Tuesday, July 2, 2013

In the style of Ann Bagby--Portrait of Maude

 Ann Bagby's style is formal and reserved, yet full of pattern, overlay and texture.
Frame from ItKuPiLLi, patterned paper from Trine Secher and a cabinet card of Maude Fealy.

Three Muses--Where I live BOSTON

Three postcards from Boston
 
 
Digital collage--Boston's reaction to the terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon.
so much pain and death...
Images from Google include a grafittied wall, the Boston Strong website logo, the display on the front of EVERY MBTA bus in the city, and a memorial made up of hundreds of running shoes and other remembrances of the victims and those who rushed to help.


The famous Swan Boats at the Boston Public Garden.  There are real swans there too.
Photo altered with a watercolor technique.
 

Collage of iconic images of Boston's Italian neighborhood,
the North End.

Summer of Color Week 4 Pale Pink and Gray--DaVinci

 
Created with digital brushes.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Summer of color Wks 2-3--Take a Word-butterfly

Summer of Color Week 3                                         Take a Word
Purple and Lime Green                                             Butterfly

Thought I'd change up the usual depiction of butterflies.
 
 
Summer of Color Week 2
Hot Pink and Orange
 
The mug shot of one Mary A. Butts, convicted of larceny in 1904

Saturday, June 29, 2013

more in the Nick Bantock style

 Both made with elements from Fuzzimo, ItKuPiLLi, Finecrafted Designs and Marta Van Eck.


SPA --Once upon a Time

 
Don't you...
 
background from ItKuPiLLi, little girl has been in my stash for a long, long time, Fairy is from a photo of mine, and the stamp is my design as well.