“Cockadoodle Cluck”

This was a bit of fun for The Three Muses challenge this week… and you can probably tell that I’m well into “Strictly Come Dancing” again this year!! I’m especially fond of the extremely eccentric, but lovely, Claudia Winkelman, host of SCD: It Takes Two… bizarre and very fun half hour, behind-the-scenes look at the [...]

Long ago…

Lovely challenge from The Three Muses this week – “long ago… and oh so far away…” just like the Carpenters song. Talk about flights of fancy! I chose to go digital because I am simply too full of cold/flu to go upstairs and get creative with paints, paper, etc. So, next best thing, I used [...]

Spreading my art wings

Inspire me Thursday – “Winged Things”… I couldn’t resist playing with one of my painted backgrounds in digital form. I just added a few googled butterflies and brief text, et voila!

Isn’t that pretty? I’ve also written my first Studio blog post on my ArtFire Studio Blog this evening! Yes, those great people at ArtFire have [...]

Taking liberties…

All for the sake of The Three Muses “Give me a head of hair!”

Well, the head of hair is a tree from Dover, cropped to fit his head. The leaves are Photoshop brushes in autumn colours. The fancy brush bottom right is from a blogger who wrote a fab tutorial on making your own PS [...]

Your Big Day!

Art Creations Friday have a lovely image from Swan Lake to use and TGIF is celebrating 100 challenges posted (Congratulations Sandy!).  Where did those weeks go???
I have used a small texture painting as a background and digitally added a few embellies and the ballet dancers… just a bit of fun today, as the weather’s good and [...]

Inspirational people

This week’s theme at The Three Muses is to use people who inspire you in your artwork… and I couldn’t think of a more fitting subject:

The main man in these pics is my DH, my best friend and soulmate. You don’t have to tell me how lucky we are to have found each other – [...]

Word on Slippers…

Art Creations Friday (34) gave us another fab background to use and The Three Muses came up with another “creative” challenge – “Word Salad”. I’ve been playing around in Photoshop again – here’s my interpretation of the theme(s):

The dragon and x-ing sign were googled and the wonderful Ginger Rogers is an Art Freebie (but I can’t [...]

Just Peachy!

TGIF this week – Sandy’s challenge was very unusual (for me!) and involves “apples, pears and/or peaches”. As I had some website maintenance to get done, I stayed in digi-mode and created this collage, using 20 different layers. I know, that’s a whole lot of layers, even for me!! I also cut images from one [...]

Art Creations Friday

Yet another gorgeous image to inspire our art this week in challenge #33 from the girls at ACF. I had fun practising my digi-art again, creating this piece. The lyrics are from a 1960s song by Simon & Garfunkel…

Ssshhh…!

Art Creations Friday gave us another pretty background to use this week and I also used the lady with pink roses from one of their previous weeks in this piece. I gave her lots of pretty brushes and a cherub to play with and it’s a “secret” (for TGIF), that she prefers white roses. Just [...]