I decided to poke around in my photos of previous artworks to see what I could use as a background for something new. I settled on my lone project of Oil Pastels that I did several years ago of a sunset, which I did from a photograph I took once on a camping trip. This Fireflies at Sunset is the Digital Collage I came up with from that previous work.
I love a beautiful sunset, so it was fun adding a little bit of magic to this one that I did in Oil Pastels.
The Collage Obsession blog has a great challenge this week also, its theme is Reflection. So I created this Digital Collage that was inspired by their theme. It’s called Moonlight Serenade.
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This was made using a photograph my mother took before she passed away in February. The photo was on her camera. I enhanced it just a bit, and then added the other elements that I wanted to appear in the collage. So I couldn’t have made this collage without my mother’s wonderful eye for a beautiful sunset.
Time for another great challenge over at the Three Muses blog. This week’s theme is Hats, Crowns, Wings and Things. I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear the word ‘Wings,’ my mind immediately goes to all things fairy. So this is my Forest Fairy Princess Collage for this challenge.
What can I say? The fairy lover in me will never die. Living in a fantasy world for a bit is a great way to escape reality and just have fun for a little while. And I love the Three Muses blog for always offering up great challenges to enable my escapes!
Today I created something new from something old…I took an Altered Art Hang Tag that I created in the past, and turned it into a new Digital Collage. I’m calling it Daydream.
Artists should be “green” too when they can, and it sure doesn’t hurt to save money on art supplies. I think that’s one of the things I love about digital art…it doesn’t have to cost you anything to create it, and it lets you give new creative life to something you created in the past. I love how this turned out. It has a very shabby chic and dreamy feel to it at the same time. And boy, if I could get paid to daydream, I think I’d be rich right now.
I am struggling a bit yet to find my creative mojo. I haven’t been in my studio much since my mom passed away. But I have been playing with some Fairy Digital Art here on my computer, so thought I’d post today’s Digital Collage creation.
The photo itself is one I took last year on an anniversary trip with the Hubs. I just added the flower fairy to it…and a little magic.
I’ve been absent from my blog for over a week due to my mom passing away. It’s been a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking experience that is not yet over. But I just wanted to let my followers know I am still here and will find my creative side again as soon as I can. It may be the only thing (outside of my family) to save me in this dark and difficult time. All of my creativity came from my mom…she would want me to keep using it.
I love you forever, Mom.
NAIH
I was creating this piece for my Mom, whom we found out has cancer. Initially I created it with just the flower, but then decided to add a little magic, and the fairy and turn it into a digital collage. When I’d finished all that I realized that it would also just happen to work with the Gingersnap Creations blog color challenge, Soft Yellows and White. So I decided to enter it into that challenge.
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Yellow roses have special meaning in our family, as does the phrase, “Never Apart in Heart.” We sign our emails, letters, and cards with NAIH as a reminder that no matter how far apart we may be, we are always together in heart. So even though I can’t physically be with my mom right now, I am with her, always. And thankfully, doing anything creative helps to keep my mind off of difficult things. So this art is for you, Mom.
I Love You.
Always.
NAIH
These creations were inspired by the DANCE challenge at the Collage Obsession blog for this week, and they’re now a part of my ever-growing collection of Michael Jackson Art. If I hear or read the word, “Dance,” Michael is usually the first thing that comes to my mind. So he was an obvious choice for my subject matter for this great challenge.
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Blood on the Dance Floor is one of my favorite MJ songs, and one of my favorite of his short films. There’s just something about it I love, musically and visually, so I love when I can incorporate it into my digital art too.
My husband got me the new Paint Shop Pro software for Christmas, and I finally just got to start playing around with it. I had an older version on my laptop, so I am already familiar with the basics of PSP (though I am by no means a pro). I haven’t gotten to explore the new version in depth, but I wanted to take it for a test drive. So I decided that my granddaughter, Destiny is always the perfect subject. I had lots of fun turning her into a fairy, and then putting my new little fairy into two different surroundings. These digital collages are the results.
I love my little Destiny fairy in a jar. The photo I used is from last Easter. I need to play around with some newer photos. 
But I loved in that dress, so I figured I’d just use it again for experimenting in PSP. I sure had fun!
I haven’t been participating in too many art challenges lately so I decided it is time to get my creative juices flowing again. This week’s challenge at Collage Obsession couldn’t have come at a better time. The theme for this week is a Song Lyric…so I chose one of my Michael Jackson favorites, Smooth Criminal and created a digital collage around it.
Michael Jackson defined the word “Epic” where pop music and music videos are concerned, in my opinion. He blazed a trail and set the standard in what once was a very boring visual medium. And Smooth Criminal is a perfect example of his epic creative genius. It is MJ, and the Bad era, at its visual best. It not only showcased a great song, but it told a story, as all of Michael’s short films did. I never get tired of watching it…and my grandson now loves to watch it with me. He especially likes the MJ anti-gravity “lean.” Such an epic MJ moment.
And so the legend lives on.
