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
A Light in the Attic was created for Art on the Darkside"s Challenge this week.
The idea came from some colourized prints of the utterly classic horror film, The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari...a film rooted in Expressionism and heir to German Romanticism, but influenced by the new darling of the era's recent artistic ferment, Cubism.
It is a film of weird angles, and haunting, off-kilter suggestive imagery shot with incredible lighting effects on a set inspired by dreams and nightmares.
Made in 1920...
As was the rest of Europe Germany was coming out of the horrors of WW I, and just going into the coming tragedy of trying to fufill the war debt obligations imposed on her by the rest of Europe and her winning Allies and at the same time primed to try new politics under a Democratic form of government ... as surely a Surreal landscape and time period to dwell in as any ever imagined by Bosch.
Title: A Light in the Attic
The How:
PSE 2 / using a mix of 4 source photos to create an assembled and merged image of 9 layers
Source Photos:
The 2 bottom layers were Royalty-free stock images of rays and a whirlwind.
The image of a "woman in gray attic" -I gave her a distorted shadow- is from an Edward Weston photo of 1922 I found via Project Gutenberg.
The image on the left of the man, chair and open window is one from a publicity still for the 1920 movie .
The above source I"ve linked to for the article on Caligari is on Wikepedia.
Font: WolfgangCaps
Title: Storm Rider
Darkside Challenge : Haunted House
The How: PSE 2 / 12 Layers
Source Imagery:
Four seperate photos of the House, Prairie ,Storm & Rider courtesy of the Wet Canvas Member's Photo Archive, Image of Jennie Jerome in the Public Domain.....click on image to enlarge
Art on the Darkside Challenge: Wolf/Werewolf
Combination Imagery:
I couldn't top these finds!
An old French Post Card and the overlay of a wolf's paw from Gustave Dore's illustration for Little Red Riding Hood
The How:
PSE / 2 layers
The Why:
It was a full moon ! ( Actually, the night after...but close enough )!
Paris by Night- 1923
This is my entry- a piece originally created for a postcard exchange on Wet Canvas - to this week's Art on the Darkside Challenge to use Gargoyles- those fantastic architectural elements-in a piece
I at first thought to re-invent it for an entry by cropping it to just the gargoyle, but changed my mind
The back-ground is a shot I took in Vancouver, BC,Canada 2 Summers ago.
A much-manipulated and location-challenged Paris/Paris monuments are over it.
My own B/W shot of a Notre Dame gargoyle is looking into the river where a very young-just-starting-his-mustache Salvador Dali is floating. A bemused Josephine Baker looks on...
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