateyestudio.com

 

 

Some collage play

A couple of collages created by following a "recipe."  Face of a Madonna, crumpled or old paper texture, vintage birds and plants or flowers, gold leaf texture, a halo extracted from a Medieval painting and a grungy black edge.  I added the manuscript page--I'm a sucker for text textures.

Three Muses--Autumn Colors

 

Reflections of Autumn

My photo, altered with saturation, artistic filters and blending modes, and an image

of the beautiful Maude Fealy.

Collage Obsession--Owls

 

Background painted with Photoshop  brushes, Owls from Collage Images Flickr Group

and frame by Shadowhouse.

SPA--Flapper

 

Been playing with a new watercolor ps tutorial I found (there's a link on the brevious post).

I really love the effect.

Image from Google Images and postcard background from Textures for Layers Flickr Group.

Noodling around in Photoshop again

 

Both of these were made using the same tutorial.

it can be found here.

Moo Mania--Book Pages

Another Watercolor Tutorial

original photo

After the watercolor effect.  It became orange because I didn't notice that I had my brush color set to a red-orange shade ( the tutorial didn't mention color, so I didn't think about it.)
I do like the lovely autumn feel of it though.

Linking to Mandarin Orange Monday--yes, I know it's Saturday!

closer to heaven

 

In the style of Brandie Butcher-Isley

Playing in Photoshop--Watercolor effects

 

I've been exploring Photoshop technique tutorials lately.  I 've always wanted to paint in watercolor, but have no talent for handling actual paint and brushes.

But, I'm quite pleased with this one.

Three Muses--Turquoise Vision

Background made with a piece from Elizabeth Golden and a piece from Textures for Layers Flickr Group.  Butterfly from Google Images and the children from  Collage Images Flickr Group.

Take a Word--Hearts and Flowers

 

The Lady of the Camelias, sketch for the poster by Mucha, found on Google,

camelias from a garden catalogue and heart brushes

Collage Obsession--Anthropomorphic

Do you ever see tree spirits?  I do, all the time.  Look closely at the next ancient tree you come across and maybe you will see one too.

The tree was found on Google Images; the tree spirit and background are from my own photos.

SPA--Memories

Collage Obsession--Gray

 

Failing eyesight--the world slowly turns gray...

 



Take a word--Numbers

 

A simple calendar page

Mandarin Orange Monday

SPA-Doors

French Doors

 

This started as a line drawing of a Paris street scene that I found as a free sample at Dover. I played with overpainting and gradients and blending modes until I made myself stop.

Thanks for visiting.

Collage Obsession--Mushrooms

 

These mushrooms are a photo I took of thr rainforest in Washinton State several years ago.  They were maybe little fingernail size.  Altered with fiters and the dragonfly is a brush.

Designing Album Covers

This week's theme at Digital Mania Flickr group is to design album covers.  Here are the ones I made.

Image is Lovers, by Picasso, Sun overlay from Michelle Shefveland and Rachel Shefveland at Cottage Arts, textures by the fabulously generous Elizabeth Golden at Last Door Down the Hall.

One of my very favorite songs, both the Martha Ray and Bowie/Jagger versions. Image found on Google Images, altered with Cutout filter and brushes.

Image from a painting by Paul Gauguin, enhanced with Gradient map, posterize filter and brushes.