Letter to Granny

This is my contribution to this week Soartful (angels) and Take a Word (mail) challenges.

I've made it simple, as it was my grandmother. It's adressed in the brazilian way, it means that sender's name and adress go at the back of the envelope;

Angels at the background was given by Jeannete; other two angels are dover's samples. Envelope was used in Brazil in the past for international mail; stamp and postmark are brazilian postal service special edition for 2010 Christmas.

Sad Princess in her Golden Cage

Poor Princess Isobel had everything but freedom...


Hello! This is my entry for this week SoArtful challenge.

Background is a painting by Charles Wild (1781-1835): Carlton House: The Blue Velvet Room, 1816. Cage and crown are Graphic Fairies' and was given by Jeanette for this challenge. Isobel is a Enchanted Doll by Marina Bychkova. There's also a Beth Rimmer paper used as texture.

Time to thank

Hi, fellows. This is my contribution to Soartful challenge: Thankful.

We don't have this holiday in Brazil, so it's the first time I have fun doing something refering to it.

I took a Beth Rimmer background and blended 3 different vintage thanksgiving cards, including the one Jeanette gave us. Simple like that.

Autumnal Fight

Poor Gertrude, Zachary was always flirting with someone else...

This piece was made to accomplish both Three Muses and SoArtful Challenges.

I took the blackbird photos last February in Cancún. The beautiful autumnal background is a Peter Ellenshaw painting: Autumn Day. There are also a Beth Rimmer’s paper and the image Jeanette gave us.

Día de Los Muertos

I did this to attend the Sunday Postcard Art and Soartful Challenge as well.

It's also a tribute to José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), a Mexican cartoonist illustrator and artist. All the skeletons are his (I fancy them up a little bit). In spite of his work being nowadays associated to the day of the dead, it was meant to make a satirical point.

In Mexico, the Day of the Dead (el Día de Los Muertos), November 2nd, is a celebrating day. They not only homage their departed relatives making private altars and praying, but invite them to a special banquet. Fortunately, the living ones are invited too.

In Brazil, the Dia de Finados is a national holiday too, but, in general, we only go to the cemetery taking flowers to our friends and family members who have died. We also go to the church. However, most of us just enjoy the holiday and go to the beach.

The background is a Don Maples photo (Goldfield Ghost Town). There's a texture too, I've got on Deviant Art.

Bon Voyage

This is my entry for this week SoArtful Challenge. Jeanette gave us this beautiful lady in a Coles Phillips 1927 illustration for Life Magazine.

Lovely

This week SoArtful Challenge theme is Isn't She Lovely. Jeanette inspired us with a beautiful drawing by Arthur Jule Goodman.

She is indeed lovely, so I decided to post one more image in order to show you more details of this beauty.


Lady: Lucky Palm Free Vintage Art
Peaches and flowers: Redouté Flowers and Fruits CD-ROM and Book (Dover Publications)
Butterflies: Photoshop Brushes & Creative Tools CD-ROM and Book: Butterflies (Dover Publications)
Hummingbird: Google Search (beija-flor)
Textures: Freaky665 and Sheisprettystock both at DeviantArt.

Killing time?

This is my very first entry for the SoArtful Challange, which I discovered at June's blog. This week challenge is Time.

The background is a photo I borrowed from Laserandlight's blog.
The graphics are Dover samples or The Graphics Fairy freebies.
Quote by Irish dramatist and actor Dion Boucicault(1820-1890).