together

This week at Take a Word the theme is VALENTINE and while I was trying to figure out what to do I started to wonder about this travel called life and the individuals that accompany us through it, not only partners, but family, friends and spirituality. I hope you have good company in this journey.

Thanks to Tumblefish Studios, Rucola Designs and Holliewood Studio.

happiness is a way of travel

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Roy M Goodman

This week at Take a Word the theme is HAPPINESS IS. 

Background is a photo of mine; dolls: Crowabout Studio; texture: Parée.

Bette Davis' crazy dreams

The Three Muses challenge for this week is to create art with a theme of TRANSPORT. Don't ask how I ended up with this...

Gargoyles go to Rio

- I-I-I  w-want to go back to Paris...

- Oh c'mon! For now appreciate the sunset and enjoy the view!

The challenge in Three Muses is SILHOUETTE and it has occurred to me that it would be fun to give the Notre-Dame’s gargoyles a vacation in Rio. Unfortunately one of them is too fearful to enjoy traveling.

Mysterious Traveler

Take a Word asked for MOVIE STAR and that was easy for me as I've been working with cinema and movie stars since I've started playing with digital art.

Movie star: Lillian Gish (1929); background: screen shot of The Assassination of Jesse James; texture: Kim Klassen.

Do not feed the octopus

This week Take a Word theme is STEAMPUNKERY. 

Background, pier, sign and zepellin: Mr. Whiskers; man, hat and overlay: Finecrafted Designs; tentacles: zememz (dA); texture: Kim Klassen.

Venetian dreams

Take a Word asked for BLACK, WHITE AND RED. Maybe it lacks a bit of black on my creation, but here it is!

Background: Eenas Creations; train and Harlequin: Holliewood; overlay: Beth Rimmer.

it's a wonderful life

Take a Word asked for silhouettes, mine comes from the 1001 Nights!

Background and flying carpet (altered): NLD Studio; girl: Dover; Texture: Kim Klassen.

Yellow bike

The Three Muses asked for a BICYCLE and something YELLOW. A few years ago I traveled with girl friends to USA. This photo was taken in San Francisco right after we rent bikes to ride to Salsalito via Golden Gate. The background is a photo of mine which depicts a detail of "No Betweens" (1996) by Jim Hodges exposed in SFMOMA.

Light of Hope

 Cessa toda alegria de brilhar em minha mente,

Mas deixa oh! deixa a luz da esperança para trás.

The theme in Quotography is Hope. We have to use our own photos. This one I took last year in a small town I was visiting. Quote by Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844). Texture by Kim Klassen.

Living a steampunk life

Steampunk fashionistas, Lauryn and Guillaume (Brit Lauryn has always had  a weakness for French men), has just arrived from a travel to Moscow and are already planning a trip to Prague, always in their zeppelin.

Hi there! This is my not so steampunk contribution for this week challenge in The Three Muses. This theme is always a hard one for me, but at least I tried...

Below you can have a closer look at our fashionistas:

Lauryn is a collage of a  beautiful young face with Victorian styling, and two different pieces of Alexander McQueen Fall 2011; Guilhaume is a shot of Jean-Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 catwalk; background by Finecrafted designs; zeppelin googled.

Sweet memories of Paris

Yes, I know, the quote belongs to Casablanca, but for this piece I wanted a genuine French couple and Humphrey Bogart is American while Ingrid Bergman is Swedish, moreover even their characters don't help as Ilsa Lund is Norwegian  and Rick Blaine, American.

So I changed le couple amoureux for Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu who seems very French to me. Besides they were a romantic couple in the movies a few times. Anyway, any couple, still together or even separated for a long time, who has romantic memories of a past season in Paris, may be considered privileged.

All that to say that this is my contribution to this week challenge  in Three Muses that is OO LA LA, which means anything French.

Vintage postcards by Zeldona Mellowmint (dA); Background/texture by Donnamarie (dA) and Marisa Lerin.

Travel to Cuba

Hello! This week the challenge in Three Muses is MAPS and I decided to take advantage of my recent travel to Cuba to acomplish it. So, here it is a glimpse of this fascinating country (please enlarge to see the details).

I googled all the old maps; the photos are all mine and so it is the texture.

If you are curious, bellow are the details. The two gentlemen are hubby and daddy :)

What about a cruise?

James and Gwendolyn couldn't choose where to spend their honeymoon. After a while, they decided to take a round-the-world cruise. Only problem was packing for the one-year-long trip. Problem solved, they had to get an extra cabin only for their luggage. Gwendolyn was a very cautious tourist.

Hi, dear friends. This is my entry for Take a Word: Travel. Thanks for looking.

James and Gwendolyn: Edgar and Lilian Chedzoy on their wedding day (1932); Luggage: Flickr; Textures: Fotojenny and Fudge Graphics; Travel Posters: Dover.

Spring in Paris

Lady Ashcroft and friends always travel to Paris in Spring...

Hi! This is my entry to this week the Three Muses challenge: Victorian Elegance. I had fun with this one. I hope you enjoy too.

Background: Jardin des Plantes & Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Google Images); Victorian ladies and gentleman: cutouts from covers of La Nouvelle Mode (1899 and 1900); Texture: Princess of Shadows (deviantArt); chair: Graphicsfairy.