Sunday Postcard Art--Buddha

I have the honor of hosting SPA this week, and I have always been fascinated by the teachings and especially the many faces of the Buddha.

Playing with layers and blending modes--

La Vie en Rose

For Digital Mania

made up of eight layers, including the lovely Gladys Cooper (one of my all time favorite images) 

and texture and painted layers from Leslie Sowden, Hollywood, Rucola Designs and Itkuptilli.

such fun to stretch the Photoshop muscles

Three Muses--Apples

trying some digital painting using filters and blending modes.

SPA--Owls

Night Owl

First, it was not a strip bar, 

it was an erotic club. 

And second, what can I say? 

I'm a night owl.

~Marion Barry

Homage to Edward Hopper

Went to see an Edward Hopper exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh recently.  I love his work, and this exhibit included etchings, which I had never seen before. Fascinating, he was influenced by Davinci among others.
I found a photo by Evan Sanders in the local paper, and thought it resembled a Hopper style, so I played with it in Photoshop.  here is the original photo, and my rendition.

SPA--Sisters

We are family: Nicholas Nixon’s 40 years photographing the Brown sisters


The US photographer has taken a portrait of his wife BeBe and her three siblings every year since 1974, making us confront the passing of time, family ties and our own mortality.

you can read more here.