Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

#50


Proud but Shy

Credits: Google image.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

#49


Stripes

Background painted in Corel Paint Essential and manipulated in PSE9

Sunday, August 28, 2011

#48

This image is of my husband on holidays at his Oma's house in Pinneberg, Germany.


Childhood

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

#46


Male

I found this great Bonobo chimpanzee on Shutterstock, so I used a smudge painting technique to bring him into the digital world.

#45


Watching the Sunset.

Credits: Google image of zebra, background images from Photoshop Magazine resource disc.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

#44

Here I have combined an image of a modern road with Gustave Caillebette's painting of "Rising Road".


Two Roads

Sunday, July 24, 2011

#43

A difficult subject to illustrate.  Credits Google images and Shutterstock image of Old woman.


Dying

Saturday, July 23, 2011

#42

Credits for "Motherhood" are Google images, the theme is based around Mary Cassette's painting.


Motherhood

#41

Morning mist, we have all I am sure experienced the wonder of mist in the morning, I have tried to capture this in this digital painting.


Mist over the Lake

#40

Sun is the title of #40, Credits for lotus flower and sun image to Google images.


The Sun and the Lotus

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

#39

What do we dream about?

Credits: Paintings by Falandrin Hippolyte and William Bouguereau, background from Crowabout Studiob-Spring Fling.


Frog and Fairy Princess

#38

The background is a personal photograph of the Menindee Lakes, Google images for the stylized Australian Aboriginal kangaroo, statue by exfordy.


Abandoned

#37


Just a bit of whimsy. Credits for eye go to Google for the volcanic ash cloud and the eye.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

#36

White is the challenge, this was interesting to work out as white is white, anyway we played around and came up with "Twins". Image from Shutterstock, cloud background from personal photographs.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

#35

The elements in "Journey" are from the Japanese Space Probe - as the probe Hayabusa streaked across the sky before landing, a simulated image of the probe landing on the asteroid Itokawa, and an image of the asteroid.


Journey

#34



Could not decide which image to use for stars so included both. Images are from Shutterstock and Google.


Wednesday, June 8, 2011

#33

Love smoothies, so this is the starting point of my image.  Glasses of smoothies (Shutterstock) have been filtered in Filter Forge 3 using the Pixelate filter and then given a slight twirl.


Twisted Smoothie

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

#32

Moon and sunset (Google image), gymnast (Shutterstock), clouds from personal collection, lot of manipulation.


Night