Wasted Life

Another digital collage with the HouseHold kit mentioned below - this quote could be hanging on my wall!

(All images are Tumble Fish Studio. Brushes by Inobscuro and Brusheezy, textures by Shadowhouse Creations.)

Spring-Cleaning

Did you know that I hate housework, especially cleaning? And above all I don´t have a bit of talented for doing it ... seems like making a mess is much more my business ;-) And I even hate to clean up my "art table" because I don´t find anything when it´s all clean and tidy!

Maybe that was the inspiration for my digital collage playing with the new "House Hold" kit by Tumble Fish Studio!?

(additional images are also Tumble Fish Studio at Deviant Scrap - Freestyle 2 and Greg´s Anatomy)

Find Your Nest

This is my entry for this week´s Three Muses challenge themed "Art in the Round". All images by Tumble Fish Studio.

Some Fish

A few years ago when I was in Berlin I took this photo of a beautiful window that I´ve now used with Nancy Donaldson´s great encaustic textures (you´ll find them here if you want to play).

(The first picture is the original photo, the second one shows the result after using three different encaustic textures.)

Gothic

Here´s my entry for this week´s SPA challenge themed Gothic.

All images by Downunder Studios, textures by Shadowhouse Creations.

Smile!

I´ve had fun playing with some Tumble Fish digital kits today ...

(For those who do not understand French: The paper in the background announces a circus act about decollating someone.)

Imagine If ...

... you could take a master class with any artist you know, dead or alive, who would it be and why? This has been one of the most difficult questions in Seth Apter´s survey "The Pulse" this year, and I had a hard time with my decision. It could have been Sandro Botticelli, Adolph Menzel, or Horst Janssen, artists whose work I admire, but I´ve chosen someone else. Just have a look at Seth´s blog today to find out the answer.

Call it Steampunk!

Whenever I´ve been working digitally for a while, I can´t wait to get my fingers inky again and spend some time with my stamps! So here are my ATCs for a Steampunk swap I´m in.

Texture Playing

Here´s my entry for Nancy´s latest texture challenge. I´ve used five different textures here. The quote is by Jonathan Swift. (The picture below is the original photo of course.)

Strength

One last digital art journal page from my online class that has ended on Sunday ... This one was made with class material only, and I´ve had much fun playing with it for the prompt "Strength".

Escape

The difficulty of today´s Digital Art Journal page themed "Escape" was to use a pre-made PS action called "Vintage" that changes your photo dramatically ... I tried it on several photos but couldn´t find one that looked as good as my old school, so I decided to go back to the days of 1983 when school was out forever, and added a few verses of Supertramp´s song "School" (as one of our tasks was to journal onto the photo).

Top border by Beth Rimmer, ticket by Roben-Marie Smith, swirl by Manuela Zimmermann.

Listen

My page for the "Listen" prompt was made with class material only, the quote is by Epiktet.

Music

I´ve been a bit behind with my digital art journal pages but tried to catch up today, so here´s my page for the "Music" prompt. (Remember that we have to follow distinct lessons and techniques for our pages on lesson days.)

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes, bird from Angela Blanchard, egg and feather from Holliewood Studios.

Heritage

My digital art journal page illustrating the prompt "Inherited" doesn´t need any words, I think.

(background and stencil are my own, paintbox from Deviant Scrap collab kit, canvas and note from Jofia Devoe)

Darkroom

Losing sight of the possibilies in life by only concentrating on everyday problems is a fear I´ve always felt and do still feel today, so here´s my digital art journal page for today´s prompt "Fear". Don´t ask for the source of the quote, you´ll find several sources online, but that doesn´t matter to me.

(Credits: Holliewood Studio)

Golden Dragon

As I´m participating in Shannon´s Mixed Media Postcard swap, I´ve made a mail art postcard for this week´s SPA challenge theme "Dragons". This one is collaged, stenciled, stamped and embossed, and it´ll be in the mail to one of the other 160 participants soon!

Sunday Mornings

I´ve struggled a bit with today´s digital art journal page themed "Favourite", not because I couldn´t come up with some favourite things but because we had to use hanging elements (and hand draw the hangers), outline type, scanned corrugated cardboard, and a hand drawn shape with circle cut outs ...

(birds postage stamp from SherrieJD, book from Manuela Zimmermann, rest is from our class kit)

Home Again

My Thursday Digital Art Journal page is more personal than you´d probably think - yes, I´m a homebody, and there´s nothing better than coming home.

She Knew

Here´s my Wednesday Digital Art Journal page themed "Introspection". Swans, wing and moon by Holliewood Studios, the rest is from our class kit.

A Friend

Here´s my digital art journal page for today´s prompt "Friend".

I´ve tried to illustrate the fact that I´ve found many dear art friends from the other side of the pond since I´ve started blogging - and I´ve found out that some of them are very dear to my heart, just as my friends that are close to me.

(I´ve used elements from TumbleFish Studio, Dawn Inskip, Lauren Bavin and Irina Alexeeva as well as our class kit.)