Missing you

Take a Word asked for Windows and my muse asked for a lonely cat missing his old friend...

Background: my photo; texture: Kim Klassen.

Paprika

Take a Word asked for HOT COLORS. I found the photo below in my aunt's album. I have no idea who she is or when it was taken. It doesn't matter, she looked so sweet! In her new outfit she also looks hot, that's why I called her Paprika.

Les filles de Bouguereau

The theme in Take a World is BEAUTY and what could be more beautiful than the girls painted by William-Adolphe Bouguereau? At some point I thought that these were all the same girl at different moments of her life. Now, it seems that there are two girls maybe sisters... What do you think?

Texture: Kim Klassen

Tio Zé

The Three Muses asked for MALE OF THE SPECIES and I decided to give a better life to an old photo of my uncle José Marques. You can see the original photo below.

Chaplin's pieces of time

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Charlie Chaplin

This week the theme in Take a Word is TIMEPIECES and this was the excuse I needed to bring back Charlie Chaplin again!

Background and other elements by Createwing Designs.

Lilian and Vera

Take a Word asked for MOTHER AND CHILD and I decided to pay a tribute to these beautiful mother and child: Lilian and Vera Trotter. They died on the night of March 3, 1943, in the Bethnal Green Tube tragedy. I've read about it a few years ago and this photograph made it even more poignant.

Background: Astrid Maclean; texture: Elné; butterflies: Dover.

snail mailing to stamp people

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. 
There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Diane Lane

The Three Muses theme for this week is STAMP PEOPLE. Here it is my attempt.

Thanks to Studio Manu, Kim Klassen, Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Nicole Kidman and Lucille Ball. 

Family album

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Take a Word asked for Family Album. I don't have really old photos then I created a imaginary family from daguerreotypes, taken circa 1850, beginning with Emily Dickinson, then Pastor Rollin Heber Neal (both colored by me). 

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The Three Muses asked for a Book Cover or for using a book in our art. 

Photo by Morningbird Photography on Flickr; the envelope is a previous collage I did; other elements by Studio Manu.

Gloomy times

This week Take a Word theme is BLACK AND WHITE and this theme reminded me of the old B&W horror movies which I used to love as a teenager (still do).

Upper left: Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage (1934); other images: Max Schreck in Nosferatu ;(1922); splats brushes: Redheadstock.