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Trumpet Flower Time

I love this time of year–not for the relentless heat that we’ve had for most of the summer. Rather, I love it because it’s the time of year the Trumpet Flowers are in bloom!

Trumpet Flowers

These Trumpet Flowers came from the yard of my husband’s late grandmother. We took some clippings after she passed away 13 years ago and planted them in our yard. They survived two moves within the yard, which was no small feat since these flowers don’t tolerate replanting all that well! Others in the family took some clippings too, but we are the only ones with any of these flowers still growing. They bloom at night and then close with the heat of the day. I just happened to snap a photo of them on a partially overcast morning, after a light rain. They are beautiful. I’m so glad to have them in my yard each summer.

Know who else liked Trumpet Flowers?? Georgia O’Keeffe! See for yourself.

OKeeffe Trumpet Flower

I love Georgia’s flower works. She was inspired to paint, and I was inspired to take a photo. But I love that we both liked Trumpet Flowers. :)

Mom’s Lily

The hubs and I traveled to Texas last week to settle some things with my mother’s estate. Spent a lot of time at her house, and found a lily growing in her back yard, all by its lonesome. I had to take a photo of it.

Mom's Lily

My Favorite Fairy

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.

Destiny Fairy in a Jar

Destiny Fairy in Enchanted Forest

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!

These Are Our Hands

I wanted to make something special for my daughter for Christmas this year, and I also wanted it to be something that would be from her children to her. I got inspired by something I saw on Pinterest awhile back that involved scanning kids hands. So that is what I did, and this is what I turned that scan into with some digital magic…

These Are Our Hands Art

I altered the color and layered in some digital art to create this piece. Then I sent the final image to the CanvasPeople website and had them print it onto canvas and frame it. It turned out even better than I expected, and my daughter seemed to really love it. I also included with it the following poem (which I had my grandson write out on the card):

These are our hands

You used to hold

When we were 8

and 2 Years old.

I had so much fun creating this for her…even if it was incredibly challenging to get two little hands to hold still long enough to be scanned–especially since my scanner software was acting up that day and we had to do it 3 times before we got it right! But it was well worth it in the end.

MJ’s Wings

This is a new digital collage and photo edit I’ve decided to use for the Three Muses Wings challenge. Michael Jackson is a favorite art subject of mine, so I love it when I have the chance to use him for a challenge piece too.

MJ's Wings

I’ve added some magic sparkles and feathers also, something I tend to do a lot when I’m creating fantasy type digital pieces. Seemed appropriate for this one anyway. I wanted it to appear like a little touch of magic was coming out of Michael and into his shadow on the stage. I hope you like my little piece of Michael Jackson Art.

Michael Magic

Haven’t posted any Michael Jackson Art for awhile, so thought I’d post some now since I’m so far behind in my blog posts for October…and since I love it!

The Way You Make Me Feel MJ artBillie Jean MJ art

Man in the Mirror MJ Magic

These all have my Tumblr blog watermarks on them. I always post them on my blog there, and just post my favorite ones here on the art blog. These are definitely some of my favorites from recent days. I have a thing about using sparkles. I love making things seem to have a bit of magic to them, especially where Michael is concerned. I love how these turned out.

Water Lily Digital Sketch

I took  a photo of a lagoon filled with lily pads on a recent trip to Bay City, Michigan, and there was only one water lily visible in the entire lagoon. So of course I had to photograph it. And then I also decided to have some fun with it so I can add it to My Digital Sketchbook.

Water Lily Digital Sketch

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It was such a pretty flower just floating there on that perfectly sunny day. It was just begging to be photographed…and I could resist but do some digital editing to get this result.

Bay City Michigan Photos

The Hubs and I recently went to Bay City, Michigan for our anniversary. I took some Nature Photos and Flower Photos while we were there, so thought I’d share them here. Of course, I always manage to find some birds while on vacation too,  and I love birds, so I got one to add to my collection of Birds and Animal Photos too.

 

Lily Pad Flower

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Lagoon

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Swans

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These were all taken at the State Park that is on Lake Huron. This is our third Great Lake we’ve visited now.  I usually take beach photos too, but the beach itself wasn’t as scenic as the others we’ve visited, so these were really the only photos I took on that day…they were on a little lagoon that was right at the entrance to the lake. That was really pretty at least!

Fireworks Photo Edits

Even though I love digital art right now, sometimes I don’t need to do anything but a bit of editing to be happy with a photo…especially when it’s fireworks.  So for these next two images, all I’ve done is a bit of filtering to enhance what was already there in the photos.

Red Orange Fireworks

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White Yellow Fireworks

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The filtering I did was only to enhance the photos existing colors. But it really made them pop even more in the photographs.  I think they look pretty cool. :)

Fireworks Digital Sketches

Around the 4th of July I decided to make some fireworks digital sketches to add to My Digital Sketchbook. These kind of photos are really perfect for creating digital art, even though they are usually really awesome just the way they are. But since I’m all about the digital art lately, I had to have some fun.

Red Fireworks Sketch

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Yellow Red Fireworks

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I love how these turned out. Talk about Abstract Art gone wild! Really had fun making these.