Title: Christmas Past
Entry: Art on the Darkside Challenge
Layers: 12 plus words
Sources:
Public Domain Images of Quebec from The Library of Congress/ Back-ground from FLICKR Free Textures group/Website freebies from online vintage art sites...including an old ad of a particularly spooky and snowflake surrounded Pere Noel/Father Christmas!!
AIM:
My hope is that the back-ground and surround is convincingly cold and Winter-y in feel ; reminiscent of a block of carved dark-cored ice...
Title: Flames of the Phoenix
Entry: Late entry for the Art on the Darkside Challenge of Mythological Monsters
Medium: Digital photo manipulation
The How:
PD Archeological Photos, old Northern Lights etching and personal photo of cloud formations edited, re-mixed and coloured to meet the theme
There's a new challenge out there in blogland where, the bi-weekly winner gets to wear the crown of Queen of Darkness. Click on these words: DARKNESS INSPIRATION....and it will take you there. This November's theme is BATS... those as depicted in Come Fill the Cup I believe fit the bill!
The DAQ October ATC Challenge was "Spooky" The image below of The Sorceress was my entry.
The link to DAQ will take you to the site where over the next few days more images following that theme, either digital-or digital-hybrid will be posted ; with commentary by those in the exchange and other site members.
The haunting original hand-painted photographic image of the Sorceress was created by Adelaide Hanscom in 1911.
The animals depicted are from The Public Domain.
Tha back-ground moth-design cloth is by me.
Come Fill the Cup that clears Today
Of Past regrets and Future Fears
from
for
All Soul's Day
The above link goes to The Harry Ransom Centre for the Arts where various editions of The nearly 1000-year old Rubaiyat are kept in a permanent collection that was on display there from February to August of this year .
Title: Crane Maiden
Legend:
Old Japanese folk tales tell of animal spirits such as swans or foxes who choose to take on the form of a human for a while; and even learn to love as a human for a while, but find they must inevitably answer the call to return to the freedom they left in their other form.
This picture depicts an imagined version of such a story; a Crane Maiden discovered coming from the surf onto the land by a poor Japanese fisherman.
The How:
Many blended and newly combined layers of Japanese and Hawaiian antique woodcut prints or paintings.
The Challenge for this week"s Artist Studio Challenge Tuesday on Digital Art Quirks is STAMP PEOPLE.
( you can use the above LINK to access the site and see what other DAQ members are posting for it).
As of today, there are 5 entries.These new digital art challenges there will run every week.
I used a stamp from a letter I had been sent of pop singer Frank Sinatra; who made tons of vinyl records in his day.
To challenge myself I tried to keep it at only an hour of work...took me 75 minutes; actually... including looking for images on the Net.... a record for me!
Kept to clip-art and vector images.....whatever I typed in and found I used! Fun card!
Last week's Challenge was black and white digital imagery....I submitted 2 - Young Woman's Blues ( for a 3 Muses Wednesday Challenge ) and Storm Rider ( for a Art on the Darkside Challenge ), previously seen and commented on here.
I think I will be entering these new challenges as much as I can, as they're not only digital ones, but weekly.
The other image posted is an ATC done for a trade at DAQ this past July. The theme was "WINGS" . The LINK will take you to the page of others in the exchange, and commentary.
I positioned chanteuse Josephine Baker above her beloved Paris ( by way of a night -shot of Vancouver, BC,Canada )! At her side is a cheetah...standing in for the leopard she supposedly walked aroud the city of light with back in the 1920"s...figure her costume's feathers suggested wings. This is 1 of a variable edition of 6 colours.
