Mail Call Digital Art

This week's Digital Art challenge over at the Digital Whisper blog has the theme, Mailbox. As soon as I read that I knew what photo I would use as my inspiration for this digital art project. It's a photo of my mom when she was a young girl, checking the mail. So this is what I created for that challenge.

Mom's favorite flowers were daisies, so I had to add some of those to the piece too. An old postcard serves as the background, along with some little splashes of color here and there.

Laundry Day Digital Art

This week's challenge over at the Digital Whisper blog features the theme, "Clothespins." I knew I'd be using an old family photo to create my digital art piece for this challenge, and this is what I came up with.

This features a vintage photo of my mother when she was about two years old, helping my grandmother (whom I called, Nana) hang laundry on the clothesline. If you look closely you can see that my mother has a clothespin in her mouth. I've loved this photo for awhile and want to put it in my laundry at some point. It makes me smile whenever I see it. 

I miss both of them. So much.

Remembering Mom With Love

 "In the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be."

Remembering My Mom, Carolyne Gould

August 14, 1946-February 15, 2012.
NAIH, Mom.

Passages

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