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Happy Birthday, Michael!

In honor of Michael Jackson’s birthday (he would have been 53 today), I created something special to add to my growing collection of Digital Collages. I will post that photo below this excerpt from one of Michael’s books, Dancing the Dream. So this is Michael, in his own words.

“Consciousness expresses itself through creation.
This world we live in is the dance of the creator.
Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on.

On many an occasion when I’m dancing, I’ve felt touched by something sacred.
In those moments, I’ve felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved.
I become the victor and the vanquished.
I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song.
I become the knower and the known.

I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation.
The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy.

I keep on dancing… and dancing, until there is only… the dance.”

Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream

Michael Jackson Vanity Fair

The photos are from one of my favorite photoshoots for Vanity Fair magazine. They were taken by one of my favorite photographers, Annie Leibovitz. I hope you like this little piece of digital Michael Jackson Art. :)

Elvis Jumpsuit Sketch

I wanted to add Elvis to My Digital Sketchbook and since the anniversary of his death was last week, I was thinking about him anyway. So I created this digital art in honor of the one and only King of Rock and Roll!

Elvis Digital Sketch

It’s a classic 70′s Elvis, in a beautiful blue jumpsuit. This is the kind of image that comes to mind whenever I think of the 70′s era Elvis. The King may be gone, but his music and memory live on!

Lighthouse Digital Sketch

It’s been awhile since I’ve created any images for My Digital Sketchbook, so I decided to create a new one today. This time I used my photo of the Marblehead Lighthouse as inspiration.

Lighthouse Digital Sketch

I love using my own digital photos for my digital sketchbook image creations. I really like being able to digitally transform one image into something new. Be sure to click the image to view it full size or else you might miss the details! Now looking at this makes me want to go back to the lake!

2 Birds and a Bunny

I was in the mood to create some more digital sketches for My Digital Sketchbook…which really look more like paintings, but I’m using my artistic license to call them what I want. ;)

So I’ve created 3 new digital sketches for today. One is a duck, and that one was a photo I took in Muskegon, Michigan. One is a seagull, which was a photo I took in South Haven, Michigan. And the third one is a bunny, which I took just yesterday when I was taking the grandkids out for a ride in their wagon.

 

Muskegon Duck Digital Sketch

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South Haven Seagull Sketch

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Bunny Digital Sketch

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It was fun creating this digital art. I love photography, but I also loving transforming my digital photos through digital art.

Timeless Beauty Digital Collage

Time for another great challenge at the Collage Obsession blog. The challenge theme is, Time. So I’ve entered another one of my Digital Collages for this challenge.

Timeless Beauty Digital Collage

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I started with one of my own digital photographs of a full moon that I took over the winter. I edited it quite a bit to enhance the colors and clean up the image–because it’s a challenge to get a good photo of a full moon! I added a clock image to the moon, a beautiful lady image by Leonardo da Vinci,  and then all the additional graphic elements to embellish the collage and try to match its theme. I really love how it turned out.

Sky Leaf Redux

I’ve been playing with a bunch of my photographs this evening and having fun with digital editing. I decided to do a redux of a photo I posted previously called Sky Leaf.  It’s one of the first photos I ever took with my digital camera and I love it. But I knew I could make it even better. So I’m going to post the Before and After versions of the photo for you.

Sky Leaf Original

Before

Sky Leaf Redux

After

It’s really quite a difference, isn’t it? It is so much creative fun to see how many ways I can transform my own digital photos with editing. I am really having a ball with it. Even when I love a photo as it is, I am amazed at how much I can love the transformed version too.  :)

I Do Believe in Fairies

I’m sure it’s fairly clear by now that I love taking pictures of my granddaughter. I also have a thing for fairies. And it must be equally clear that I’m rather obsessed with digital photos and digital art right now. So please forgive me if I post another digital image creation of my granddaughter. Or should I say, the fairy who looks just like her…

Destiny Fairy

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I absolutely love how this turned out.  My husband even requested a printed version of it. Believe me, THAT is a compliment. And somehow I think there are more fairy photos in my future. ;)